ViroReact

In this blog post, we will talk though not about how to embed Unity content into our React Native app, which is also possible, but develop simple AR experiences using React components. And we will do so with a framework called ViroReact.

We'll take a brief look at what AR is and how it works, and then take a deep dive into Viro and everything it provides to get you moving rapidly with AR development. We'll focus on a few very interesting pieces that Viro provides, such as 3D models, portals, image recognition, and real life object recognition.

The aim of Talk is to inspire attendees to create immersive, lag free cross-platform content using ViroReact. The talk tries to optimize the complex pathway to learn AR/VR into a linear one by laying the foundation of basic principles of AR/VR UIs and Illusions(Plausibility, Place & Embodiment).

In this talk, I will quickly go over how to get up and running with the framework and demo an app that allows user to upload images from the conference into a virtual room, as well as walk around and interact with them in Augmented Reality.