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Augmented Reality for Developers

You're reading from Augmented Reality for Developers Build practical augmented reality applications with Unity, ARCore, ARKit, and Vuforia

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787286436

Length 548 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

ARCore

Concepts

Augmented Reality

Authors (2):

Linowes

Babilinski

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Authors

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Augment Your World FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up Your System

3. Building Your App

4. Augmented Business Cards

5. AR Solar System

6. How to Change a Flat Tire

7. Augmenting the Instruction Manual

8. Room Decoration with AR

9. Poke the Ball Game

Summary

In this chapter, we went through a lot of work to make your development system capable of building for any device you may want to target to run your augmented reality applications. There are many possible combinations, depending on whether you're developing on a Windows PC or a macOS; using Vuforia or the ARToolkit SDK or Apple ARKit or Google ARCore; targeting Android, iOS, Windows desktop, Mac desktop, or Windows Mixed Reality for HoloLens. We covered just about all of them.

For Android, we installed the Java JDK and Android SDK. For iOS, we installed Xcode. For HoloLens, we installed Visual Studio. For each of these cases, we went over the Unity build, project, and player settings.

Now we're ready to have some fun! In the coming chapters, we will work through some exciting and interesting different projects that demonstrate different ways to apply and implement AR. We will learn how to use Unity and many of the principles and practices of 3D graphics and augmented reality. Let's...

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Authors (2)

Linowes

Linowes

Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.

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Babilinski

Babilinski

Krystian Babilinski is an experienced Unity developer with extensive knowledge in 3D design. He has been developing professional AR/VR applications since 2015. He led Babilin Applications, a Unity Design group that promotes open source development and engages with the the Unity community. Krystian now leads the development at Parkerhill Reality Labs, which recently published Power Solitaire VR, a multiplatform VR game.

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