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Augmented Reality Game Development

You're reading from Augmented Reality Game Development Create your own augmented reality games from scratch with Unity 5

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787122888

Length 334 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Go

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Augmented Reality

Author (1):

Micheal Lanham

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started

2. Mapping the Player's Location FREE CHAPTER

3. Making the Avatar

4. Spawning the Catch

5. Catching the Prey in AR

6. Storing the Catch

7. Creating the AR World

8. Interacting with an AR World

9. Finishing the Game

10. Troubleshooting

GIS fundamentals

GIS stands for geographic information system, a system in which geographic data is collected, stored, analyzed, manipulated, and served as maps. Although that definition is still prominent, GIS has come to mean everything from software applications, hardware, tools, science, and services. Google Maps, for example, is the best-known example of a GIS in use today. Yet, in this book, we will also use GIS to mean the science and process of converting geographic data and mapping.

Mapping

Cartographers have been mapping the world around them for thousands of years. Yet only very recently with the development of computers did it become efficient to be used in computers and GIS to create dynamic maps. Unlike traditional hand-drawn paper maps, dynamically rendered maps are composed of layers of spatial data that could describe roads, points of interest, parks, boundaries, landscape, water, and more. As much as the common Google Maps user has little control over what layers are shown...

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Authors (1)

Micheal Lanham

Micheal Lanham

Micheal Lanham is a proven software and tech innovator with 20 years of experience. During that time, he has developed a broad range of software applications in areas such as games, graphics, web, desktop, engineering, artificial intelligence, GIS, and machine learning applications for a variety of industries as an R&D developer. At the turn of the millennium, Micheal began working with neural networks and evolutionary algorithms in game development. He was later introduced to Unity and has been an avid developer, consultant, manager, and author of multiple Unity games, graphic projects, and books ever since.

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