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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

Testing with an editor remote tool

Developers have been using Unity for many years to develop games and applications for iOS and Android devices. You want the ability to click Play in the Unity Editor and run the current scene remotely on your attached mobile device. Having an iterative develop-test-update-repeat cycle is key to more efficient and effective development.

To facilitate this developer workflow, Unity provides an application called Unity Remote 5 that you install on your phone and then connect to the Unity Editor. It is available for both Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.unity3d.mobileremote) and iOS (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/unity-remote-4/id871767552). It allows you to use a mobile device to view and test your project live, inside the Unity Editor, without having to build each time. The device acts as a "remote control" for the scene running in the Editor Play-mode, including screen touch, accelerometer, gyroscope, and webcam...

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