Section: New Software and Platforms

PoLAR

PoLAR (Portable Library for Augmented Reality) is a software library that offers powerful and state of the art visualization solutions under an API that is adapted and easy to use for a computer vision scientist. An ADT, also named PoLAR, started in October, 1st 2014 to sustain its development: a software engineer, Pierre-Jean Petitprez, was hired for two years.

After the code was made independent from our other research codes (RAlib), the library was ported to up-to-date versions of the supporting libraries: OpenSceneGraph 3.2 and Qt5.4. Heavy code refactoring was also carried out to set the core functionalities in conformity with the standards of the supporting libraries.

PoLAR was made available to the public in October 2015, and can be used under Linux or Windows at the moment.

Also this year, a research branch was developed to add the management of physics engines in PoLAR: so far, Bullet and Vega deformation engines were considered, the former being well integrated and the latter still being a work in progress.

• Contact: Erwan Kerrien, Pierre-Frédéric Villard.

• URL: http://polar.inria.fr