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Learn ARCore - Fundamentals of Google ARCore

You're reading from  Learn ARCore - Fundamentals of Google ARCore

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788830409
Pages 274 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Started 2. ARCore on Android 3. ARCore on Unity 4. ARCore on the Web 5. Real-World Motion Tracking 6. Understanding the Environment 7. Light Estimation 8. Recognizing the Environment 9. Blending Light for Architectural Design 10. Mixing in Mixed Reality 11. Performance Tips and Troubleshooting 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

3D and three.js


We live in a 3D world. Therefore, for us to convincingly fool our users into believing that their reality is being augmented or altered, we need to work with their world in three dimensions. Now, each of the platforms we are working with (web, Android, and Unity), all have 3D engines we will be using. In the case of Unity, it is the 3D engine and without a doubt the easiest to use with little or no programming or math knowledge required. Android and OpenGL ES is a distant second, as it will require some knowledge of 3D math. The third and last option is our 3D engine for web, which will be three.js library. The three.js will be the most difficult platform to work with when using 3D, which makes it our perfect candidate to start with.

Note

The Unreal platform, as we mentioned in Chapter 1Getting Started, is another ARCore platform option. Unreal is similar to Unity in the manner that it provides great tools to work in 3D, although those tools are more technical and will require...

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