Set Up AR Foundation with Unity
Explore how to set up AR Foundation within Unity to create augmented reality experiences. This lesson guides you through creating new AR projects or adding AR Foundation to existing ones, installing necessary plugins like ARKit, ARCore, and OpenXR, and configuring your environment for multiplatform AR development.
Unity has crafted a specialized framework dedicated to building powerful and engaging augmented reality experiences that can be effortlessly deployed across multiple mobile and wearable AR devices.
AR Foundation
Unity’s AR Foundation allows us to build multiplatform AR applications. We add the necessary manager components to our scene to enable AR features. When we run our app on AR devices, AR Foundation utilizes the native AR SDK of the platform to provide the functionality we need to build and deploy to different AR platforms.
Required packages
AR Foundation offers the basic interfaces for AR features but does not provide any of its own. We must ...