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Vuforia vs React 360: What are the differences?
What is Vuforia? * 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.
What is React 360? Create exciting 360 and VR experiences using React (By Facebook). It is a framework for the creation of interactive 360 experiences that run in your web browser. It pairs modern APIs like WebGL and WebVR with the declarative power of React, producing applications that can be consumed through a variety of devices. Leveraging web technologies and the existing React ecosystem, React 360 aims to simplify the construction of cross-platform 360 experiences.
Vuforia belongs to "Virtual Reality" category of the tech stack, while React 360 can be primarily classified under "Javascript UI Libraries".
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, React 360 provides the following key features:
- JSX
- Cross Platform
- Variety of 360 and 3D media
React 360 is an open source tool with 8K GitHub stars and 1.15K GitHub forks. Here's a link to React 360's open source repository on GitHub.
