Enchant your users with high performance Augmented Reality experiences compatible with any modern web browser. Users don't need to download apps, and WebXR support isn't required.
🧙♂️ Get started at https://encantar.dev
- Broad compatibility - Create WebAR experiences for all platforms: iOS, Android, Desktops. WebXR support isn't required thanks to encantar's custom trackers based on Computer Vision.
- High performance - Deliver blazing fast AR experiences to a wide user base through encantar's GPU-accelerated trackers and WebAssembly-powered computational wizardry.
- Modularity - Use encantar.js with the 3D engine of your choice: A-Frame, babylon.js, three.js, or any other!
- Image tracking - Track custom images such as cartoons or photos with no need of custom setup. This is known as Natural Feature Tracking.
- Pointer tracking - Create interactive experiences based on touch and mouse input with an easy-to-use API.
- Add-Ons - Enchant your users with additional features that enhance the core of encantar.js!
Pick any demo below, or browse the website for more!
There are two editions: free and commercial. They are functionally equivalent, but have significant differences in usage rights.
Download the Free Edition for creating and distributing free and open-source projects, or for developing internal prototypes of non-free/proprietary projects (no distribution rights under the GPL).
Purchase the Commercial Edition before distributing your non-free/proprietary projects to others (browser delivery counts as distribution). Use it in production.
Get extras for rich AR experiences!
Get started with the Free Edition:
- Download and extract encantar-free-VERSION.zip
- Download and run Servez, a simple local web server
- In Folder to Serve, specify the folder named
encantar-free-VERSIONextracted in step 1 - Change the Port to 8000
- Click on Start to launch the local web server
Next, open http://localhost:8000/demos/hello-aframe/video.html. Also try the different demos on a mobile phone. Enjoy! 🪄
When testing WebAR with a webcam, it's recommended to launch the web server using HTTPS.
Tip
Try online
You can also try the demos online!
Do you prefer the Command Line?
npx http-server -p 8000 /path/to/encantar-free-VERSION/
The latest version of the library is
👨💻 Contact me for library-specific questions or support services.
encantar.js is developed by Alexandre Martins and released under version 3 of the GNU GPL, with optional terms enabling usage in proprietary software. It's based on speedy-vision, a Computer Vision library for JavaScript created by the same author.
Developing an Augmented Reality engine from scratch with Computer Vision is a massive undertaking, yet it happened! 😀