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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, we have learned what ARKit is and how it works. We have seen how the camera recognizes the feature points and how it creates anchor planes where you can place virtual elements. We have also learned to use SceneKit to insert 3D models into the scene and manipulate them to create an AR portal that leads the user to a 3D environment.

By now, you should have the basic skills to continue improving the current project and adapt it to your personal needs in the tourism sector or even other sectors. You could try to add buttons to the interface to change the 3D content of the portal, add particle effects when the portal first appears, or even try to use 360º videos instead of 3D models. AR is a transversal tool that can be used in several ways and applied to many different needs, so you could also create this portal for fields such as marketing or retail...