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Transitioning from AR to VR

By Kalisser on Tue, 03/19/2019 - 21:04

Hello, I am currently creating an app for Android based on the "AR / VR sample". I want to evaluate different transitions between AR and VR. In the sample fade-to-black-transition is implemented.

On the page

https://library.vuforia.com/articles/Best_Practices/Best-practices-for-hybrid-VRAR-experiences

it is already suggested that you can use a cross-fade between AR and VR or scaling. 

There is already the hint: Fade the AR video background to transparent while you fade the VR scene to opaque, and vice versa when transitioning from VR to AR.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to implement it. Can someone help me? 

Thanks

Lukas

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Wed, 03/20/2019 - 12:22

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Hi Lukas,

you'd need to access the video background material/shader and change the alpha channel's value to 0 over a defined period of time, thus creating the "fade" effect.