Fusing web technologies & augmented reality

Within the German research project ARVIDA a large consortium of industrial Virtual and Augmented Reality users, of technology providing companies and research institutes cooperate on the establishment of highly flexible web-based reference architecture for Augmented Reality applications. The use of web technologies is motivated by modern web standards as WebGL or WebRTC supporting e.g. real time rendering of 3D-content of video streaming within Web-Browsers. Thereby, the use of Web technologies not only offers the possibility to develop applications platform and OS independent but it also facilitates the integration of Augmented Reality into industrial workflows or PDM environments. The developed reference architecture offers RESTful tracking, rendering and interaction services that foster the combination and exchange of different algorithms with the aim to ft the technology to the specific requirements of an AR-applications in an optimal way.