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Augmented Reality for Developers

You're reading from   Augmented Reality for Developers Build practical augmented reality applications with Unity, ARCore, ARKit, and Vuforia

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286436
Length 548 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jonathan Linowes Jonathan Linowes
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Preface 1. Augment Your World FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up Your System 3. Building Your App 4. Augmented Business Cards 5. AR Solar System 6. How to Change a Flat Tire 7. Augmenting the Instruction Manual 8. Room Decoration with AR 9. Poke the Ball Game

Adding visual helpers to the AR Prompt


Our plan is for the user to capture an image of his flat tire and then register augmented graphics to the captured image target. We are not so advanced as to have artificial intelligence (AI) image recognition (sorry, that's beyond the scope of this book), so we're going to rely a little bit on our user to choose a capture that's approximately the right position and size for our illustrations. Therefore, we need to provide some visual helpers to guide the user.

Adding a cursor

First we will add a small cursor to the middle of the screen, to indicate where the center of the car's tire is:

  1. In Hierarchy, select AR Prompt and create UI | Image; name it Center Cursor.
  2. Set its Source Image sprite (by clicking the little doughnut icon) to Knob.
  3. Change its Scale to 0.2, 0.2, 0.2.

If you press Play, I think you'll agree that's helpful.

Adding a registration target

The cursor helps guide the position of the capture. We also need something to guide the size. A circle...

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