While augmented reality, what it does is that in the space in which they can add more elements. For example, if you want to play with zombies, this is what it does is add them to the street where you are traveling, thus becoming an extraordinary step to increase your imagination.
Are there programs with augmented reality in the play store?
Of course, if you enter “augmented reality” in the search engine, you will realize that there are a significant number of apps that use this technology, some of which are:
- 4D Dinosaur
- BBC Civilizations AR.
- Augmented reality planets.
- Augmented reality zombies.
- Pokémon go.
- ARuler.
What is Wikitude?
It is an application designed to make you not only see what your camera allows you to see but also, this program ensures that you can see more than you can imagine because it combines what you have around you with virtual images in real-time.
Even when you enter the Wikitude website, the first thing you could see until 2017 or so was a subject holding a tablet where he saw a spaceship landing on the earth.
While now when you enter it has a design more adapted to the time, the first thing that it shows you apart from its augmented reality are the different options you can have to start using your apps.
The good thing about this is that it can be used on any device without the need to launch a few lines of code, that is, its use is easy because it can be understood by anyone for free, at least with the most popular applications.
How do I integrate Wikitude with my android device?
The first thing you should do is enter the Wikitude page and you will see that the page is in English, so it is a point that you must take into account.
You should also search among the different options, among all you will get the image recognition option, which allows you to see a real image through the application’s modifications.
This other option is recognition through geolocation, so on you will find different options that will lead you to discover how this page works, however it is important that you focus on how you want to use it. After knowing this you can follow these steps.
- You are about to download the Wikitude SDK.
- You are going to enter downloads (download), you will have available two SDKs for android that are JavaScript API and native API.
- Download the native API, you wait for the download to finish.
- You will have the file in downloads, unzip the file, and verify that it has different folders.
- You go to the documentation section, on the Wikitude page.
- When you are there you enter to establish our project what is Setup your project.
- There it will indicate the steps to do it, you open what you downloaded before and enter a new project, everything that you cut and paste will be placed anyway that you will read in the instructions of the setup of your project.
- In the end, it is to copy the permissions in the file that you have in your previously opened documents.
- When you finish copying, pasting, as prompted, what you do is synchronize the data.
- And you already have your Wikitude ready to carry out a project from your android device.
What these steps allow you is to be able to create your own app with augmented reality, that is, what it allows is that you can work from your android to make any idea that comes to your brain with the wonder of augmented reality.