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Building with Unity

Use our development tools to create immersive mixed reality experiences for users in Unity.

Choose your first project

Start building interactive and immersive experiences for Meta Horizon OS with Unity
Build your first VR app
Set up a Unity 3D project that runs on Meta Quest VR headsets.
Build a Mixed Reality App (No code)
Use Building Blocks to add passthrough and place virtual objects in your room.
Go controller-free with hand tracking
Build a hand tracked UI with buttons, sliders, and toggles.
Test without a headset
Run and debug your VR app on desktop with XR Simulator.
Create your first interactions
Follow the getting started tutorial for Interaction SDK
Build your experience on the Meta Horizon Store
Build, plan, and launch confidently on the Meta Horizon Store by leveraging Meta’s tools, best practices, and community resources.

Explore features

Explore and discover different Unity features that can bring your creative vision to life
Explore SDK features
Explore Meta XR SDK features with the in-editor Building Blocks tool.
Interaction SDK
Access and handle user input in a Horizon OS app built in Unity.
Movement SDK
Use body tracking, face tracking, and eye tracking to bring a user’s physical movements into the metaverse.
Voice SDK
Bring voice interactions to your app experiences.
Audio SDK
Add spatial audio to make the user's experience even more immersive.
Mixed Reality Utility Kit
Integrate mixed reality features in your spatially-aware app.

Accelerate development with these tools

Use our developer tools to develop, test, and debug your apps easily
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Decrease your iteration time by launching the app you develop in Unity directly from the Editor to your device.
Building Blocks
This tool speeds up development with a library of current features that you can install quickly.
Meta XR Simulator
This tool makes it easy to simulate a VR or MR experience for hassle-free development and testing.
Meta Quest Developer Hub
Streamline your MR development workflow with this desktop companion app, featuring device management, performance analysis, and more.
AI tools
Accelerate your Unity development for Meta Quest with AI-assisted tools that help you write code, debug issues on-device, and navigate SDK documentation — all without leaving your editor.

Showcases

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Explore our wide range of features through fully functional sample apps.
Spirit Sling
Spirit Sling
Spirit Sling is a social mixed reality (MR) app created to show developers how to build exciting tabletop games that give users a reason to be together in MR.
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Phanto
Phanto is a Unity reference app, showcasing the latest Presence Platform features, highlighting scene mesh, Scene Model, and Scene API objects.
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Cryptic Cabinet
Demonstrates the possibilities of MR using the Meta SDK packages for Unity.