Learning some of the ins and outs of AR Foundation in Unity

Client
Self-Learning

Project Duration
1 week

There’s invisible things all around you. You must scan the local area to find them before they get to you!

Goals

This was a prototype to learn some of the ins and outs of AR Foundation in Unity 2021.3.

Challenges

One of the challenges on this was the setup. This was a URP (Universal Render Pipeline) project. There was no particular reason why I went with URP as I wasn’t using anything dedicated to URP. There were some changes in Unity between 2020 and 2021 regarding AR Foundation/ARCore. In 2020, there was a need of a forward renderer asset to be added. However, in 2021, it was removed. In trying to setup the project, I was only able to get a working project in URP. Or rather, a second project. I spent a considerable amount of time trying to reproduce a brand new project that had access to the camera on the mobile device.