Jonathan Linowes - Augmented Reality with Unity AR Foundation: A practical guide to cross-platform AR development with Unity 2020 and later versions

A practical guide to cross-platform AR development with Unity 2020 and later versions

Jonathan Linowes

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Yes, I love my wife, Lisa, and our four amazing children, but this book I dedicate to my dog, Coder, a large, sweet, and boisterous Doberman Shepherd who keeps trying to pull me from my desk to play frisbee outside in the real world.

Jon

Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.

David Cantn Nadales is a software engineer from Seville, Spain, with over 15 years of experience. He specializes in Firebase and the development of mobile apps and video games, and is experienced in VR/AR with Oculus, Hololens, HTC Vive, DayDream, and LeapMotion. He was the ambassador of the Samsung development community "Samsung Dev Spain," and the organizer of the "Google Developers Group Seville" community He has worked on, and brought to fruition, more than 50 projects during his professional career. As a social entrepreneur, Grita stands out, a social network that emerged during the period of COVID-19 confinement that allowed people to talk to others in the same circumstances and help each other psychologically.

Rohit Gonsalves is connecting computer graphics, video, media, and devices to create beautiful Extended Reality (XR) workflows for PC and mobiles. He has 17+ years of experience working with computer graphics, specifically, C++, Windows, and DirectX. He is also the author of an in-progress book entitled 3D Game and Graphics Programming using UNIGINE. He is the CTO of BEiT Media.