Vuforia Engine Reviews & Product Details

Vuforia Engine is user-friendly and can be integrated with the application with a minimum number of steps. Even new learners can easily use it and create good AR applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vuforia Engine is still in development, and sometimes, I have faced issues with surface detection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vuforia is a fast, reliable, and compact AR SDK available in the market with proper documentation and hands-on code for anyone who wants to kickstart AR development. With a large community and active integration with Unity through C#, Vuforia offers many advantages over other SDKs present in the market. The feature of Image Target Detection, especially with virtual buttons, gives the feeling of immersive reality. Some of the notable features provided by Vuforia that caught my eye: 1. VuMARK: a whole new concept of generating barcodes solely for business (Highly Customizable) 2. Easy integration and management of image targets, options to use different objects as targets, e.g., cube, spherical, plane. 3. Virtual Buttons: Smart use of obstruction to give the feel of immersion, virtual buttons that trigger when the user obstructs the view in real space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using the SDK for more than a year, and as of now, I don't see any drawbacks apart from the pricing if you are planning to go commercial with the SDK. Free usage allows pretty much everything needed to run the application on mobile devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like its compatibility with Unity and the feature that allows to test the application without the need to deploy to a mobile device. Vuforia is able to do many different things, such as recognition of different types of visual objects (such as boxes, cylinders, and planes), text and environment recognition, and VuMark, which is a combination of picture and QR code. Also, using the Vuforia Object Scanner, you can scan and create object targets. Also, large community provides hands on experience and feedback as well as tutorials about how to use download, install, setup, and use for different platforms. Moreover, Unity plugin is simple to integrate and very powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my experience, the use of my storage is too much. It could be reduced. I have not bought it but it would be better if it is offered free for students. One of the downsides is that it is not 100% free software, although they do have a developer tier with 1,000 cloud recognition and 1,000 targets for free per month. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vuforia comes with the feature of implementing Virtual buttons which gives the user the feel of immersing into augmented world providing 3D floating texts and surround sound (implemented manually). Vuforia SDK helps to build industry-ready solutions in one go. The feature of cross compatibility and easy integration helped me to deploy application without much hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As of my experience, I did not encounter any serious issue with Vuforia, some quality of image tracking issues in low light conditions and focus through application build with Vuforia SDK and Unity. But it could be customized if opened into Android Studio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vuforia is the best available SDK for Unity users, easily integrates and supports cross-platform deployment with platforms like Unity. The free version of the SDK can easily be used to create target-based detection, which can be markerless and cloud-based as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The free version provides enough support to create applications for small purposes, but scaling the application to a business level would be expensive as the enterprise account is quite costly to use. Target detection is not that good, and anchors placed are not always detected even when lighting conditions are good. Although Vuforia widely integrates with ARCore, functionalities like virtual buttons and mono audio are lacking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

QR Code or Image Target detection in Vuforia is the best across all the major SDK's which include ARCore and others. As an AR Developer I find that the detection is precise and that camera running out of field doesn't affect the placement of the object. The algorithm is efficient and it helps place 3D Models easily with little to no latency, I like the optimization of the Image Target Detection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I am not a big fan of the plane detection feature in Vuforia, as I think that there can be a lot of work done on it. It is not efficient as compared to other SDK's in the market. Although the creation of it is easy, the end result isn't as satisfying as I expect it to be. The place varies when we change the orientation of the phone from Landscape to Portrait and the size of the 3D models gets shrunk, which also affects the animations on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vuforia is one of the best engines for those using Unity, as it is now integrated and full of examples and plugins that make different types of integration possible even for newbies. Also excellent for crossplatform applications. Excellent possibility to use a free version to prototype, with total freedom of use of all types of recognition (Marker, plane, Markerless and clouding services) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the points against this engine is certainly the price, the most expensive among the various engines. Considering also the integration with Unity, there would be a small price drop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is a solution that exists since many years and that proved to work in lots of different contexts and on different devices (e.g. HoloLens, smartphones, etc...). It is impressive that it works offering different tracking solutions, like marker-based and 3D-model-based. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I would prefer a more permissive free licensing, but it is right to pay for high quality products.

Furthermore, now with frameworks like ARCore and ARKit, Vuforia is being threatened as the king of AR platforms. That's why PTC is moving also in offering dedicated enterprise solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The marker tracking algorithm of Vuforia Engine is the most stable compared to other SDK that I have tried such as EasyAR, XZIMG. The step to implement Vuforia in Unity3D is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The price for Vuforia, which is charged annually, is quite expensive for a small studio like mine. The tracking stability of Vuforia's Ground Plane and Extended Tracking is way too behind ARCore and ARKit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is not dependable in software hardware. We can use it to build IOS as well as android apps. It has more devices supports compared to ARKit and ARCore. It has many features like model targets, image targets, cylinder targets, object targets and others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Free version gives supports but the app comes with a watermark of it. Model targets is not that accurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.