4Any Framework for Mobile Augmented Reality Systems
Researchers at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia have published a scientific paper about the 4Any framework for mobile Augmented Reality systems and experience development. The framework is composed of layers for actors, profiles and metadata to be shared, and for visualizing scenarios. In the same paper, the researchers describe ArcHIVE, a pilot system developed to test the framework and provide a link to the code generated by the implementation.
According to the 4Any framework, the ArcHIVE system architecture provides a metadata layer to retrieve, deploy, create, update or delete customization information, such as custom object definitions and page layouts, which are tailored to the user profile defined by the actor layer. Django, an open source mobile application authoring environment that uses the Python scripting language to provide a web/database interface that is well supported, scalable, and easy to maintain, was used to code the pilot system.