Research at Unity
Collaborating with Institutions
We engage in academic collaborations across numerous research areas including: game design, advanced graphics rendering and authoring, XR, ML, AI, robotics, and monetization engineering.
Faculty & Students
We offer PhD Internships, Postdoc Grants, and Visiting Faculty Residency Programs.
Featured research collaborations
3d object representation research
Unity partnered with Professor Ken Perlin and New York University’s Future Reality Lab to advance research in 3d object representation.
Human pose representation research
Unity partnered with Professor Mark Coates and McGill University to research multimodal learning of human pose representation for conditional motion synthesis.
Virtual economy research
Unity partnered with Anders Drachen, Professor of Computer Science and Digital Games and David Zendle, Professors of Computer Science at the University of York in the UK, to research and describe how players spend resources (temporal, social, and financial) across and within games.
"McGill and University of Montreal are home to brilliant students and visionary professors contributing to advancing cutting edge AI research. We are excited to join forces with them in collaborative open research projects with the end goal to design AI tools for our users. We are committed to bringing the latest AI advances directly in the hands of our users enabling them to create high quality artistic content in a faster, better and smarter way."
"I am excited to be able to collaborate with NYU which has a long history of high-impact research in the areas of computer graphics and machine learning. Working with Ken Perlin and his research team will enable Unity to experiment with novel generative 3D techniques that leverage both procedural methods and machine learning. The goal is to create new foundational generative primitives that can be used in content authoring."
Research papers
Fully Connected Gated Graph Architecture...
In this paper, the authors we propose a novel learning architecture that achieves performance competitive with or better than the best existing algorithms, without requiring knowledge of the graph. The code is available here.
Fast and Deep Facial Deformations
In this paper, we present a method using convolutional neural networks for approximating the mesh deformations of characters’ faces.
Learn how Google’s Poly works with Unity EditorXR
With our launch of Poly for Unity EditorXR and Google’s new Poly Toolkit for Unity, you can now import Poly models directly into your VR project. Get ready to explore thousands of 3D assets on Google...
Call for Research Proposals
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Novel View Synthesis Research
Novel view synthesis and extracting canonical meshes and materials from implicit ML representations.
Visiting Faculty: ML Artistry
Unity Labs is seeking experienced faculty members with expertise in computer vision, graphics, and machine learning.
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How we live our values
Empathy is about listening to understand instead of listening to respond. Respect is acknowledging individual experiences and perspectives. Opportunity is being able to lead, grow, and take on projects in a fair and equitable way.
Our impact
We are the world’s leading platform for creating and operating interactive, real-time 3D (RT3D) content. We empower creators, across industries and around the world. More than 50% of mobile games are made with Unity, with apps made with Unity downloaded over 3 billion times a month.