Requirements to use osgART
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Required skill-sets
osgART is a cross-platform library that simplifies the development of augmented reality applications by merging computer vision based tracking with OSG rendering. osgART's plugin-based structure supports video input from many different video sources, spatial registration from tracking libraries, such as ARToolKit, and for a variety of photometric registration techniques.
Developing an application with osgART requires two parallel skill sets:
- Firstly, skills with a tracking library and the tools for dealing with the real-world part of augmented reality. osgART is designed to work with ARToolKit (the Augmented Reality ToolKit) which provides low-level libraries for acquisition of images of the real world from video sources, marker based tracking, services for rending using OpenGL, and a variety of utilities for related tasks.
- Secondly, skills in programming using OpenSceneGraph itself. osgART adapts ARToolKits services to a scenegraph-based approach to graphics programming, rather than the procedural approach which is more typical of traditional ARToolKit applications and low-level OpenGL programming. OSG has a C++ interface. If you have skills in the C language, these can still be used with OSG in a limited way, but learning C++ is the key to unlocking the full power of the scene-graph approach.
Required software
| 1.1.3 | 1.1.2 | 1.1 | 1.0 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows: Microsoft Visual Studio | 2005, 2008 | .NET 2003, 2005, 2008 | .NET 2003, 2005 | .NET 2003, 2005 |
| Mac OS X: Xcode | v3.1 or later with 10.5 SDK | v3.1 or later with 10.5 SDK | v2.4 or later with 10.4 SDK | v2.4 or later with 10.4 SDK |
| Linux: g++ toolchain | g++ v4.0.1 or later | g++ v4.0.1 or later | g++ v4.0.1 or later | g++ v4.0.1 or later |
| OpenSceneGraph | v2.8 or later (2.8.2 recommended). | v2.6 (2.6.1 recommended). | v2.2-2.4 | v1.2 |
| ARToolKit Professional | v4.4.2 or later | v4.4-4.4.1 | v4.3.3-4.4.1. | (not supported) |
| ARToolKit NFT | v3.48.0 or later | v3.24.3 | v3.24.2. | (not supported) |
| ARToolKit | v2.80 or later | v2.72.1 | v2.72.1 | v2.72.1 |
Required hardware
- All versions of osgART require a web camera or other video source. You can check which cameras work well with osgART.
