Create An Image Target Based Augmented Reality Experience Using Unity 3D And Vuforia 7

Description
In less than two hours with step-by-step instruction, create your first AR experience using a Vuforia image target.

In this course, you’ll learn how to create a great augmented reality (AR) app in less than two hours. You’ll go from complete beginner to feeling comfortable creating AR experiences. The course begins by introducing you to both the Unity website and Vuforia's augmented reality software development kit. After installation, we’ll guide you through the basic configuration and import the assets provided to complete your first AR experience. You’ll learn how to import and animate 3D characters, add music and build the app out to an Android or IOS device to see the AR magic come together.

Assets Included:

Two character models
Dancing animations
An audio track
The image target file and the unity package
A couple of bonus wallpapers that the author created
This is a crash course introduction on how Vuforia works and how to use their image target asset to create your first app. As this is a bitesize course, it doesn't cover all aspects in Vuforia's array of assets but it does give you a solid foundation that you can build on to create mini augmented reality experiences for marketing prototypes or 3D model spawning. It also covers the basic use of extended tracking.

All the code and supporting files for this course are available at: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Create-an-Image-Target-Based-Augmented-Reality-Experience-Using-Unity-3D-and-Vuforia-7

About the Author

Diego Herrera - Mobile Application Developer, Unity and Augmented Reality. Diego owned a digital agency for 16 years in the UK before recently relocating to Spain and having a change in direction. His experience covers an array of programming languages and he has a passion for new technology in the digital field. He started developing in 2002 and has personally worked in numerous fields including web, app development, multilingual software, and 3D. He also released patent-pending technology for software created for the UK National Health Service (NHS). Throughout his career, he has trained internal and external staff and assisted various companies with their required software training. He spends his time creating videos for build and run (a game dev tutorials website), developing 3D applications and augmented reality apps, and teaching others to do the same. In his spare time, he enjoys photography and video editing. Facebook Support Group: Just go to Build & Run Student Forum: Just Google, build and run .tv