Efficient Creation of Augmented Reality Content by Using an Intuitive Authoring System

Recent advances have shown, that the base technology of augmented reality have matured the point of being usable only by specialists. But existing augmented reality applications are still prototypes. They are developed without any authoring system, only by software experts. To support the wide use of augmented reality technology, the designers of augmented reality application need methods and software tools to create the contents in a fast and cheap way. In this paper we describe an authoring system for creating augmented reality content in an easy and user friendly way. The system allows the creation of augmented reality applications in a straight forward way. By using meta-constructs like menus, selection lists or hotspots as well as illustration objects like 3D-models, videos, texts and sounds a variety of applications can be created without previous technological knowledge. A preview window is also part of the authoring system displaying the actual created AR-application.