Towards Augmented Reality Applications in a Mobile Web Context

Mobile augmented reality (MAR) applications are becoming reality due to the rapid evolution of mobile devices and their capacities. In this paper, we introduce MARW, a development framework for MAR applications on a Web browser. Use of the Web browser technology enables running the same MAR applications on all mobile platform and operating system configurations. The performance of the implemented MARW prototype was evaluated with several experiments using multiple mobile device and Web browser combinations. Based on the experimentation results, a maximum number of 12 frames per second were achieved with a high-end tablet device in vision-based tracking using markers. It was also discovered that the performance differences between Web browsers are significant in terms of MAR application performance.