Learn how to make augmented reality applications! Explore both educational and practical uses for AR via free ar app tutorials.
Augmented reality (AR) is everywhere! From powering popular games such as Pokémon Go, the technology has expanded to become an essential tool of modern enterprises – including medicine, education, travel, retail, architecture, engineering, and real estate to name a few. AR sounds exciting, right? But where do you get started learning this explosive new technology? We’ve … Read more
Have you ever wanted to build a VR, AR, or 3D experience, but just don’t know how you’d even distribute it? Or, are you stuck using your 5-year-old laptop that just can’t quite run Unity, Unreal Engine, or other XR solutions? Still, perhaps you’re just not confident in programming anything for these advanced technologies? Fortunately, … Read more
Want to learn skills for cutting edge technology? Augmented reality is one of the newest rising technologies on the block, yet also one of the most misunderstood. In fact, anyone who has played Pokémon Go has already used augmented reality in their life – probably without ever knowing that was what powered a large part of … Read more
You can access the full course here: EasyAR and Marker-Based Apps for Beginners To start this lesson go to File/Build Settings and click Add Open Scenes: Then choose either Android or iOS depending on which platform you are targeting. Once you do that, click the Switch Platform button in the lower right. If this button … Read more
You can access the full course here: EasyAR and Marker-Based Apps for Beginners To begin our excursion into AR, you need to download the EasyAR SDK. Go to https://easyar.com/ and sign up for a new account if you don’t already have one. Once signed up/signed in you should be taken to the Developer Center page. … Read more
We are proud to announce our new ebook, AR Game Development for Beginners, by industry expert AR developer Morgan McKie and Unity certified developer Daniel Buckley. This eBook will guide you step-by-step in using AR Foundation, ARCore, and ARKit, providing you with the skills needed to create a wide range of augmented reality games and … Read more
You can access the full course here: Intro to ARKit Unity Setup Create a new Unity project. Then in the editor, let’s open the Package Manager window (Window > Package Manager). Let’s begin by showing preview packages. Now find AR Foundation, click on the drop down arrow and select the 3.0.0 preview. Install that. Also install ARKit XR … Read more
You can access the full course here: Intro to ARCore Part 1 ARCore SDK What we want to do, first of all, is download the ARCore SDK. It can be found on GitHub here. Click Clone or download, then Download ZIP. Inside of the .zip file, open up the master folder, then Assets. In here, we want … Read more
You can access the full course here: Intro to Augmented Reality Part 1 Welcome to the Course In this course, we’ll be learning about augmented reality and AR Foundation in Unity. Augmented reality (AR), is the augmentation of the real world with the addition of virtual objects. But what is AR Foundation? Well right now, … Read more
If you haven’t read Part 1 of the tutorial yet, it’s highly recommended you do so. In the first part of our tutorial, we began setting up our tectonic plates with animations and so forth. We’re ready to continue with our educational AR app and set it up so that the correct animation can run … Read more
