How to Create an AR Travel Experience in 15 Minutes or Less [Tutorial]
Looking to create your own AR travel experience where you can learn about landmarks and virtually explore exotic locations? This AR traveling demo created with Unity, AR Foundation, and echoAR is a great place to start. The full demo can also be found on echoAR’s GitHub.
Register
If you don’t have an echoAR API key yet, make sure to register for FREE at echoAR.
Setup
- Create a new Unity project.
- Clone the Unity-ARFoundation-echoAR sample code.
- Clone this repository for prefabs,scenes and custom scripts.
- Follow the instructions on our documentation page to set your API key.
- Set your echoAR API key in the echoAR prefab
- Add the models from the models folder to the echoAR console
- For each model, add the corresponding metadata from the metadata folder on the echoAR console
- Overwrite the existing echoAR/CustomBehaviour.cs script with the new CustomBehaviour.cs file
Run
Learn more
Refer to our documentation to learn more about how to use Unity, AR Foundation, and echoAR.
Support
Feel free to reach out at support@echoAR.xyz or join our support channel on Slack.
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echoAR (http://www.echoAR.xyz; Techstars ’19) is a cloud platform for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) that provides tools and server-side infrastructure to help developers & companies quickly build and deploy AR/VR apps and experiences.