AR Development Techniques 02: Lighting and Physics

Instructor Parth Anand introduces you to lights, shadows, plane detection, and realistic physics simulation in AR application development using Unity and AR Foundation.

Introduction

• Lighting and physics in AR
• What you should know

1. Plane Detection

• Plane detection overview
• ARSession and ARSessionOrigin
• Point clouds and plane detection
• Deploying the app on your devices
• Tap on screen to place on plane: Part 1
• Tap on screen to place on plane: Part 2
• Tap on screen to place on plane: Part 3
• Hiding plane visualizers
• FocusSquare to place on plane
• Resetting and reloading the ARSession

2. Lightning

• Overview
• Set up the AR scene
• Different types of lightning
• Light projector
• Reflection probes for reflections
• Environmental probes
• Ambient light estimation: Part 1
• Ambient light estimation: Part 2

3. Shadows

• Types of shadows
• Shadows created using directional light
• Blob shadows using shadow projector

4. 3D UI for AR

• Overview
• 2D UI vs. 3D UI
• Creating a 3D UI: Part 1
• Creating a 3D UI: Part 2

5. Transforming 3D Objects

• Gestures overview
• Scale and rotate gestures
• Move gestures

6. AR Physics

• AR physics overview
• Colliders and rigidbody
• AR bowling: Part 1
• AR bowling: Part 2