Bluetooth LE (Beacon) to trigger the contents in AR app

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It is possible, in an augmented reality application with Vuforia use in simultaneous markers (image targets) and Bluetooth LE (Beacon) to trigger the contents?

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Answer by anildas · May 08, 2016 at 01:05 PM

Yes it is possible. But since Unity doesn't support Bluetooth access by default, you have to create a native Android app which acts as a bridge between the native Bluetooth API and your unity App.

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nmachado · May 08, 2016 at 11:44 PM 0

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I bought in the "asset store" the asset "Bluetooth LE for iOS and Android " which I already have succeeded in putting to recognize the beacons for a particular mac address . However I am not able to make that should trigger the contents of the increased Vuforia reality. Can you help ?

PS: excuse my bad English

anildas nmachado · May 09, 2016 at 10:53 AM 1

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@nmachado, What do you exactly mean by increased vuforia reality? Can you provide some more clarity.

nmachado anildas · May 09, 2016 at 12:19 PM 0

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Sorry, I meant Augmented Reality.

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anildas · May 10, 2016 at 05:10 AM 1

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@nmachado, Any Bluetooth LE device, (A beacon for instance) will only give you an approximate distance from the device based on the signal strength. You will not be able to use them as precisely as an Vuforia image target. For achieving more accuracy, you can combine the values from multiple beacons placed in all side of the room. And thus finding position of the device with increased accuracy. But you won't be able to use a beacon as an image target unless you stick an image target on top of the beacon

nmachado anildas · May 10, 2016 at 09:58 AM 0

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Thank you anildas

zyonneo anildas · Jul 28, 2018 at 10:47 AM 0

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@anildas Hi,I am trying to do a project with the help of beacons.I am stuck at this point since I dont know how to connect to a android or IOS device using unity and get info about beacons.I know there are plugins available.How to create a plugin to get data from beacons.I do not know Java or IOS.All I know is Unity and Csharp.

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