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Towards the Commodification of Augmented Reality: Tools and Platforms

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New Trends in Interaction, Virtual Reality and Modeling

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The design and development of products based on or related to Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) has boomed in recent years, due not only to a growing market interest but to the technical ease and low cost of the many available tools. This chapter introduces the most popular hardware and software tools and technologies to develop AR and MR applications, in order to serve as starting point to anyone interested in developing such systems. Elements needed to develop AR/MR will be presented objectively, and some example projects will be described.

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  1. Universidad de Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain

    Hector Olmedo

  2. Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain

    Hector Olmedo & Jorge Augusto

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  1. Computing Systems Department, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Albacete, Spain

    Victor M.R. Penichet

  2. Center of Operations Research University, University of Elche, Alicante, Alicante, Spain

    Antonio Peñalver

  3. Computing Systems Department, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Albacete, Spain

    José A. Gallud

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Olmedo, H., Augusto, J. (2013). Towards the Commodification of Augmented Reality: Tools and Platforms. In: Penichet, V., Peñalver, A., Gallud, J. (eds) New Trends in Interaction, Virtual Reality and Modeling. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5445-7_5

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