This report describes an embedded system designed to support the development of embedded augmented reality applications. It includes an integrated camera and built-in graphics acceleration hardware. An example augmented reality application serves as a demonstration of how these features are accessed, as well as providing an indication of the performance of the device.

The embedded augmented reality development platform consists of the Gumstix Overo computer-on-module paired with the custom-built Overocam camera board. This device offers an ARM Cortex-A8 CPU running at 600 MHZ and 256 MB of RAM, along with the ability to capture VGA video at 30 frames per second. The device runs an operating system based on version 2.6.33 of the Linux kernel.

The main feature of the device is the OMAP3530 multimedia applications processor from Texas Instruments. In addition to the ARM CPU, it provides an on-board 2D/3D graphics accelerator and a digital signal processor. It also includes a built-in camera peripheral interface, reducing the complexity of the camera board design.

A working example of an augmented reality application is included as a demonstration of the device's capabilities. The application was designed to represent a basic augmented reality task: tracking a single marker and rendering a simple virtual object. It runs at around 8 frames per second when a marker is visible and 13 frames per second otherwise.

The result of the project is a self-contained computing platform for vision-based augmented reality. It may either be used as-is or customised with additional hardware peripherals, depending on the requirements of the developer.