Powering next-generation HMI experiences
Accelerate your HMI workflow with Unity’s high-performance solutions. Create stunning, interactive experiences for in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), meters (gauge clusters), and additional screens. Learn about our free template to see what’s possible with Unity for HMI.
Benefits of Unity for HMI
Seamless end-to-end workflow
Unity provides tools from prototype to production. Integrate Unity into your design workflows early, importing textures, fonts, meshes, and animations to create a prototype that everyone involved can access. Enable collaboration between design and engineering with straightforward creation workflows. Test and deploy your project to custom hardware.
Real-time rendering
Use real-time 3D visualization to iterate faster, reduce production time, and enable effortless collaboration during HMI design and review. Deploy your projects directly to your embedded target without the need to recreate the HMI multiple times in process.
Performant and scalable graphics
Get exceptional visual quality and performance with the Universal Render Pipeline. This powerful rendering solution offers a full suite of artist tools for content creation, user interace design and it’s the optimal choice for deploying to all Unity-supported platforms.
““Unity offers an incredible advantage to designers by allowing them to develop an interactive HMI for a target system, and then experience the near-final output and actual performance long before deployment." ”
Florian Gulden - icon incar
Founder
Toyota: Enhancing the in-car experience
Toyota brings Unity’s technology into their HMI development pipeline, improving efficiency across all stages of design and engineering by minimizing rework, optimizing development processes, streamlining data management, and delivering a stable, high-performance GUI experience to consumers.
Mercedes-Benz AG: Building next-generation car experiences
Learn how Mercedes-Benz AG partnered with Unity in their mission to elevate in-car automotive experiences. Follow their journey, see what they’ve achieved and what’s next.
Icon Group: Creating next-gen HMI
Watch Icon Group demonstrate how they’re using immersive technology to bridge hardware and software to create the next generation of human machine interfaces (HMIs) for cars, intelligent toys, home appliances, and beyond.
TomTom: Gaming techniques for automotive maps
See how TomTom uses real-time 3D technology in the development and deployment of cutting-edge HMI for faster testing and design, customization and to bring maps to life.
Credit: Mercedes-Benz Group Media
Annual Unity Awards: Best Embedded System Project
The Annual Unity Awards celebrate the creative and technical excellence of the Unity community. They recognize the people and teams who are creating experiences that have real business impact, and set a new standard of excellence.
Check out the most recent winner, and nominees, for the 16th Unity Awards category: "Industry: Best Embedded System Project"
Platforms and partners
We offer platform licensing to establish and maintain support for your preferred target, including popular system-on-chip (SoC) and operating systems (OS). We also work with a range of partners. If you're interested in becoming a partner, you can join our Industry Partner Program.
SUPPORTED HMI HARDWARE
SUPPORTED HMI OPERATING SYSTEMS (OS)
HMI PARTNERS
MAPPING SOLUTIONS: INTEGRATE LIVE MAPS WITH UNITY
Related products and services
Unity Industry
Build custom real-time 3D experiences with Unity Industry, a suite of products and support services for developers, artists, and engineers.
Embedded platform support
- Embedded support is recommended for defined configurations of production embedded systems
- Combine any of these with general success plans for Unity Editor and Engine
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Check out our documentation for Embedded Systems. Contact your account manager or the Unity Sales team for access.
Yes, our embedded runtimes for Linux and QNX support a wide range of ARM-based processors. Please contact your account manager or the Unity Sales team to learn more about support for the specific chipset you’re interested in.
The Unity Editor and Unity Runtime continuously evolve, taking industry requirements into account, including embedded HMI. You can use the HMI roadmap to see what’s under consideration, provide feedback, and submit new ideas.
For prototyping or production, you can use quality art and tools from the Unity Asset Store to save critical time and effort.
Unity Discussions is a place to have discussions about automotive HMI and other embedded applications based on Unity.
You can begin to create next-gen HMI design and development with Unity Industry. For inspiration, download our free Automotive HMI Template to see what’s possible with Unity for HMI.