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John P. Doran is a passionate and seasoned Technical Game Designer, Software Engineer, and Author who is based in Incheon, South Korea. His passion for game development began at an early age. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design. For over a decade, John has gained extensive hands-on expertise in game development working in various roles ranging from game designer to lead UI programmer working in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional game projects including working at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313. Additionally, John has worked in game development education teaching in Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. To date, he has authored over 10 books pertaining to game development. John is currently a Technical Game Design Instructor at George Mason University Korea. Prior to his present ventures, he was an award-winning videographer.
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Setting up a project for AR

Before we can start adding notifications to our project, we will need to add three packages that Unity makes available to enable AR for both iOS and Android devices. In our case, we are going to be utilizing both ARCore and ARKit to create our project, and the AR Foundation package to act as an intermediary so we can use both ARCore and ARKit while using a similar connection. Since this is a brand new way to create projects, we will actually create a new Unity project to demonstrate how to use it. Please follow the steps given here:

  1. To get started, open Unity Hub on your computer.
  2. From startup, we’ll opt to create a new project by clicking on the New button.
  3. Next, under Project Name put in a name (I have chosen Mobile AR), and under Templates, make sure that 3D is selected:
Figure 15.1 – Creating a 3D project

Figure 15.1 – Creating a 3D project

  1. Afterward, click on Create Project and wait for Unity to load up.
  2. From the...
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John P. Doran is a passionate and seasoned Technical Game Designer, Software Engineer, and Author who is based in Incheon, South Korea. His passion for game development began at an early age. He later graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Game Design. For over a decade, John has gained extensive hands-on expertise in game development working in various roles ranging from game designer to lead UI programmer working in teams consisting of just himself to over 70 people in student, mod, and professional game projects including working at LucasArts on Star Wars: 1313. Additionally, John has worked in game development education teaching in Singapore, South Korea, and the United States. To date, he has authored over 10 books pertaining to game development. John is currently a Technical Game Design Instructor at George Mason University Korea. Prior to his present ventures, he was an award-winning videographer.
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