How to Add a Wikitude Direction Indicator to Your AR App

The Wikitude add-on is an application that uses your phone's camera and GPS to determine your location. It claims to help you stay focused on the road by overlaying a calculated route onto a live feed from your phone's camera. It even offers audio prompts for every turn. It's available for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone. To use it, you'll need to mount your phone on a GPS mount.

Wikitude SDK

The Wikitude SDK is a platform-independent AR development kit for creating 3D AR content for mobile devices. It supports iOS, Android, Windows for tablets, smart glasses, and Unity. It supports Unity, Xamarin, Titanium, and Cordova. In addition to adding a direction indicator to your AR app, Wikitude also supports image recognition and cloud recognition. To learn more, visit Wikitude's website.

Wikitude Drive

The Wikitude Drive direction indicator is the world's first mobile Augmented Reality navigation system. This new navigation system uses Augmented Reality to superimpose driving instructions on a live video stream, allowing drivers to follow the suggested route without referring to a map. With the Wikitude Drive direction indicator, driving directions are always in sight and available to drivers at any time, and can even be viewed through the windshield.

Wikitude 3D Format

To add a direction indicator to your 3D models, you can use the Wikitude 3D format. After loading your 3D model, the Encoder displays some animations. Once the animation is complete, you can export the 3D model to a variety of formats. The 3D format supports many different kinds of models, including CAD models and games. For more information, see the Wikitude manual.

Wikitude 3D Encoder

Adding a direction indicator to your animated video is a breeze. Wikitude 3D Encoder automatically converts textures to png, and you can add as many as you like, as long as they have the same width and height. Wikitude 3D Encoder supports both autodesk FBX and Maya. The software allows you to bake animation curves in the 3D model, but not necessarily all of them.

Wikitude 3D Encoder exports 3D models to wt3 format

The Wikitude3D Encoder converts your 3D models into wt3 files, an internal representation that can be rendered by the Wikitude SDK. It supports both mesh and non-mesh 3D models, as well as animated and textured objects with light sources. To export 3D models to wt3 format, you must first install Wikitude 3D Encoder in your Mac's Applications folder.

Wikitude's SLAM technology

SDK: Wikitude's SDK enables you to develop AR applications with seamless tracking and detection of horizontal surfaces. The SDK supports native development for iOS and Android, and also includes support for video overlay and location based AR. The company's SLAM technology enables markerless instant tracking and object recognition. Location-based AR calculates position primarily from the user's position, facing direction, and accelerometer. It can place augmented objects at specific points of interest and view them through the device's screen. Popular applications include Pokemon Go, which makes it possible for players to navigate to the next Pokemon.

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