PROBLEM:
I urge the Vuforia development team to increase the robustness of Vuforia API. It's the Vuforia API that convinced me to use your product. But like all frameworks, I immediately bumped its limits.
For example, the Vuforia 3d scanning tool use is limited. My application requires unique feature point extraction when building a dataset for a 3d object target. Such that I want to build my own custom 3D scanning tool. In particular, I need five independent, detectable regions of a single 3d object.
I suspect there are many developers that require an extensible AR framework that adapts to every application possibility.
Only a rich API of low level and high level functions can satisfy our needs. If you make the API too simple (e.g. Wikitude, etc.), then it will always remain a toy. And not a professional developer's go to framework.
WISH LIST:
Provide low level functions to manage collections of feature extraction points during target dataset creation.
get_featurePointsList()
remove_featurePoint()
add_featurePoint()
modify_featurePoint()
save_featurePointsList()
Provide feature extraction points that discern color contrast for object pattern recognition.
We live in a colorful world, yet it seems your feature extraction functions rely exclusively on luminosity -- and not hue.
Ken Huebner
Owner / Software Engineer
Huebner Design USA
D4N005H, would the possibility to generate an area target on the fly, in form of an API, be something that would fit that use-case for you?