AR Toolkit

Download and Installation

Download

• Download ARtoolkit from http://www.hitl.washington.edu/artoolkit/
• Download glut-3.7.6-bin.zip from http://www.xmission.com/~nate/glut.html
• ARToolkit debug executables (those ending in *d.exe) require Microsoft Visual C++ 2003.

Setup

1. Download and extract ARToolkit to a working directory
2. Download and extract GLUT 3.7 to a working directory
3. Copy glut32.dll from glut-3.7.6-bin to ARToolkit/bin
4. Verify that GLUT 3.2 is working
   1. Run ARToolkit/bin/graphicsTest.exe
   2. Run ARToolkit/bin/simpleLite.exe
5. Verify that you can use the debug versions
   1. Run ARToolkit/bin/graphicsTestd.exe
   2. Run ARToolkit/bin/simpleLited.exe
      1. If you cannot run this program, you need to install the Visual Studio 2003 debug runtime.

Fiducials

1. Open ARToolkit/patterns and print out the PDF files. Hiro and Kanji are the two basic patterns used.

Recipes and How-To's

Using in C#

Use NyARToolkit, the port of ARToolkit for Java and C#.

Tutorials and Examples

• (Under Construction)

Links

• Running in C#? Use NyARToolkit
• C++ example using ARToolkit.