Augmented reality has revolutionized our everyday lives. From recreational games and apps, to providing innovative tools in industries including travel, medicine, retail, education, enterprise, manufacturing, and more, AR is here to stay and is becoming an essential skill for serious developers.
The Augmented Reality Mini-Degree will give you everything needed to create immersive experiences that enhance the physical world with virtual, interactable objects. You’ll unlock the power of each device’s camera to set up games, business apps, and more using marker-based and markerless AR techniques, and learn how to work with popular frameworks such as AR Foundation, ARCore, ARKit, and EasyAR inside the Unity engine.
You’ll learn by building real projects that can be showcased in your professional portfolio, and gain skills that will allow you to join a fast-growing market of innovators.
You will master:
- Using AR frameworks in Unity
- Detecting planes using a mobile device’s camera
- Adding and manipulating virtual objects in a physical world environment
- Combine physical and virtual world mechanics in apps, games, and experiences
- Track 2D images, objects, and more
Unity Certified Experts
This curriculum has been designed by instructors who have been certified by Unity Technologies and CompTIA in recognition of their programming excellence.
As a Unity Authorized Learning Partner, Zenva’s courses satisfy the highest standards in terms of both quality and relevancy.
Curriculum
- Coding in C# and Unity
- Build your first 3D games
- Basic game mechanics
- Your first markerless AR app
- Retail industry AR app
- Game Development for AR
- Learn Google’s ARCore for Android
- Surface tracking
- Lighting estimation
- 2D image tracking
- Learn Apple’s ARKit for iOS
- Surface tracking
- Scanning real-world objects
- Image tracking with AR
- Build marker-based experiences
- Low-end phone compatibility
100% Beginner-Friendly
This curriculum gives you all the tools needed to develop augmented reality games and applications – featuring introductory modules for those who have never coded before, to intermediate courses that will allow more experienced developers looking to branch out into new specializations, this Mini-Degree is designed to help you succeed.
Why Learn Augmented Reality?
Due to the ever-evolving nature of technology, the market for augmented reality is expected to grow exponentially over the next few years. Established businesses and even new startups are embracing AR in order to tap into the smartphone user marketplace and improve workplace training. Not only does this present numerous opportunities for revenue for companies, but it also opens new jobs for developers as augmented reality skills become more in-demand.