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Augmented Reality for Android Application Development

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Augmented Reality for Android Application Development

Overview of this book

Augmented Reality offers the magical effect of blending the physical world with the virtual world, which brings applications from your screen into your hands. AR redefines advertising and gaming, as well as education. It will soon become a technology that will have to be mastered as a necessity by mobile application developers. Augmented Reality for Android Application Development enables you to implement sensor-based and computer vision-based AR applications on Android devices. You will learn about the theoretical foundations and practical details of implemented AR applications, and you will be provided with hands-on examples that will enable you to quickly develop and deploy novel AR applications on your own. Augmented Reality for Android Application Development will help you learn the basics of developing mobile AR browsers, how to integrate and animate 3D objects easily with the JMonkeyEngine, how to unleash the power of computer vision-based AR using the Vuforia AR SDK, and will teach you about popular interaction metaphors. You will get comprehensive knowledge of how to implement a wide variety of AR apps using hands-on examples. This book will make you aware of how to use the AR engine, Android layout, and overlays, and how to use ARToolkit. Finally, you will be able to apply this knowledge to make a stunning AR application.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Augmented Reality for Android Application Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Augmented Reality Concepts and Tools
Index

Configuring VuforiaTM to recognize objects


To use the VuforiaTM toolkit with natural feature tracking targets, first you need to create them. In the recent version of the library (2.0), you can automatically create your target when the application is running (online) or predefine them before deploying your application (offline). We will show you how to proceed for offline creation. First go to the VuforiaTM developer website https://developer.vuforia.com.

The first thing you need to do is to log in to the website to access the tool for creating your target. Click on the upper-right corner and register if you have not done it before. After login, you can click on Target Manager, the training program to create targets. The target manager is organized in a database (which can correspond to your project), and for database, you can create a list of targets, as shown in the following screenshot:

So let's create our first database. Click on Create Database, and enter VuforiaJME. Your database should...