Lecture 2 lots of practical examples of prototyping and VR. The lecture was focused around how to build visual prototypes for the simulation. We then looked into case studies. It was awesome to see real and successful projects using this technology currently. It was inspiring to say the least. My favourite project although that Mr Billinghurst showed us would of been Craft AR. A marker based AR solutionet shoppers scan products or catalogs to superimpose 3D models on top of them. Create augmented experiences to facilitate product visualisation or trigger 3D call to actions that will inevitably increase customer engagement. My mum is an interior designer and seeing this AR tool I believe would be so powerful in her industry as of now and in the future.
someone is seen to use this program in this YouTube video:
In talks of AR we got introduced to Vuforia. Vuforia is an augmented reality software development kit (SDK) for mobile devices that enables the creation of augmented reality applications. [1] It uses computer vision technology to recognize and track planar images and 3D objects in real time.This image registration capability enables developers to position and orient virtual objects, such as 3D models and other media, in relation to real world objects when they are viewed through the camera of a mobile device. Prasanth lead us through installing Vuforia Program into Unity for us to use and create our first project on our laptop which was very exciting. After a few difficulties installing I was ready to tackle the task of creating an image tracker!I love AR and it was cool to be able to combine unity with something I was a bit more familiar with.
excuse my concentration face at the start but here is how I used the Vuforia plug in with Unity and used image tracking with text.
References:
https://catchoom.com/augmented-reality-craftar/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vuforia_Augmented_Reality_SDK
