Final outcome

A story book with an augmented page

Augmented page

 Image 1

Image 2

Image 1 and 2 is the how the augmented page function. Reader has to send the "HungerKills.apk" file into mobile download folder and install it. then, open the application and scan at the page augmented page to see the hidden page.

Complete story book visual

This is the visual of my storybook "HUNGER KILLS"

 Cover

 Page 1 -2

  Page 3 - 4

 Page 5 - 6

  Page 7 - 8

  Page 9 - 10

  Page 11 - 12

 Page 13 - 14 (The augmented reality page)

There will be two blank pages at the front and back of the printed book. It is has to be multiples of 4. (eg: 1 A4 can print 4 pages)

Refine storyboard and visuals

I've sketch out the storyboard in a more detail way than the previous so that i can create a better story telling by the visual and add some short sentence for user to understand it.

Visual progress

This is the first graphic i did but it looks terrible so i decided to refine the storyboard.

The making of Hunger Kills (software)

After watching the tutorials and research on the software, I try to create the experience to apply it into my project.

First, I install the Unity and Qualcomm’s Vuforia. I load Unity software once installed and create a new project then import the Vuforia Unity package. 

Unity software 

Qualcomm's Vuforia software

Next, I start to create augmented reality camera and target for the camera to detect. The more stars rated for the target image means it is easier for the camera to detect on it. For my case, it is the simple image so there are four stars.

Image target

Adjusting position of camera and target image

Source(s):

Developer.vuforia.com, (2001). Unity Extension - Vuforia v3.0 | Vuforia Developer Portal. [online] Available at: https://developer.vuforia.com/resources/sdk/unity [Accessed 24 Jan. 2015].

Unity3d.com, (2011). Unity - Download and Start Creating Games. [online] Available at: http://unity3d.com/unity/download [Accessed 24 Jan. 2015].

Unity.augmented reality testing (Success)

I found that the learning part take most of the time because it is really new for me. Therefore, I spent quite a long time to understand. At first I research on how to use Unity software to apply the augmented experience. There is various ways to create an augmented. For example track with marker, images and etc.

After a long journey of enhancing Unity and augmented reality. I decided to create an application and user need a mobile with the apk file to experience it.

Above images is me myself testing the augmented. I success to learn how augmented can be created and I’m sure that there are lots to enhance for it.  

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Augmented Reality Studies

Here are some videos I've watch to learn the Unity augmented reality. The tutorials is about creating the augmented experience and apply it into Android and also creating a button.

Develop augmented reality (Android)

Making virtual buttons

Source(s):

YouTube, (2014). Unity + Vuforia 1 :ทำ AR app ขั้นพื้นฐาน [ Android , ios ]. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT0amFIBr2M [Accessed 13 Jan. 2015].

YouTube, (2014). Unity + Vuforia 3 : ทำ 3d ให้เคลื่อนที่ได้ [ Android , ios ]. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1yxDiANXV0 [Accessed 13 Jan. 2015].

YouTube, (2013). Vuforia Tutorial: Qualcomm's Augmented Reality SDK. [online] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BZSLs-GqXg [Accessed 10 Jan. 2015].