HRDF Course-Augmented Reality (AR) Mobile App Development

Augmented Reality (AR) is poised to revolutionise the way we work, shop, play and learn. More than the Pokemon Go sensation that’s taken the world by storm, AR will provide workers with real-time, contextual information for doing their jobs better – in-place and on-site. The Microsoft Hololens, Epson Moverio and the Google Glass are just front runners of the coming digital revolution that will change the way we view our world. Mobile AR is already expanding exponentially, projected to reach $3.9 billion by 2020. There is no better time than now to get into the mobile AR space.

In this course, we will learn about the basic concepts in AR, the trending AR market and get hands-on by creating simple Android AR applications using Unity - a popular industry standard game engine.

In this course, we will learn about the treading VR / AR market and get hands-on with starting out in creating very simple AR application using the most popular game engine, Unity.

Module 1 – Introduction to AR

• What is AR? 
• How does AR work?
• AR and VR
• AR Hardware – state of development
• Current and potential applications and use cases
• Future of AR and potential market

Module 2 – Experiencing AR

• Demonstration of various types of AR implementations
• AR Terminology
• Types of AR

Module 3 – Development environment and toolset

• Types of IDE for AR development
• AR SDKs tools
• Content creation tools

Module 4 – Setting up the Development environment

• Introduction to Unity and Vuforia
• Downloading required packages
• Setting up Unity
• Integrating Vuforia into Unity

Module 5 – Developing AR applications

• First AR exercise – develop simple image based AR application 
• Second AR exercise – create an AR application from basic components 
• Third AR exercise – create a more complex AR application for a bottle label

Module 6 – Implementing Mobile AR for Android

• Downloading and installing packages for Android development
• Preparing your Android device
• Setting up the build environment for Unity to Android
• Add interactivity to 3D object
• Build scene to Android and test