Tools for creating real-world AR experiences.
Niantic SDK for Unity enables developers to build immersive AR experiences that seamlessly fuse digital creations with the real world, using a cross-platform toolkit.
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Anchor content with precision.
Share and interact in entirely new ways
Unlock a world of powerful shared use cases for your app, from entertainment and gaming to spatial design and planning to warehousing and logistics. Bring your own networking stack and enable multi-user sessions with our primitives.
It’s possible with tools like:
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Networking APIs for synchronizing content, actions, etc.
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AR sessions shared with up to 10 users
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Peer-to-peer messaging with provided server
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Session authentication and encryption
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Co-localization with Shared AR and VPS
Set the realistic scene
Niantic SDK for Unity's meshing feature quickly builds a machine-readable representation of the physical world. Build experiences that incorporate the environment by accounting for realistic depth, occlusion, physics, placement, and more. Using our scanning SDK, bring digitized factory equipment onto the factory floor to see how it integrates with existing machinery. Make sure people and equipment won't interfere with each other using depth and meshing.
Real-time meshing includes:
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Real-time depth estimation and occlusion
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Session-persistent meshing
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Cross-platform functionality
Know your surroundings
With semantic understanding, any developer can instantly identify and mask different elements in the world around them to inform how virtual content reacts or is placed in the space.
Categories include:
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Water, sky, ground (natural and artificial)
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Buildings
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Foliage
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Object detection with over 200 categories
Case Studies
Games
Turning the real world into a virtual skatepark
Inspired by the creator of iconic skateboard tricks like the ollie, kickflip, and impossible, the team at Reality Crisis has developed the first augmented reality skateboard game, SKATRIX. Players navigate real-world streets to explore and collect skatepark elements. With hyper-accurate AR precision and realistic physics, players can skate real-world features or craft their dream skatepark for the perfect run.
Tourism
Finding wonder in your world
With the power of augmented reality, Wonderlab AR lets you uncover the scientific phenomena hidden in the real world. Step outside to collect powers, forces, and knowledge that transform your understanding of reality. Developed with PRELOADED and powered by Niantic Spatial Platform, this groundbreaking experience extends beyond the Science Museum in London, making hands-on science accessible to all.
Games
Creating a Seamless Multiplayer Experience
MATTER AR seamlessly connects players, real-world spaces, and virtual content. Its multiplayer LaserTag mode lets up to four players engage in battles at real-world locations using advanced AR and AI technology. Players build defenses, fire lasers, and hide behind physical or virtual objects, making gameplay dynamic and immersive.
Music
Enhancing in-person event experiences
Explore immersive AR experiences at Coachella with the Coachellaverse section in the festival app, created in partnership with Niantic. Step into the Portal, head to the Spectra to watch the Butterfly land, and use the Wayfinder to navigate the Polo Fields, find key points of interest, and explore geo-specific AR experiences.
Sports
Changing how golf is played and experienced
Playing outdoors together is core to Niantic’s mission, and our multiplayer tools help the PGA Jr. League and Trigger Global create engaging shared-AR experiences. Leveraging AR, the PGA Jr. League brings a fresh, innovative twist to golf, inviting new generations of players to explore the game in exciting ways.
Education
Discovering nature with a virtual guide
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library app, Rangers Wanted, transforms your surroundings into engaging AR adventures. Guided by a virtual Teddy Roosevelt, players embark on conservation missions, help animals, and learn environmental skills, all while appreciating the wonders of the natural world.
History
Explain our history through virtual monuments
The Kinfolk Foundation aims to use art and technology to rewrite history in a way that resonates with the next generation. The Kinfolk app brings stories from Black icons to life and lets users discover unsung heroes through augmented reality monuments. Kinfolk was built with support from The Mellon Foundation, a philanthropic organization that supports innovative projects in the humanities and arts.
