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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

Installing WebARonARCore


In order to run ARCore from the web, we also need a browser that supports ARCore or ARKit. At the time of writing (beta preview), no browser supports ARCore or ARKit, and therefore, we need to install a special or experimental browser. The experimental browser we will install is called WebARonARCore.

Note

At the time of writing, Google ARCore is in the beta preview. If Google ARCore is in full release (1.0) and supported in a browser on your device, then you can bypass this section.

Installing WebARonARCore is quite simple and just requires you to point a browser on your device and install an APK. Follow the given steps to install WebARonARCore:

  1. Point a browser on your device to https://github.com/google-ar/WebARonARCore or just Google git WebARonARCore.
  2. Follow the instructions in the README file to find and click on the WebARonARCore APK download link. This will download the APK to your device. If you get a security warning about the APK file type, just bypass it.
  3. Click...