Unity: AR Visualization 02 Basic Interactivity

Course details

Add practical functionality and interactivity to your augmented reality (AR) applications with Unity. This course builds on instructor Roger Miller’s previous training, by adding more advanced functionality to the AR mobile application: a parts manager that allows users to view and interact with 3D parts in the real world. Here, you can learn how to build 3D interface elements, menu systems, and options and implement features such as virtual object manipulation. Plus, learn how to save dynamic data back to the application. 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
Making the UI manager
Scripting the menu system
Creating the settings menu and script
Defining data in Unity
Storing static information in a data class
Displaying data in a pop-up
Showing in-world pop-ups
Adding interactive buttons
Moving UI elements in AR
Saving dynamic data back to the app

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Adding practical functionality to your AR application
02 - What you should know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Overview

04 - Moving towards the digital twin
05 - Project changes

2. Making Your App Usable with UI

06 - Making the UI manager
07 - Making a HUD menu button
08 - Setting up your first menu panel
09 - Designing the main menu panel
10 - Scripting the menu system
11 - Designing the settings menu
12 - Creating the settings script
13 - Driving the settings menu
14 - Wrapping up the toggle buttons
15 - AR app in action

3. It's All About the Data

16 - How to define data in Unity
17 - Making the Part and PartManager scripts
18 - Making the Part static data structure

4. In-World UI

19 - Screen space in-world UI
20 - Creating the UI Pop-up
21 - Creating the Pop-up script
22 - Altering the AR manager to UI pop-ups
23 - Anchoring the part UI to the world
24 - Finalizing the screen space in-world UI
25 - AR app in action

5. Putting the In-World UI to the Task

26 - Adding a hide button on the in-world UI
27 - Adding the hide functionality
28 - Adding a parts menu page
29 - Adding the show all parts code
30 - AR app in action

6. Moving Things

31 - Your move strategy
32 - Adding the move button to the in-world UI
33 - Testing your move UI
34 - Adding the axis to the part
35 - Preparing to slide
36 - Doing the math The slide formula
37 - AR app in action

7. Saving Your Data

38 - How and where is your data to be saved
39 - Creating the part dynamic data structure
40 - Creating the save method
41 - Creating the load method
42 - Creating the reset method
43 - Adding the data buttons to the parts menu
44 - AR app in action

Conclusion

45 - Goodbye