Google ARCore XR Plug-in

Use the Google ARCore XR Plug-in package to enable ARCore support in your AR Foundation project. This package implements the following AR features using ARCore 1.42:

Feature	Description
Session	Enable, disable, and configure AR on the target platform.
Device tracking	Track the device's position and rotation in physical space.
Camera	Render images from device cameras and perform light estimation.
Plane detection	Detect and track flat surfaces.
Image tracking	Detect and track 2D images.
Face tracking	Detect and track human faces.
Point clouds	Detect and track feature points.
Ray casts	Cast rays against tracked items.
Anchors	Track arbitrary points in space.
Environment probes	Generate cubemaps of the environment.
Occlusion	Occlude AR content with physical objects and perform human segmentation.

Unsupported features

This package does not implement the following AR features, as they are not supported by ARCore 1.42:

Feature	Description
Bounding Box detection	Detect and track bounding boxes of 3D objects.
Object tracking	Detect and track 3D objects.
Body tracking	Detect and track a human body.
Meshing	Generate meshes of the environment.
Participants	Track other devices in a shared AR session.

Install the Google ARCore XR Plug-in

When you enable the Google ARCore XR Plug-in in Project Settings > XR Plug-in Management, Unity automatically installs this package if necessary. Refer to Enable the ARCore plug-in for instructions.

You can also install and uninstall this package using the Package Manager. Installing through the Package Manager does not automatically enable the plug-in. In this case you must enable it in Project Settings > XR Plug-in Management.

Requirements

Version 6.0 of the Google ARCore XR Plug-in is compatible with the following versions of the Unity Editor:

• Unity 6 (6000.0).

Note

You can visit the Unity Forum for more information on the Unity 6 New Naming Convention.