The following is a list of notable augmented reality software including programs for application development, content management, gaming and integrated AR solutions.
Open source
A-Frame_, A Framework that adds HTML tags for most of the functionality in three.js and other JavaScript features as a superset of this lower level underlying 3-D framework
ApertusVR is an embeddable, open-source, framework-independent, platform-independent, network-topology-independent, distributed AR / VR / MR engine; written in C++; with JavaScript and HTTP Rest API. It creates a new abstraction layer over the hardware vendors in order to integrate the virtual and augmented reality technologies into any developments, products.
ARToolKit, an open source C-library to create augmented reality applications; was ported to many different languages and platforms like Android, Flash or Silverlight; very widely used in augmented reality related projects.
OpenIllusionist provides software libraries for generating images, interpreting user input, modelling the behaviour of virtual objects, and threading all of the above to provide the illusion of reality.
Proprietary
AR development toolkits
Layar SDK was an augmented reality SDK for iOS and Android apps.
zSpace for Education - interaction with 3D objects in lesson plans that align with Common Core
End-to-end branded app solutions
Aurasma
Blippar
Nokia City Lens
Wikitude
Games
Certain gaming devices, such as the EyeToy, PlayStation Eye, Kinect, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita and some mobile devices, use cameras to augment computer graphics onto live footage. The majority of AR software uses special cards which are read by the device to pinpoint where the graphics will form.
AR Games - a pre-loaded app on the Nintendo 3DS gaming console consisting of numerous AR games.
Bravely Default - Features an AR Movie Mode which recognises a series of AR Cards to display short augmented reality introductions to the playable cast and more.
Cybergeneration - a table top role-playing game by R. Talsorian, includes "virtuality", an augmented reality created through v-trodes, cheap, widely available devices people wear at their temples.
Dead Space - a video game in which a RIG worn by Isaac Clarke is thoroughly equipped with augmented reality technology, including a navigation system that projects a line along the best route to his destination, and a system that displays images, video and text in front of him. In conjunction with the game, an augmented-reality website called No Known Survivors was released in 2008.
E.X. Troopers - a video game with an AR Mode on the Nintendo 3DS version. This recognises AR Cards of characters to display them as well as numerous emotes and attacks when the player presses inputs.
Hydrophobia - a survival-adventure video game from Dark Energy Digital features the MAVI, which is a tool used to enhance environmental geometry among other purposes.
Ingress - a location-based mobile game developed by Niantic Labs for iOS and Android devices where two teams battle for control of regions and landmarks.
Jurassic World Alive - a free-to-play location-based, augmented reality game developed by Ludia for iOS and Android devices.
Let's Hunt Monsters - a China-exclusive, free-to-play augmented reality game published by Tencent for iOS and Android.