Wikitude Plugin

[mwbrooks]

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Wikitude has a create Augmented Reality SDK and a longstanding Cordova plugin. We're going to look at promoting Wikitude's work more and allow our users to access AR features within the Dev App.

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[mwbrooks]

@timkim has ran into a few issues with the Wikitude plugin. The plugin itself can be invoked using the Dev App, however, the test project has pathing issues because the Dev App's Content Sync puts the assets in a different place than a compiled project.

[mwbrooks]

@timkim is currently running into pathing issues due to the where Content Sync extracts the app compared to where the app is traditionally compiled to:

[mwbrooks]

@timkim needs to loop around with Wikitude to get some help on moving this forward.

[mwbrooks]

There has been a lot of back and forth with the Wikitude team to see this resolved. It's going well!

[timkim]

Ya, there's been a lot of back and forth and the wikitude people have been quite helpful. However, the core issue remains where I can't get the plugin to get pass some errors when loading the AR worlds.

[mwbrooks]

Working properly on Android now.

The Wikitude team has created a branch to solve some of the iOS issue.

[timkim]

Well it appears that the fix didn't work for ios. So Mike and I are in a scheduled meeting with the Wikitude on the 26th. In the mean time, here's a demo of the AR stuff in action.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0kks1aqmcev4we4/wikitude.mov?dl=0

I uploaded the phonegap wing image to be recognised by the AR plugin so it shows the phonegap landspeeder image. Pretty cool.

[timkim]

Here's the current iteration of the wikitude demo for phonegap day: https://www.dropbox.com/s/uww2blsauhyfeic/wikitude-2.mov?dl=0

[mwbrooks]

This has been shipped live without the trial watermark. It's available in app stores today!