Preface

Augmented Reality (AR) allows people to interact meaningfully with the real world through digitally enhanced content. This book will help get you started developing your own AR applications using the Unity 3D game engine and the AR Foundation toolkit provided by Unity Technologies Inc. Using the techniques and lessons presented in this book, you will be able to create your own AR applications and games for a variety of target devices.

AR technology is now commonly available on mobile consumer devices—smartphones and tablets, both iOS (ARKit) and Android (ARCore), and a new generation of wearable smart glasses. In this book, I focus on instructing you on how to develop AR applications for mobile devices, but the techniques and projects can also be applied to wearables.

By the end of this book, you will be able to build and run your own AR applications that add layers of information to the real world, enabling interaction with real and virtual objects and innovatively engaging your users.