Learn game development w/ Unity | Courses & tutorials in game design, VR, AR, & Real-time 3D | Unity Learn (2024)

Create with AR: Markers and Planes

In this learning experience, you will create AR apps that respond to the user’s physical environment. First you’ll make a marker-based app, where the device recognizes a specific image and projects an interactive 3D model on top of it. Then you’ll make an app that detects flat surfaces, and allows the user to spawn a portal on their desk, floor, or wall. Anchoring AR content to real-world objects like markers and flat surfaces produces more compelling, grounded, and immersive AR experiences.

Create with AR: Face Filters

In this course, you will learn to create your own augmented reality (AR) face filter apps using Unity. You will create multiple face filter projects from start to finish that are compatible with both Android and iOS devices. The first app you’ll create will overlay textures, animated 3D models, particles, and other effects on the user’s face. The second app is more interactive and will allow the user to select, customize, and visualize different pairs of glasses. To implement this functionality, you will use Visual Scripting: a graphical programming system that does not require any written code. Along the way, there are also quizzes and challenges to help solidify your skills and build your portfolio. AR apps have never been in higher demand. Whether you just want to create cool face filters or pursue this industry as a potential career, this course is the perfect place to start

Introduction to XR: VR, AR, and MR Foundations

What is XR? It’s shorthand for a related set of new technologies that are changing the way we interact with the world and with each other: Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality. To understand XR, you need to understand the technologies that enable it. If you understand the available technologies, how they are used, and what their future holds, you’ll be well equipped to deal with XR as it rapidly evolves and converges. In this course, we will present an introduction to XR using a broadly chronological approach, focusing on how all of the underlying technologies came together at key moments in the history of XR to launch the concepts of Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality into the mainstream consciousness. Throughout the course, we’ll give a brief description of each of the supporting technologies, some history about when it first came into use, limitations and future potential for improvement, and how it’s used for AR, VR, and MR. As you learn about the technology, you’ll also develop hands on experience in the field along two tracks. First, you will use Unity to build and run two simple XR applications on your own smartphone: a “VR Museum” app and a handheld Augmented Reality app. Second, you will brainstorm, define, visualize, and iterate your own original concept for an XR application, ending the course with a thorough and peer-reviewed XR Product Brief that you could use as the basis for future development. This is the first of three planned courses in Unity's XR Specialization, which include the Mobile VR App Development with Unity course as well as a future course focused on developing Augmented Reality (AR) applications with Unity.