Web Augmented Reality (A.R.)

Due Date

Augmented Reality

What is augmented reality?

A good place for those who do not know about AR and how it differs from VR, is given in here

https://www.quora.com/What-is-augmented-reality
https://www.quora.com/What-is-augmented-reality

Whetting your appetite

First of all before we get into the hardcore coding, lets give you a glimpse of what you shall be working on... So pick up your mobiles, and.... Now, over to the jini..

https://apps.8thwall.com/8w/jini/
https://apps.8thwall.com/8w/jini/

Create an account.

Start first by creating an account in 8th wall, to avail it's services that we shall use in this week. Chose the option of Web Developer. You may start creating a project on your own to work on as you go through the materials, or wait for further details of what you are supposed to do, shall be revealed in the task.

https://www.8thwall.com/
https://www.8thwall.com/

Here is a simple you build AR experiences using 8th wall

https://medium.com/8th-wall/if-you-can-webar-you-can-webvr-dbd658831f8c
https://medium.com/8th-wall/if-you-can-webar-you-can-webvr-dbd658831f8c

Getting Started

A good start will be to have a look at this video... Watch the whole video it's really important so that you know the concept and the basic difference between Aframe and 8thframe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g4ynqrbyMM&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g4ynqrbyMM&feature=youtu.be

There is no site that can express in more presise terms about web AR than the documentation of 8th wall itself

https://www.8thwall.com/docs/web/
https://www.8thwall.com/docs/web/

Image Target Feature in 8th wall

And now about image target feature and it's working, go through this article in medium

https://medium.com/8th-wall/release-11-image-targets-more-d53e4a3c12bc
https://medium.com/8th-wall/release-11-image-targets-more-d53e4a3c12bc

Task and Submission

Here you go....

https://github.com/COPS-IITBHU/WebAR-Assignment2-imagetargets
https://github.com/COPS-IITBHU/WebAR-Assignment2-imagetargets