Google Daydream VR Cookbook: Building Games and Apps with Google Daydream and Unity, First Edition

Chapter 7ARCore

ARCore is a breakthrough technology that puts augmented reality into the hands of hundreds of millions of users. It is also a new technology, whereby many of the conventions and the “language” of the interactions are still being developed. This chapter begins by introducing some of the key axioms developed by Google that apply to AR product development and that designers can draw on to create engaging and imaginative experiences for AR. It then dives into Unity and the ARCore SDK, covering setup essentials and how to utilize ARCore to perform some of the common and not-so-common tasks and procedures.

Augmented Reality

This chapter shifts the focus away from VR and onto AR, namely Google’s ARCore framework. Although plenty of ...