Unity: AR Visualization 03 Complex Interactivity

2h 35mIntermediate2019-10-31

Authors

Roger Miller

Owner and Principal Engineer at Collective Mass

Course details

Augmented reality is most powerful when it offers shared experiences: opportunities to collaborate in a virtual world. In this course, you can take the functional AR application built in Roger Miller’s previous courses—a 3D parts manager for the aerospace industry—and learn how to share and update the app’s data, from simple notes to object positions in real time, using PlayerIO. The resulting apps allows multiple users to manipulate and exchange notes on the same parts. Along the way, Roger explains how to script functionality that allows users to take, save, and share notes and sync data as well as movement within the app. This course is ideal for Unity engineers that want to expand their scripting and programming skills and break into the AR development space.

Learning objectives
Tracking images to anchor the AR world
Adding note functionality
Adding interactive buttons
Scripting the note logic
Capturing the note with the keyboard
Saving and loading notes
Sharing data via network messages
Syncing data with PlayerIO
Starting multiplayer connections
Syncing movement and notes

Skills covered

Real-TimeGame DevelopmentUnityVisualization and Real-TimeAECProduct and ManufacturingSoftware DevelopmentDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Creating collaborative AR experiences
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Overview

04 - The power of sharing visual information

2. Syncing Space

05 - Overview of the tracker solution
06 - Creating a reference image
07 - The tracked image manager
08 - Accessing the tracked image manager
09 - AR app in action

3. Take Note - Adding Note Functionality

10 - Overview of the note system
11 - Adding the button to the in-world UI
12 - Making the note data structure
13 - Making the note UI objects
14 - Making the Part UI Note script
15 - Integrating the Part UI Note
16 - Adding notes to the in-world UI
17 - Capturing the note with the keyboard
18 - AR app in action

4. Adding Notes to the Save Data

19 - Adding notes to the data structure
20 - Saving notes
21 - Loading notes

5. Welcome to the Data Stream

22 - How to share your data
23 - Getting access to PlayerIO
24 - Installing the PlayerIO SDK

6. Syncing Data with PlayerIO

25 - Create sync UI, state, and methods
26 - Creating your network manager
27 - Connecting to PlayerIO
28 - Starting a multiplayer connection
29 - Testing your multiplayer connection
30 - Creating a message handler
31 - Processing the join message
32 - Working with world state
33 - Sending hide messages
34 - Making your parts relative
35 - Syncing movement
36 - Syncing the addition of notes
37 - Syncing the deletion of notes
38 - AR app in action

Conclusion

39 - Next steps