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Unity 2018 Augmented Reality Projects

You're reading from   Unity 2018 Augmented Reality Projects Build four immersive and fun AR applications using ARKit, ARCore, and Vuforia

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838764
Length 358 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jesse Glover Jesse Glover
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Preface 1. What AR is and How to Get Set up FREE CHAPTER 2. GIS Fundamentals - The Power of Mapping 3. Censored - Various Sensor Data and Plugins 4. The Sound of Flowery Prose 5. Picture Puzzle - The AR Experience 6. Fitness for Fun - Tourism and Random Walking 7. Snap it! Adding Filters to Pictures 8. To the HoloLens and Beyond 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Fitness for Fun - Tourism and Random Walking

In this chapter, we will utilize Mapbox to create an AR fitness application prototype. The reason for this is that the main focus will be utilizing GPS, geolocation, and the Android/Apple device hardware to communicate with satellites and receive that data. Mapbox is an SDK designed to utilize the geolocation features of both Android and Apple devices within Unity. The software we will use in conjunction with Unity to make this happen much more seamlessly is Mapbox. Mapbox takes care of a lot of the most difficult portions of the work, so we only have to focus on our games and applications that utilize the software. We will learn how to use Mapbox with Unity to create a fitness application that promotes walking around the area in which you live. Basically, the user will tap on a random location and it will set the destination as that...

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