Azure Digital Twins and Unity overview
Azure Digital Twins is an Internet of Things (IoT) platform that enables you to create a digital representation of real-world things, places, business processes, and people. You can gain insights that help you drive better products, optimize operations and costs, and create breakthrough customer experiences.
Azure Digital Twins enables the creation of knowledge graphs based on digital models of entire environments. These environments could be buildings, factories, farms, energy networks, railways, stadiums, and more—even entire cities. You can use these digital models to gain insights that drive better products, optimize operations, reduce costs, and breakthrough customer experiences.
Create an Azure Digital Twins account
To create and use Azure services (including Azure Digital Twin), you need an Azure subscription. For more information on how to create an Azure account, see Create a free Azure account.
An Azure Resource Manager template (ARM template) has been created for you to set up your Azure Digital Twins development and operating environment. This ARM template contains all the required instructions to automatically build out your Azure service environment (for example, storage, applications, SignalR, and so on).
Unity overview
Originally known for its capabilities as a game engine, Unity is widely known as a cross-platform, real-time 3D platform used by game developers and industry professionals alike. Unity is the core development platform in this learning path that you'll use to create immersive Mixed Reality experiences. You'll use the Unity platform (Personal, Plus, Pro, or Enterprise versions) to build a 3D scene, import prebuilt assets/game objects known as Prefabs, connect the Unity Scene to Azure Digital Twins services that stream operational data, and then build a User Experience and deploy it to the HoloLens or VR to operate your Digital Twin.