Tutorials

Use the following tutorials to get step-by-step instructions for adding ARDK features to your AR experience. Before trying these tutorials you should make sure you have your development environment set up, as described in Getting Started With ARDK.

Step-by-Step Tutorials

Beginner Tutorial: Basic Placement

Learn how to use basic AR features to place virtual objects on floors and walls.

Beginner Tutorial: Depth & Occlusions

Learn how to use depth to do basic object occlusions.

Beginner Tutorial: Querying Semantics

Learn how to do basic inspections of the semantic buffer to determine what types of objects the user can see.

Beginner Tutorial: Using Visual Studio

Learn to use Virtual Studio, a tool that allows you to test what you are developing without deploying the app to a device.

Beginner Tutorial: Semantic Texture Using CopyToAligned

Learn how to access the semantic texture using the CopyToAligned API.

Beginner Tutorial: Meshing Getting Started

Learn how to add meshing to your AR experience.

Intermediate Tutorial: Depth Textures

Learn how to extract the depth buffer into a texture and then overlay the texture on the screen using a full screen shader.

Intermediate Tutorial: Meshing & Collisions

Learn how to use meshing and collide objects with the generated mesh.

Intermediate Tutorial: Semantic Segmentation Textures

Learn how to extract masks from the segmentation system and use these to overlay simple effects on the detected objects in the scene, like changing the color or pattern of the sky.

Intermediate Tutorial: Shared AR Session & Plane Tracking

Enable users to create objects and share them in their spaces in real time with shared AR and plane detection.

Intermediate Tutorial: Shared AR Host & Peers

Enable multiple users to drive AR cars within a single, shared session.

Intermediate Tutorial: Meshing Garden Chunks

Use generated meshes to create an AR garden.

Intermediate Tutorial: Scanning for VPS

Everything you need to know about scanning a location to create or improve VPS-activated Wayposts for Lightship VPS by generating and contributing scans.