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.

Create basic application interactions with Visual Scripting

Absolute Beginner Visual Scripting

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

Develop AR experiences that use trackable targets in the environment

Absolute Beginner AR Development

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

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!

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.

Beginner Mobile Optimization

 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

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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.

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

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In this quiz, you'll check your understanding of the basics of AR development involving AR markers and AR detection planes.

Create a plane detection AR app 

By the end of this mission, you’ll be able to:

Develop AR apps that implement AR markers and detection planes.

Build and test AR projects on mobile devices. 

You’re creating a marker-based AR Museum app that will show specific objects at life size in the user’s environment. 

One of the art pieces is a sculpture that has a real world height of 2 meters. How many Unity units tall should the 3D object be? Select one answer.

You’re creating a marker-based AR Museum app that will show specific objects at life size in the user’s environment.  One of the art pieces is a sculpture that has a real world height of 2 meters. How many Unity units tall should the 3D object be? Select one answer.  

That’s correct. One Unity unit is equal to one real world meter, so the 3D statue mesh should be two Unity units tall.

Try again. Each Unity unit is equivalent to a specific real-world measurement.

What are the features of a good AR marker? Select all answers that apply.

That’s correct! A good AR marker will have high contrast and include several unique feature points in the image so the device can quickly recognize it. 

Poor AR markers use imagery that is likely to be featured often (such as a company’s brand) and repeated patterns like checkerboards. The more complex and unique the marker is, the faster the device will be able to recognize it.

Try again. A good AR marker is easy to recognise by the device because it is visually distinct from other things that might exist in the environment.

Which asset is used to store references to image markers? Select one answer.

That’s correct! The XR Reference Image Library is used as a reference for all AR Markers in your project. It’s applied to the AR Tracked Image Manager on the XR Origin (AR Rig), and when an image from it is identified, the Tracked Image Prefab will be instantiated.

Try again. All of the listed components play a role in rendering an AR object on a marker, but only one is used to store references to the images themselves.

You’ve created an AR Marker on a coaster for a local cafe’s app. When a user looks at the coster through the app, the coffee of the week is projected on the coaster. Everything works perfectly when the coaster is placed on the table. 

What will happen if a customer scans the coster while holding it vertically? Select one answer.

You’ve created an AR Marker on a coaster for a local cafe’s app. When a user looks at the coster through the app, the coffee of the week is projected on the coaster. Everything works perfectly when the coaster is placed on the table.  What will happen if a customer scans the coster while holding it vertically? Select one answer.  

The coffee will still appear to be sitting on the surface of the coaster, and will also be horizontally rotated.

The coffee will appear on the table, where the coaster would have been if the customer hadn’t moved it.

The coffee will rotate so that it’s still oriented correctly and will appear to float in front of the coaster.

The coffee will not appear at all — the marker must be in the correct orientation.

That’s correct! The 3D object will always appear on top of an AR marker in the same orientation, regardless of the position of the marker itself. 

Try again. There is a consistent link between the AR marker and the 3D object that will not dynamically change without programming.

What are the unique benefits of a Worldspace UI versus Screen Space UI for AR apps? Select one answer.

Worldspace UI can be used to generate AR meshes.

Worldspace UI will always remain in a set position within a camera view.

Worldspace UI can exist anywhere in 3D space and can be added to a group with a 3D model.

Worldspace UI can be interactively enabled and disabled via code.

That’s correct! Unlike Screen Space UI, which is bound to the camera, Worldspace UI is able to exist in 3D space much like any other GameObject in Unity. 

Try again. UI components share virtually all capabilities except for one specific feature. 

Which component manages the detection of surfaces that you can project AR planes onto? Select one answer.

That’s correct! The AR Plane Manager component is responsible for detecting and validating surfaces for AR planes. When it finds a valid surface, it will automatically apply an AR plane.

Try again. All listed components work together to complete the process of adding an AR plane in the environment, but one specific component detects and validates surfaces.

You are creating an app where users can tap to place objects on projected AR planes. What component detects whether or not the user has tapped on a valid plane? Select one answer.

That’s correct! An AR Raycast component will return true or false depending on if the user has touched a part of their screen that contains an AR Plane.

Try again. Where the user has touched the screen and the AR plane itself play an important role, but a specific component detects what the user has touched.

How do you remove existing AR Planes and prevent any others from generating in a scene? Select all answers that apply.

That’s correct! Disabling Trackables will remove all existing AR planes from the scene and disabling the AR Plane manager will prevent any more from generating.

Try again. Two separate components need to be disabled.

Where can you add new API libraries to Visual Scripting? Select one answer.

In the Visual Scripting Type Options in Project Settings

In the Visual Scripting Node Library in Project Settings

In the Package Manager Visual Scripting options

That’s correct! Additional API libraries can be added to the Visual Scripting editor by including them in the Node Library.

Try again: Not all Unity APIs are included in the Visual Scripting editor by default, and there is a dedicated area to add them.

What is the minimum frame rate you should target on a mobile device? Select one answer.

That’s correct! The higher the frame rate, the better the experience for users. A minimum of 30 frames per second will ensure that your app won’t appear to be lagging.

Try again. While it’s true that the higher the frame rate your app has the better, there’s a specific target of frames per second that will make sure that your app runs smoothly.

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