Unity vs. Wikitude Augmented Reality SDK

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Unity
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Unity Technologies headquartered in San Francisco offers the Unity real-time 3D and 2D development platform.
$200
per person/per month
Wikitude Augmented Reality SDK
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Austrian company Wikitude provides the Wikitude Augmented Reality SDK, an AR development platform.N/A
Pricing
UnityWikitude Augmented Reality SDK
Editions & Modules
Enterprise
$200
per person/per month
Plus
$399
per person/per year
Pro
1,800
per person/per year
Personal
Free
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
UnityWikitude Augmented Reality SDK
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Community Pulse
UnityWikitude Augmented Reality SDK
User Ratings
UnityWikitude Augmented Reality SDK
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(11 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
UnityWikitude Augmented Reality SDK
Likelihood to Recommend
Unity Technologies
Unity is excellent for 2D and 3D games and educational experiences. It is well-suited for VR and AR development. It is also a great platform for mobile games. It is less-suited for non-game purposes (although it can certainly be used for those as well), or educational experiences. It is also less-suited for AR experiences that are highly complex, where you will probably want to write the native code in Android Studio or Xcode, as the case may be. It is theoretically less-suited for cases where performance is a huge concern as well, although, in my experience, performance has never been a problem.
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Wikitude
The augmentations and detection of images are pretty good. There are no unnecessary effects. Efficient setup and documentation are pretty good. And most importantly good support from services. We can even use this without deep knowledge about AR because SDK makes it simpler for us to use.
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Pros
Unity Technologies
  • Unity is a multiplatform game engine. It has more than 20 options for exporting your game, ranging from desktop, mobile, console, web and, lately, VR and AR. Unity was one of the first game engines able to export games playable on internet browsers and it helped to cement the World Wide Web as a place fit for gaming.
  • Unity has a very smooth learning curve for beginners. It is easy to start and soon you are seeing some tangible results of your efforts. The game engine has all sorts of helpers and shortcuts to facilitate some frequent tasks in game development.
  • Another of Unity's advantage is the access to Assets Store from within the game engine, allowing the user to import instantly objects, scripts and textures from the store into their projects. Such easy access to these elements from inside a project greatly enhances speed production and is particularly helpful to beginners.
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Wikitude
  • Cross-Device Publishing
  • Content Creation
  • Augmented images
  • For Training / Education
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Cons
Unity Technologies
  • The Linux version of the Unity editor can be improved.
  • There are some aspects in the development process that Unity is not as good as Unreal Engine.
  • Some of the core functions of the tool, like the Mecanin State Machines could have some improvements to match the competition.
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Wikitude
  • Model target detection have low accuracy.
  • All features are not free
  • Not a big community. So not getting more update
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Usability
Unity Technologies
It is good for beginners compared to other software. There is a lot of documentation and a huge community of developers, so it is easy to find the support and information you might need, especially if you are just starting out with the software. Plus, it is free to start.
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Wikitude
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Support Rating
Unity Technologies
The support of unity is what distinguish its from other platforms. You can download any assets and that asset library will guide you and if its still not work for you then you can ask in their community where there are tons of professional developer waiting to answer your query. So yah Unity support staff is what impress me the most and I would give it the 10/10.
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Wikitude
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Alternatives Considered
Unity Technologies
We love utilizing unreal engines but we seem to have a better use case for the architectural visualization side of things. This has given us the ability to find better more photo-realistic assets from not only the marketplace but 3rd party sites that have a unity bases file to work off of.
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Wikitude
It was easy to understand and it has many examples in their SDK. It has good service support so if you are stuck at anything then you will get the help of team
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Return on Investment
Unity Technologies
  • Unity has allowed us to serve customers which we would otherwise not be able to serve, which has brought in new markets and along with it helped us achieve our business goals of providing top-notch AR and VR experiences.
  • Unity has also allowed us to rapidly produce educational materials which we use for teaching VR and AR to students, so that's been a big win.
  • There have been no negative impacts from Unity besides the initial upfront cost of learning the software, although the learning curve was very accessible. Our investment of time in learning this tool and putting it into practice has paid off in our ability to provide rich, immersive AR and VR experiences for our clients.
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Wikitude
  • Its easy to understand so we can save time in developing
  • Its not free to use all features. So use it wisely.
  • It doesnt require deep knowledge so one can easily code it with help of sdk examples
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