ARway Corporation (CSE:ARWY) has announced a significant upgrade to its spatial computing Software Developer Kit (SDK) with the release of version 2.0, contributing to the expansion of the company as a major player in the spatial computing and wayfinding market.
The launch of version 2.0 SDK marks the completion of the last major component of the company's AR wayfinding and spatial computing platform. The full ARway platform offering consists of the ARway app - for spatial mapping, The Creator Portal - for content management and analytics , and The ARwayKit SDK - for custom apps and integrations. The ARway SDK is being offered as a SaaS platform or can be used in limited ways for free with the ARway watermark.
In a statement, Evan Gappelberg ARway’s CEO commented: “We believe that spatial computing is where the internet was in the mid 1990’s and that it’s the next big advancement in computing technology. Today’s V2 SDK release is loaded with major technological advancements including Occlusion, Persistent localization, dynamic wayfinding and much more.”
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“I couldn’t be more excited about the work that our team is doing as we are pushing the limits of what's possible in the metaverse with AR wayfinding in a no-code beaconless spatial computing platform," Gappelberg added.
The ARwayKit SDK V.2.0 out-of-box features include:
- Platform economies: Seamless integration with Creator Portal and ARway app
- Easy Setup: Sample scene and multiple tutorials
- Seamless Integration: REST APIs that work with any device
- Cross-platform: Capable of running on both Android and iOS
- Persistent: Localization for AR experiences anchored in place
- Occlusion: Occlusion of AR Content with objects and humans
- Intelligent wayfinding: Dynamic AR navigation and guidance
- Customization: Customize experiences with interactive elements
- Privacy Focused: Built from the ground with customer and user privacy in mind
- Analytics: Optimize with actionable data.
The ARwayKit SDK V.2.0 enables developers and major brands to seamlessly bring the game-changing technology of ARway’s spatial computing platform directly into their apps. The next-generation Augmented Reality enhanced user experience provided by ARway can be branded, customized, and tailored for industry-specific use cases and take existing 2D mobile applications into the metaverse with 3D content and AR wayfinding.
V2.0 SDK benefits include:
- Increasing Customer Lifetime Value (CLV), as embedding the ARway SDK into their apps enables customers to benefit from the AR wayfinding and spatial computing capabilities, without having to invest money and resources to build them out in-house
- Increasing customer adoption and retention rate, as leveraging the ARway SDK significantly improves customers’ developers experience and allows them to launch their apps faster to market
- Growing ARway’s end-user base exponentially, as customers’ platform end users ultimately become the end-users of the SDK
- Growing ARway’s market share, as the SDK ultimately becomes a component of any platform/app it gets embedded into within the corresponding industry
- Standardizing the user experience for all customers and ensuring their access to the latest features and updates
- Generating revenue, by enabling customers to market products and services by leveraging the SDK
Customers with an existing user base in their mobile apps are combining the location intelligence generated by ARway with their proprietary user data to improve services, enhance visitor experience as well as monetizing their facilities through programmatic and targeted marketing activations.
ARway is a no-code spatial computing platform for the real-world Metaverse. It enables AR-enhanced indoor navigation and wayfinding solutions for large, multi-purpose venues enabled by marker-based tracking using QR codes. Visitors can access a venue map by scanning a QR code with their smartphone upon entering the venue to navigate to any Point of Interest (POI) with step-by-step directions, learn information about those POIs, and interact with rich AR content and experiences along the way.
The ARway offering has an unlimited number of use cases for augmenting physical spaces in the metaverse, consisting of indoor navigation with AR activations to improve the visitor experience in large and complex spaces. With value propositions spanning multiple industries and use cases, ARway leverages Nextech’s 3D/AR technology solutions to new substantial markets, for use by creators, brands, and companies.
Contact the author at jon.hopkins@proactiveinvestors.com