vuforia basic – SYAZMEDIA PLT

In order to complete this tutorial, you need:

An Image, you can download one at www.pixabay.com
You need to have completed the previous tutorial on Vuforia Basics

From the previous tutorial, we have added boxes to our image target.

Now lets import the image we needed to Unity, Drag and Drop the image you needed to the Assets window.

Next, lets right click one of the Image Targets we already have. Under 3D Obeject, select Plane

A Huge plane will appear. Don’t worry, we will resize this once done. But for now drag and drop the image we imported to the plane.

The plane will now have the image we imported. It will look something like this

Resize, rotate and move the plane as needed until it fit on your Image Target.

We no longer need the Cube. So let’s delete the cube. You will get something like this:

We are done! So lets press Play and test it out. You should now have an image and

Setting up Vuforia in Unity

In the File menu, click Build Settings

The Build Settings window appears. Click Player Settings

Player Settings window appears. Under XR Settings, select Vuforia Augmented Reality

Right Click on the Hierarchy window. Under Vuforia Engine click AR Camera

A Import Vuforia Engine Assets appears. Click Import

AR Camera will be added to Hieararchy

While AR Camera is selected, in the Inspector window select Open Vuforia Engine configuration

Vuforia Configuration appears

Click the license key to copy it

Paste the copied license key to the License Key slot in Vuforia Configuration

Importing our downloaded Database

Double click the database we downloaded

Import Unity Package window appears. Click Import

———————- Repeat for each Image Target start here ———————–

Creating our Image Target

Adding an Image Target

Right Click on the Hierarchy window. Under Vuforia Engine click Image

The Image Target and its preview appears

Select the image for the Image Target

Next, we will learn to select image for the Image Target. Click the ImageTarget

With the Image Target selected, in the Inspector window, click the Image Target and choose your wanted image.

Adding a Cube so that we can test the target

With the Image Target still selected, Right Click on the Image Target, Under 3D Object click Cube

Resize and Move the Cube so that it is on top of the Image Target’s preview. It should look something like this now

Select your Image Target, and Move your Image Target to the side a little bit. This will help later when we have more Image Target, so that it does not overlap each other. You will see later on when you have multiple Image Targets.

Test the Image Target

Press Play and show your image to the camera. It should work now and you will see your cube appears on top of your image.

Repeat this for all your image targets

———————- Repeat for each Image Target ends here ———————–

How it looks like once done

You will now have something like this

Enabling multiple Image Target tracking simultaneously

Select AR Camera

While AR Camera is selected, in the Inspector window select Open Vuforia Engine configuration ‘

In Vuforia Configuration, change the Max Simultaneous Tracked Images to whatever number you need. For an example, I changed it to 3

Final Test – Lets allow see them all together

Press Play and you will see that multiple Image Targets work now.

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