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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

The environment and placing content


We have already covered the basics of how to interact with the environment in order to place content. What we want to do now is swap out and add new content (sorry Andy). After all, the whole premise of our design app is visualizing in AR how new furniture or other items look in a space. Let's get to it by opening up your favorite web browser and follow along:

  1. Browse to turbosquid.comTurboSquid is an excellent resource for 3D models, both free and paid.

Note

For AR / VR and mixed apps, you will generally want your models to be less detailed. Mobile devices such as Android don't render fine detailed models well. Before you purchase any models, ensure that you understand what your device's rendering limitations are.

  1. Search for ligne roset on the site.

Note

You can, of course, use any FBX model you like, but try using the one suggested the first time. Working with 3D models can be frustrating if you are unsure what you are doing.

  1. Filter your search to free models...