Case study

Augmented reality is a virtual content that overlayed on a real material. There are few ways for it to detect the augmented reality QR codes, marker, or real life project. It also able to detect by location based like GPS and Compass. Here's some augmented app such as Metaio, Layar, Junaio and etc.

There are 2 choices of tracking in unity 3D, Vuforia tracking and string tracking. Vuforia tracking tracks image target, frame markers and simple 3D object like boxes. It is more flexible than the string tracking because string tracking tracks any png and full marker of 85% camera and it is hard to scale. Vuforia can work if only part of markers is seen and it is easy to scale. However, string is can detect faster than Vuforia. Next, Vuforia is a free is free and available in IOS and Android while String is expensive and only available in IOS licensing. For my case, I will use Vuforia because it’s free and available in Android and IOS. By using Vuforia, first I need to download the library and add it into my Unity 3D project. 

Example of augmented reality

Vuforia marker

Source(s):

Jekyll and Hyde Augmented Reality Book - All Examples - YouTube. 2014.Jekyll and Hyde Augmented Reality Book - All Examples - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGrqp1LXKSg. [Accessed 30th November 2014].

Guinness Book of Records - Vuforia - Augmented Reality - YouTube. 2014.Guinness Book of Records - Vuforia - Augmented Reality - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAHu-1Czz34. [Accessed 30th November 2014].

Unity 3D - Augmented Reality - Vuforia Library - YouTube. 2014. Unity 3D - Augmented Reality - Vuforia Library - YouTube. [ONLINE] Available at:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFFC_7umd_U. [Accessed 30th November 2014].

Introduction to AR with Unity3D. 2014. Introduction to AR with Unity3D. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.slideshare.net/aquarioverde/introduction-to-ar-with-unity3d. [Accessed 30th November 2014].

Unity Extension - Vuforia v3.0 | Vuforia Developer Portal. 2014. Unity Extension - Vuforia v3.0 | Vuforia Developer Portal. [ONLINE] Available at:https://developer.vuforia.com/resources/sdk/unity. [Accessed 30th November 2014].

Markerless Augmented Reality - ARLab Blog . 2014. Markerless Augmented Reality - ARLab Blog . [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.arlab.com/blog/markerless-augmented-reality/. [Accessed 30th November 2014].

Frame Markers | Vuforia Developer Portal. 2014. Frame Markers | Vuforia Developer Portal. [ONLINE] Available at:https://developer.vuforia.com/resources/dev-guide/frame-markers. [Accessed 30th November 2014].

Self Learning intro - Unity 3D

I’ve receive a task to produce an interactive work by self-directive learning of a new software that I’m not familiar with to create this project. Therefore, I’ve choose an augmented reality project with a narrative story.

Why I choose to learn augmented reality?

At first I thought of some books that peoples are actually interested I but they’re lazy to read it because too many texts and too thick. Therefore, I feel that creating an augmented story would be much more interesting than reading a normal story books. The software that I would like to explore on is unity 3D. It is software to create 2D and 3D content.

As I’m not familiar with the software, I would start it off by exploring it and watching tutorials from youtube, Lynda.com and others.