Getting started with Augmented Reality
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Getting started with Augmented Reality at Coursera Overview
Duration | 25 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Intermediate |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
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Getting started with Augmented Reality at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Intermediate Level
- Approx. 25 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Getting started with Augmented Reality at Coursera Course details
- This course will teach you the basics of developing mobile applications using Mixed and Augmented Reality (MAR) technologies.
- Through hands-on projects, you?ll learn practical techniques to rapidly and easily prototype three different applications for Android smartphones and tablets ? even with no previous coding experience.
- If you?re a creative entrepreneur, this is your ideal introduction to today?s trends in the products and technologies of the emerging augmented reality market.
- If you?re a journalist, media/content producer or teacher, you?ll discover how to augment print-based media with sounds, images and videos, and see how to create an augmented city map and geo-located augmented reality game for your audience.
- If you?re a web designer or app developer, you?ll gain a range of technological building blocks that you can integrate into your service portfolio.
- Whatever your background, you?ll learn how to design cutting-edge visual experiences that will enhance your job prospects.
- What you?ll learn
- ? All about the main MAR products and technologies on the market today
- ? How to build three different augmented reality applications using an augmented reality browser and authoring tools
- ? How to include image recognition and object tracking
- ? How to use geolocation functionality for outdoor augmented reality
- ? Details of the ISO-ARAF standard, an innovative language for representing augmented reality content
- Prerequisites
- ? You don?t need any prior technical knowledge to take this course.
- ? If you?re familiar with markup languages (HTML, XML, etc) and content management systems, you may be more at ease with the key concepts and techniques.
- This MOOC is supported by the Patrick and Lina Drahi Foundation.
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Getting started with Augmented Reality at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome
Welcome to our course Mixed and Augmented Reality!
Course overview
FAQ
How to use Discussion Forums
What will you learn in this module?
Definition of Mixed and Augmented Reality
Mixed Reality Continuum
MAR Market, Actors and Value Chain
Application vs. Browser
MAR System Architecture
Augmented Reality History
What are the Mixed and Augmented Reality concepts?
Check your knowledge on MAR Market and System Architecture
Augmented Books
Welcome
Create an Augmented Book using an authoring tool
An Augmented Book example
Download and install the ARAF browser
Let's take it a step further
Augmented Book - Inside the ARAF file
Image recognition process
Modifying the AR experience: replace a sound with a video
Demonstration of the modified AR experience
What will you learn this week?
How to access project assignments?
Create an Augmented Book using the authoring tool, step-by-step
Download the ARAF browser on your mobile device
Note: How to allow the installation of non-market apps on Android
Install the ARAF browser on your mobile device
Open an AR file in the ARAF browser
Main modules of the obtained ARAF application
An Augmented Book template
Image recognition process ? inside the ARAF file
FAQ of Week 2
Modifying the AR experience: replace one sound with a video
Video resources to be used for the assignment
Modified Augmented Book code
Quiz about the main modules of the ARAF file
Quiz about the image recognition process inside the ARAF file
Augment Your City Map
Introduction
3D objects in ARAF
What is Vuforia?
Recognition process with Vuforia
Use the Vuforia descriptor in ARAF
What will you learn in this module?
How to run and visualize ARAF files on your PC
How to use the Vuforia developer website - Step-by-step
FAQ of Week 3
Augment your city map - Step-by-step
3D objects in ARAF
Recognition process with Vuforia
Use the Vuforia descriptor in ARAF
Augmented Reality with Geolocation
Welcome
Create an AR Quiz using the authoring tool
An AR Quiz example
Geolocation in ARAF
What is a prototype? A basic example: Image PROTO
Enriching a prototype: add user interaction
Map PROTO Step-by-Step
MapMarker PROTO Step-by-Step
MapOverlay PROTO Step-by-Step
MapPlayer PROTO Step-by-Step
An example of a functional map in ARAF
What will you do in this module?
Preparing the next assignement
Create an AR Quiz using the authoring tool : step-by-step
What is a prototype? A basic example: Image PROTO
Source code for adding user interaction to a prototype
Source code for the Map PROTO
Source code for the MapMarker PROTO
Source code for the MapOverlay PROTO
Source code for the MapPlayer PROTO
Source code for the full functional map in ARAF
FAQ of Week 4
Quiz about geolocation and prototypes in ARAF
Quiz about map-related prototypes
Customizing an Augmented Reality Game
Welcome
AR Quiz - Prototypes part 1
AR Quiz - Prototypes part 2
AR Quiz - Game's scene graph
AR Quiz - The game's behavior
Closing comments
Map markers continuously updating their position on the map
What will you do in this module?
Source code for the AR Quiz
FAQ of Week 5
Programming a new behavoir for the AR Quiz : step-by-step
Source code of the modified AR Quiz
Check your knowledge of prototypes used in the AR Quiz
Check your knowledge of AR Quiz scene and game behavior
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