I am working on a small project that uses mapbox to show its map interface, the app tells user where and accident or a speed camera is placed and alert them when they get near it.
The thing is some reports face a certain direction on the road like North, South, etc...
Currently when the user is rotating those annotation along the map rotate to face the user.
Although It's not completely necessary for (now), i was wondering if there is a way to make those annotation face a certain direction at all time, so my user will know if a speed camera is facing the direction which they are driving or not.
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I'm making an augmented reality app with Unity and Mapbox for both ios and android. I have data sets that I am using to make markers in the real world when someone uses the app. I collected json files and converted them to geojson files and then I made a custom map in Mapbox Studio with these 4 different geojson files. Basically I want to have the markers from the datasets I collected to show up in the real world. I am not sure how to get these markers to show up in the real world and not with building prefabs. Example of my custom app made in Mapbox. Each color shows a different category of markers. There are four categories.
Here is an example of what I am referring to.
In this image skeletons can show up in the real world.
Here is an example of what I am not referring to.
In this image droids are place in a map but it is not the real world. It is like Pokemon Go where the map is generated with location but you don't actually see the real world when you are playing.
I already have my Unity project set up and this is the final step, but I am just having issues getting it to show up in the real world. So far, tutorials only show on to get it to reflect something like Pokemon Go.
You will have one scene with a stationary Camera. Your code will monitor the MapBox data in Update(), constantly passing the current GPS position and receiving your list of markers/points of interest. You can simply randomly spawn skeletons in a sphere area (see https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Random-insideUnitSphere.html) around the Camera's transform position once you detect that the user's GPS position is in within a certain distance of the center of your point of interest. Keep track of that list, and destroy the skeletons once they leave the area - and have some way of making sure you only spawn them once for that area.
Your skeletons should have a NavMeshAgent, and you should generate a NavMesh onto the ARFoundation plane for them to walk on. In this case, the plane is probably dynamically created and you may need to use the dynamic NavMesh component https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/NavMeshComponents. If you tell the NavMeshAgent to go to a specific point it will walk to the closest point - so even though you get a random position in the sphere in 3D, the skeleton will move or spawn onto the nearest point so there is no need to figure out how to convert it to the 2D plane space.
Your AR view, both the tracking of the camera position/angle and the generation of a plane representing the ground, will be something generated by ARFoundation and it is simple to add the basic functionality. They have a prefab that already includes the camera and generates the plane for you. You can get ARFoundation via the Unity Package Manager. It will work with many different types of devices.
You should start with a cheap Android phone or tablet, even if you own an iPhone, because it's easier to load the APK and debug/develop your app via Android build.
This is a simplification. I recommend using Singletons, ScriptableObjects, Object Pooling, and other Unity paradigms and plenty of other things within Unity that would help you but as another user pointed out - you may want to spend time learning Unity, ARFoundation, MapBox, and ask more specific programming questions when you are ready.
recently I started to work with ARKit And place an object by tapping on map and follow the lead to reach to the Object. It's working perfectly but I have a problem: when I reach the object, it's not placed on floor and is up in the air
Is there any solution like combining location parameters with hitTest?
thank you for your time.
I am implementing a "companion map" for a HoloLens application using Unity and Visual Studio. My vision is for a small rectangular map to be affixed to the bottom right of the HoloLens view, and to follow the HoloLens user as they move about, much like the display of a video game.
At the moment my "map" is a .jpeg made into a material and put on an upright plane. Is there a way for me to affix the plane such that it is always in the bottom right of the user's view, as opposed to being fixed in the 3D space that the user moves through?
The Orbital Solver in MRTK can implement this idea without even writing any code. It can lock the map to a specified position and offset it from the player.
To use it what you need to do is:
Add Orbital Script Component to your companion map.
Modify the Local Offset and World Offset properties to keep the map in the bottom right of the user's view.
Modify the Orientation Type as Face Tracked Object.
Besides, the SolverExamples scene provided by the mrtkv2 SDK is an excellent outset to become familiar with Solver components
I am trying to wrap my head around Vuforia's capabilities. I want to make an app which lets me place a 3D object into a camera view and have that 3D object stick to the world. I've been learning how to use Vuforia in Unity3D, and Vuforia seems to be slightly capable of this, but is severely limited by its craving for "Targets". It doesn't seem to be able to do much if I don't give it some sort of target.
One workaround I've found is to set the ARCamera's World Center Mode to DEVICE_TRACKING. This seems to let me place a 3D object into the world (in Unity) and have this object overlay into the camera feed, almost making it seem like it's anhcored to the real world. This doesn't work perfectly though: it tracks properly when I angle the device up/down/left/right (rotation), but it does not seem to track the device's translational motion; that is, when I move the device forward/back/left/right, the overlaid object doesn't get closer/farther nor does it rotate as I move around it.
Is it possible to get this sort of tracking out of Vuforia, or am I better off switching to something like Google Tango?
The difficulty with setting World Center Mode to CAMERA in Vuforia is that apparently 3D objects rotate around the camera based on its accelerometer/gyroscope changes. This doesn't allow for objects to be anchored to the environment. Instead they follow with the camera.
Kudan is a good markerless tracking option.
The new Google Maps app allows you to select a destination, and then go into a mode where the map is constantly rotated in the direction you're facing, and it never asks you to calibrate the compass. If you spin in a circle, the map will spin with you, accurately rotating the map so that the direction you're facing always correlates with "up" on the map. As far as I know, this wasn't possible before. How do they do this?
The compass requires you to calibrate when you open it, but for some reason Google maps does not.
Modern phones have sensors, Accelerometer and Gyroscope, which are used to detect changes in its orientation, dimension, and acceleration (maybe other stuff too). It probably processes the information from the sensors and orients the map accordingly. I believe Compass Mode has been in Google Maps for a while though.