Robots and Physical Computing

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For a few years, I have been a fan of Aframe and AR.js - these are fantastic tools for creating web-based Virtual and Augmented Reality.  Now AR.js has just got easier - no coding need with the Beta version of  AR.js Studio   including using markers (see this previous post for more details) and the focus of this post, geo-located or markerless AR. It so easy I am going to show two examples. First going to the start screen of  AR.js Studio https://ar-js-org.github.io/studio , select location based project type. You will then be asked for the longitude and latitude on where you want your AR to be located, up to 10 locations can be used - I have only used one to trial it. If you don't know these co-ordinates they have included a link to a site  https://www.latlong.net/  (see below) that will give you these and you can then transfer them into AR.js Studio that is the geo location bit done. Now for the thing at the location. So for the first experimen...

For a few years, I have been a fan of Aframe and AR.js - these are fantastic tools for creating web-based Virtual and Augmented Reality.  Now AR.js has just got easier - no coding need with the Beta version of AR.js Studio https://ar-js-org.github.io/studio/ The start screen above gives you the option of location-based or Marker-based projects, I am selecting marker-based and then pressed Start building. I am going to use the premade marker but you can upload your own )there is a guide to what makes a good marker ). The premade marker you can download from the site using the download marker link underneath the marker. Apart from that, you don't have to do anything else to select the marker. Now you choose whether you want 3D object, image or video. So for this experiment, I going to use a free 3D model from  https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/duck-6e039c6c606c4c26a1359514352629fd  produced by likangning93 and released under a creative commons licence on Sketchfab . It i...

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