Unity tutorial: AR Indoor Navigation with Vuforia Engine - Workflow, data model & app demo

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This 1st tutorial covers used technologies, workflow and data model of an indoor Augmented Reality navigation app with multiple point clouds created with Unity and Vuforia Engine. We created multiple Vuforia Area Targets (point clouds) via Matterportport API using a Matterport Pro2 camera and the Vuforia Area Target Creater app on iPad Pro 12.9" 2020.

Other tutorials: AR Indoor Navigation Tutorials

Content of this video:
- used technologies & tools: Matterport for creating points clouds, Vuforia Engine for AR stuff, Unity (NavMeshComponents for wayfinding)
- creating point clouds/scanning environment (different methods, pros and cons)
- data model
- App Demo in Unity Editor

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction of Tutorial
0:20 Show reel app development
0:55 Project overview
1:23 3 Parts of Tutorial explained
3:06 Technologies used
3:55 Start of 1st tutorial part - Mapping
4:10 What is a point cloud?
4:46 Explanation Vuforia Area Target
6:55 How to create Vuforia Area Targets
8:30 Pros and Cons of creating Area Targets
11:27 Positioning scans in Unity
11:52 Data Model to represent real world
12:07 Points of interest in Unity
12:11 Showing scans in Unity Editor
16:13 Showing Data Structure in Unity Editor
23:10 Easter Egg Preview
23:19 Issues with Unity Editor and Area Targets
25:24 Showing app running in Unity Editor
29:32 Closing remarks

Useful links:
- How to create & use Area Targets: https://library.vuforia.com/features/...
- The fastest way to a destination is calculated by using Unity's NavMesh (actually from NavMeshComponents) and NavMeshAgent:
https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/nav-N...
- NavMeshComponents: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies...
- Vuforia Fusion:  https://library.vuforia.com/articles/...
- App translation in German, English, French: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com...
- Custom Occlusion objects: https://discussions.unity.com/t/can-i...

The project was my colleagues and my Bachelor of Science in Medical Informatics thesis. The prototype was implemented in the college building of the Medical Informatics study course at the Bern University of Applied Sciences. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we could not implement it in the hospital. Our vision is to improve way finding in hospitals to support health personell at their working space and patients. Paper available in German on ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Demo of our app: Indoor Navigation with Augmented Real...

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