Building our first AR applications
This section will define all the main points of each of the different SDKs available to us, and we will build our first program with them. This will be in a step-by-step and very in-depth tutorial design sort of way, since this is a lot of information to package and condense into a small section without needing to reiterate the information in later chapters.
Setting up Vuforia
It is now time to set up a Unity3D project for each of the different SDKs that will serve as the basis for later chapters when we use each of them to build an application or a game. Let's start with Vuforia, since it is the simplest one to set up:
- We now need to register with Vuforia. Navigate to https://developer.vuforia.com/vui/user/register in order to go to the registration landing page. If you live in a country in which Google is blocked, you should use a VPN, because the registration page uses the Google-powered reCAPTCHA and you can't continue without it:
Registering on Vuforia...