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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

Build and deploy


Now that we have all the tedious installation stuff out of the way, it's time to build and deploy a sample app to your Android device. Let's begin by jumping back to Android Studio and following the given steps:

  1. Select the Open an existing Android Studio project option from the Welcome to Android Studio window. If you accidentally closed Android Studio, just launch it again.
  2. Navigate and select the Android\arcore-android-sdk\samples\java_arcore_hello_ar folder, as follows:

Selecting the ARCore sample project folder

  1. Click on OK. If this is your first time running this project, you will encounter some dependency errors, such as the one here:

Dependency error message

  1. In order to resolve the errors, just click on the link at the bottom of the error message. This will open a dialog, and you will be prompted to accept and then download the required dependencies. Keep clicking on the links until you see no more errors.
  2. Ensure that your mobile device is connected and then, from the menu...