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0 pointsandybak2y ago0 comments

AR Kit is Apple's thing. AR Core is Google's thing. Neither of those are Unity's fault. AR Foundation is a Unity layer to present a common interface. Which of my books is a good thing.

Open XR is also an an attempt to make a cross platform layer for vendor specific APIs. Again not Unity's fault. The Unity plugin system is a common interface for all XR devices.

I'd generally support your sentiment but in this case you're picking on things where Unity had mostly got it right.

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Auracle2y ago· 1 in thread

This comment made things more clear to me than the documentation that I saw, perhaps because I was looking at it from a Quest 3 perspective and their main page about it doesn't mention that at all.

I know what Open XR is all about but again, it's not clear which you should actually use for development if you're only targeting Quest devices, for instance. A little extra documentation would go a long way.

The same goes for all of the other things so frequently mentioned like their renderers.

squeaky-clean2y ago

Honestly, like a lot of Unity functionality, what you do there is pay $50-100 for an asset from the store that handles things in a sane way.

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