AR Lite with SREngine Lite

AR Lite with SREngine Lite

This writer's favorite AR developer, Sein Kanemura, has just posted an English description of his latest mobile application SREngine Lite. Unlike the full blown SREngine, this one does not try to augment a video feed, but rather tackles the simpler task of mobile image recognition. It similar to Nokia's Point and Find and some other mobile applications, but I find its interface very attractive:



The Lite version makes do without a server (up to 20 images can be stored on the device), doesn't require GPS or compass readings, so it works on the iPhone 3G as well as on the iPhone 3GS, and it's purely based on image recognition.

SREngine Lite recently won the Japanese "Next-Generation Communications & Marketing" award under the Future category. And, following the trend, Kanemura promises to "release SREngine Lite SDK for iPhone which allows developers to design own ar app.".

More details here. Tom covered SREngine Lite a couple of week ago, but I've waited for the English translation, mistrusting Google Translate.