Augmented Reality Police Car

You will follow these 29 steps to making your own AR scene/ image.

-These steps can be applied towards any image, scene, or "floating object".

-100% free and fun.

Download Unity from the https://unity3d.com website.

-Go to "Get Unity Now"

-Personal/Free download

-Download Installer

And proceed with instructions

Download The Vuforia SDK File from https://developer.vuforia.com/downloads/sdk

-Click on "Download for Unity"

-Create an Account

-Drag the Vuforia file onto your desktop

Open up Unity.

-Open New Unity Project

-name project

-create project

-When you get into the project; delete the Main Camera

Drag in the Vuforia Package

-Press import

-click the Assets folder

-click the Vuforia folder

-click prefabs

-drag the AR camera to the top left side of the screen (where the main camera once was)

Go to your web browser and go to the Vuforia Developer Portal

- https://vuforia.com

-Click Dev Portal

-Click Develop

At the "develop" tab you have to create a license key

-Click add license key

-Copy text from the box

Go back to Unity

(right side)

-change "world center mode" to Device Tracking

(Right side)

-Click "Open Vuforia Configuration"

-Paste text where it says "App License Key"

Do you know the image you want to use as your AR surface?

-If you don't, find it.

Go back to your Developer portal

-click "Target Manager"

-Click and make your image target (my target was called Police)

-Add target (you will now upload the image target or image surface that you'd like to use)

For width you can put virtually any number, I always put 5.

-click Add

-upload Target

Select Target

-download database

-select "Unity Editor" as your development platform

Drag your (file) unity package into unity

To do that you will:

-click on your assets folder

-drag the package in

-select "import"

Go to "Datasets"

-click "load image file"

-click "activate"

(bottom left side) Go back to Vuforia

-click Vuforia

-click Prefabs

Select the blue "Image Target" cube

-drag the cube ONTO the AR camera so it becomes a child (on the top left side)

Go to: Image Target Behaviour (on the right side)

-go to database

-click targets and sure that's your file

(left side) Go to assets

-click assets

-click editor

-click QCAR

-click Image Target Textures

-(your) Image_Target (mine was named police)

Click on your file

(right side)

-change "Texture Type": from Channel to Default

-change "Texture Shape": from Cube to 2D

(top right side)

-go to Image Target, press it

-a window should pop up. Press: Apply

Once your image loads, go to the Asset store.

-search for an object you want to have in your scene

-chose object

-download object

-Once it downloads, press: Import

Find the new folder where you object is

(I downloaded a police car, so mine says "police car")

Click the new folder where your object is.

-Go to "models"

Bring your screen back to "scene" from the "asset store" window.

Drag and drop your new object onto the screen

-use the blue, red, and green arrows to position your object

Once everything is positioned and scale:

-press the left arrow on the top of your screen to play and activate your image

Now, have fun :)