Unity AR Tutorial for Absolute Beginners

In this blog, you will learn how to create an AR application in Unity 6. This augmented reality Unity tutorial is designed for absolute beginners. If you’re familiar with Unity but not with AR, you’re on the right page. This video tutorial primarily targets the Android platform, but the same steps are applicable for iOS using ARKit. For Android, we will use the ARCore plugin by Google.

For those unfamiliar with ARCore or ARKit, they are native SDKs for developing AR apps on Android and iOS platforms, respectively. You don’t need to learn both individually; Unity provides a common framework called AR Foundation, which allows you to develop for both platforms easily. Not only does it support iOS and Android, but it also works with HoloLens, Meta Quest, and Vision OS.

One important note: AR Foundation doesn’t implement any features itself. Instead, it acts as a bridge to the target platform’s SDK. For instance, if you are developing for iOS, you’ll need ARKit, and for Android, you’ll need ARCore, as mentioned earlier.

With this brief summary, you can dive straight into the practical tutorials through the following videos. Remember, I’ll be updating this page as I release new videos on AR topics, so check back here for future updates. You can also follow me directly on my channel, where I originally post these videos.

Unity AR Tutorial 1 : Create First Project in AR - Minimum App with AR

This is the first basic guide, teach you how to setup AR application in unity with minimum settings. And we will deploy it for andriod.

Unity AR Tutorial 2: Common Unity AR Application Development Error (e.g., Black screen Problem) and Solutions

When you develop for AR in unity, you encounter some common errors or mis configurations like black screen problem when AR app loads in the mobile. In this video, I have shown the common reasons for black screen problem.

Unity AR Tutorial 3: How to detect Surface in Unity AR Application.

Detecting the surfaces like floor, wall or table tops etc. You need to configure additional things in Unity which is called AR plane manager. 

I will update this blog, as I will create more videos. 

Built With Unity AR Projects:

For your motivation and below are the AR apps that I have created with Unity ARCore. You can download and install freely.

Orbit AR - Solar System: Augmented Reality Application for Solar System learning.

Design Mate AR - Augmented Reality Application for Furniture/Decoration items fitting in the space.

The app is in development phase.