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Our brand new project for Unity Learn is an immersive VR escape room. Explore the potential of VR in Unity and create your own experience in a simple prototype environment. Let us introduce you to working with VR in Unity – with clear learning material and engaging gameplay. Dear witches, warlocks, and wizards, You know […]

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GDC is always our favorite time of year at Unity. It’s a chance for us to connect with creators, customers, players, and partners from around the world.  Unfortunately, this year, after much thought and deliberation, we have made the difficult decision to pull out of GDC 2020. While we did not make this decision lightly, […]

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Learn how to create like a pro with access to the professional tools and workflows that teams use to create AR/VR, games, and other interactive experiences across industries. We’re excited to announce the new Unity Student plan. If you’re a student, you can get free access to the same tools and workflows that professionals use […]

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High Definition Render Pipeline is verified in 2019.3 with new features and artist tools for achieving high-fidelity graphics. With Version 7.2.0 of the HDRP package, we assure, platform support and migration path. It comes with mature debugging tools, scalable settings for all platforms for full control of performance, extensibility options and various artist tools. And […]

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Around the world, students and teachers are using Unity to bring their creativity to life. See how real-time technology helps people inside the classroom. The Unity Education team’s goal is to help anyone, in any country, at any level learn how to use Unity. Whether you’re online trying a tutorial on Learn or offline building […]

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Visual Effect Graph has many new features and fixes based on your feedback, so you can start using it in production with the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP). This node-based editor enables beautiful, complex effects. The Visual Effect Graph is Unity’s next-generation visual effects solution and is compatible with Unity’s scriptable render pipelines. It targets […]

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How did a student film on a minimal budget find itself sharing the nominee spotlight with blockbuster productions like The Lion King and The Mandalorian at the VES Awards? By using an innovative, real-time workflow – just like the big studios. For their diploma project, students from Film Academy Baden-Württemberg produced a live-action short film […]

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Whether you’re making your first game or have years under your belt, join us for a highly rewarding GDC, the world’s largest professional game-industry event. Unity has a rich experience in store for you at GDC 2020. To start, we know that creating a successful game is a journey that doesn’t stop when you build […]

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The spatial design team, part of the authoring tools group in Unity Labs, is currently working on a head-mounted display (HMD) companion app for Project MARS, a Unity extension that gives creators the power to build mixed and augmented reality experiences that intelligently interact with the real world. The HMD companion app acts as a […]

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In its quest to release 60 animated episodes of TOMONCAR in a single drop, Studio Gale was determined to streamline processes and make its pipeline more efficient. By switching to Unity for rendering, timelines, and post-processing, the studio cut its production time (and demands on the team) in half. “We were looking for a way […]

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Industry experts and analysts anticipate 2020 will be a breakthrough year for AR and VR in the enterprise sector. Wonder why? We invited 15 AR/VR leaders to share their perspectives and insights in our new report “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR.”  According to Deloitte Consulting Managing Director Allan Cook, “Every ten or 15 years, […]

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Universal Render Pipeline is a powerful, ready-to-use solution with a full suite of artist tools for content creation. Use should use this rendering pipeline if you want to make a game that has full Unity platform reach with best-in-class visual quality and performance. We covered the benefits of the Universal Render pipeline in this blog […]

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It’s not always desirable to render a project at the highest frame rate possible, for a variety of reasons, especially on mobile platforms. Historically, Unity developers have used Application.targetFrameRate or Vsync count to throttle the rendering speed of Unity. This approach impacts not just rendering but the frequency at which every part of Unity runs. […]

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We’ve recently hosted a webinar about our new 2D sample project, Lost Crypt. Huge thanks to all of you who joined and contributed to a great discussion about all things 2D! Many of your questions were about art creation and the integration between tools like Photoshop and Unity. So we went back to the artists […]

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As part of our Secure Software Development Life Cycle (SSDLC) at Unity, we’d like to share our credential management strategy. Managing tokens, keys, and credentials in code, otherwise known as secrets, can be a daunting process. By sharing these details, we hope others will benefit and learn from our journey. A couple of years ago, […]

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Unity 2019.3 continues to bring more exciting updates to Unity’s Terrain system, including – by popular demand – the ability to create holes in your Terrain! Using the new Paint Holes brush tool, you can mask out areas in the mesh of your Terrain Tiles, and even manipulate these masks through your code. This makes […]

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Learning Unity can be challenging. Make it easier with Unity Learn, our official online learning platform that’s designed to help you reach your 2D, 3D, and VR development goals. Join over two million people learning Unity   Since launching Unity Learn in April 2019, over 2.8 million people have used the platform to build their skills. […]

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With Unity’s evolution to a package-based feature-delivery system, we will reduce the number of TECH stream releases in 2020, while delivering continuous updates for all feature areas throughout the year.  Since 2018, we have built, tested, and made available three Unity TECH stream releases as well as one Long-Term Support (LTS) release per year, as […]

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This release features a brand-new Editor interface, new Input System, faster in-Editor iteration time and lots of other improvements. The High Definition Render Pipeline and many 2D packages are now verified for 2019.3.  Regardless if you work in games, entertainment, automotive, architecture, or any other industry, the Unity 2019.3 TECH stream release has something for […]

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Amidst a period of innovation for XR, we want to ensure Unity remains the best development platform for creators and our ecosystem partners. We’re excited to announce our new XR plugin framework designed to empower the ecosystem and provide guidance on how this impacts development in 2019.3 and beyond. Unity XR plugin framework We have […]

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