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Hello everyone,

My background: I am 21 "Computer Science" (in quotation mark, because in my country we have a different name for it) student, and 2+ years front-end developer freelancer (JavaScript, Shopify, react...), that wants to get into augmented reality.

But unfortunately, I find it pretty hard, for someone coming from the web dev field (where there are more tutorials than js frameworks :D ) to find any decent tutorial that goes deep into Augmented reality.

I have gone on and found mostly Unity tutorials, but there are not that deep into how to do what. I have checked official unity tutorials from "unity learn", and I have also checked the courses on udemy, edx.org, and youtube. Free code camp recently published an augmented reality tutorial on youtube which is 12 hours long but the problem is that the teacher is using Indian, and since I am not a native English speaker I find it pretty hard to understand what he is saying.

I tried working with unity, and I like unity most of the time (kinda hard to get used to GUI and 3D world hahaha), but even basic apps made with unity take so much space (+500Mb) which is a lot of, of and they are a bit laggy. I tried web AR but to be honest, it has a long way to go, apps are really slow, there are a lot of mini bugs (i tried working with AR.js, minar.js, and also with webXR), and support is not that great. I am also interested in learning flutter and maybe going with that option since it can be used but there are again not that many tutorials.

I have found out that maybe the best way to build an AR app is to go, Native, and build one app for Android (ARkit), and the other for IOS (ARcore), but that means that I will have to learn two different languages.

Sorry if the text above was a bit hard to understand, my question is what is your suggestion for someone who is starting in AR development, where can I find resources to learn, and what technology should you recommend me to start with (Unity, flutter, android, apple), and also does this field have any future, because judging from the number of tutorials, it almost seems like everyone just moved on.