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Unity 2018 Augmented Reality Projects
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Unity 2018 Augmented Reality Projects

by Jesse Glover
July 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
358 pages
7h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Applications of GIS

As Richie Carmichael of the Esri Applications Prototype Lab said to Keith Mann in an online article (http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/0311/augmented-reality-and-gis.html):

“Imagine that you could point the camera on your phone at the ground and see the location and orientation of water pipes and electric cables buried under the ground because your AR app is cross-referencing the GIS system with your location and giving you a kind of x-ray vision so that you can visualize the infrastructure that is underneath you.”

This mindset has been reflected by many companies such as Google, Tencent, Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, and many more. China’s Tencent has done quite a few things with augmented reality and GIS. I think ...

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