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Augmented Reality Mobile App Development

HTML5DevConf: George McKinney “Augmented Reality Mobile App Development”

Augmented Reality Mobile Apps in JavaScript

Hello, On Oct. 22nd, 2013, I gave a presentation at the HTML5 Developers Conference in San Francisco, https://www.html5devconf.com/archives/oct2013/speakers/george_mckinney.html. This is about JavaScript, Augmented Reality, mobile apps, PhoneGap, BlackBerry WebWorks and touched on Google Nexus devices and the Tizen OS. There are many hyperlinks to click on to go to source code, demos and resources inside. […]

Mobile Augmented Reality App

Sample project for creating Mobile Augmented Reality Mobile Apps for the BlackBerry 10 platform available at https://github.com/georgemck/BB10-WebWorks-Community-Samples-Augmented-Reality Uses: – BlackBerry WebWorks (App packaging) – jQuery Mobile (Mobile UI) – Three.js (WebGL) – JS Aruco (OpenCV) – getUserMedia (HTML5 spec) Created a mobile AR app using Apache Cordova, https://cordova.apache.org, which is related to Adobe PhoneGap, http://www.phonegap.com. […]

Mobile Augmented Reality with HTML5 on BlackBerry 10

My friend @Yosun on Twitter of AReality3D asked me to create a mobile AR app using Adobe PhoneGap, http://www.phonegap.com, and the JS Aruco library, https://code.google.com/p/js-aruco. JS Aruco utilizes a port of OpenCV, http://opencv.org, for JavaScript, http://www.uco.es/investiga/grupos/ava/node/26. It takes advantage of HTML5 browser capabilities getUserMedia (http://caniuse.com/stream) and WebGL (checkout Three.js, https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js) to enable desktop browsers to […]

HTML5: Separating Fact from Fiction

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 I gave the technical portion of the presentation on HTML5 development for the Verizon Developer Community HTML5: Separating Fact from Fiction Summary: App developers have kept a close watch on HTML5, with its promises of faster, easier development and cross-platform simplicity. Meanwhile, the technology has been slapped down by companies […]

Snake Eyes Dice

For the first BlackBerry BB10 smartphone, aka London, I packaged a little dice game using WebWorks. Total time was 4 hours because I was able to use open source code and images. Special thanks to: Dado and Michael Eidson for them. The marketing blurb about it: “When you play a game of chance and skill, […]

Create a Mobile App in 30 Minutes!

Getting Started with PhoneGap and PhoneGap Build This is a brief overview of how to build mobile applications using the PhoneGap framework. Using a text editor and a web browser and a few images, a Hello LA PhoneGap application will be built You can download the project at http://laphonegap.org/HelloLAPhoneGap.zip