In this tutorial, we’ll configure Unity for AR development targeting iOS or Android.

Set up Unity to enable the use of virtual reality.

In this recorded live training session, Unity VR evangelist Dan Miller shows how to author great VR experiences using the assets from the VR Essentials Pack including: Final IK, VR Panorama 360 and Curved UI.

What is XR? It’s shorthand for a related set of new technologies that are changing the way we interact with the world and with each other: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. To understand XR, you need to understand the technologies that enable it. If you understand the available technologies, how they are used, and what their future holds, you’ll be well equipped to deal with XR as it rapidly evolves and converges. In this course, we will present an introduction to XR using a broadly chronological approach, focusing on how all of the underlying technologies came together at key moments in the history of XR to launch the concepts of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality into the mainstream consciousness. Throughout the course, we’ll give a brief description of each of the supporting technologies, some history about when it first came into use, limitations and future potential for improvement, and how it’s used for AR, VR, and MR. As you learn about the technology, you’ll also develop hands on experience in the field along two tracks. First, you will use Unity to build and run two simple XR applications on your own smartphone: a “VR Museum” app and a handheld Augmented Reality app. Second, you will brainstorm, define, visualize, and iterate your own original concept for an XR application, ending the course with a thorough and peer-reviewed XR Product Brief that you could use as the basis for future development. This is the first of three planned courses in Unity's XR Specialization, which include the Mobile VR App Development with Unity course as well as a future course focused on developing Augmented Reality (AR) applications with Unity.

The Unity Native Toolkit, available in the Asset Store, “makes it easy to integrate native iOS or Android functionality into your Unity project.” In this tutorial, we’ll use the Native Toolkit to create a UI button for taking photographs in AR, or screenshots in general. (You can also capture a screenshot using code, for example, with an in-game camera.)

A Snap Zone (or "Snap Drop Zone") is a designated area where you can place an object near it, illuminating a shape to indicate you can place it there. Upon releasing the held object, it will "snap" into place. This is handy for guiding the player on where certain objects should be placed, and also allows us to only allow certain objects to be dropped in the Snap Zone.

For those new to creating virtual reality in Unity, this project utilizes a popular free plugin called VRTK to create a "Jump Start Your Car Battery" app prototype that focuses on getting started quickly, with minimal or no development experience.

This guide will describe the optimal hierarchy setup for XR projects in Unity.

There are a few tools we must set up before developing Unity applications for either iOS or Android devices. If developing for iOS, this involves setting up Xcode (Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE)) on your development machine. Xcode is required to deploy our Unity builds onto our iOS devices.

In this project you will work through a series of challenges to setup the Post-Processing stack. You will learn how to apply effects to the camera and scene, create a reusable set of effects, and understand the impact Post-Processing has in VR.