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What's that about?

Augmented Reality is something really cool, and there are lot of people who wants to develop Augmented Reality applications. However, Augmented Reality is one experience, but not an application. So, how the applications are made? 

Arround 2004, Dr. Hirokazu Kato developed a software library with C++ and called ARtoolkit. Once installed on your system (which it was really painfull) you were able to create your own applications with a good knowledge of coding and OpenGL commands. Very painful as well. 

But that was years ago. Now, and thanks to generous contributors like Nyatla, Saqoosha, Eric Socosfky or Blake Callens whom created ports from ARtoolkit to other frameworks or languages, we have many ways to develop augmented reality applications much easier than ARtoolkit. 

The evolution

the links points to the projects home pages

• ARTOOLKIT a toolkit of libraries and apps based on C++
• NyARtoolkit a JAVA port from ARTOOLKIT
• FLARtoolkit an ActionScript3 port from NyARtoolkit
• FLARManager a framework-manager to develop FLARtoolkit apps. 
• ARtisan a a framework-manager to develop FLARtoolkit apps. 

You can find more basic info in this site following these links: 

• Artoolkit
• FLARtoolkit
• AS3 (Action Script 3)
• How to build the apps (Flash IDE, FLEX)
• Markers
• Managers (FLARmanager, ARtisan...)