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Harness the power of the Google’s new augmented reality (AR) platform ARCore to build cutting-edge Augmented reality apps

Learn core concepts of Environmental Understanding, Immersive Computing, and Motion Tracking with ARCore

Extend your application by combining ARCore with OpenGL, Machine Learning and more.

Description

Are you a mobile developer or web developer who wants to create immersive and cool Augmented Reality apps with the latest Google ARCore platform? If so, this book will help you jump right into developing with ARCore and will help you create a step by step AR app easily. This book will teach you how to implement the core features of ARCore starting from the fundamentals of 3D rendering to more advanced concepts such as lighting, shaders, Machine Learning, and others. We’ll begin with the basics of building a project on three platforms: web, Android, and Unity. Next, we’ll go through the ARCore concepts of motion tracking, environmental understanding, and light estimation. For each core concept, you’ll work on a practical project to use and extend the ARCore feature, from learning the basics of 3D rendering and lighting to exploring more advanced concepts. You’ll write custom shaders to light virtual objects in AR, then build a neural network to recognize the environment and explore even grander applications by using ARCore in mixed reality. At the end of the book, you’ll see how to implement motion tracking and environment learning, create animations and sounds, generate virtual characters, and simulate them on your screen.

What you will learn

Build and deploy your Augmented Reality app to the Android, Web, and Unity platforms

Implement ARCore to identify and visualize objects as point clouds, planes, surfaces, and/or meshes

Explore advanced concepts of environmental understanding using Google ARCore and OpenGL ES with Java

Create light levels from ARCore and create a C# script to watch and propagate lighting changes in a scene

Develop graphics shaders that react to changes in lighting and map the environment to place objects in Unity/C#

Integrate motion tracking with the Web ARCore API and Google Street View to create a combined AR/VR experience

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Alex Jackson May 04, 2018

Well written, easy to follow, concise without the fluff. I found the content to be very easy to digest as a new learner with little previous experience and was very happy with the speed at which I was able to establish a fundamental base in Core through reading the book. I recommend this title strongly and found the length manageable for a couple of sessions of reading and tinkering with the Core platform.

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Kartik Gupta Oct 09, 2018

This book is already outdated. Just look at the speed at which technology is updating itself.Some of the code they mentioned to look at the internet, has changed. This book is no longer useful. Better learn over the internet.

Anonymus Dec 15, 2019

You are better off reading the outdated google documentation than this book. A lot of very important classes are not mentioned at all or are described in a way that it is impossible to understand. For example Quaternions.There are a lot of good videos on youtube which teach you the basics better.274 sites may seem to be a lot but a lot is just copy-pasta from the google documentation or is skipable for example if you just want to create an AR-App and wont use Unity or vice versa

Learn ARCore - Fundamentals of Google ARCore: Learn to build augmented reality apps for Android, Unity, and the web with Google ARCore 1.0

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