Augmented Reality Browsers: A Proposal for Architectural Standardization

Abstract

The technology evolution of smartphones, systems and the growing of telecommunications, allow the use of Augmented Reality in the exploration of geo-referenced information, complementing the real environment of the users with various types of content displayed on robust mobile cameras through applications called augmented reality browsers. Although this type of application is being in development and growing use by society, the technology, and especially its software architecture do not have any kind of standardization. This work presents concepts about augmented reality browsers for mobile devices. It shows the main aspects and applications of those types of reality. Besides that, the specific features of those types of architecture are discussed and compared, and new architecture, whose most relevant feature is the interoperability of applications in various platforms for mobile devices, are presented. This work has the objective to develop an architectural framework for the development of these browsers.