Adding occlusion to your AR experience in Unity (Lightship & AR Foundation tutorial)

Thanks for watching my journey. I want to build the most exciting AR Experiences including Games, Movies and usefull Apps. My background is mainly in 2D / 3D Animation using Blender and After Effects, but I always loved the idea auf Augmented Reality. Furthemore I liked to code. So in late 2022 I decided to learn Unity and get deeper into AR Software Development. Let's see how far we can come :)
If you like my tutorials and videos on XR, you can support me here:
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Playbacks for in editor testing (with Video):
drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Shadow receiver URP:
assetstore.unity.com/packages...
How to setup Lightship in Unity:
lightship.dev/docs
You can automatically change all settings to get ready for building by going to player settings , XR Plugin Management, Validation and clicking "fix all".
Otherwise:
How to setup your iOS device for building:
Go to player settings and fill out the description for Camera usage and Location.
Set the minimum iOS version to 14
On Device:
- under settings, choose privacy & security
- scroll down and activate Developer Mode
- once you install a app via Xcode in your iOS settings, search for developer and set yourself as a trusted developer
How to setup your Android device for building Unity AR Apps:
developers.google.com/ar/deve...
On Device:
- Go to your settings
- Search for developer
- Enable developer options and USB debugging
3D Assets that are great for AR / VR purposes *:
Low Poly, Animated Animals:
assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Low Poly, Animated Dinosaurs:
assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Low Poly Junge:
assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Low Poly Forest:
assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Convert Terrain to Mesh (For Transforming a Terrain to view):
assetstore.unity.com/packages...
Explorer Character Pack:
assetstore.unity.com/packages...
*The given links are part of Unitys affiliate program
Note: Some of the images and graphics used are from FreePik. I own the rights / premium license to use those graphics.

[@did3d523]

looking for free version WEBAR pls?

[@garywillmott80]

In the video at at 2:07 you mentioned playbacks in the video desc? am I missing something? I can't find them

[@AliveStudios_]

My bad! Here they are: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1vS9mHet8JYzekdEmvQa1riYwANRPwAL3?usp=drive_link

[@RakhaRamadhana]

Hii love your videos! I do want to ask, do you have a Discord to engage with community? I may have one or more questions to ask you about Lightship development. I love your content about Lightship, wish you could do more 😁

[@AliveStudios_]

Hey mate, thank you so much :) Currently I do not have an own discord but I am sometimes active on the official Lightship Discord: discord.gg/SpCEp2vb There are also many other AR enthusiasts :)

[@nomisnibor]

It would be amazing to be able to export this for the web and make it accessible to all platforms. I have tried with 8Th wall with no success. ;(

[@AliveStudios_]

Agreed! I hope this will be possible at some point, but web AR Apps also have restrictions e.g. the size of the app has to be really small

[@crazyboyrish2577]

Gonna create this today. And please make video on ar portal using unity. Its like virtual door and when you go inside there is another ar world

[@AliveStudios_]

Hi mate, for that, maybe a stencil buffer shader would be a good approach. There are some good tutorial on YT already. No sure I will be able to create a tutorial on that in the next weeks, but it's definitely on the list :)

[@crazyboyrish2577]

@@AliveStudios_ ya i saw those videos but half of them are really old the ui and settings are totally different. And latest videos they was using paid plugins. As a student dont have money for that that's why i requested to you.

[@AliveStudios_]

Got it, @@crazyboyrish2577 . Wrote it on my list and will investigate on how to do that :).

[@crazyboyrish2577]

@@AliveStudios_ means alot thanks ❤️❤️

[@nomisnibor]

I have successfully achieved to make one using a mix of these tutorials with my very poor skills from: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hXPFZZyLnr2UiKMsi=NskItysl06RjYWwv (all the série) And this one @AliveSudio: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWKol6trZ9mXqbcsi=Zn-tc2YQ2G9RIx2V

[@PlumpnDreamyWalrus]

Is lightship always necessary for occlusion? Can Unity support it natively?

[@AliveStudios_]

Unity / AR Foundation supports occlusion natively. Some features like semantic suppression which reduces flickering are exclusive to Lightship though.