Forged in gaming and used to create more than 60% of all AR/VR content, Unity’s flexible real-time platform offers unlimited possibilities to unleash your creative potential.
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The preferred platform for creating immersive games
Unity’s industry-leading developer experience combined with tools built for AR and VR creators and numerous AR/VR partnerships means you can push the bounds of your imagination and we have the resources tailored to bring your immersive vision to life.
Unity makes a huge difference to us as we're creating games for various platforms. Whether developing for AR or even now as we're working to bring our first title to PlayStation VR, having the familiar element of the editor and various tools can be the difference between launching the game or not. Unity allows us to quickly try out ideas and build optimized games with great graphics for several platforms. Ultimately, it helps us bring more games to players.
Use bleeding-edge technology to bring your imagination to life
Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders
Magic Leap - Wearable AR
In Magic Leap’s visionary flagship gaming title, the evil robots from the Robot Planet come through the walls, the floor — even from behind your couch. So you’d better grab your ray gun, get blasting and send them back home in pieces.
Beat Saber
VR
The multi-award winning experience is a VR rhythm game that combines exclusively-made electronic dance music, precisely handcrafted levels and gorgeous virtual worlds.
Pokémon Go
Handheld AR
Catch Charmander at the bus stop, Digletts on the way to work, and Squirtle at the supermarket with this handheld AR game that brings your favorite Pokémon characters into the real world. First launching in 2016, this game demonstrates the mass appeal of handheld AR with its massive popularity.
Jurassic World Alive
Handheld AR
Dinosaurs have returned to rule the Earth, and they’re roaming free in your world. Explore your surrounding area to find your favorite Jurassic World dinosaurs, including new breeds that are more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before!
Angry Birds FPS: First Person Slingshot
Magic Leap - Wearable AR
As the first third-party app to launch on the Magic Leap One, this game brings the beloved Angry Birds franchise to life. Use the Magic Leap controller to pull back a virtual slingshot and launch your birds through the air to send pigs toppling over.
Creating Beat Saber was an incredible leap of faith for our team. We were essentially stepping into the unknown, unsure if our concept would be successful. Unity was perfect to help us on this journey and we quickly realized that using Unity, we could accomplish anything we wanted - it's remarkably flexible and easy to use. We started by creating a playable prototype and in just a few hours, we knew the possibilities were endless.
Features
AR Foundation
Unity’s AR Foundation gives AR creators the ease of building on a framework tailored for AR projects, the power to choose which features to include in their experiences, and the extensibility to build their experience once and deploy across both ARKit and ARCore devices.
Delivered as a package, it wraps ARKit and ARCore low-level APIs into a cohesive foundation that also includes additional utilities. This provides a common API that supports core functionality for ARCore, ARKit, and future platforms so that you can build your game once for all platforms, without losing any platform-specific features. This feature is currently for handheld AR, and will extend to wearable AR in 2019.
Project: Mixed and Augmented Reality Studio (MARS)
Project: MARS is an extension for Unity that delivers on the promise of AR by giving creators the power to build applications that intelligently interact with any real-world environment, with little-to-no custom coding.
Coming in 2019
Instant AR
Create rich, instant AR content and experiences that are small, lightweight, and can load instantly.
Coming in 2019
High-Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP) for VR and Lightweight Render Pipeline (LWRP) for VR
HDRP for VR will target high-end PCs and pave the way for stunning visuals without sacrificing performance. We’re also creating a LWRP for VR, which is a single-pass forward rendering loop optimized for maximum performance on mobile hardware. No matter what head-mounted display (HMD) you’re targeting, we’ll have a tool to help you achieve the highest level of graphical fidelity while continuing to optimize for performance.
Coming in 2019
Spatial Audio
Give users a sense of presence in VR with integrated support for ambisonic audio clips, the full-sphere surround sound technique. Rotate sound fields based on the listener’s orientation and head rotation.
Particle System
Realize your vision and control VR performance. Use Particles for more effects and animations than ever, including lit lines and trails. Take advantage of better atlasing and batching of Particle Systems, align particles to their velocity direction and apply forces to the colliders they hit using the Collision module.
The real-time development platform-of-choice for AR and VR creators
Unity’s industry-leading real-time development platform gives developers the power to create truly immersive, cutting-edge AR and VR games.
True Flexibility
The Unity platform is unmatched in extensibility and ready to be adapted to current and evolving needs with a powerful C# scripting system, comprehensive API and extensive documentation. Source code access can be purchased for under-the-hood C++ development.
Rapid Creation
With its intuitive UI and tools, Unity makes it easy to jumpstart a working prototype and bypass spending time on low-level programming. Changes are easy and instant through the magic of real-time, making it easier to create and iterate.
Unparalleled Platform Support
Maximize your reach with support for 25+ platforms. Unity partners early and deeply with publishing platforms so you can build once and deploy to Android, iOS, Windows Phone, Tizen, FireOS, as well as to desktop, consoles, and mobile VR.
Rich Interactivity
Unity includes a robust and well-documented API with access to the complete range of Unity systems, including physics, rendering, and communications to enable a rich interaction model and integration with other systems.
Optimal Graphics Performance
Unity’s Scriptable Render Pipeline provides total flexibility for graphics optimization. The HD Render Pipeline offers world-class visual quality on high-performance hardware while the Lightweight Render Pipeline maintains responsive performance when scaling for mobile.
A Massive Catalog of Assets and Tools
The Unity Asset Store gives you access to the largest marketplace of off-the-shelf assets and productivity tools to jumpstart your project. These building blocks cut down on development time to get you up and running and across the finish line faster.
Largest community of real-time creators
The largest community of real-time creators
“Unity Developer” is #7 of the top-10 fastest growing jobs in the US, according to LinkedIn. With the talent pool centralized on Unity Connect, and a certification program to validate skills against a standard of aptitude, it’s easy to find skilled Unity talent to build your team.
Everything you need to monetize your mobile AR or VR games
Unity offers the first-ever game monetization solution that optimizes for lifetime value (LTV). Drive the most revenue while delivering a great player experience.
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Project: Mixed and Augmented Reality Studio (MARS)
Timoni West, Director of XR Research at Unity Labs announces Unity’s upcoming toolset that delivers on the promise of AR by giving creators the power to build applications that intelligently interact with any real-world environment, with little-to-no custom coding.
Unity’s Handheld AR Ecosystem: AR Foundation, ARCore and ARKit
Dan Miller, Evangelist for XR at Unity, and Tim Mowrer, Senior Engineer at Unity, describe Unity’s handheld AR ecosystem and Unity’s framework for building AR applications.
Unity’s Multi-platform VR Features in 2018.3
Jack Pritz, XR Engineer at Unity, describes how to use Unity’s 2018.3 features to build a VR application that works across a wide range of desktop and mobile VR devices without having to painstakingly build for each platform.
Unite LA - Developing Immersive Experiences With ARCore
Matthew Small, Software Engineer at Google, describes how to use the Google ARCore SDK for Unity to start building AR applications on ARCore.
Unite LA - Building for Magic Leap and Spatial Computing with Unity
Key team members from Magic Leap Studios discuss the challenges and key learnings of leveraging Unity to build a truly original mixed reality experience, for a new spatial computing platform.
Unite Berlin 2018 Roadmap
Will Goldstone and Stine Kjærbøll (both Product Managers at Unity) walk you through Unity's roadmap for future features and enhancements in the 2018 cycle.
Unity for Small Things GDC 2018 Keynote Segment
Ralph Hauwert (VP of Platforms) shares details on the new core runtime which allows developers to create experiences that can run natively on lightweight devices or even on the web. It is a brand-new, highly modularized architecture and a new set of specifically designed components that you can create using the Unity Editor. This solution will be expanded to include 3D and AR by the end of 2019.
Unite Berlin 2018 in 75 seconds!
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