UFO project overview

Explore the Unity project

Begin the AR port

Selecting an orientation for your AR game

Enable the play area

Develop the AR UFO movement

Develop the AR UFO abduction action

Other AR considerations

Design your own AR app

In this Mission, you’ll port an existing desktop game to mobile and redesign it to be a fully functioning (and fun!) AR experience.

Research future AR use cases to prepare for developing new kinds of applications

Evaluate platform capabilities and limitations in order to determine whether or not a given feature will work

Absolute Beginner AR Design

Absolute Beginner AR Development

Optimize assets and application to meet mobile performance standards

Beginner Mobile Optimization

Create basic application interactions with Visual Scripting

Absolute Beginner Visual Scripting

In this learning experience, you’ll port an existing desktop game to mobile and redesign it to be a fully functioning (and fun!) AR experience. You’ll conduct research, create a design document, modify visual scripts, and regularly playtest your app. At the conclusion of this project, you’ll also design and create your own fully realized AR application.

AR experience design

Mobile AR Development

Mobile AR Development - Unity Learn

Ready to create AR experiences? In this learning pathway, you’ll develop AR apps compatible with iOS and Android devices!

Evaluate platform capabilities and limitations in order to determine whether or not a given feature will work.

Develop AR experiences that use trackable targets in the environment

Welcome to AR Development! In this learning Pathway, you'll create Augmented Reality (AR) applications that are compatible with iOS and Android devices. You’ll use Visual Scripting and Unity’s AR tools to develop a wide variety of engaging AR experiences. This pathway assumes a basic knowledge of Unity.

Welcome to AR Development

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Configure your AR development environment

Deploy your project to iOS or Android

Welcome to AR Development Quiz

Get ready for AR development: explore the field, hear from experts, install essential software, set up a Unity project, and deploy a test project to your mobile device.

In these tutorials, you'll get ready for AR development. First, you'll learn about the field of AR and hear from established creators in the AR industry. Next, you'll download all required software to get started and configure a Unity project for AR development. Finally, you'll deploy a test project to your mobile device to make sure everything is working as it should.

Get started with AR

Set up a face tracking project

Add a face texture

Add accessories to your filter

Add animations to your filter

Add particle effects to your filter

Add post-processing to your filter

Submission: Ice cream company filter

Learn how to create a custom face filter app with fun textures, 3D models, particles, and effects. In the challenge, design a themed filter for an ice cream company.

In this mission you'll create your own custom face filter app that includes a wide variety of digital content. The face filter will include interesting textures, animated 3D models, dynamic particles, and post-processing effects. You'll also complete a challenge where you design a custom filter for an ice cream shop.

Create a basic face filter

Build a new scene with glasses

Set up the UI

Create a visual script to detect a button press

Turn on the glasses with buttons

Update your graph to switch between glasses

Configure one color button

Complete the color switching functionality

Save and load the glasses

Submission: Ocean-themed face filter

Create with AR: Face Filters Quiz

Expand on what you’ve learned with filters that add interactive elements. You’ll create an app for customizing and trying on glasses, then an ocean-themed face filter.

Now that you’ve created a basic face filter, you’re ready to develop your skills and work on a filter that involves interactivity. In this project, you will create your own interactive app that allows a user to select, customize, and visualize different pairs of glasses on their face.You will also complete a challenge where you design an interactive underwater scuba filter for an aquarium.

Create an interactive face filter

Create a new project for marker-based AR

Spawn an object on an AR Marker

Add a UI with rotation buttons

Add world space UI to your marker-based app 

Add spatial audio to your marker-based app

Submission: Bring art to life with AR

Add world space UI to your marker-based app

Learn to create marker-based AR apps, which make digital models appear over marker images in the real world. In the challenge, you’ll breathe life into a 2D work of art.

 app is an application that can recognize images (called markers) in the real world and then make content appear in the app. You may have seen applications that use this kind of technology to make AR content for movie posters, product labels, card games, and even business cards.

In this project, you’ll make a marker-based app with a user interface that lets the user control a 3D model, text, and audio.

Create a marker-based AR app

Set up a scene with plane detection

Detect the user’s touch

Detect when the user touches a plane

Instantiate the portal on a plane

Test the frame rate of the portal world

Limit the visibility of the portal world

Submission: AR friend

Create with AR: markers and planes Quiz

Make an app that detects flat surfaces and allows the user to spawn a portal on their floor or wall. Then complete a challenge to create an interactive character app.

In this project, you’ll create an AR app that makes use of plane detection technology. iOS and Android devices have the ability to detect flat surfaces — or planes — in your physical environment. This includes horizontal planes like the floor or a table, and vertical planes like the walls. 

You will create an app where the user will be able to tap on a plane in order to place a portal onto it. This portal will be a window into a virtual 3D environment that the user can peer into and explore. 

You will also complete a challenge where you design an app that allows the user to place a character on a table and interact with it.

Create a plane detection AR app

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Overview

Project brief

Reduce your scope

Submit your work

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Diseño de AR para novatos

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Desarrollo de AR para novatos

Visual Scripting para novatos

VIDEO 5 - What makes for a great AR experience.mp4

Throughout this learning experience you created an AR app based on an existing desktop game. While the game itself was already there for you to modify, a great deal of work went into redesigning it so it worked well as an AR application. For your final submission, you’ll put your AR design skills to the test and create a brand new AR application of your own design.

Games

Build AR projects to mobile devices

Evaluar las capacidades y limitaciones de las plataformas para determinar si una característica determinada funcionará o no.

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 Crear proyectos de AR en dispositivos móviles.

Crear interacciones para aplicaciones básicas con Visual Scripting

Congratulations on completing your AR port! Throughout this pathway, you used your AR design skills to make decisions to successfully convert a traditional desktop game into an AR experience. 

On the surface, converting an existing project into an AR experience may seem like it is easier than designing something from scratch. However, as you learned throughout this pathway, a great deal of work goes into trying to solve problems that are simple on one platform but complicated on another. The format of AR is completely unique, and designers are still exploring what makes for the best AR experiences today. 

For your final submission, you’ll design an application of your own from scratch.

Before you begin the planning stages of your own AR app, take a moment to gain some insights from a few experienced AR creators as they discuss what they feel makes for a great AR experience.

Unlike other submissions and challenges within this pathway, we aren’t assigning any specific requirements for your application, other than the app must use AR in some way. Whether you want to make a game, a filter, a fun scene effect or something entirely different, it’s completely up to you!

Trying to design a brand new application from scratch can feel overwhelming, and you might struggle to come up with a single idea. Alternatively, you might find that you have too many ideas or want to try and put too many features into a single app. Both of these experiences are very normal! 

If you aren’t sure where to start, reflect on your experience with the pathway so far: 

What section of the pathway did you enjoy the most? 

What AR features held the most potential in your opinion? 

Why do you think that AR features are so fun? 

Once you’ve determined the answer to these questions for yourself, consider what you might make if you decided to use those features as your framework. If you have too many ideas and don’t know where to start, choose the easiest one on your list. This approach might seem boring, but consider it in a different way: if the project is easy, you can complete it quickly and move on to another one!

The most important aspect of designing a new project is having a very clear idea of what your application will be before you even start developing in Unity. To aid in this process, we’ve created a design document template for you to fill out as you come up with your application concept. Follow the prompts in each section of the template to complete your idea. Remember, be as thorough as possible!

As you work through the process of creating your app concept and would like further guidance on the early development process, consider checking out Creative Core: Prototyping. In this project, you’ll learn how to identify the core features of your application, how to scope your project, and how to prototype effectively.

One of the most common issues you might face when developing any kind of project is trying to include too many features or functionalities that expand the scope of your project. This situation is so common that there’s a specific term for it: feature creep. Feature creep (sometimes also called scope creep) can occur in projects being developed by any creator, whether they’re new or highly experienced. 

Feature creep is part of the reason why fully documenting your project before development is so important. It’s much easier to understand the true scope of a project when you have the details recorded in one document rather than keeping all of these details in your thoughts. Your dungeon explorer game seems simple enough in your imagination, but once you realize that in order to complete your goal you need 20 pages worth of assets, you may change your opinion about the amount of work needed!

Even a simple project is likely to suffer from feature creep. As you design your application, try to stick to creating only core functionality: the content that truly makes the application work. Save your nice-to-have features for another time. Remember, once an application is complete, you can always add new features!

Review your design document for scope creep

Once you’ve gone through the process of creating and completing your design document, review your work as objectively as possible. If you were told that you had to reduce your application by 50 percent, what would you cut that would still allow you to maintain the original vision of your concept? You may have to adjust a few things, but if the core of your application is able to remain the same, you’re going in the right direction. 

Repeat this thought process until you run out of content that can be cut without breaking the app, and you will be left with your true core functionality. At that stage, ask yourself: do you actually need any of the content you cut? How would that content improve the experience for the user? 

While this process isn’t required, we highly recommend you try it before you enter production. Cutting content from your concept can be extremely uncomfortable for new designers, but it often leads to a tighter, more fully realized experience. Again, you don’t need to throw these ideas away! At the end of the design document template, there is a section titled Stretch goals. Place all of your non-core concepts here for safekeeping and pull them back into the design document when you’re able to incorporate them after the core design is complete.

After you’ve created your app, please submit and share your project! Before you do though, make sure you’ve thoroughly tested it — or even better, ask a friend or family member to test it too.

Follow these instructions to submit your project: 

1.  Record a video of your app in action. Be sure to capture the entire experience from start to finish.

2.  Add a submission title and description. 

Make sure to include the video recording. If you have additional details to share about your process or the project that you have created, you can share them in the description too.

3.  Upload your completed design document.

5.  Check your submission preview, complete the CAPTCHA test, and select Submit and continue. 

We highly recommend that you comment on at least one other creator's submission. Did they successfully complete the challenge? What do you like about the project? What would be a cool new feature they might consider adding?

Design your own AR app

1. Overview

2. Project brief

3. Reduce your scope

4. Submit your work

Your submission preview

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