Augmented Reality Tutorial on Niantic Lightship VPS, Creating Wayspots by scanning your environment
Are you interested in creating immersive and interactive AR experiences at real-world locations? Do you want to learn how to use the latest technology from Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go and Ingress, to build location-based AR apps with Unity 3D engine? If yes, then this course is for you!
What you’ll learn
- Understand what Niantic Lightship VPS is all about.
- How to create a Unity project and import the Niantic Lightship ARDK package.
- How to anchor virtual experiences and content to your Niantic VPS-activated Wayspots.
- How to use Niantic Lightship VPS to accurately localize users and their devices at real-world locations.
- How to build a location-based AR app using Unity 3D engine and deploy it to your device.
Course Content
- Introduction –> 3 lectures • 11min.
- Setting up Niantic Lightship VPS and Unity 3D engine –> 3 lectures • 20min.
- Scanning an Environment and Creating a Wayspot –> 3 lectures • 14min.
- Adding initial virtual content to the scan location using Unity –> 1 lecture • 15min.
- Initial building of the app for Android and iOS using Unity –> 2 lectures • 10min.
- Improvements to the Virtual Content added to our scan location –> 4 lectures • 19min.
- Adding Animations, UI and Behaviors to the Experience –> 5 lectures • 1hr.
- Final building of the app for Android and iOS using Unity –> 2 lectures • 10min.
- Conclusion –> 1 lecture • 6min.
Requirements
Are you interested in creating immersive and interactive AR experiences at real-world locations? Do you want to learn how to use the latest technology from Niantic, the makers of Pokemon Go and Ingress, to build location-based AR apps with Unity 3D engine? If yes, then this course is for you!
In this course, you will learn how to use Niantic Lightship VPS, a service that enables developers to accurately localize users, their devices, and persist AR content at any VPS-activated location¹. You will also learn how to use Niantic Lightship ARDK, a toolset that offers the best world-mapping, semantic segmentation, and shared AR feature sets².
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Understand what Niantic Lightship VPS is all about
- Understand the basics of Niantic Lightship VPS and how it works with Niantic Lightship ARDK.
- Scan real-world locations using the Niantic Wayfarer app and submit them to Niantic to be registered as VPS-activated Wayspots.
- How to anchor virtual experiences and content to your Niantic VPS-activated Wayspots
- Create a Unity project and import the Niantic Lightship ARDK package.
- Set up your project settings and configure your device for testing.
- Use the Lightship VPS SDK to localize users and their devices at VPS-activated locations.
- Build a location-based AR app using Unity 3D engine and deploy it to your device.
This course is suitable for anyone who has some experience with Unity 3D engine and C# programming. You will also need a compatible device that supports ARCore or ARKit, and a Niantic account to access the Lightship VPS service.
If you are ready to start building the real-world metaverse with Niantic Lightship VPS and Unity 3D engine, enroll in this course today!