Software vendors creating custom industrial applications repeat similar steps to get started:
- Create a Unity application
- Build a 3D asset ingestion pipeline
- Optimize for large models
- Add collaborative tools
- Add AR & VR functionality, etc.
This is expensive and takes away time they could be spending developing their unique value proposition targeted towards their industry or use case.
The Unity Cloud Reference Project is a Unity project that’s distributed as a public Github repository. It’s intended as a starting point for industry developers, and is architected with customization and extensibility in mind. Developers can pull in changes from the latest release with minimal conflicts to their codebase and can easily remove unwanted features. It supports many build targets including WebGL, which along with deep-linking support, empowers users to easily share their 3D assets for review with one-click.
To simplify creating the best application for your business needs, you can customize the following:
- Navigation modes (users can toggle between walk, fly, teleport, VR, or your own custom modes)
- Localization to support multiple languages in the user interface
- Tools and user interface elements (add, remove, and completely modify)
- Tools to support VR applications, such as virtual keyboards and other world-space user interfaces
It also features Unity Cloud services that make it easy to:
- Authenticate with your Unity account or SSO via the Identity package.
- Browse and select your 3D assets via the Assets package.
- Stream large 3D assets (skyscrapers, offshore drilling, cities) of vast 3D formats via the Data Streaming package.
- Collaborate online with multiuser avatars and voice chat via the Presence package.
- Annotate your 3D assets with topics, threads, comments, and attachments via the Annotations package.