New Wikitude Target Manager

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We are proud to announce the new Wikitude Target Manager, a project our team has been secretly working on the past months for you! The new target manager will be completely redesigned to minimize the efforts when creating target images and optimize the management of your target collections for the Wikitude SDK. With this easy drag & drop tool, you can now add, delete, edit and maintain your target images more efficiently with a completely fresh user interface.

What’s NEW!?

For those of you who have used our old Target Manager, you know it was capable of creating wtc-files only. Our new version will now allow you to additionally manage cloud-recognition projects if you have any. If you don’t require cloud recognition yet, you might in the future, which is the advantage of this dynamic platform as it may grow with your requirements.
The new Target Manager will allow you to manage both your offline and online projects, meaning your recognition scenarios can happen directly on the device with the help of the Wikitude SDK or to manage your online recognition scenarios, should you also use the Wikitude Cloud Recognition service in combination with our SDK.

Offline Recognition

If your application needs to recognize and augment up to 1,000 target images, a so-called “wtc-file” will be generated containing all the information required for offline recognition. With one click you can quickly generate this wtc-file in the new Target Manager and start integrating it into your AR experience.
In our AR.ClientTracker documentation you can find out how easy it is to put videos and even 3D models on top of your print media.

Online or Cloud Recognition

Although the Target Manager lets you manage your projects in minimum time, sometimes it is easier to automatize things using RESTful APIs. Wikitude’s Cloud-Recognition analyzes camera-frames online so your application does not need to know anything about the targets as such, but focus on the augmentation handling only.
Define metadata for a target: This JSON data is reported back on successful recognition so you can maintain the content server-side and set up the scene in JavaScript according to the information reported from the server.
Still not sure if that’s what you’re looking for? Use it for free during test phase and purchase the license later. Everything you need for development or upgrade is available in the new Target Manager.

Project migration

If you already created wtc files in the previous Target-Manager, no worry, we transferred your work into the new one. The migration from the old to the new target manager is scheduled for Thursday (September 3rd, 2015) during the morning Austrian time (CET). Some downtime and instability could occur during this period. If you need access to your projects on a downtime please write us at info@wikitude.com and we will be ready to assist you. Developers will have access to the new Target Manager as soon as the migration is complete.

Update: all projects were successfully migrated and developers now have access to the new Wikitude Target Manager.

We hope you enjoy the new tool, and we are happy to hear your feedback!

Wikitude Dev Team