App that opens 3d models/animations in Augmented Reality

raycast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9AAhqMCPwE

This is an app I've been working on that loads 3d files from a device's storage. It's called AR Theatre.
It supports textures and animations as well as loading images, video and audio. Video can be recorded as mp4 for later editing and sharing how you like.

Supported formats:
3D Model: 3ds, dae (Collada), fbx, obj, stl, pmx, vmd
Video: mp4, m4v
Audio: wav, mp3
Image/Texture: jpg, png, tga, bmp, dds

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.realitytheatres.art

Chimp

nice, any chance of iOS support? and what kind of shader and rendering in general do you do? Polycounters will want the standard PBR feature set if you really want it to see some use. 

PyrZern

DLing it now, will let you know how it goes

raycast

@Chimp, Yes! iOS support as soon as I get my hands on a mac.
At the moment I'm just using Unity's legacy diffuse shader. PBR is certainly possible, it could just use Unity's Standard shader, but it comes at a performance hit on what's already an intensive app. I could make it a global setting or have an import checklist for each model.
As for rendering: forward rendering, single directional light, no post processing.

Suggestions and critique are welcome 

raycast

@PyrZern interested to know your thoughts if you've tried it.

PyrZern

It took me a bit to figure out a good surface to track on. I think I have poor lighting, that's why. I also tried tracking my hands as surface, which didn't work :P  

A reset everything button would be nice. I had to quit it a few times while figuring things out.  Does the OBJ files support vertex color ??

raycast

Good lighting is must and yeah, a hand certainly wouldn't have enough feature detail for tracking.
Here are recommended tracking images: https://developer.vuforia.com/sites/default/files/sample-apps/targets/imagetargets_targets.pdf

If you scroll down on the edit menu there's a delete button, but I've added a delete all button now. For resetting the target, just press the 'set target' button again over what you want to track.
I didn't add vertex color support because none of the models I used for testing used but I've just added it now so maybe try again with the new update.

NAIMA

Hello this is very interesting to me, do yu have any sugestions on where to start to be able to understand the coding behind that? And eventually be able to make even a stupuid little app related to augmented reality ? I am looking on this subject for university project.

raycast

I recommend looking into Unity and Vuforia. They are what I used 
Both have plenty of tutorials and samples. Vuforia takes care of the augmented reality side so you don't need to know much coding about it, just general Unity stuff.

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