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Augmented Reality with Unity AR Foundation

You're reading from Augmented Reality with Unity AR Foundation A practical guide to cross-platform AR development with Unity 2020 and later versions

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838982591

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

AR Foundation

Concepts

Augmented Reality

Author (1):

Jonathan Linowes

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1 – Getting Started with Augmented Reality

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up for AR Development FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Your First AR Scene

4. Chapter 3: Improving the Developer Workflow

5. Section 2 – A Reusable AR User Framework

6. Chapter 4: Creating an AR User Framework

7. Chapter 5: Using the AR User Framework

8. Section 3 – Building More AR Projects

9. Chapter 6: Gallery: Building an AR App

10. Chapter 7: Gallery: Editing Virtual Objects

11. Chapter 8: Planets: Tracking Images

12. Chapter 9: Selfies: Making Funny Faces

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Advanced onboarding issues

In this section, we'll review some other issues related to AR onboarding, AR sessions, and devices, including the following:

Making an AR-optional project
Determining whether the device supports a specific AR feature
Adding localization to your project

Making an AR-optional project

Some applications are intended to be run specifically using AR features and should just quit (after a friendly notification to the user) if it's not supported. But other applications may want to behave like an ordinary mobile app with an extra optional capability of supporting AR features.

For example, a game I recently created, Epoch Resources (available for Android at https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.parkerhill.EpochResources&hl=en_US&gl=US, and iOS at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/epoch-resources/id1455848902) is a planetary evolution incremental game with a 3D planet you mine for resources. It offers an optional...

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Authors (1)

Linowes

Linowes

Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.

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