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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about another of Vuforia's features, ImageTargets, and how to create your own image target and add virtual content to it. You have also learned about how to work with the Unity interface and scripts in order to create messages and buttons, as well as sequenced instructions.

With all this, you have acquired the skills you need to use Vuforia to create an industrial AR guide that can be implemented in mounting, maintenance, or training processes. You have also learned how to customize a step with extra PDF or even video and data files that have been taken either locally (like in this project) or from a remote server by using the OpenURL method with a URL inside it.

Now, you can use this knowledge to create your own guide for your processes and use the current project as a template for it. You can also improve and extend it by...