This morning Qualcomm released it's Augmented Reality SDK "QCAR". The
QCAR SDK is the first SDK made specifically for mobile phones running
Android. From the looks of it, QCAR supports some form of natural
feature and marker tracking as well as 3D. You can get the SDK from
the QDevNet site, which requires a free registration. For some reason,
QDEVNET takes 15 minutes to create a new developer account and until
your account is created, you can't download the SDK. You'd be smart
to spend that 15 minutes reading up on the development environment
requirements. QCAR requires the JDK, Eclipse, The Android SDK, ADT as
well as the Android NDK. For those of you who haven't explored the NDK
yet, the Android NDK is required to compile Dynamic Shared Object
(.so) that's deployed by the java bootloader. Android noobs beware:
the QCAR SDK has "grown-ups" written all over it.

Sound like fun? Dive in here: https://ar.qualcomm.com/qdevnet/sdk
And join the ARDevMob: http://www.meetup.com/augmentedreality

Sid Gabriel Hubbard