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Learn ARCore - Fundamentals of Google ARCore

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Learn ARCore - Fundamentals of Google ARCore

Overview of this book

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 motion tracking and environment learning, create animations and sounds, generate virtual characters, and simulate them on your screen.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Diagnosing performance


In this section, we will look at the specific steps you will need to take in order to diagnose performance for each of our development platforms (web, Android, and Unity). It is often easy to lose track of performance, especially when working with new or unfamiliar technologies. Therefore, you often want to include some form of performance assessment as part of your development process, perhaps even implementing some minimum frame rate warnings for when your app is rendering at subpar performance or frame rates. Before we get into designing a performance test though, we want to understand how to track performance in each platform, starting with the web using Chrome DevTools in the next section.

Chrome DevTools

One of the pleasures you will have when developing web projects with ARCore is the ease of debugging with Chrome. In fact, if you were doing a comparison, web project performance tooling would be ranked #2 on our platform list due to the capabilities of Chrome...