Affordable augmented reality for smartphones

Currently, scientists identify such a basic human need as information hunger. This means that a person strives to obtain a certain amount of information every day. However, it should not just be the volume of any information, it also has various requirements, such as: volume, reliability, saturation, openness, value and timeliness. In order to ensure the need for rapid access to information, the trend towards the development of digital technologies is becoming increasingly evident in the modern world. The development of information access technologies has led to the creation of many ways to provide a person with the information they requested quickly and efficiently, but the most modern means include virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technologies. While virtual reality technologies provide a potentially larger amount of information, augmented reality technologies are more in demand in everyday life, because, unlike VR technologies, they allow the user to observe the real world with the addition of the information he needs. When developing this technology, the goal has always been to most effectively recognize objects in the information field and bring them into the field of view of the operator. The hardware part of the implementation of this technology must have a camera and a monitor. The most common and affordable digital device is a smartphone that fully meets the requirements of this technology. The article discusses the current state of AR technology, primarily the means of developing AR applications for Android. To write any applications, in particular, AR applications for Android, you must use a set of development tools (Softaware Development Kit), otherwise the SDK.