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

Set up the UI

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.

Develop AR experiences that use trackable targets in the environment

Absolute Beginner AR Development

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

Absolute Beginner AR Design

Create basic application interactions with Visual Scripting

Absolute Beginner Visual Scripting

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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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In this quiz, you will check your understanding of the basics of AR development involving facial tracking.

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

Develop AR apps that implement face detection.

What is the purpose of the AR Session Origin GameObject? 

What is the purpose of the AR Session Origin GameObject?  Select one answer.  

The AR Session Origin GameObject represents the main camera of the AR application.

The AR Session Origin GameObject represents the position of the user’s device in both the real world and the Unity scene.

The AR Session Origin GameObject manages the visibility of digital content and how it is overlaid on the physical world.

The AR Session Origin GameObject manages the individual session of the experience, including things like frame rate and communication with the user’s device

Correct. The AR Session Origin GameObject represents the position of the user’s device. When the user moves or rotates in world space, the AR Session GameObject moves accordingly in the Unity scene. Just like your real device has a camera, the AR Session Origin GameObject has the AR Camera GameObject attached to it. 

Try again. The AR Session Origin GameObject works closely with the AR Session GameObject and AR Camera GameObject, but fulfills its own specific tasks.

Where are AR objects added in the Hierarchy when instantiated into a scene?

Where are AR objects added in the Hierarchy when instantiated into a scene? Select one answer.  

AR GameObjects are added as child GameObjects of the AR Camera GameObject.

AR GameObjects are added to the Trackables GameObject.

AR GameObjects are added as child GameObjects of whichever GameObject instantiated the new GameObject.

AR GameObjects are added in the root of the Hierarchy.

Correct. When an app runs, the AR Session Origin GameObject generates a child GameObject named Trackables. Any instantiated AR GameObject is added to this GameObject.

Incorrect. Instantiated AR GameObjects must be added to a specific location in the Hierarchy that will not alter the GameObject’s positions without explicit instruction.

Which of the following statements about publishing to different platforms are correct? 

Which of the following statements about publishing to different platforms are correct?  Select all answers that apply.   

iOS apps can only be published to iOS mobile devices using a computer with Mac operating software.

Android devices must be put in developer mode before they are used to test Unity builds.

iOS and Android builds require different AR Foundation components in the scene.

Correct. Apple requires a Mac to publish iOS apps, and Android devices must be set to developer mode in order to run applications not downloaded from the Google Play Store.

Try again. Apple and Google have very specific requirements for publishing to their platforms, but AR Foundation bridges many of the technical gaps when creating AR experiences.

Which component manages the detection of a user’s face?  

Which component manages the detection of a user’s face?   Select one answer.  

Correct. The AR Face Manager component detects whether a user’s face is within the view of the AR Camera and instantiates an AR Face if so.

Try again. Several components are involved in the process of running an app using AR Face filter, but only one specifically detects whether a face is visible and what to do in response to it.

Which component is responsible for matching a user’s face position and rotation? 

Which component is responsible for matching a user’s face position and rotation?  Select one answer.  

Correct. The AR Face component tracks the position and rotation of the user’s face and matches any attached assets to it.

Try again. Several components are involved in the process of running an app using AR Face filter, but only one manages the specific positional and rotational data of a user’s face.

What is a Script Machine?  Select one answer.  

A Script Machine is an empty GameObject in the Hierarchy used to organize script graphs.

A Script Machine is a collection of connected visual scripting nodes.

A Script Machine is the component that runs visual script graphs.

A Script Machine is a special script graph that can be referenced by other graphs.

That’s correct. A Script Machine component runs attached script graphs as soon as the app runs. You can also include extra information about the graph using the Title and Summary properties in the Script Machine component.

Try again. A Script Machine performs a very specific task in relation to other visual script components.

Which of the following nodes are responsible for making a script graph run? 

Which of the following nodes are responsible for making a script graph run?  Select all answers that apply.   

Correct. On Update and On Button Click will initialize the flow of a script graph. Set Enabled and Debug Log perform tasks, but cannot run without an event node.

Try again. Specific nodes initialize script graphs, while other nodes simply wait to be called before they can perform their tasks.

Where do you create new variables for use in a visual script? 

Where do you create new variables for use in a visual script?  Select one answer.  

Correct. Variables are created on the Blackboard and then can be dragged into the Graph Editor for use in graphs.

Try again. You cannot create new variables directly in a script graph or the Graph Inspector.

What are variables used for in visual scripting? 

What are variables used for in visual scripting?  Select all answers that apply.   

Variables are used for calling custom graphs from other Script Machines.

Variables are used for running script graphs.

Variables are used for storing data references.

Correct. Variables are containers for different kinds of data. That data can be numbers, GameObjects, sounds — virtually anything. Variables can be generated within a graph itself, or serve as references to other GameObjects in an application.

Try again. Variables serve a variety of functions but all focus on data.

In an AR Filter app, when will an AR Face GameObject be instantiated into a scene?

In an AR Filter app, when will an AR Face GameObject be instantiated into a scene? Select one answer.  

An AR Face GameObject will be instantiated as soon as the user begins interacting with the app in some way.

An AR Face GameObject will be instantiated whenever the code managing the instantiation is called in the app, such as when the user selects a button.

An AR Face GameObject will be instantiated when the AR Face Manager component detects a face in the AR Camera GameObject’s view.

An AR Face GameObject will be instantiated as soon as the app loads and the AR Camera GameObject becomes active.

Correct. As soon as a face is detected, the AR Face Manager component will instantiate whatever prefab is assigned to the Face Prefab property.

Try again. Instantiating an AR Face GameObject into the scene is an automated process but relies on specific factors.

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