Build Niantic Lightship VPS Augmented Reality Experience

Name: Build Niantic Lightship VPS Augmented Reality Experience
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Augmented Reality Tutorial on Niantic Lightship VPS, Creating Wayspots by scanning your environment

Created byChukwuemeka John Okparaeke

Last updated 6/2023

English

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

9 sections • 24 lectures • 2h 45m total length

Welcome and Overview of the Course2:38
John Warwick guides you through building augmented reality experiences with Niantic Lightship. Scan environments using Unity, import assets, and anchor AR content to Niantic VPN server, featuring a plant-purify demo.
What are Niantic Lightship VPS and Unity 3D engine and why are they useful?6:11
discover how Niantic lightship VPS enables location-based augmented reality and learn to configure it with the Unity 3D engine via unity hub, including registration, real-world mesh capture, and shared ar.
What are the Prerequisites and Learning outcomes of the course?2:33

Create a Project in Niantic Lightship Developer Account5:30
How to install and configure the SDK and the Unity plugin on your computer5:32
How to create a new Unity project and import the Lightship package9:27
Create a new Unity project for Niantic Lightship, switch to iOS, set portrait orientation, configure camera, microphone, and location permissions, and import Lightship packages and the hub for Stantec integration.

How to build your app for iOS and Android8:42
Build and deploy your AR app from Unity to iOS, configure boot settings, enable automatic signing, embed the swift standard library, and install the generated project on a connected iPhone.
Testing the First Build1:20
Test the first build of the Niantic Lightship VPS AR experience by installing the app, accepting location, and localizing a placed cube at a chosen site.

Setting up to Add Plants and Flowers to beautify our scanned location5:35
Transform the scene by replacing the cube with flower models to beautify the environment. Use anchors and prefabs, then save all anchors in the authoring tab.
Importing the .fbx file of the scanned location7:11
Decorating the scanned location with the Flower and Plant 3D models1:13
Decorate the scanned location by placing and duplicating flower and plant 3D models, adjusting positions to create a lush AR scene.
Continuation of the decoration of our scanned location with the Flower 3D models4:54
Duplicate and arrange the flower 3D assets in the scanned location, then save, apply changes, and preview the AR experience while planning a future animation.

Adding Animation to the Flowers using the Unity Timeline20:04
Learn to animate flowers in Unity using timeline to grow from the ground with animation tracks and clips, including the activation track, and save the scene for polished AR experience.
Adding a UI button to trigger the Timeline12:00
Add a UI button at the center of the screen to trigger timeline, importing a circular icon and fonts, and build the UI inside a prefab with Text Mesh Pro.
Adding Script to the UI button to control the behavior9:28
Attach a script to the root prefab to receive the timeline's playable director and trigger play with the director when the UI button is pressed, then deactivate the button.
Fixing the errors and bugs in the experience5:10
Fix the AR experience by adding an event system to the prefab, deactivating flowers on awake and activating them with the button to start growing.
Removing the default Niantic Lightship UI from the experience13:01

Requirements

A compatible device that supports ARCore or ARKit
A Niantic account to access the Lightship VPS service
A Unity account and the latest version of Unity 3D engine installed on your computer
Some experience with Unity 3D engine and C# programming
A basic understanding of AR concepts and terminology

Description

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!

Who this course is for:

Developers who want to create immersive and interactive AR experiences at real-world locations
Developers who 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
Developers who have some experience with Unity 3D engine and C# programming
Developers who are interested in building the real-world metaverse with Niantic Lightship VPS and Unity 3D engine

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Introduction3 lectures • 11min

Setting up Niantic Lightship VPS and Unity 3D engine3 lectures • 20min

Scanning an Environment and Creating a Wayspot3 lectures • 14min

Adding initial virtual content to the scan location using Unity1 lecture • 15min

Initial building of the app for Android and iOS using Unity2 lectures • 10min

Improvements to the Virtual Content added to our scan location4 lectures • 19min

Adding Animations, UI and Behaviors to the Experience5 lectures • 1hr

Final building of the app for Android and iOS using Unity2 lectures • 10min

Conclusion1 lecture • 6min

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