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Vuforia vs A-Frame: What are the differences?
Developers describe Vuforia as "* An augmented reality software development kit". It is an augmented reality software development kit for mobile devices that enables the creation of augmented reality applications. It uses computer vision technology to recognize and track planar images and simple 3D objects. On the other hand, *A-Frame** is detailed as "A web framework for building virtual reality experiences". It allows you to make WebVR apps with HTML and an Entity-Component system. Works on Vive, Rift, Daydream, GearVR, desktop.
Vuforia and A-Frame belong to "Virtual Reality" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Vuforia are:
- Allow you to recognize objects by shape using pre-existing 3D models
- Attach content onto flat images, such as print media and product packaging
- Object Targets are created by scanning an object
On the other hand, A-Frame provides the following key features:
- Html-based
- Entity-component system
- Webvr
A-Frame is an open source tool with 10.3K GitHub stars and 2.51K GitHub forks. Here's a link to A-Frame's open source repository on GitHub.