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December 22, 2014

Unity Free for Oculus Mobile Development

Hey everyone,

Just to let you know that we’ve made available a new version of our Unity integration for mobile development that works with Unity Free!

You can find the updated Unity plugin along with details on how to unzip the files at the following link.

https://developer.oculus.com/downloads/#sdk=mobile

Without some of the optimizations that Unity Pro provides, such as batching, it may be challenging, with Unity Free on mobile, to achieve the kind of framerate that good VR requires but this very much depends on your use case.

Hoping you get the time over the holidays to build something great!

All the best from the Oculus team.
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    Up and Coming
    December 22, 2014
    The link only shows version 0.4.0, released Nov 12th.... am I being too eager?
    Inspiring
    December 22, 2014
    The file was updated but (for reasons I don't understand) the upload date and version number are the same.
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    Up and Coming
    December 23, 2014
    Perfect timing!! :D
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    Participant
    December 23, 2014
    If we are already running 0.4.4 with Unity Pro is there any good reason to grab this?
    Inspiring
    December 23, 2014
    "benthroop" wrote:
    If we are already running 0.4.4 with Unity Pro is there any good reason to grab this?

    I think Unity Free was the only major addition, but it probably wouldn't hurt to upgrade if you want.
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    Participant
    December 23, 2014
    I can compile my project, create APK, install APK... however upon running on note 4... it crashes. I noticed the unity ide required me to install android sdk for 5.0.. however the phone runs 4.4. Maybe this is why ?
    Participant
    December 24, 2014
    If you're already on Unity Pro there is no need to get this update for the Mobile SDK.

    Please also remember that for Gear VR development, you still need to have hardware that supports development with the Mobile SDK. Follow the setup instructions included in the SDK documentation. In particular, you will still need to create an Oculus Signature file before building and running your apk.
    Up and Coming
    January 26, 2015
    Hello,

    It looks like some of us are still unable to run successfully gear vr applications built with Unity free (viewtopic.php?f=67&t=18032&start=60#p239138) including provided sdk examples.

    Do you reproduce this issue ?
    Inspiring
    January 26, 2015
    This is something we are still looking into. Sorry for the wait.
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    Up and Coming
    January 28, 2015
    Ok no problem, please don't hesitate to keep us informed :) Thanks !