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Augmented Reality for Developers

By : Jonathan Linowes, Krystian Babilinski
Book Image

Augmented Reality for Developers

By: Jonathan Linowes, Krystian Babilinski

Overview of this book

Augmented Reality brings with it a set of challenges that are unseen and unheard of for traditional web and mobile developers. This book is your gateway to Augmented Reality development—not a theoretical showpiece for your bookshelf, but a handbook you will keep by your desk while coding and architecting your first AR app and for years to come. The book opens with an introduction to Augmented Reality, including markets, technologies, and development tools. You will begin by setting up your development machine for Android, iOS, and Windows development, learning the basics of using Unity and the Vuforia AR platform as well as the open source ARToolKit and Microsoft Mixed Reality Toolkit. You will also receive an introduction to Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore! You will then focus on building AR applications, exploring a variety of recognition targeting methods. You will go through multiple complete projects illustrating key market sectors including business marketing, education, industrial training, and gaming. By the end of the book, you will have gained the necessary knowledge to make quality content appropriate for a range of AR devices, platforms, and intended uses.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Supporting Cancel


What if you move or scale or otherwise change the picture and don't like it? The toolbar has a Done button; we should add a Cancel button. Cancel will reset the picture parameters to the values it had before this editing session started. This will be handed in the PictureController component.

Presently, the attributes of the picture we've been editing are FramedImage Transform. In Unity, you need to save them as three separate values for position, rotation, and scale. We will save the starting transform values when we begin editing, and restore them if we cancel editing.

At the top of the class, add the following to PictureController:

File: PictureController.cs
    private Vector3 startPosition; 
    private Vector3 startScale; 
    private Quaternion startRotation;

Then add these helper functions:

    private void SavePictureProperties() { 
        startPosition = transform.localPosition; 
        startScale = transform.localScale; 
        startRotation = transform.localRotation...