The MagicARPhone: An AR-Based Game on Phone Offering Personalized Enjoyment

Mobile phone is an ideal platform for augmented reality. However, there is no related application supplying users with changeable and optional experience of three-dimension models. MagicARPhone, a new type of augmented reality game allowing users to see their favorite three-dimension models coexisting with the real world on their smart phone, is proposed in this paper. The phone undertakes the whole AR processing. Various 3D models are available on MagicARPhone wap site, which allows users to download their fond ones by wireless network. Besides, users could upload their models to share their enjoyment. A Model Parser on the server is created to export the useful model data for reconstructing the visual scene on smart phone.