Preparing the image target

First import the business card image into your project (for example, drag and drop it into your Project Assets folder).

When you installed ARToolkit in Chapter 2, Setting Up Your System, we downloaded the Unity asset package. We also downloaded Additional Unity Tools (as a ZIP file) and installed them in a Programs folder (or Applications folder) or somewhere you can find them now. We are going to use the genTextData program, a command-line tool.

ARToolkit offers several types of targets including images (which they refer to as natural feature tracking, or NFT), and then they have square markers, kind of like QR codes, which are black and white markers that have a significant border around them. For this project, ...

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