Introduction

This is a personal tutorial I made on how to create your first augmented reality project without any programming experiences (You heard that right!). Our goal is to create a virtual object on top of a real object and if for advanced version, find the distance between two real objects in 3D space 😀

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Getting Started

We will be using Unity + Vuforia SDK package + Visual Studio in this project, now you have to follow through all of these tutorials thoroughly as they are essential for beginners without any programming experience.

Unity => https://store.unity.com/

1) Download the personal package you find on the link above.

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2) Run the .exe file, click Next twice, and you should arrive at this page.

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Select all the boxes below (if you have Visual Studio 2017 as one of the options, click that too, if you don’t, that means Visual Studio is already installed in your pc). Once you’re done, click Next until the program starts to download and install the package. (It should take a while, so go get coffee first)

3) Launch Unity (Select whichever account suits you) and accept the terms and conditions.Picture3.png

4) While updating, let’s create targets for our AR camera to track with. Here are sample images to download:

Head on to Vuforia License Manager, create an account with Gmail and go to License Manager, get development key (it’s a free API key which allows you to track images).

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Now we got our API key, create a Database at Target Manager.

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Upload the images you recently downloaded by pressing the button Add Target.

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Upload the images with the specifications below, do the same for wood.jpg as well.

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Download the database, it should download as an xxx.unitypackage.

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Your setup is almost done! Now follow the video below to start building your own Augmented Reality Apps!

That’s all for today, I will upload the rest of the tutorial by this weekend, thx for dropping by! (I welcome any comments regarding any build issues or errors, cheers!)