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The quality of the 3D models used in AR experiences is directly proportional to Vertex Count/Polygons/Textures etc.

My app needs a whole bunch of 3D Models, packaging these models in the app isn’t feasible. App bundle size grows significantly, and trying to reduce vertex count/polygon can happen only till a certain level after which AR Experience quality drops significantly. 3D objects start to lose their realistic look. So this approach isn’t scalable. While it can handle few models, I cannot possibly scale the number of objects I can include.

If I don’t package 3D objects with the app, what are my options? Are there any cloud services that folks have used to stream the 3D models over the network? Such service solves another problem – I don’t have to update my app each time I need to include new models. If I could simply add new objects in the service catalog, they are made available/visible inside my app (wherver it runs), and I can provide option to download them on-demand.

Appreciate any thoughts/comments/pointers on this topic.

Like the title says, I received a tour at an AR proof of concept at a nearby innovation lab. I do HVAC and was on the job-site, the AR people were super cool and asked me if I wanted to see firsthand what AR is. I agreed and my mind was blown. I asked them why i’ve never seen this stuff in real life before and they said its because they have a private 5G core for their lab which allows them to have the required network/ data speeds for the real-time experiences.

My question to this subreddit is, what are some AR experiences/apps/hardware I could purchase to experience this on my own? Is there AR things available? Or is it something that is down the road?

Prior to this I had only done Pokemon Go which isn’t really that impressive, in my opinion.

Things I did in the lab:

AR furniture assembly instructions (it could identify which parts were which and showed me how to assemble it from scratch.

AR human anatomy where a ligament/muscle overlay was placed upon me which they said would be used in physical therapy and rehabilitation settings

AR argriculture (gave visuals to show which plants needed to be watered and other key metrics for the plants… this was a video PoC, I didn’t actually experience)

AR vehicle wayfinding/navigation on roads via windsheild

I went home feeling like AR was going to change the world, so I’m wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of real-life, currently available interesting AR that isn’t just a novelty (like Pokemon Go)?

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Any suggestions? Or any things you have seen being developed that you think is impressive?

Greetings.

I’m working on a project and I need MindAR (link) as the main framework. I wrote some automation on HTML files we deliver to our customers, but as you may know, MindAR requires some sort of compilation on the target images (the compiler is here).

I’ve read their codes, but could not understand what they actually do to the input image to reverse-engineer what they did in our own code base.

Any ideas?

Thanks.