Augmented Reality Mini-Robot through the lens of iPad

Using AR-Foundation ARKit to Spawn Min-Robot through the lens of iPad…

Here used detected horizontal planes in the real world to spawn our cute sphere mini-robot. Then we added some joystick controls to our robot and used physics and an Animation Controller to move him around the world.

Assets for mini-robot and joystick control as under:

Robot Sphere | 3D Robots | Unity Asset Store

Mini-Robot from Asset Store

Joystick Pack | Input Management | Unity Asset Store

I have set up using AR Foundation, ARKit XR Plugin through Package Manager and set the XR Plug-In Management for iOS ARKit in Unity.

SetUp- XR Plug-in Management for ARKit

Provisioned the target platform iPad (iOS) for this Mini-Robot using ARKit.

Selected Platform -iOS to provision for target Platform- iPad

In Design and Implementation of Mini-Robot..

Design and Created in Unity using ARKit-AR Session, AR Session Origin having AR Camera

The steps that are taken into consideration.

• Created a scene with plane detection
• Imported our robot asset and joysticks assets from the asset store
• Created a prefab of our robot character
• Created a TapToPlace script to spawn our robot on a detected AR plane- using ARRaycastManager.

This TapToPlace Script checks if the robot is not spawned, when I iPad screen is touched , it gets the position screen and Raycast into the world using the touch position. Raycast function returns the hits which is the closest plane we touched on iPad & at that position spawned the Mini-Robot.

Script- TapToPlace

• Looked at Animation Controllers
• Created a RobotControls script to use the joystick to move our robot around the world….!!

Script-RobotControls

Finally here is the mini-robot through the lens of the iPad…

Augmented Reality (Mini-Robot with JoyStick Controller — using iPad)

Dolly Track in Cinemachine !!