Learn ARCore : fundamentals of Google ARCore : learn to build augmented reality apps for Android, Unity, and the web with Google ARCore 1.0 / Michael Lanham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lanham, Micheal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Augmented reality.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 pages)

Edition:

First edition

Other Title:

Fundamentals of Google ARCore

Place of Publication:

Birmingham ; Mumbai : Packt, 2018.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Create next-generation Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality apps with the latest version of Google ARCore About This Book Harness the power of the Google's new augmented reality (AR) platform ARCore to build cutting-edge Augmented reality apps Learn core concepts of Environmental Understanding, Immersive Computing, and Motion Tracking with ARCore Extend your application by combining ARCore with OpenGL, Machine Learning and more. Who This Book Is For This book is for web and mobile developers who have broad programming knowledge on Java or JavaScript or C# and want to develop Augmented Reality applications with Google ArCore. To follow this book no prior experience with AR development, 3D, or 3D math experience is needed. What You Will Learn Build and deploy your Augmented Reality app to the Android, Web, and Unity platforms Implement ARCore to identify and visualize objects as point clouds, planes, surfaces, and/or meshes Explore advanced concepts of environmental understanding using Google ARCore and OpenGL ES with Java Create light levels from ARCore and create a C# script to watch and propagate lighting changes in a scene Develop graphics shaders that react to changes in lighting and map the environment to place objects in Unity/C# Integrate motion tracking with the Web ARCore API and Google Street View to create a combined AR/VR experience In Detail Are you a mobile developer or web developer who wants to create immersive and cool Augmented Reality apps with the latest Google ARCore platform? If so, this book will help you jump right into developing with ARCore and will help you create a step by step AR app easily. This book will teach you how to implement the core features of ARCore starting from the fundamentals of 3D rendering to more advanced concepts such as lighting, shaders, Machine Learning, and others. We'll begin with the basics of building a project on three platforms: web, Android, and Unity. Next, we'll go through the ARCore concepts of motion tracking, environmental understanding, and light estimation. For each core concept, you'll work on a practical project to use and extend the ARCore feature, from learning the basics of 3D rendering and lighting to exploring more advanced concepts. You'll write custom shaders to light virtual objects in AR, then build a neural network to recognize the environment and explore even grander applications by using ARCore in mixed reality. At the end of the book, you'll see how to implement moti...

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Getting Started

Immersive computing

AR and ARCore

Motion tracking

Environmental understanding

Light estimation

The road ahead

Summary

Chapter 2: ARCore on Android

Installing Android Studio

Installing ARCore

Installing the ARCore service on a device

Build and deploy

Exploring the code

Chapter 3: ARCore on Unity

Installing Unity and ARCore

Building and deploying to Android

Remote debugging

Testing the connection

Remotely debugging a running app

Unity Update method

Chapter 4: ARCore on the Web

Installing WebARonARCore

Installing Node.js

The Node Package Manager

Exploring the samples

Debugging web apps on Android

Connecting Chrome Developer tools

Debugging with Chrome

3D and three.js

Understanding left- or right-handed coordinate systems

3D scale, rotation, and transformation

Chapter 5: Real-World Motion Tracking

Motion tracking in depth

3D sound

Resonance Audio

A tracking service with Firebase

Setting up the database

Time to test the connection

Visualizing tracked motion

Exercises

Chapter 6: Understanding the Environment

Tracking the point cloud

Meshing and the environment

Interacting with the environment

Touch for gesture detection

Drawing with OpenGL ES

Shader programming

Editing the shader

Chapter 7: Light Estimation

3D rendering

Building a test scene

Materials, shaders, and textures

3D lighting

Cg/HLSL shaders

Estimating light direction

Updating the environmental lighting

Chapter 8: Recognizing the Environment.

Introduction to ML

Linear regression explained

Deep learning

Neural networks - the foundation of deep learning

Programming a neural network

Scripting the neural network

Training a neural network

Activating the warning

Adding the environmental scanner

Backward propagation explained

Gradient descent explained

Defining the network architecture

The network view of the world

TensorFlow

Chapter 9: Blending Light for Architectural Design

Setting up the project

Building the scene

Modifying the base scene

The environment and placing content

Building the UI

Scripting the buttons

Interacting with the virtual

Building the object outliner

Positioning the chair

Lighting and shadows

Turning the shadows on

Chapter 10: Mixing in Mixed Reality

Mixed reality and HoloKit

Setting up HoloKit

How does it work?

Introducing WRLD

Setting up WRLD for MR

Navigating the map

Switching from AR to MR

Building the SceneSwitcher

Creating the SceneSwitcher prefab

Modifying the Wrld map script

Mapping, GIS, and GPS

Making the Splash scene

Fixing the altitude issue

What's next?

Chapter 11: Performance Tips and Troubleshooting

Diagnosing performance

Chrome DevTools

Android Profiler

Unity Profiler

Tips for managing better performance

General troubleshooting

Troubleshooting code

Troubleshooting tips

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Notes:

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1031342690