Hello everyone,
I need your help and expertise to choose which software/SDK solution to use to develop an augmented reality indoor navigation application for HoloLens 2.
- The solution should provide tools for implementing way-finding in an industrial/logistics environment, with cues like arrows etc. As far as I know, a spatial anchors service should be supported for saving poses in space, making a relationship between them and creating a path to a desired location.
- The solution should also provide qr code tracking or image tracking or, even better, object tracking in order to add augmented reality content once the target has been identified.
Searching for avilable options, I narrowed down the list to 3 solutions:
- Vuforia. Using the Area Target Generator and Unity’s NavMesh I should be able to deal with the indoor navigation part, while the barcode scanner, image and model targets address the tracking problem.
- ARFoundation. This page says HoloLens support anchors but neither image nor object tracking is supported. Moreover, I don’t understand if persistent anchors are needed, in which case is a problem because HoloLens isn’t supported.
- MRTK3. Using this toolkit I would have the tools to augment the content BUT since Azure Spatial Anchors is being dismissed I would lack a way to implement the indoor navigation part of the application. Also for tracking, how this would be done?
Do you agree with these informations?
Do you know other options?
PS: I learned about World Locking Tools. Can I use it as an alternative to Azure Spatial Anchors or does it only register virtual content to physical space?
I really hope you can give me some advices.
Thank you