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The Road to ARToolKit 6
ARToolKit for the Next Generation
Wally Young
Technical Product Manager,
ARToolKit
What’s that?

2.
1999 First public demonstration @ SIGGRAPH.
2001 v1, with square tracking released open source.
2001 ARToolworks Incorporated, begins selling Pro version.
2004 NFT tracking integrated in ARToolKit.
2004 v2 released open source.
2008-10 iPhone 3g Support, Open Source Innovation
2011-14 Android support added, further extending platform support.
2015 Acquired by DAQRI, pro version open sourced....
The History of ARToolKit
...so what have we been up to?

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2015-16

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ARToolKit 5, by the Numbers
Pro Versions Open Sourced on May 13 2015
35,000+ Visitors Per Month to artoolkit.org
71,000+ SDK Downloads
235 ARToolKit 5 Forks
88 ARToolKit for Unity Forks
1240 Members of ARToolKit Forum

5.
Why Open Source?
• If we want the AR community to grow, price
(and license) should not be a barrier to entry.
• We want to encourage innovation in AR
circles, and share transparently.
• We want to raise awareness and
understanding of AR, and how it works.

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New Users, New Devices, New Tech

7.
ARToolKit for the Next Generation

8.
New Image Tracker
New for ARToolKit 6. Like v5.3, it
uses FREAK features, but is a
ground-up new development from
DAQRI, using approaches such as
optical flow alongside template
matching for more robust tracking.
1999. Handbook of Computer Vision and
Applications with Cdrom (1st ed.). Bernd
Jahne, Peter Geissler, and Horst
Haussecker (Eds.). Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA.

9.
Planar Tracker
Using the same
algorithms in our
image tracker, we
can also track
unprepared planes.
Just start the tracker
and go!

10.
New Unity Plugin
Completely new developer
experience, designed to
make going for 0-to-AR
faster and easier than ever
before.

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Commitment to Open Source
ARToolKit 6 will continue our tradition of being
completely free and open source.
• You do not need to purchase a license.
• You do not need to register for an account.
• You do not need to “phone home” with our SDK.
• You do not need to give away what you build with it.

12.
COMING THIS
FALL
When?

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Wally Young
Technical Product Manager, ARToolKit
wally@artoolkit.org
@wallyyoungmusic
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http://www.artoolkit.org/documentation
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https://github.com/artoolkit/artoolkit5
ARToolKit 5 for Unity Repo
https://github.com/artoolkit/arunity5
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http://www.daqri.com
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http://www.4dexpo.com
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