Android XR Extensions for Unity v1.4.0

Added

• Google Cloud:
  • New Android XR: Google Cloud feature, providing authentication strategies: API Key, Keyless, and Authentication Token.
    • You can use feature settings to automatically configure authentication at session start up. Or use TrySetAuthenticationAsync(XRAuthenticationStrategy, string) for manual setup.
    • For strategy support status at runtime, check Android XR devsite for the latest update.
• Geospatial:
  • New Android XR: Geospatial feature, enabling XRGeospatialManager to access geospatial capabilities. Including APIs:
    • XRGeospatialManager.OnStateChanged: the event invoked whenever the state changes.
    • XRGeospatialManager.TryCheckVPSAvailabilityAsync(double, double): attempts to check the availability of VPS near a given location asynchronously.
    • XRGeospatialManager.TryLocate(Pose, out XRGeospatialPoseResult): attempts to locate the geospatial pose for the given reference frame.
    • XRGeospatialManager.TryLocate(XRGeospatialPose, out XRPoseResult): attempts to locate the pose in Unity world space from a geospatial pose.
  • Added new sample Geospatial to demonstrate the usage around Geospatial features.
• Multimodal Face Tracking:
  • New Android XR (Extensions): Multimodal Face feature, which extends Unity's ARFace feature and exposes multimodal face tracking capabilities:
    • Requested Face Tracking Mode settings for this feature is used to configure the requested face tracking modality.
    • ARFaceManager.TryGetFaceTrackerMode(out XRFaceTrackerMode): extension method to retrieve the current tracking modality.
    • See more details in Unity OpenXR Android XR | Face Tracking
• Battery State Display:
  • New Battery State Display feature, to query the battery status and level of input devices:
    • XRBatteryStateDisplayFeature.TryGetBatteryStateDisplay(string, out BatteryStatus, out float): retrieves the battery status and level for a given input path.
  • Added new sample Controller Battery State to demonstrate how to query the battery state of the controllers.

Changed

• Samples updated to use URP material.
• Removed Android XR (Extensions): Image Tracking feature usage from ImageTracking sample.

Deprecated

• None.

Removed

• Removed Foveation (Legacy) feature and Foveation Sample. Please use Unity OpenXR Foveated Rendering from OpenXR Plugin 1.17.0 instead with XRDisplaySubsystem.foveatedRenderingLevel.
• Removed Android XR (Extensions): Image Tracking feature. For replacement, follow Unity OpenXR: Spatial Entities for the latest spatial entity equivalence.

Fixed

• None.