Unity: AR Visualization 01 Basic Concepts

Learn how to use the Unity game engine to create an AR mobile app for iOS or Android to view and interact with a 3D model in the real world.

Introduction

• Learn the basics of creating AR in Unity
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Overview

• The value of mobile AR in AEC
• Understanding mobile AR
• Understanding interaction
• Project overview

2. Setting AR Up in Unity

• Installing Unity
• Setting up your project in Unity
• The Package Manager
• Setting up AR in Unity
• Understanding AR session origin
• Enabling the debug visualizations

3. Publishing Your AR Experience

• Getting ready for iOS
• Publishing to iOS
• Building an Xcode project
• Getting ready for Android
• Publishing to Android
• Best practices for performance

4. Populating Up Your AR World

• Getting your model into Unity
• Creating your manager script
• Setting up AR events
• Adding AR plane events
• Creating a simple debug panel
• Setting up the debug panel script
• Driving the debug panel via script
• AR comes to life

5. Adding Simple Interaction

• Using mobile input
• Aligning your assets to your AR world
• How to identify a component or mesh
• Performant object selection
• Getting more from your jet engine
• Adding flow
• Seeing your AR progress

6. Implementing UI

• Preparing for a simple dialog
• Creating the dialog UI
• Adding functionality to the dialog
• Completing your dialog with a button
• Wrapping up your interactivity
• AR app in action

7. Bonus Content

• Upgrading to Unity 2021
• Unity Reflect overview

Conclusion

• Next steps