Augmented Reality

Judy set up the augmented reality environment.

Judy: This was my first time working in Unity, and figuring out how to get the augmented reality working with Vuforia was really hectic especially since I already had no idea what was going on. It took a lot of Googling to figure out why my program wasn't running (in the end, it's because Vuforia only works with the 32bit version of Unity, and also webcam only works if you run it in the PC standalone module, not the default Web Player). 

In addition, setting up the trigger images also took a bit of testing. For example, with the black "KPDC" logo I originally tested it out on as shown above, for some reason the program wasn't sensing the image. This is because it's rated 1/5 stars in Vuforia, which means the trigger image isn't strong enough.

For testing, I used this 5/5 star trigger image (the kaleidoscope of colors), which worked quite well. Watch the video below which shows its effectiveness with multiple target images as well!