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Enterprise Augmented Reality Projects

By : Jorge R. López Benito, Enara Artetxe González
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Enterprise Augmented Reality Projects

By: Jorge R. López Benito, Enara Artetxe González

Overview of this book

Augmented reality (AR) is expanding its scope from just being used in mobile and game applications to enterprise. Different industries are using AR to enhance assembly line visualization, guide operators performing difficult tasks, attract more customers, and even improve training techniques. In this book, you'll gain comprehensive insights into different aspects of developing AR-based apps for six different enterprise sectors, focusing on market needs and choosing the most suitable tool in each case. You'll delve into the basics of Unity and get familiar with Unity assets, materials, and resources, which will help you build a strong foundation for working on the different AR projects covered in the book. You'll build real-world projects for various industries such as marketing, retail, and automation in a step-by-step manner. This will give you hands-on experience in developing your own industrial AR apps. While building the projects, you'll explore various AR frameworks used in the enterprise environment such as Vuforia, EasyAR, ARCore, and ARKit, and understand how they can be used by themselves or integrated into the Unity 3D engine to create AR markers, 3D models, and components of an AR app. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in using different commercial AR frameworks as well as Unity for building robust AR projects.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Introducing Unity

When we think of tools that we can use to develop video games that have had a great impact in recent years, one name stands out above all others: Unity. Unity is a graphics engine that helps us in developing video games, interactive projects, visualizations, and 2D and 3D animations in real-time for different platforms. Unity offers a complete visual editor with scripting so that we can create applications with a professional finish.

For this purpose, Unity is composed of a package of tools that have been designed to facilitate the tasks of designing and programming the different aspects of a video game, including graphics, physics, animations, and artificial intelligence. Unity is a unique development system that focuses on assets and not on the code like other similar 3D modeling applications do. The content of the game is built from the editor and the game...