Book Description
Augmented Reality allows for radical innovations in countless areas. It magically blends the physical and virtual worlds, bringing applications from a screen into your hands. Meanwhile, Unity has now become the leading platform to develop augmented reality experiences, as it provides a great pipeline for working with 3D assets.
Using a practical and project-based approach, Unity 2018 Augmented Reality Projects educates you about the specifics of augmented reality development in Unity 2018.
This book teaches you how to use Unity in order to develop AR applications which can be experienced with devices such as HoloLens and Daydream. You will learn to integrate, animate, and overlay 3D objects on your camera feed, before gradually moving on to implementing sensor-based AR applications. In addition to this, you will explore the technical considerations that are especially important and possibly unique to AR. The projects in the book demonstrate how you can build a variety of AR experiences, whilst also giving insights into C# programming as well as the Unity 3D game engine via the interactive Unity Editor.
By the end of the book, you will be equipped to develop rich, interactive augmented reality experiences for a range of AR devices and platforms using Unity.
What You Will Learn
- Build and run AR applications for specific headsets, including HoloLens and Daydream
- Create 3D scenes with Unity and other 3D tools while learning about world space and scale
- Move around your AR scenes using locomotion and teleportation
- Create filters or overlays that work in tandem with facial recognition software
- Use GPS, geolocation services, and the camera feed to create a fitness application
- Integrate AR and VR concepts together in a single application
Table of Contents
1: What AR is and How to Get Set up
- Available AR packages
- Advantages and disadvantages of the different AR toolkits available
- Building our first AR applications
- Summary
- Questions
2: GIS Fundamentals - The Power of Mapping
- What is GIS?
- Statistics used with GIS
- The implications of GIS in society
- GIS and augmented reality
- Applications of GIS
- Gaming and GIS
- Summary
- Questions
3: Censored - Various Sensor Data and Plugins
- Project overview
- Getting started
- Sensors
- Summary
- Have a go hero
- Questions
- Further reading
4: The Sound of Flowery Prose
- Project overview
- Getting started
- Conceptualizing the project
- Setting up the Unity project
- Code implementation details
- Working with XCode
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
5: Picture Puzzle - The AR Experience
- Project background
- Project overview
- Installing Vuforia
- Differences between macOS and Windows setups
- Windows project setup
- macOS project setup
- Summary
- Questions
6: Fitness for Fun - Tourism and Random Walking
- Background information on Mapbox
- Project overview
- Setting up Mapbox
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
7: Snap it! Adding Filters to Pictures
- Project overview
- What is OpenCV?
- Installing and building OpenCV
- OpenCV with Unity
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
8: To the HoloLens and Beyond
- What is Mixed Reality, and how does it work?
- Getting Mixed Reality ready
- Project overview
- Playing with Mixed Reality
- Summary
- Questions
- Further reading
