Micheal Lanham - Learn ARCore - Fundamentals of Google ARCore

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Micheal Lanham is a proven software and tech innovator with 20 years of experience. He has developed a broad range of software applications, including games, graphics, web, desktop, engineering, artificial intelligence, GIS, and Machine Learning applications for a variety of industries. He was introduced to Unity in 2006 and has been an avid developer, consultant, manager, and author of multiple Unity games, graphics projects, and books since. Micheal lives in Calgary, Canada, with his family.

Neil Alexander is a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he earned a master's in computer science with a specialization in intelligent and interactive systems. As part of his education, he worked on developing several virtual reality demos and data visualization applications. He graduated from the Don Bosco Institute of Technology and has also worked as a research analyst at an IT publishing firm in Mumbai.

He currently works as a data scientist with several Blockchain and cryptocurrency startups in the Washington D.C. area.

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Augmented reality applications have moved from novelty to reality, and with the release of ARKit and now ARCore, have become more accessible to the average developer. Now virtually anyone with a grasp of a programming language can quickly build an AR experience using a variety of platforms. Google, with the release of ARCore, has now made this even easier and also provides support for multiple development platforms. This book will guide you through building AR applications using JavaScript and web in mobile with Java/Android and also in mobile with C# / Unity. Along the way, you will learn the fundamentals of building a quality AR experience for your user.

This book is for any developer who wants to dive into building an augmented reality app with ARCore, but has no background in game or graphic programming. Although the book only assumes the reader has basic high-school level math, the reader should still have a firm grasp of at least one of the following programming languages: JavaScript, Java, or C#.

, Getting Started, covers the fundamental concepts any modern AR app needs to tackle in order to provide a great experience to the user. We will learn the basic concepts of motion tracking, environmental understanding, and light estimation.

, ARCore on Android, is an introduction to Android development with Android Studio, where we show you how to install Android Studio and set up your first ARCore app.

, ARCore on Unity, discusses how to install and build an ARCore app with Unity. This chapter also shows you how to remotely debug an app using the Android development tools.

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