Unity 5.2, Windows Universal apps, and Raspberry Pi

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Just wanted to do a quick update…I was curious if Unity’s Universal App support in 5.2 would mean that the Windows 10 IOT on Raspberry Pi2 devices would all work together. I just confirmed on a simple, static scene, that I could indeed deploy the unity app over to the pi and render. The scene is just a sphere with the camera, but this means that all of the dependancies and such transferred over and launched. I’m excited, but cautious at this point.

I need to test performance, input, audio, etc. next. For now I just wanted to share what I’d found out.

Note: I couldn’t get an appx packaged over to the pi…but I believe this is a config issue on my end. This was done using Visual Studio’s remote deployment.

The project was created as a Windows Store app, with the ‘C# project’ setting checked. I then built, opened it up in VS, and remote deployed. Hoping this info is helpful to others that want to explore this route.

Thanks,
Joe

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It is definitely expected to work. If something does not work - bug report away :).

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Mmmmm, native Raspberry Pi support via Windows 10 Universal App support. I had been hoping this would work. To hear confirmation is very encouraging. Tasty.

It is unfortunate that this won’t work with the older model Raspberry Pi B+. (which I own) But I was already aware that only the more recent versions of the Raspberry Pi were going to work with Windows 10 Universal Apps, so it doesn’t come as a surprise. I would love to hear more accounts of how well Unity performs on the Raspberry Pi via this deployment method. The Pi is a great micro-platform for integrated projects.