Unity Engine

Hi Everyone, Today, we published our blog post What’s Next: A Look at Unity’s 2025 Roadmap and our roadmap presentation from earlier this week at GDC, where we shared an overview of the Unity Engine roadmap for 2025. W…

Hello Unity community! We are excited to announce the upcoming experimental package release of Graph Toolkit, a graph authoring framework designed to help you build custom node-based tools more easily and efficiently. T…

Hi, this is my first full update since taking on the Product Manager responsibilities for Animation. I’ll do my best to keep up the level of quality set by my predecessor, @UnityChinny. The last big update was tied to t…

Hello Unity developers, We are thrilled to present the latest updates to the Unity 6 Multiplayer roadmap! Coming Soon Host Migration for Netcode for Entities Host Migration for Netcode for Entities is now accessible as…

Hello, all – the ECS team is here to share our next roadmap update! :sparkles: What is DOTS? Unity’s Data-Oriented Tech Stack (DOTS) is a combination of technologies that work together to deliver a data-oriented app…

Dear Unity Developers, We are excited to announce that the experimental Host Migration feature in Netcode for Entities (com.unity.netcode@1.5.0-exp.101) is now available! We’ve introduced host migration support in Netc…

We are excited to share that as of OpenXR 1.14, Unity’s OpenXR Meta 2.1 package has achieved outcome parity with the Oculus XR plugin, allowing for migration towards a more cross-platform development experience. OpenXR …

New VFX Graph Learning Templates in Unity 6 The VFX Graph team is thrilled to introduce our brand-new VFX Graph Learning Templates, available for import now in Unity 6. Whether you’re an experienced VFX artist or someone…

Per Apple’s policy, starting April 2025, all visionOS apps uploaded to the App Store Connect must be built with visionOS 2 SDK. As such, Unity will be deprecating support for visionOS 1.x starting April 2025. Developers…

The latest release of Unity’s official support for visionOS 2.3 is now available for all Unity Pro, Enterprise and Industry subscribers on Unity 6 via our 2.2 packages. Highlights for Release 2.2.4 Added Windows suppor…

We’re excited to announce the availability of Play to Device, a powerful feature that drastically improves iteration and debugging workflows. Play to Device enables you to: Efficiently iterate and live preview your con…

San Francisco is far. What if we brought a bit of GDC to you instead? Join us during GDC 2025 for an exclusive week-long Unity Office Hours event (formerly known as Dev Blitz Days), starting on 2025-03-17T12:00:00Z (UTC) …

Unity UNET Service Final Shutdown FAQ What is the current status of UNET? UNET has been in a deprecated state since 2018. The service has been maintained in a limited capacity to support existing games, but will be compl…

Hi Unity Developers, We are introducing an update to UnityTLS, which both Transport and UnityWebRequest depend on, to ensure a more secure networking experience. This update will remove support for the deprecated TLS 1.…

You may have noticed some recent changes in the main DOTS samples repo (EntityComponentSystemSamples). It’s all listed in the root README, but here I’ll explain what’s changed. First, new and existing beginner material …

Hello everyone! The UI team is here to share a new roadmap update! But first, a quick introduction :waving_hand: - I’m Hersh, the new Product Manager for UI, taking the torch from Benoit Dupuis (@benoitd_unity) as he mo…

Greetings from the Unity Graphics team, We are happy to share that Unity 6.1 introduces a new Shading Rate API, supported on DirectX12, Vulkan and compatible consoles. This API can be used to control the shading rate of…

Hello folks, We are excited to bring support for future 16 KB compatible devices to the Unity Engine! With Android 15, Google introduced support for 16 KB memory page sizes in the OS. It is expected that device manufac…

Hi everyone! (Update - 18th March - version 1.0.1 is now available with some initial bug fixes!) We’re excited to introduce you to version 1.0.0 of Unity Project Auditor, an analysis tool designed to help you catch iss…

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the Unity Mixed Reality Multiplayer Tabletop Template! This template serves as a starting point for cross-platform mixed reality development, illustrating how to set up a project…

Greetings from the Unity Graphics team. Unity 6 introduces a new and powerful Pipeline State Object (PSO) tracing and precooking workflow, to achieve a smoother and stutter-less player experience. This set of APIs prov…

Unity VFX Graph: Collision Improvements and Features in Unity 6 Welcome to our discussion on the recent upgrades to the VFX Graph in Unity 6. This topic focuses on the new collision improvements and features. Let’s break…

We’re thrilled to announce that experimental support for Android XR is now available! Whether you’re ready to port an app or create something new, Android XR empowers you to build immersive experiences using the tools yo…

Who moderates this forum? This forum is moderated by the Unity XR team, most actively by engineers who work on AR Foundation and related packages. Can I send a direct message? Unity employees will not respond to direc…

Hey, We sometimes get requests for the early versions of the Unity Editor. Please note that we don’t support downgrading a project to an older editor version. However, you can import projects into a new editor version.…

Introduction At WWDC 2023 Apple announced a number of additions to its privacy program, including the introduction of Privacy Manifests. Since then, we have been collecting your questions, as well as seeking clarity fr…

Hey fellow Shader Artists! Not so long ago, I posted about Shader Graphs Properties , and in a similar fashion, I wanted to share some information about Keywords and Branching to save everyone a long read through the do…