Book Image

Enterprise Augmented Reality Projects

By : Jorge R. López Benito, Enara Artetxe González
Book Image

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)

Exploring Augmented Class!

Augmented Class! is an educational authoring tool born from the motivation of a group of developers and teachers/professors and provides a complete solution that allows all the members of the educational community (teachers, students, and parents) to create and share interactive AR projects without technical knowledge and without the usual constraints of these kinds of tools, such as limited content and functionalities.

Currently, in its 3.0.30 version, it's freely available in the Google Play Store and in private beta versions for PC. The application uses image markers, which are known as targets in other tools. This means it displays the virtual content over a real image, such as a picture, book cover, and so on, instead of over a flat surface like ARCore does. Augmented Class! allows a wide variety of content (images, audio files, videos...