UnityGeoAR

UnityGeoAR is a tool for Unity3D that streamlines the development of geolocated Augmented Reality (AR) applications. It provides services for converting geo-coordinates and elevations to Unity Scene units and for aligning camera rotations between a virtual and real-world view.

Installation

Fork/Copy/Download this repository and open in the Unity Editor.

Usage

Setting up location updates

1. Make sure your app has location services permissions accepted.

2. Have a Monobehaviour that initializes an instance of LocationUpdatesService, or alternatively use the provided LocationUpdater.

3. During runtime, ensure that location updates are running before opening an AR/geolocation enabled scene. We recommend keeping the location updates running in the background until the end of the app runtime.

Setting up AR-enabled scenes

1. For AR-enabled scenes, first setup ARFoundation as per its instructions.

2. Make sure you have a behaviour in the scene that implements SceneControllerBase, or use the provided ARSceneController.

3. At minimum, set the sourceCRS and destinationCRS fields of SceneControllerBase using the EPSG code for the required CRS. List of EPSG codes.

4. When the geolocated AR scene is first loaded, make sure to set the locationSourceCRSAtSceneLoad, locationDestinationCRSAtSceneLoad, and compassHeadingAtSceneLoad fields of SceneControllerBase. Optionally, also set the elevation at start, if using elevations.

5. If using your own implementation of SceneControllerBase, also make sure to offset the Y rotation of the AR Session Origin GameObject (that is the parent of the ARCamera) by compassHeadingAtSceneLoad degrees.

6. Now you can use the methods provided in SceneControllerBase.WorldToUnityService to reproject objects geolocated near the user's location, and place them in the scene around the camera.

Example

You can always have a look at the included ARNavigation examples (Found in Assets > Scenes > AR-Navigation) to see usages of the UnityGeoAR tools. ARNavigation draws a path that users can follow in AR to navigate between two points.

• AR-Navigation_TestScene implements a geocoder and routing service to set a destination (requires an API key from OpenRouteService, you can store API keys in a APIKeyContainer scriptable object: Create > ScriptableObjects > API Keys Container)

• AR-Navigation_PresetRoutes reads from preset routes available during compile time. Preset routes can be provided as .txt files containing series of waypoints in (y,x) format. Have a look at PresetRouteSelectorHandler for a preset routes parser. Sample preset routes are stored in Assets > Resources

To test the example ARNavigation app, build the app using the following scenes included in the build settings, and run on a mobile device.