TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Unity

Score9.4 out of 10

18 Reviews and Ratings

Get a Demo

What is Unity?

Unity Technologies headquartered in San Francisco offers the Unity real-time 3D and 2D development platform.

Categories & Use Cases

Reviews

What users are saying about Unity.
View all reviews

Loving Unity and its tools

Incentivized
Griffin FilsView profile
Director, Studio Operations at Cottage Productions (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I currently use unity for architectural visualization and virtual production. One of the best use cases for us is to be able to utilize our existing 3d renderings and create a 1 to 1 environment that you can walk through in virtual reality. This has given both the designers and owners a better perspective on what is being built. This has also been utilized in pre-construction meetings to determine any underlying design issues and catch them before there are issues in the field. This has saved thousands of dollars and a tone of time in our schedule not having to deal with change orders.

Pros

  • 3D Rendering
  • 3D walk through in Virtual Reality
  • Interactive menus and UI within the environments

Cons

  • A larger marketplace
  • More Assets added to the base software
  • Better instructional videos

Most Important Features

  • Rendering
  • VR capability
  • AR Capability
  • Multi Platform distribution

Return on Investment

  • Saving money on construction design costs
  • Saved money on finding issues before they arise
  • Created a platform to per-cue future investments

Alternatives Considered

Unreal Engine

Other Software Used

AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator CC, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

Unity Review

Josue Vargas
Applications Engineer in Engineering at IPN (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Unity to develop school projects, especially 3D videogames with virtual reality, the project that was developed for us, had the purpose to help people who suffer from Asperger Syndrome. However, we are currently trying to implement those games on 3D and mobile with Unity. We did it for virtual reality because of the interest and features this new technology has to offer.

Pros

  • Collaborative features.
  • New technologies implementation features.
  • Easy to use
  • Friendly user interface
  • Learning tutorials.

Cons

  • Implement emulators for those technologies that are expensive.
  • Some of the packages for installation are wrong.

Most Important Features

  • Collaborative repository.
  • Easy VR Features implementation.
  • Clear Learning Process.

Return on Investment

  • Lower costs.
  • Progress delay due to collaborative features.
  • Quality projects development.

Alternatives Considered

Unreal Engine

Other Software Used

Unreal Engine

Unity Provides Professional Experiences

Incentivized
Sarah Ciras RousseauView profile
High School Special Educator at Landmark School (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • The asset library has a lot of great options
  • The educational licensing is comprehensive

Cons

  • The user interface is very busy, which can be overwhelming.
  • Navigation and organization can be challenging to manage.

Return on Investment

  • Allows students to create professional products.
  • Learn an industry standard.

Alternatives Considered

CLion

Other Software Used

Adobe Illustrator CC, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Phone Gap

Make a game and sell it with Unity on Google Play

Andy TurnerView profile
App Developer in Finance and Accounting at Google Play (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Billing
  • Quality
  • Security

Cons

  • Integration of disparate technologies required to build an application.
  • Streamline the versioning process using the hub, it's great so far.
  • Keep improving the ML learning models for AI.

Return on Investment

  • Negative ROI.
  • Learning improvement.
  • Business learning.

Alternatives Considered

Android Studio and Xamarin

Other Software Used

Android Studio, Visual Studio IDE, Google App Engine

The best game engine for independent studios and solo devs

Incentivized
Raphael SanguineteView profile
Sócio-fundador e Produtor Executivo in Product Management at Rebuliço (1-10 employees employees)

Pros

  • Great and simple interface.
  • Good pricing model for independent developers.
  • Powerful and flexible tool for making video games.
  • Great library of assets to save time in the asset store.

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • Unity has a positive impact because, as of now, we don't have to pay for our license because we do not go beyond the revenue roof.
  • We cannot say more than that because the games that we are producing in Unity are not yet launched.