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

Hello everyone!
Hi 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.

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).

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.

Get Started

The project is open-source and ready for feedback!

• GitHub: WebARKitLib-rs
• NPM: @webarkit/webarkitlib-wasm
• Crates.io: webarkitlib-rs

I'd love to hear your thoughts or see what you build with it!
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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