Hi,
The local government is accepting applications from artists to decorate a park in the city. I will provide a unique AR experience for park visitors in a specific area of the park, without charging any related fees or admission. The local government will provide a grant to create the work. Since this experience needs to continue for several years, the AR data must continuously exist on the server.
Do I need to purchase a commercial license in this case?
I also have some technical questions. When experiencing AR outdoors, how long and accurately can the location of augmented objects be maintained? After testing examples from the 8wall site, I observed that when moving the screen, the objects’ positions continue to change.
Can I use other solutions together, like Google GeoSpatial API to improve accuracy? (Similar to ADOBE AERO)
And, I would like to know the ways to interact with AR using voice, sound, or actions like blowing into a microphone.
Additionally, can AR incorporate features such as weather information, sunrise and sunset times, and the ability to mask physical shapes or a user’s own shape for taking selfies?
Thanks in advance.
Jonghan
Hi! Welcome to the forums!
Yes, you’ll need a Commercial License.
Regarding your technical questions:
The examples you’re testing are most likely World Effects SLAM experiences which detect the ground and place content based on the detected surface. This can result in the content moving around with the user’s device. In the case you want to anchor content to a physical location, I’d use VPS. With VPS the anchoring of content depends on both the user localizing to the location with their device, the quality of the locations scan(s). You can read more about VPS here.
As far as I’m aware VPS has no capability to improve tracking with outside services.
Yes, you can use any capability of the device since at their core 8th Wall experiences are clientside web pages that use Javascript. See the GetUserMedia API here. Same goes for fetching weather information from an API etc, if it can be done in Javascript it can be done on 8th Wall.
Dear Mr. Butler,
I appreciate your kind reply.
It has been very helpful to me.
However, the ‘Commercial License Policy’ will not be acceptable to the local government office because they have a limited budget for this job.
Could you suggest any alternative solutions?
Thank you,
Jonghan
I recommend reaching out to our team at licensing@8thwall.com. One of our representatives will get in touch with you to discuss your individual use case and explore potential options.