AR/VR Tools and Resources

An intro to VR/AR Tools and Resources

• Idea (Script, storyboard, etc)
• Assets (Images, Objects)
• "World" (Rendering Engine, Physics Engine, etc)
• Platform (iOS, HTC Vive, Android)

Before we get started you need to know a bit about how VR and AR work

Full featured rendering, physics, multiplatform targeting, stores, build pipelines, etc

• Unity

https://unity3d.com/ https://unity3d.com/unity/features/multiplatform/vr-ar

• Unreal

https://www.unrealengine.com/ https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/vr

• Cryngine

https://www.cryengine.com/

• Torque

https://www.garagegames.com/

• ARKit (iOS)

https://developer.apple.com/arkit/

• ARCore (Android)

https://developers.google.com/ar/

• ThreeJs (Rendering only JS)

https://threejs.org/

• A-Frame (JS)

https://aframe.io/

• AR.js (JS)

https://jeromeetienne.github.io/AR.js/

Without physics, objects will render but they wont interact with eachother in any meanful way

• Bullet Physics

https://bulletphysics.org https://github.com/kripken/ammo.js/ (JS Port)

• Cannon JS

http://www.cannonjs.org/

• ReactPhysics3d

https://www.reactphysics3d.com/

• OpenCV

https://opencv.org/

• Tensorflow

https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/object_detection

• Blender (Free)

https://www.blender.org/

• Maya ($$$)

https://www.autodesk.com/products/maya/overview

• 3d Studio Max ($1500 per year)

https://developers.google.com/ar/

Sketchfab - 3d Models ($)

• https://sketchfab.com/

Free3d - 3d Models (mostly free)

• https://free3d.com/

Unity assets store - much more than models

• https://assetstore.unity.com/

Unreal assets store - much more than models

• https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/store