Asad J. Malik, our 2018 recipient, is the creator of Terminal 3 an AR documentary exploring Muslim experiences in the U.S.
Creating change
Creators are changemakers, and Unity is their platform for making an impact. Many creators around the globe are using Unity to tell stories or build tools that will have a positive and meaningful impact on society, their communities, and the planet. We founded Unity for Humanity to celebrate these creators and support their journey to change lives and improve our world.
The Unity for Humanity program provides selected impact-driven Made with Unity projects with funding, mentorship, and technical and marketing assistance. We collaborate with creators and social entrepreneurs tackling the world’s toughest issues with awe-inspiring real-time 3D projects.
Unity for Humanity Program: Call for Submissions
Are you using Unity to create experiences that inspire meaningful change? Apply to the Unity for Humanity program for a chance to be awarded funding, mentorship, and technical and marketing assistance from Unity. The 2020 Call for Submissions is open from October 21–November 20.
Rare Beauty Challenge
Unity Social Impact has partnered with Rare Beauty to underscore technology’s potential to impact and inform the challenges and treatment of mental health. We’ve created the Unity for Humanity Rare Beauty Challenge to specifically support creators addressing mental health and wellbeing, with a focus on underserved communities. The challenge opens November 16, 2020.
Guiding ideals
The Unity for Humanity program is guided by two goals:
Promoting empathy, respect and opportunity: We recognize and support creators with diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
Amplifying impact: We provide opportunities for creators to foster a more sustainable and inclusive world.
See how creators use Unity to drive meaningful change.
When Rivers were Trails
When Rivers Were Trails is a point-and-click adventure game about the effects of colonization on Indigenous communities in the 1890s. The game was written by over 30 Indigenous writers and artists.
COVID-19 VR medical training scenarios
Developed by emergency medicine physicians working on the front lines in COVID hot zones, these simulations train medical staff to safely practice COVID-19 triage, medical management, and the donning and removal of personal protective equipment.
Wildeverse
Wildeverse is an AR mobile game that takes users on conservation missions into the jungle from their own home, garden or street as part of a movement of "urban conservationists.” It builds a deeper understanding of what it takes to protect wildlife and the last wild spaces on earth they call home.
VR of world's first 3D printed home community
New Story and Unity created an immersive VR experience to fight homelessness, showing the world’s first 3D-printed homes, currently under construction in Mexico. VR engages a larger donor base to walk through the novel 3D-printed homes without traveling.
Beyond Blue
Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure game that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. Explore the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that exists within the world’s oceans.
Terminal 3
2018 Recipient:
This interactive AR documentary explores Muslim identity in the U.S. at an airport border. Using a Hololens, players interrogate a hologram passenger in a strikingly personal encounter until a participant decides whether to let the hologram into the country – or not.
Clean A\R
2019 Recipient:
The Clean A\R app uses modelled air quality data from Kings College in the UK to help visualize the pollution in a user’s current location. The app is being integrated into a robust social media campaign that aims to raise awareness and change policy to improve air quality.
Kusunda
Kusunda is an interactive VR documentary that explores what makes a language fall asleep and what it takes to wake one up. Kusunda takes users on an immersive journey to Nepal to meet an Indigenous community that’s making efforts to revitalize their mother tongue.
Unity for Humanity Summit, October 21–22 2020
The Unity for Humanity Summit is a free, two-day online event spotlighting how creators around the globe are harnessing real-time 3D technology to power real-world change. Discussions and presentations help social impact-driven creators to learn, connect, and celebrate their work and to inspire and empower more people to create for change.
Unity for Humanity project submission FAQs
Project(s) eligible for submission must be a prototype or a project in any stage of production. The Unity for Humanity program’s call for submissions accepts any genre of project that uses Unity as its sole RT3D development platform.
All projects must be impact-driven, meaning that they have measurable impact goals and/or calls to action and/or encompass themes of social, healthcare, education, humanitarian, and environmental issues.
Projects must also align with at least one of the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
The countries and individuals the United States has introduced sanctions against are prohibited from applying. CRIMEA - REGION OF UKRAINE, CUBA, IRAN, NORTH KOREA, SUDAN, and SYRIA.
We select and collaborate on projects based on the following criteria:
- Inclusion: We always welcome and encourage projects from teams that represent a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
- Impact: Does your project have measurable impact goals and calls to action? Are these aligned with the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals?
- Viability: Does the team have a realistic plan of execution for the production and distribution of the project so that it can achieve the greatest impact?
- Innovation (bonus!): Does the project feature a technical achievement in Unity? Does it use Unity in a unique way?
The criteria for each call for submissions may vary to reflect topical social issues and causes.
All projects must be submitted in English. We work with creators with varying levels of English ability.
Creators must fill out the application form provided through the submission portal and upload a pitch deck (in PDF format), as well as a video clip showcasing the project and/or a video trailer (MP4).
Please make sure the pitch deck includes:
- Information about the team and company (with consent from each teammate)
- A production budget with a plan for use of Unity funding (if received)
- Information on any partners attached to the project
- A production timeline, distribution timeline and detailed distribution plan
- Impact goals
Projects will be selected by Unity staff, employees and/or representatives internally, including the Unity for Humanity Program team members for the initial selection, employees from across teams and verticals, and a final committee of judges for the final decision.
No further action is required. You should have received a confirmation email indicating that the project has been received. We review all projects submitted, and applicants will be notified when the committee has made their selection. Our 2020 recipients will receive notification in early 2021, and recipients will be announced on our website.
Only "selected" applicants will be notified, with additional documentation required to be complete, and there is no guaranteed volume of selections.
Thank you for submitting!