V. DISCUSSION
The Flash video streaming concept was to enable video
playback on top of a marker visible in a webcam feed. The
application was developed for Aller Media in co-operation
with them and the requirements for the application were fully
achieved. As Section IV illustrated, the application’s
performance is good. The FPS value is clearly over 10
frames per second using both computer configurations. The
results thus indicate that the application has very good
overall performance and that its implementation was
successful.
Aller Media was very pleased with the application and
especially appreciated the fulfillment of their requirements
and the readiness of the technology for AR applications. In
addition, Aller Media collected feedback from their endusers.
At its best, the application had over 360 users per day
and the average user used the application for more than 3
minutes. The feedback was mostly positive and the
application created considerable excitement. The application
also received considerable attention after the customer
project with Aller Media, as it was followed by two other
commercial projects. In addition, numerous other customers
have shown interest in the application.
The application’s performance could be improved with
version 11 of Adobe Flash Player, released in October 2011.
Regrettably, the release of version 11 came after the
application had already been designed, implemented and
deployed. The new version has support for hardware
accelerated graphics rendering, which enables rendering to
be executed by the graphics card, producing significant
performance gains. However, having the advantage of the
new version of Flash Player would require changing the 3D
engine used as Papervision3D currently has an inactive
development status, its latest version having been published
in December 2009.