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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo
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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Nicolas is a Game Developer currently working as a Senior Software Development Consultant for Unity in London. He is a Unity Certified Instructor teaching Unity clients all around the globe. He started using Unity in 2008 and teaching it in 2012 in several Universities and Education Institutes.
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

Juan graduated in mathematics with a master's degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Game Design for social casino video games and as a video game developer using Unity and Unreal Engine for both PC and mobile. He was an online teacher on Udemy from 2015 to 2022 and subsequently on his own platform Frogames Training with over 150 online courses and over 500,000 students across 130 countries.
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Using AR Foundation

In this section, we will examine the following AR Foundation concepts:

  • Creating an AR Foundation project
  • Using tracking features

Let’s start by discussing how to prepare our project so that it can run AR Foundation apps.

Creating an AR Foundation project

Transitioning to AR development not only changes coding practices but also the game design approach. For instance, in AR, user interaction and camera control are significantly different.

Something to consider when creating AR projects is that we will change not only the way we code our game but also the game design aspect. AR apps have differences, especially in the way the user interacts, and also limitations, such as the user being in control of the camera all the time. We cannot simply port an existing game to AR without changing the very core experience of the game. That’s why, in this chapter, we are going to work on a brand-new project; it would be too difficult...

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Nicolas Alejandro Borromeo

Nicolas is a Game Developer currently working as a Senior Software Development Consultant for Unity in London. He is a Unity Certified Instructor teaching Unity clients all around the globe. He started using Unity in 2008 and teaching it in 2012 in several Universities and Education Institutes.
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Juan Gabriel Gomila Salas

Juan graduated in mathematics with a master's degree in Teacher Training, specializing in Game Design for social casino video games and as a video game developer using Unity and Unreal Engine for both PC and mobile. He was an online teacher on Udemy from 2015 to 2022 and subsequently on his own platform Frogames Training with over 150 online courses and over 500,000 students across 130 countries.
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