Preface

This was a fun and interesting book to write! Augmented reality is a fascinating new field with tons of potential to reshape how we integrate technology into our everyday lives. Companies and toolkits are popping up each week trying to capture a piece of this emerging market.

The goal of this book was to provide you with a jump-start on building these types of applications. I begin by discussing the basic foundations of the app, such as the compass and accelerometer, and move on to more advanced ideas behind image processing.

This book is intended for experienced iOS developers. You should have moderate experience with Xcode and objective-C. I use third-party frameworks and some of the new iOS5 APIs to show you how to build augmented ...

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