Learn about the latest developments in AR Foundation, the Unity framework purpose-built for augmented reality (AR) development that lets you build your app once and deploy across mobile and wearable AR platforms. In this session you'll also hear about the roadmap for AR Foundation and what's in the works. Speakers: Mike Durand – Unity Matt Fuad – Unity Watch the session on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UkBXOff8Efo

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AR Foundation Roadmap
Mike Durand Features Team Lead for XR Platforms,
Unity
Matt Fuad Product Manager for AR/VR, Unity

3. Agenda
— Primer On AR Foundation
– Mission
– Architecture
— The Journey So Far
— The Road Ahead
– New cross-platform functionality
– Workflow improvements
– Wait...what about DOTS?
— Q&A
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4. What problems does AR Foundation solve?
— Expresses normalized AR subsystem data from a variety of
platforms as Unity GameObjects/MonoBehaviours
– Built on XR SDK subsystems architecture
– Supported on ARCore, ARKit, HoloLens 1, HoloLens 2, Magic Leap
– Single API for Unity AR apps
– Devs can target multiple AR platforms in the same app
– Devs can handle platform feature disparities gracefully
— Optimized background rendering on handheld platforms
— Content scaling and reconciliation of tracking and Unity spaces
— Visualizers for planes, depth data, faces
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5. What’s A Subsystem?
— Collection of C# code that encompasses a significant piece of AR
functionality
— Subsystems can be registered, started, and stopped independently
— Each AR platform requires its own implementation of a subsystem
— Metadata on a subsystem allows application code to detect nuances
between implementations of a subsystem
— Subsystem APIs purely provide data
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6. AR Foundation architecture at a glance
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7. AR packages at a glance
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8. The Journey So Far...
AR Foundation 1.0
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— Supported Platforms
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARCore, ARKit
— Functionality
– Input
– Background Rendering
– Light Estimation
– Raycasting
– Reference points
– Plane Tracking
– Depth

9. The Journey So Far...
AR Foundation 2.1
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— Supported Platforms
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARKit
– ARKit
— Functionality
– Image Tracking
– Face Tracking
– Environment Probes
– Object Tracking

10. The Journey So Far...
AR Foundation 2.2
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— Supported Platforms
– ARKit
– ARKit
– ARKit
– ARKit
– HoloLens, Magic Leap
– HoloLens, Magic Leap
— Functionality
– 2D Body Tracking
– 3D Body Tracking
– Human Segmentation & Occlusion
– Collaboration
– 3D Mesh Reconstruction
– Stereo Rendering

11. The Journey So Far...
AR Foundation 3.0
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— Supported Platforms
– ARCore, ARKit
– ARCore, ARKit
— Functionality
– Support LWRP & URP
– Support Linear Color Space

12. The Road Ahead...
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— Cross-platform Feature Parity
– HoloLens 2
– Plane Tracking
– Occlusion Using Scene Understanding
– Magic Leap
– Image Tracking
– ARCore
– Environment Probes

13. The Road Ahead...
— Workflow improvements
– Remoting
– Mobile AR platforms are initial focus
– Device-free Simulation
— Improved first-touch experience
– Templates for handheld and wearable AR
– More tutorials for AR Foundation
– Better samples
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14. The Road Ahead...
— Possible new subsystems work
– Multi-platform persistent Reference Points
– Generalized Occlusion
– Multi-platform Networking
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15. The Road Ahead...To Our Glorious DOTS Future
— DOTS
– AR Subsystem APIs Designed With DOTS In Mind
– Prototyping DOTS Version of AR Foundation
— Tiny
– XR team is actively integrating with Tiny team
– ~10X Reduction In Executable Size For Simple ARCore App
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