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A Case Study of the Health of an Augmented Reality Software Ecosystem: Vuforia

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Software Business (ICSOB 2016)

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Abstract

Augmented Reality is becoming increasingly popular. The success of a platform is typically observed by measuring the health of the software ecosystem surrounding it. In this paper, we take a closer look at the Vuforia ecosystem’s health by mining the Vuforia platform application repository. It is observed that the developer ecosystem is the strength of the platform. We also determine that Vuforia could be the biggest player in the market if they lay its focus on specific types of app development.

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  1. Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Lamia Soussi, Zeena Spijkerman & Slinger Jansen

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  1. Lamia Soussi
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Correspondence to Slinger Jansen .

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  1. Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland

    Andrey Maglyas

  2. University of Limerick, Lero-The Irish Software Research Centre, Limerick, Ireland

    Anna-Lena Lamprecht

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Soussi, L., Spijkerman, Z., Jansen, S. (2016). A Case Study of the Health of an Augmented Reality Software Ecosystem: Vuforia. In: Maglyas, A., Lamprecht, AL. (eds) Software Business. ICSOB 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 240. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40515-5_11

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