Hand mesh data

This page supplements the XR Hands manual and other Unity documentation concerning the many ways to construct different kinds of meshes from the base data of indices, positions, etc. It also makes brief mention of using this data for occlusion using AR Foundation samples (refer to the AR Foundation Occlusion manual for further information). The following sections only contain information about APIs where Google's Android XR runtime exhibits platform-specific behavior.

Tip

When developing an AR app, refer to both the AR Foundation documentation as well as the required packages for each platform you support.

To enable hand mesh data access at runtime, enable the Hand Tracking Subsystem and Android XR: Hand Mesh Data features in the Project Settings for OpenXR.

Testing occlusion with hand mesh data

AR Foundation provides the HandsOcclusion sample to demonstrate occlusion. To test runtime-provided hand meshes on Android XR with the occlusion sample:

1. Download the AR Foundation Samples app from the AR Foundations Samples GitHub repository and open it in Unity.
2. Enable Hand Tracking Subsystem and Android XR: Hand Mesh Data.
3. Open the HandsOcclusion scene in Unity from Assets/Scenes/HandsOcclusion.
4. Select the Main Camera object (XR Origin Prefab > XR Origin > Camera Offset).
5. Open AR Shader Occlusion in the Inspector window, and ensure Use Hand Mesh is enabled in Occlusion Sources.
6. Ensure OccludedHands is selected as the Hands Occlusion Material.

At runtime, the observed behavior should be that you can see your real-world hands and they occlude virtual game objects.