An important emerging application of Augmented Reality is professional and industrial training, including equipment maintenance and how-to manuals. Over the years, traditional paper documents have given way to digital multimedia. First came DVDs, then web-based online docs, and then dedicated mobile apps. The next step will be the adaptation of more interactive and immersive media using AR.
In this chapter, we show you how to build an app that guides someone in changing a flat tire on their car, using step-by-step instructions. Labels and explanations will be superimposed on the real-world objects. You just click Next through the steps.
For this project, we will start with an existing web-based tutorial from wikiHow, How to Change a Tire, convert it to a regular mobile app, and then augment it with Augmented Reality features. This mimics similar real...