WebARKitLib-rs crate

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[Showcase] WebARKitLib-rs — A High-Performance Rust & WASM Port of ARToolkit

Hello everyone! :crab: :glasses:
I am Walter from webarkit github org!

I’m excited to share WebARKitLib-rs, a from-scratch port of the classic WebARKitLib (ARToolkit) engine to Rust.

The goal of this project is to bring battle-tested marker tracking to the modern web and native ecosystems with memory safety and SOTA performance.

:rocket: Key Features

  • Pure Rust Core: A safe, side-effect-free implementation of the ARToolkit tracking engine.
  • Blazing Fast WASM: Optimized for the web with a zero-copy memory bridge between JavaScript and Rust.
  • SIMD Accelerated: Custom WASM SIMD and SSE4.1 kernels for grayscale conversion and pattern matching, yielding up to 2.3x speedups.
  • Barcode (Matrix) Support: Full support for 3x3 to 6x6 matrix markers with BCH/Hamming error correction for robust detection.
  • Dual-Build Pipeline: We provide both Standard and SIMD-optimized WASM modules with an automated loader that picks the best one for your browser.
  • Performance Parity: Achieved ~400µs tracking times on standard resolutions (benchmarked against the original C implementation).

:hammer_and_wrench: Why Rust & WASM?

By porting to Rust, we’ve eliminated many of the "footguns" found in legacy C codebases while gaining access to top-tier WASM performance. Whether you're building a web-based AR experience or a native Rust application, the engine is designed to be lightweight and highly portable.

:package: Get Started

The project is open-source and ready for feedback!

I'd love to hear your thoughts or see what you build with it! :clinking_beer_mugs:
P:S. I'm not a great expert of Rust. I did this port with the Help of Antigravity and Google Gemini.

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What kind of problems does it solve? I understand from your post that it is intended to be fast and safer that previous implementations, but the post gives me no clue about what it is supposed to do.

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Hi @threefold3 this is a project for AugmentedReality, as i written it is based on WebARKitLib (a variant of ARToolKit). With this you can create applications to detect Square Markers and Barcode Markers. As i know, but maybe i'm wrong, there aren't crates for this. Maybe i will update the initial post with more informations.

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Don't know i f someone tested the code but actually the crate only export one part of the code (core). This because the structure and my partial ignorance about Rust crates. I will fix this soon refactoring the code. The project is still in an experimental phase, so apologize for this inconvenient.

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For anyone interested: Very soon, we'll reach an important milestone in WebARkitLib-rs development, implementing the full KPM build in Rust. Stay tuned!