This course, the second in a four-part series, teaches you about lighting and physics in AR application development in Unity. First, instructor Parth Anand explains how to set up a simple AR scene and how to detect unique planes in the environment. He teaches you how to place a virtual object on a plane. Next, Parth shows you how to write code to hide plane visualizers and how to reset an augmented reality scene. He goes over the different lightning options available in Unity, covering the light projector, how to add reflections, and how to gauge environmental light properties. Parth shows you how to create light-based shadows and blob shadows. He teaches you about world space, screen space, and how to create a 3D UI. Parth goes over on-screen gestures to scale, rotate, and move virtual objects. He covers how to add physics collisions using colliders and Rigidbody. In conclusion, he steps you through how to create an AR bowling app where the user can launch a ball and hit bowling pins.

Note: The fourth installment in this series will be released in January 2021.

This course, the third in a four-part series, teaches you about image tracking, face tracking, hand tracking, and object recognition in AR application development in Unity. Instructor Parth Anand explains how image tracking works and what kinds of images are suitable for tracking. Next, he discusses how to create a simple image tracking app with just one image. He demonstrates how to create a book recognition and tracking app. Parth covers how object detection works and what kind of objects are suitable for detection. Then he goes into how to create a simple object detection app where the user can scan and overlay virtual content on a real-world object. Next, Parth steps you through how to create an AR glasses try-on app where the user can try different glasses models, change frame colors, and go to the product webpage to buy the glasses. Parth explains how to set up and use the ManoMotion SDK for manipulating virtual 3D objects using grab, pinch, and click hand gestures.

Note: The fourth installment in this series will be released in January 2021.

In the fourth course of a four-part series, instructor Parth Anand introduces advanced techniques in Unity for AR application development, such as raycasting, pulling assets from a remote server, and creating app-less AR. Parth explains what raycasting is and how it works, then steps through how to use raycasting to build an AR balloon shooting game. Parth’s next topic is asset bundles, and he covers the steps you’ll need to follow in order to download some 3D models, apply textures, and set up different actions within your app. Next, he goes into AR Quick Look, which is used to display USDZ files and other 3D formats on iPhones and iPads. In a bonus section, Parth steps through creating a portal app.

Learn how to create AR apps with RealityKit and use Reality Composer, a new app for iOS and Mac that makes it easy to create interactive AR experiences with no prior 3D experience.

Learn more about what AR is and how to approach an AR project for mobile development. Learn how to determine if your project is a good fit, review popular AR tools, and more.

Learn how to conduct analysis and create professional 2D and 3D maps with ArcGIS Pro.

Learn how to use ARCHICAD 23, a tool used by architects in the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry for designing buildings from concept to construction.

Learn how to use Archicad 24, a tool used by architects in the architecture-engineering-construction (AEC) industry for designing buildings from concept to construction.

Learn the essential tools and techniques of ArchiCAD, the award-winning architectural software, and learn how they map to a real-world BIM workflow.

While architectural design requires a good amount of technical know-how, it also requires creativity, clarity, and freedom to explore ideas. If you have some experience with Archicad—or other architectural design tools—and now want to turn your technical skills toward achieving your creative visions, this course from professional architect Robert Mann presents some approaches to Archicad functions and tools tailored to make your building information modeling (BIM) fun and flexible. He shows you how to create a minimalist interface to support design creativity and craft a workflow to maximize modeling efficiency. He gives advice on workflow setup, concept massing and refinement, and design development. If you’re looking to learn how to take your concept sketches and create detailed architectural designs in Archicad, join Robert in this course.

Great architecture is a team effort. Learn how to use ArchiCAD's management and collaboration features to share work on large projects and in large teams.

Learn about use cases and best practices for architecting batch mode applications using big data technologies such as Hive and Apache Spark.

Learn about use cases and best practices for architecting real-time applications using big data technologies, such as Hazelcast and Apache Spark.

We all occupy physical space and whether we realize it or not, our built environment affects us on many levels, from our mood to our health to our productivity and even creativity. If you’re interested in architecture, becoming aware of how space affects you personally is the first step towards building a vocabulary for architectural design. In this course, architect Branka Knezevic illustrates how space can affect your physical and mental state, the bottom lines and operations of companies and institutions, and the cultural and social welfare of the public. Branka uses real-life examples from her own practice Plana Architects to highlight a number of project types, including residential, office, education, healthcare, and retail, and the different design considerations for each. For each building type, she also explains perhaps the most important factor: how the design of these buildings affects the people occupying them.

Architecture defines how we live and work in the world. Designing environments for all people gives an organization the ability to communicate their culture and values in a way that speaks to the idea that "You belong here." In this course, architect Oshoke Abalu outlines her framework for inclusive architectural design, which she calls the Workplace Experience Way, or the WE Way. Each of its four components—the commons, the sanctuary, the neighborhood, and the cocoon—provides a way for architects and companies to define a workplace that provides locations and modalities for everyone in the organization to feel welcomed, valued, and loved. Join Oshoke as she shows how to make the practical and actionable choices to make architectural design more caring, more authentic, and more inclusive.

Refine your Rhino skills. Learn how to create architectural documentation and presentation images—without rendering—that make your designs shine.

Learn how to use Rhino to design a digital file of a building for the physical fabrication of a scale model. This course demonstrates each step of the model-building workflow.

Join photographer and educator Justin Reznick as he photographs some examples of Chicago's spectacular architecture, sharing creative and technical insights along the way.

Follow along with photographer Richard Klein as he demonstrates the best shooting and lighting techniques for photographing buildings.

Follow along with photographer Richard Klein as he shows techniques for lighting and composing photos that make interior spaces look their best.