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.

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Welcome to AR Development

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

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

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.

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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Overview

Project brief: AR friend

Requirements

Additional submission guidance

Submit your work

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In this challenge, you'll follow a project brief to create an interactive AR character that you can place on a tabletop.

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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.

Desarrollar experiencias de AR con objetivos que se puedan rastrear en el entorno.

Crear interacciones para aplicaciones básicas con Visual Scripting

Create a plane detection AR app 

An entertainment company is exploring the possibility of launching their latest television series with a companion AR app that fans can use to interact with characters from the show. The show features a sidekick that accompanies the main character on their journey, and the company hopes that this sidekick character will become a fan favorite and mascot for the show. 

The company was inspired by the experiences found in the following apps:

The company would like the app to have an AR version of the character for users to place in their homes. You’ve been tasked with creating a simple proof of concept for this AR experience. 

The experience should begin by prompting the user to scan a horizontal surface. Once the app finds a valid plane, the character should automatically appear. The character should perform some sort of idle action and a separate action in response to user interaction. 

The company suggested a few ideas as a starting point, but made it clear that you can come up with your own unique concepts as well.

When not being interacted with, the character could do the following things:

When the user interacts with it, the character could do the following things:

Go to a place the user taps on the plane (more complex)

Below is an example of the type of project you might make to fulfill these requirements, though yours could be completely different. In this example, the witch from the Practical Game Accessibility assets spawns on your desk and randomly speaks to you, including triggering a talking animation. When you press the Explode button, the flask in the witch’s hand emits a particle effect. There are additional optional features shown in this example, including the reset button and a particle that accompanies the spawning action. 

Also notice in the example above that there is a small shadow underneath the character. This subtle effect can make your AR objects feel much more grounded in the environment.

The TV show is currently in pre-production, so the model for the companion character isn’t available yet. The company has stated that you can use any kind of character model for the proof of concept. The company only requires that you can demonstrate the placement of the character in a user’s environment and an engaging example interaction.

To successfully complete this challenge, you must meet the following requirements: 

The user must be prompted with text to scan their environment as soon as the app starts.

The pet must appear automatically as soon as a valid plane is detected.

The pet must perform at least one kind of action while the user isn’t directly interacting with it.

The pet must perform at least one kind of action when the user taps on it.

Here are some key things to consider as you work on your submission:

You’re free to reuse and modify any assets you used in this course in any way you like. You can also add extra assets of your own design or from resource sites such as the Unity Asset Store or Sketchfab. 

Important: Make sure that you use any third-party assets in accordance with the license provided by the asset creator.

How will your users select the filter features? Design any UI elements that you wish to use and implement them in Unity. You can use the UI button prefab from the previous marker project as a starting point or design your own. 

If you need further resources on how to create user interfaces in Unity, Creative Core: UI is a great place to start.

Create the graphs that you need to make your app work. Remember to make separate graphs for each major part of the functionality to keep things organized and easy to understand. You can reuse and modify all of the graphs that you created in the previous project or design your own. 

If you need further resources on working with Visual Scripting, try our Introduction to Visual Scripting.


After you’ve fulfilled the requirements, 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.  Take a screenshot of your project or take a screen-recording of your AR friend.

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.

5.  Check your submission preview and then 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?

Submission: AR friend

1. Overview

2. Project brief: AR friend

3. Requirements

4. Additional submission guidance

5. Submit your work

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