Authoring Software for Augmented Reality Applications for the Use of Maintenance and Training Process.

Augmented Reality (AR) in the last decade has increased the popularity on various areas, such as education, advertising, maintenance, marketing and entertainment. On the area of maintenance and education specially we have been researching the benefits of the use of augmented reality bring us, and we have discover that the transfer of knowledge is faster than the traditional methods, and help to companies to train their employees faster and better. Many of the AR applications are custom made to the client needs, and to make an application of AR involves different types of skills such as programming, designing, modeling, animating, texturing. Given the high cost of these or the lack of some of these abilities, the need of programs of “authoring” has increase that permit to users create AR processes using just the GUI without having learn how to program.