Unity: AR Visualization 02 Basic Interactivity

Add practical functionality and interactivity to your augmented reality (AR) applications with Unity. Learn how to create menus and implement object manipulation and data storage.

Introduction

• Adding practical functionality to your AR application
• What you should know
• Using the exercise files

1. Overview

• Moving towards the digital twin
• Project changes

2. Making Your App Usable with UI

• Making the UI manager
• Making a HUD menu button
• Setting up your first menu panel
• Designing the main menu panel
• Scripting the menu system
• Designing the settings menu
• Creating the settings script
• Driving the settings menu
• Wrapping up the toggle buttons
• AR app in action

3. It's All About the Data!

• How to define data in Unity
• Making the Part and PartManager scripts
• Making the Part static data structure

4. In-World UI

• Screen space in-world UI
• Creating the UI Pop-up
• Creating the Pop-up script
• Altering the AR manager to UI pop-ups
• Anchoring the part UI to the world
• Finalizing the screen space in-world UI
• AR app in action

5. Putting the In-World UI to the Task

• Adding a hide button on the in-world UI
• Adding the hide functionality
• Adding a parts menu page
• Adding the show all parts code
• AR app in action

6. Moving Things!

• Your move strategy
• Adding the move button to the in-world UI
• Testing your move UI
• Adding the axis to the part
• Preparing to slide!
• Doing the math! The slide formula
• AR app in action

7. Saving Your Data

• How and where is your data to be saved?
• Creating the part dynamic data structure
• Creating the save method
• Creating the load method
• Creating the reset method
• Adding the data buttons to the parts menu
• AR app in action

Conclusion

• Goodbye