I'm trying to create an application with AR, using surface detection plugins that work with all devices no matter of ARcore installed.
Well, I have got a problem, 8th wall works terrible in unity, EasyAR shows a black screen instead of camera image when I'm trying to use surface detection (but EasyAR image target detection works fine), Kudan, finally, don't work at all, it just shows a black screen on my phone.
Does someone know some other AR plugins, which can detect surface without ARCore like 8th wall web?
Or maybe how to solve the 8th wall in unity, how to force it to work like web 8th wall?
Have you tried Vuforia Engine plugin. Their latest version provides spatial augmented reality. It requires 3d scanner. You can get more information about this in their developer portal. I hope this is what you are looking for.
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I need help in switching mobile device camera in sdk Vuforia Engine Unity SDK v10.13 because vuforia has chnages the entire SDk. I did it past but i could find any documentation. Please help
I couldn't find any documention regarding camera switching in Vuforia Engine Unity SDK v10.13
Unfortunately switching btw back and front camera has been depracated but this can be achieved if its necessary via https://library.vuforia.com/platform-support/driver-framework.
If you need to sw btw the several back cameras that phones have, I don't believe its necessary as Vuforia usually selects the main camera and selecting any other camera like Telephoto or Ultrawide will results in tracking issues as the SDK was not designed to work with such images out of the box.
The Q that I would have, why do you need to sw? what do you want to achieve?
I followed this tutorial https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/learn-mrtk-tutorials/1-1-introduction and did every step. But when I run it on the HoloLens, I don't see anything.
Build configurations are as in the tutorial, HoloLens2 is in Developer mode and has been paired before. Tools are as in https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/windows/mixed-reality/develop/install-the-tools?tabs=unity
I am building the app over WIFI.
When the app starts on HoloLens, mesh appears for a moment and I get a question asking if it is allowed to use on my microphone.
"Build with Unity" or similar does not appear, and no objects either. I see "nothing".
What could be the problem?
I use:
Unity 2021.1.20f
MRTK v1.0.2206. Preview (from Microsoft Download Center)
It was actually the wrong Unity version.
I am now using Unity 2020.3.4 and I can see and move the objects.
I am using Unity 2019.3.15f1 with the MRTK 2.4.0 for developing an augmented reality app on the HoloLens 2. Unfortunately, the stereoscopic rendering is not working correctly. There is a mismatch between the images rendered for the right and the left eye. You see two images of the scene, running the app on the HoloLens. It doesn`t matter if I am using the Remote Player or ruining a builded app on the HoloLens. In both cases there are two not matching rendered images for both eyes. The HoloLens is calibrated. Other Apps from the microsoft store, or the "Homemenu" at the HoloLens have no mismatch of the images. But if I am running MRTK-example scenes on my HoloLens 2 there is also a dismatch between the rendered images for both eyes.
Does anyone had troubles with the same issue and can provide some ideas about a solution how the images can be matched correctly for both eyes?
It seems like something went wrong in your Unity project setting, it is recommended to double-check the XR Setting to troubleshoot. For XR SDK, please follow this link: Getting started with MRTK and XR SDK. For Legacy XR, have a look at Legacy XR
Besides, we always recommend the latest Unity LTS (Long Term Support) and MRTK as the best version so that we can avoid some known issue, and the current recommendation is to use Unity 2019.4.20f1 and Mixed Reality Toolkit v2.5.4.
I have an Android application which I created using Unity and C#, it also uses Vuforia. I have an AR Camera, which shows a black screen when I have just installed the application and gave camera permission to it, but when I close the app and start it again, everything works fine. I did a lot of searches, so what I found and tried- to Switch automatic graphics to OpenGls2, to set minimization to none, etc. Upgrading Vuforia version will not work for me. Also ARCamera works for phones supporting ARCore and does not work for phones not having ARCore. So I guess, the issue is within the architecture of the phone. Any ideas on how to make it work?
It must be related to camera API. I don't know how Vuforia is trying to initialize the camera. Seems like it tries to initialize it before successful permission result on old Android versions. You can delay Vuforia initialization to be after the permission check. There is an option to set Vuforia delayed initialization, but it would be better to make a preload scene where you do check all permissions and maybe other setup and then load the scene where Vuforia is used.
Update: Please try to update xr plugins for Unity (they are packages now), update Unity itself to the latest version. Do not use unity beta. Se if there are some recommendations from Vuforia of which unity version is the latest supported. Youc also try to create a new unity project from scratch and then import the latest vuforia, then try camera on android, then if all good, import all the resources for your app.
I'm almost new to Unity3D, I've watched this presentation of Unity evengelist made in February 2016:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK0ZD53gOoE
Evengelist said and showed that to bring project to VR you need to select one checkbox (Virtual Reality Supported). Now in 5.5 version just downloaded, when I select Virtual Reality Supported it says also "you must add at least one VR SDK", also after that checkbox selected when I click play scene, I do not see two eyes screen, just ordinary view. When last year I tried to make VR for Cardboard and loaded Cardboard SDK, scene view showed two screens to each eye in play mode.
So the question - how now make VR that works on Cardboard in Unity3d? Do I still need Cardboard SDK (I don't need magnet input support or similar, just stereo and head movement support)?
Added: I don't have Cardboard SDK option in Unity somehow:
According to Unity Blog, Cardboard support is exclusive to Android only. iOS Cardboard support will be added soon.
Do I still need Cardboard SDK
I don't think you need the SDK. This is now Native support for Cardboard. Although,you can still download the Cardboard SDK and Unity will automatically use it.
And here is how to enable Cardboard SDK in Unity 5.5.
Thanks Programmer for your answer, it helped me find what my issue was. However, I've spent literally all of my time over the past few days trying to get Google Cardboard and Unity setup, so I figured I can at least post my answer too.
One problem I initially ran into was that I was trying to use GVR Unity SDK v1.1. There are several bugs in this version, so I reverted back to the GVR Unity SDK v1.0.3. This can be downloaded from the github repo: https://codeload.github.com/googlevr/gvr-unity-sdk/zip/f391c2436426857899af1c37f0720b3985631eb3
Then, I ran into multiple problems just getting things to run on android, so I found that I have to use build tools version 24.0.1. This can be downloaded using the Android SDK Manager executable.
Lastly, the "cardboard" option wasn't appearing for me as part of the drop downs, just like in the picture posted by the asker. The problem was that I was using a regular version of Unity, when I needed to actually be using the technical preview. This can be downloaded from https://unity3d.com/partners/google/daydream, and I'm running Unity v5.4.2f2-GVR13.
Then the drop down "cardboard" appeared, and I was able to follow google's official instructions (https://developers.google.com/vr/unity/get-started) and get things set up.
I ended up installing the Unity 5.6 Beta and got my Cardboard app built quite simply using the EasyMovieTexture store asset, turning on VR in Player Settings and adding Google Cardboard. It is working great in IOS and Android. I am working on turning off the Google Overlay as my app toggles between Cardboard and a simple 360 view and that is a proving a challenge. It seems from what I have read Google does not want you to turn off their overlay. I might try to do this natively on IOS.