Author(s)

Fabrício Herpich¹, Renan Luigi Martins Guarese², Liane Margarida Rockenbach Tarouco¹

¹Graduate Program in Informatics in Education, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.
²Institute of Informatics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil.

This paper aims to analyze the existing frameworks that may allow the development of educational solutions using augmented reality resources, focusing on tools that enable the conception, design and implementation of mobile applications. As a result of this research, several development environments available on the market that facilitate working with augmented reality elements in mobile devices were discovered and examined. Among these platforms, eleven were selected to be analysed and presented in this paper. These were tested and compared to one another, and their main characteristics were indicated in a comparative table, as well as their resources that hold the potential to contribute with the construction of educational applications. All of this in favor of easing the development of applications that may assist educators in introducing augmented reality technologies in their classrooms.

Augmented Reality (AR), Educational Applications, Software Development Kit (SDK), Mobile Devices, Edutainment, Virtual Reality (VR)

Herpich, F. , Guarese, R. and Tarouco, L. (2017) A Comparative Analysis of Augmented Reality Frameworks Aimed at the Development of Educational Applications. Creative Education, 8, 1433-1451. doi: 10.4236/ce.2017.89101.