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ARToolworks announces ARToolKit Professional version 4.5

ARToolworks announces ARToolKit Professional version 4.5

 

ARToolworks is pleased to announce the immediate availability of ARToolKit Professional version 4.5. This latest major release continues the development of the world's most popular library for augmented reality tracking with significant new features, expanded platform support, and performance improvements.

New features include:

• Support for barcode markers with error detection and correction, to provide improved tracking.
• Variable border width markers, in both colour/grayscale picture and barcode modes.
• Inbuilt algorithms for pose estimate filtering, allowing tracking to be either dynamic or smooth, depending on user needs.
• Expanded platform support, including Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Xcode 3.2.
• Improved 64-bit support, including support for complete 64-bit builds on Mac OS X.
• A new debugging utility allowing user-driven analysis of the tracking process and problem diagnosis.
• Experimental support for adaptive thresholding, with high-performance acceleration of adaptive thresholding on the Mac OS X 64-bit platform.
• A new Mac OS X video input module based on QuickTime 7 and QTKit, offering high-performance tracking from HD video sources.
• New examples demonstrating techniques such as filtering, and rendering of movie content into the virtual environment. 

Commenting on the new release, Philip Lamb, ARToolworks’ CTO, said:  "Many of the new features in this release of ARToolKit have come about from direct interaction with our customers. We greatly enjoy creating this software and seeing the fantastic products that our customers create with it, and we also see this release as a mark of our commitment to continue to develop the tracking technologies that underlie hundreds of great applications."

ARToolKit Professional version 4.5.0 is available immediately for license for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms. Mobile platform releases will follow shortly. The pricing for version 4.5.0 remains the same as for the existing version. Customers who have purchased an ARToolKit license since October 30 2010 may upgrade for free. A modest upgrade fee applies to users upgrading from any previous release of ARToolKit Professional. Please contact sales@artoolworks.com for more information on license options and pricing.

 

Enquiries:

Ben Vaughan, CEO ben.vaughan@artoolworks.com Tel: +44 1460 271713

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