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Create a plane detection AR app

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Beginner

+60 XP

8 Hours5 Mins

(37)

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Summary

In this project, you’ll create an AR app that makes use of plane detection technology. iOS and Android devices have the ability to detect flat surfaces — or planes — in your physical environment. This includes horizontal planes like the floor or a table, and vertical planes like the walls. 
You will create an app where the user will be able to tap on a plane in order to place a portal onto it. This portal will be a window into a virtual 3D environment that the user can peer into and explore. 
You will also complete a challenge where you design an app that allows the user to place a character on a table and interact with it.

Project Objective

By the end of this learning project you will be able to do the following:
Set up plane AR detection in an app
Detect a user’s touch 
Use AR raycasting to determine whether a user touched a tracked AR object
Instantiate an object in the scene
Test the frame rate of your app