royi's blog

Hello all,
This blog feed is dedicated to augment reality (or "AR").

I was asked to create an Android application that will display a virtual "marker" over "reality" upon the discovery of a "pattern", in short i was asked to create a pattern oriented augmented reality mobile application (not that short, is it?).

Since i'm willing to bet that half of you reread the last line 2 or 3 times and are still wondering what am i blabbing about, this is the time for some glossary:
A mobile pattern oriented AR app workflow is as follows:

In this post I would like to show a way to combine Drupal OSM (open street maps) interface with websockets push technology, in order to allow drupal based sites to work as a real-time online monitor, for real world physical actions.
Unless you are already familiar with the terms that I have mentioned so far, you probably don't really understand what I am talking about, so as a prologue I'll elaborate on a few key terms: