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Unity has officially announced that its flagship real-time 3D engine now fully supports Apple Vision Pro's visionOS, enabling Unity Pro, Enterprise, and Industry subscribers to leverage the engine's authoring workflows, built-in XR tools, and cross-platform compatibility to develop AR/VR experiences for Apple's new headset.
According to the company, Unity's support for visionOS includes templates, samples, and other resources for developers to create immersive mixed-reality games and apps using Unity's PolySpatial technology. The newly enabled support for visionOS lets one create three main types of spatial experiences:
- Immersive mixed reality experiences that blend digital content with the real world and can run alongside other apps in the Shared Space.
- Ports of existing virtual reality games or new, fully immersive experiences that replace a player's surroundings with another environment.
- Content that runs in a 2D window and can be resized and repositioned by the user in the Shared Space.
Prior to becoming generally accessible, Unity's support for visionOS was available in beta for a select group of developers across a variety of industries. One such developer was Light Brick Studio, the creator of a geometric puzzle game LEGO Builder's Journey, whose Technical Lead Mikkel Fredborg had this to say about the engine's new functionality:
"Making LEGO Builder's Journey for Apple Vision Pro has been an incredible experience, working with a completely new type of interaction and rendering paradigm. Unity has been very supportive in bringing their well-known workflow to a completely new type of system. Thanks to the support for visionOS, we have been able to tap into many of the features that make Apple Vision Pro such a unique platform. You really have to try it to understand how it shifts everything."
Unity's support for visionOS, however, is not limited exclusively to the video game industry, encompassing a variety of other sectors such as wellness and automotive. Nanea Reeves, the CEO of the award-winning XR wellness platform TRIPP, also had the chance to test out and explore the software's novel capabilities:
"Building our app upon the Unity platform gives us the foundation to scale our services across multiple platforms – from launching our new AI-powered features on mobile to delivering beautiful immersive wellness experiences on Apple Vision Pro," Reeves commented. "The support we received from the Unity team always goes above and beyond."
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