Today, I am going to teach you how to create
AR objects using your 360 photos like this:
That is not AR... This is AR! Wow look at
that it is a tiny planet right there in the
middle of a living room. Wow. That is so cool.
Look it is a night time of Brazil right there
Let's go inside. Wow look at that it is day
time of Brazil I am flying in the middle of
highway. Wow Look This is Brazil museum So
cool If I can walk out I getting out of the
sphere Sphere again the Sphere is pretty big
Ohhhh...
Feet. Wow look at that realistic lighting
there is my logo wow they even have a shadow
Hey, what's up everybody, it is your boy Hugh
here from CreatorUp. The #1 YouTube channel
dedicated to immersive filmmaking. AR is hot
right now, thanks to Apple and their new iPads
and iPhones. Most smartphones nowadays have
AR features. And you can impress your friends
if you show them your 360 photos on their
phones in AR. During quarantine, you can send
your friends your latest 360 photos as an
AR object. They can place it in their house
and be teleported into your world without
VR glasses. It is a really nice gift, and
you should do it now before more people learn
this trick.
Before I show you how, the easiest way to
create AR experience is actually using Snapchat
filter as I explained it in detail in this
tutorial. Snapchat is free as well. So def
go check that tutorial out first.
The only problem of the Snapchat AR object
is the resolution. Your 360 photo has to be
very compressed.
So in order to create higher resolution AR
objects, you do need Adobe After Effects and
a third-party plugin called Mantra V2. This
is the first tutorial on Mantra VR and Mantra
V2. If you want to create impressive Visual
Effects and 3D objects inside 360VR videos
- like what you see here with the logo fly
tho, music react tiny planet within 360VR,
and cool VR music video effects like my upcoming
release on Oculus TV, you def need to check
out this plugin. This is the only solution
I know to generate correct stereo disparity
for your 3D object insert without using other
expensive 3D software. Well, except Davinci
Resolve Fusion 16. That tutorial is coming
as well. Don't forget to subscribe and hit
the bell.
Now, let me show you how to create the 360
portal and better use a 360 photo as a texture
for a logo. Open up After Effects, import
the 360 photos, and a logo. You can use any
360 camera to capture 360 photos. Just make
sure your photo is at least 2K in size. For
easy sharing using iMessage or text message,
I will suggest keeping your 360 photos under
4K if you are going to use more than 1 AR
object in your creation. I will also provide
all my 360 photos and assets free to download
if you don't own a 360 camera yet. So you
can follow along.
Drag your photo in the create new composition
icon right here. I am going to create a night
to day 360 portal. I think it looks cool when
people go inside the sphere and have that
initial dramatic impact of lighting. It is
all about wow your clients or your friends.
So drop in my day time 360 photo as well but
turn off the visibility icon right here.
After you install Mantra V2, go to your effects
& presets and search for Mantra Spherify effect
and drop it onto your night time photo. Under
Wrap Layer, choose the night time photo and
Backside Layer choose the day time photo.
If you play with the Progress, you see the
photo turn into a 3D tiny planet - which is
a really cool effect already. In here, we
set the progress to 100% so it is a perfect
sphere.
Turn off your background so we can see the
sphere better.
Toggle open Light and Material. Make sure
turn off Enable Point Light and turn the Specular
all the way down to Zero. So we will not have
a shiny planet. We are trying to keep the
original lighting in the 360 photos and use
actual light later in Apple Reality Composer.
You can even make the sphere 3D by adding
Displacement Mapping. There is some 3D 360
camera can capture displacement map for 3D
application. This is where you can add those.
If not, you can use Luma and the original
layer as a displacement map. If you turn up
the displacement amplitude, you can see the
3D. We are trying to keep it subtle here,
so I am only going to use 5.
Now we are done. For Apple, go ahead use Export
to USDZ. For Adobe Aero, or PC AR, export
to gITF.
If you are creating this AR experience for
clients, it will be nice to place their logo
into the scene as well. And even better, use
the 360 photo as a material to texture their
logos. So let's create that for your Virtual
Tour business. AR 360 in Virtual Tours, yes,
you learn it here first on CreatorUp.
I have a PNG logo right here. Drop it into
the scene. Now create a new solid. Go ahead
and add Mantra Graphix - a different Mantra
Effects to turn any Logo graphic or text into
3D objects without using expensive 3D software.
This is why Mantra is so powerful. It is like
Element 3D but for VR and AR.
In frame layout, choose Retilinear Flat. Projected
Layer, choose our logo. Now go ahead and add
some Extrusion Depth and Bevel Depth to your
taste. Choose Wrap on the Edge UV Mapping.
Now. bring in our daytime 360 photo and hide
it.
Under light, make sure the Enable Point Light
is turned off. Under Material, Texture, we
choose the daytime photo. Turn up the Specular
and Metal to 100% and turn down the Roughness
to 0 - so we give the logo a chrome metal
look - which is really cool in AR.
Now take a step further, we are going to light
the logo using the lighting in your 360 photo.
In Environment Map, choose the day time 360
photo again. Turn off Draw Background and
turn on Enable IBL - image-based lighting.
That is it. Let's export this also as USDZ.
Transfer both USDZ files onto your iPhone
and iPad using iCloud or Google drive.
Here we are on my old iPhone. Apple AR works
better with the new iPad Pro, but it works
as long as you have an iPhone with the latest
iOS installed. If you have an Android phone,
download, and use Torch instead, it is very
similar to Apple Reality Composer.
If you have not already, download the Reality
Composer App on Apple Store. It is 100% free.
Thank you, Apple.
Open it up, create a new project by click
the PLUS icon. Select Horizontal Anchor. Tap
and hold the cube to delete it. Now bring
in our AR objects using the PLUS icon. Position
each AR object as you want. This is not a
Apple Reality Composer tutorial. I will put
the Apple official Tutorial link down in the
description. But it is very easy, so just
follow along. Go ahead and tap the dot dot
do and choose Behaviors. Add whatever behaviors
you want. I choose this one which gives me
a scene start trigger. Hold the other actions
and delete all of them. Not choose Orbit Action.
Choose the Affected Objects as the logo. And
the Center object as the sphere. If you tap
play, you see how the animation is going to
look. Adjust the settings to create the effects
you are going for. There are lots of animation
in here, very powerful, so play around and
be creative. Send me your creations in the
comment session down below. I can't wait to
see what you come up with this new technology.
Now tap the dot dot dot again and from here,
you can export and share this AR experience
to your friends or clients using iMessage,
Dropbox, Google drive or anything you want.
You can also record your experience and share
it on Instagram - which is lots of fun.
Thank you for learning AR with me. I want
to give a big shoutout to Jonathan Winbush
from Winbush media and Charles Yeager from
Mettle. If you want to make more advanced
AR objects using OBJ created with 3D applications
like Cinema4D, 3D MAX or Maya. def go check
out Jonathan Winbush YouTube channel. We also
have a collab series where he teaches you
how to do Motion Graphic within 360VR video.
I put the link right here.
As I said, this is only the first episode
of Mantra V2. I will teach you how to use
it creatively for 3D 360 VR music video like
this. So you can level up your VR production
with motion graphics and Visual Effects.
If you want to grab a copy of Mantra V2, they
provide a nice discount for CreatorUp followers.
I will put the code down in the description.
If you are new here, don't forget to subscribe
and hit the notification bell. Share this
tutorial to your other 360 photographer friends.
Also, check out my Instagram right here to
see some creative usages of AR and VR.
I will see you in the next tutorial.
