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.

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

Virtual reality (VR) is a fast-growing, exciting field with a lot of career opportunities in related disciplines. In this first tutorial, you will learn all about the VR Development pathway, a guided learning experience that prepares you for work in VR development.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use AR Session and AR Session Origin — both part of the Unity AR Foundation package — to place and manipulate objects in AR. If you haven’t installed the AR Foundation and AR package for your chosen mobile platform, please see Configuring Unity for XR Development.

Lean Touch is an asset available in the Unity Asset Store that makes scaling and rotating objects in AR easy. In this tutorial, we’ll apply the Lean Touch script. We assume that you’re starting this tutorial with an open project that places or loads objects into an AR scene.

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.)

There are many times when a user may want to control a video’s playback state (from playing to paused, paused to playing, etc.). To allow this, you need to create a user interface with play and pause buttons.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to optimize VR and AR experiences in Unity

In this tutorial, you will learn how to output the audio from your 360 video. Firstly you will learn how to do it with flat 2D audio, and then you will learn how to use spatialization to improve the audio experience.

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.