Considerations on Designing a Geo-targeted AR Application

When designing an AR application for mobile devices there are some factors to take into account such as gyroscope drift and device orientation, compass noise and six axis or accelerometer and GPS sensors accuracy. This work focuses on Geotargeted Augmented Reality applications. We expose the procedure followed to design an AR framework almost from scratch from the software design point of view. We have also detailed the technical difficulties encountered during the development of the application and how they were addressed. Finally we propose some guidelines and recommendations for future work and improvements which can also serve as a common pattern design for Geo-tagging AR applications. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of the programme committee of the 2013 International Conference on Virtual and Augmented Reality in Education.