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Augmented Reality with Unity AR Foundation

You're reading from   Augmented Reality with Unity AR Foundation A practical guide to cross-platform AR development with Unity 2020 and later versions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838982591
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jonathan Linowes Jonathan Linowes
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 – Getting Started with Augmented Reality
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up for AR Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Your First AR Scene 4. Chapter 3: Improving the Developer Workflow 5. Section 2 – A Reusable AR User Framework
6. Chapter 4: Creating an AR User Framework 7. Chapter 5: Using the AR User Framework 8. Section 3 – Building More AR Projects
9. Chapter 6: Gallery: Building an AR App 10. Chapter 7: Gallery: Editing Virtual Objects 11. Chapter 8: Planets: Tracking Images 12. Chapter 9: Selfies: Making Funny Faces 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5: Using the AR User Framework

In this chapter, we will learn how to use the Augmented Reality (AR) user framework that we set up in the previous chapter, Chapter 4, Creating an AR User Framework. Starting with the ARFramework scene template, we will add a main menu for placing virtual objects in the environment. If you skipped that chapter or just read through it, you can find the scene template and assets in the files provided on this book's GitHub repository.

For this project, we'll extend the framework with a new PlaceObject-mode that prompts the user to tap to place a virtual object in the room. The user will have a choice of objects from the main menu.

In the latter half of the chapter, I'll discuss some advanced AR application issues including making an AR-optional project, determining whether a device supports a specific AR feature, and adding localization to your User Interface (UI).

This chapter will cover the following topics:

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