Augmented Reality and ARCore in Practise

Augmented reality is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real-world are "augmented" by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory.

Taking up this course, you will begin with the basics of ARCore and how to set up your ARCore environment. Then we move on to creating ARCore applications. Then you will build your first AR greeting card application that adds life to characters and images, 3D furniture models like those in the IKEA furniture AR app. Moving further. You will also be learning various filters like those appearing on Snapchat & Instagram. Finally, in the end, you will be deploying cross-platform applications in ARCore as well as in Apple's ARkit using interface

By end of this course, you would have learned to implement motion tracking, environment learning in your app, create animations, sounds and generate virtual characters.

Contents and Overview

This training program includes 2 complete courses, carefully chosen to give you the most comprehensive training possible.

The first course, Hands-On ARCore Development starts with the basics of ARCore and how to set up your ARCore environment. Then we move on to creating ARCore applications. It explains dependencies, and you'll work with the APIs and modules. It will show you the underlying mechanics of building applications with ARCore from scratch. ARCore allows you to access four different SDKs: Android Studio, Unity, Unreal Engine, and Web. We cover each of these SDKs and help you to create an AR app that you can successfully deploy on both mobile and the web. You will learn to implement motion tracking, environment learning in your app, create animations and sounds, generate virtual characters, and simulate them on your screen.

The second course, Augmented Reality projects with ARCore 1.6 starts you off with augmented reality project development with ARCore 1.4. You will use each of its core features to create your own AR projects. You will first build an AR greeting card application that adds life to characters and images. You will also build and project life-size 3D furniture models like those in the IKEA furniture AR app. You'll design a variety of face masks that you see on Snapchat and Instagram filters. You'll also build location-based AR applications identical to Pokémon Go with ARCore. You'll find yourself in a shared AR experience in real-time with a projectile shooter multiplayer game. Finally, you will interact with virtual objects in the real world by using gesture controls without the need for hardware such as the Xbox Kinect. By the end of the course, you will have become fluent in developing AR applications with ARCore that blend your real and virtual worlds.

About the Authors:

• Emmanuel Adegbite is a software engineer with a knack for efficient, scalable, and stable solutions. With years of experience working across a wide range of technologies, he is still interested in exploring, encountering, and solving new as well as interesting programming problems.

• Bharath Nagarajan is a proficient AR/VR/MR and indie developer, who has worked with multiple game titles and AR/VR Projects. He has developed more than 5 games and worked in more than 10 Augmented reality projects, 3 virtual reality & Mixed Reality projects. He has expertise in developing augmented reality solutions of all difficulties such as Indoor navigation, Gps and VPS based augmented reality experience, Marker-based and markerless SLAM(ARKit, ARCore) and Gyro & Instant tracking and face tracking applications. He was also working as a technical consultant for several AR/VR firms. His important achievements include developing an Instant tracking AR experiences for his clients, Implementing Augmented Reality Building tracking solutions and multiplayer augmented reality games. Moreover, he used AR and Visual Positioning System to augment his entire university and provided navigation in AR. He also has proficient knowledge in computer vision and IOT. Currently, he is working on Industrial Augmented reality projects as a Software architect to standardize augmented reality in the industrial sector.