What's new in Qualcomm Augmented Reality SDK 1.0.0

May 2, 2011
  • Bugfixes / Features:
  • Added support for controlling the camera flash mode
  • Added support for controlling the camera focus mode
  • Added support for synchronous and asynchronous video rendering (bound to the camera capture frame rate vs. fixed rate)
  • Fixed an issue where the augmented content is not rendered in the correct location in portrait mode
  • Fixed issue where Virtual Buttons don’t always work with OpenGL 1.1 in the Dominoes sample app
  • Renamed MultiImageTarget to MultiTarget
  • Improved overall tracking and detection performance
  • Improved redetection performance of recently lost targets
  • Improved detection and tracking of Frame Markers
  • Improved video background rendering performance
  • Improved robustness of Virtual Buttons
  • Changed default Virtual Button sensitivity to LOW
  • Added support for the vast majority of devices running Android 2.1 and above. See list of supported devices available at developer.qualcomm.com/ar
  • Simplified building of sample apps: Sample apps now use Android NDK functionality to copy the QCAR shared libraries to the libs folder
  • Extended sample applications to control flash and auto focus via application GUI
  • Added new tracking targets for Virtual Button and MultiTarget sample apps
  • Improved the Image Target ratings mechanism on the Target Management System (TMS)
  • Fixed a bug where the TMS would not accept images of certain sizes
  • New Android permissions required: ACCESS_WIFI_STATE and READ_PHONE_STATE

New in Qualcomm Augmented Reality SDK 0.10.0 Beta 2 (May 2, 2011)

  • Bugfixes / Features:
  • Added support for multi-image target reconfiguration (add / remove / reconfigure parts on the fly)
  • Added support for virtual button reconfiguration (add / remove / reconfigure buttons on the fly)
  • Updated existing sample applications:
  • Reconfigurable virtual buttons
  • Reconfigurable multi-image targets
  • Added dialog boxes to display QCAR initialization errors
  • Removed Shared library and moved shared