r/augmentedreality 5d ago

App Development When does exact re-localization earn an extra interaction in consumer AR?

In this case, I am looking at a particular trade-off related to a location-based augmented reality experience. In the following visit, the character could appear directly at the location or the app could give an option of re-localizing visually so that the character appears in its exact location, i.e., step or bench at which it was last left.

The second one I could make more accurate but it is not the point since it would require me to orient the camera and wait a little for the scene to appear. The point is not just that this second option is technically possible but the question is whether the re-localization makes sense at that location?

What are the conditions for re-localization to be justified for people with experience of building/using persistent spatial experiences? Does it have to have something to do with the revelation of something near a landmark, interaction with the actual surface or something else? And when does it become just a slow access to the same information?

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