by Felix Changoo | Publisher: Packt Publishing | Release Date: January 2018 | ISBN: 9781788479332

A complete, hands-on guide to AR app development—from your first ARKit demo to sophisticated AR environments in Unity and MetalAbout This VideoLearn various API essentials for developing your own gameUnderstand the ARKit frameworkIntegrate Augmented Reality to create AR applicationsIn DetailAugmented Reality effortlessly allows both, creatives and app developers alike to create new, creative, and fun-filled experiences directly on their iPhones or iPads! Augmented Reality has been exploding in the past few years with major tech companies releasing their own Augmented Reality kits.In this course, we take you on a tour of various APIs and tools that you will need in order to develop various AR apps for iOS devices. In this course, you will start by installing Xcode 9 and then register on Apple's developer account with all the essential setup. Then you will be introduced to APIs and tools so that you are all set to develop your 1st ARKit app. You will start by creating a small app where you get a 3D model on screen and learn the basics of setting-up and using ARKit.In this app you will learn to use ARKit to set up, configure, add, and remove objects from ARSCNView. Then you will continue to explore other ARKit features by developing a 3D-shape App by focusing primarily on 3D interaction and UI Controls in AR using gesture recognizers. Lastly, we will create an exciting AR Shooter Game App where you will learn to set up your game, adjust scene lighting and targets, destroy your targets, and design different levels. In the last section, you will learn to build a small demo project by using Metal and Unity.By the end of this video course, you will have learnt various APIs essential for developing games and will have easily developed 3 practical AR apps that you can further optimize with the Metal API and that you can integrate with the third-party tools such as Unity.

1. Chapter 1 : Getting Started with ARKit
   • The Course Overview 00:02:35
   • What is ARKit? 00:00:59
   • How Augmented Reality Works 00:01:29
   • Let’s Download and Install Xcode 9 00:01:41
2. Chapter 2 : My First AR App
   • Setting up ARKit SceneKit View and ARSCNView Session 00:07:17
   • Setting up Our Camera for AR Use 00:02:56
   • Adding 3D Objects to ARSCNView 00:04:32
   • Adding Gesture Recognizer to ARSCNView 00:06:38
   • Adding More Objects to ARSCNView 00:04:41
3. Chapter 3 : 3D Shapes
   • Creating 3D Shapes 00:20:10
   • Setting up Plane Detection 00:12:55
   • Creating 3D Shapes by Means of Plane Detection 00:11:33
   • Random Colored Shapes and Lighting 00:06:20
4. Chapter 4 : AR Shooter Game
   • Setting up Our Game 00:09:02
   • Adjusting Scene Lighting and Shooting Targets 00:08:35
   • Level Design 00:04:30
   • Destroying Our Targets 00:02:02
5. Chapter 5 : Beyond ARKit
   • What is Unity? 00:10:55
   • Building Our Unity Scene with ARKit 00:02:54
   • Finishing Our Unity Scene 00:01:56
   • What is Metal? 00:02:30
   • A Quick Overview of the Metal Project 00:03:22