# AR Effects

Source: https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/features/ar_effects/

Tools for grounding your virtual content in the real world

NSDK provides real-time understanding of the physical world by computing depth & semantic data and generating meshes, which enables content to be **situated realistically** in the real world through occlusions.

### Platform: unity

Depth, Occlusion and Meshing work on any device, regardless of lidar capability, at greater distance than lidar-based AR.
These systems override and extend the base **AR Foundation** managers seamlessly, with no integration work needed if you already have a Unity AR Foundation project.
NSDK is also available natively for ARKit and ARCore.

### Platform: swift

Depth, Occlusion and Meshing work on any device, regardless of lidar capability, at greater distance than lidar-based AR.
These systems integrate smoothly with **ARKit**, enhancing the capabilities and quality of your AR application.

### Platform: kotlin

Depth, Occlusion and Meshing work on any device, regardless of lidar capability, at greater distance than lidar-based AR.
These systems integrate smoothly with **ARCore**, enhancing the capabilities and quality of your AR application.

## Features

[Depth](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/features/depth): Bring your content to life in AR with these features.

[Occlusion](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/features/occlusion): Let your content realistically inhabit the world.

[Meshing](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/features/meshing): Anchor your AR experience to the real world.

[Scene Segmentation](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/features/semantics): Recognize the physical world.

## Guides

[Access and Display Depth Information as a Shader](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/how-to/ar/depth/display_depth)

### Platform: unity

[Add Physics to Meshes](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/how-to/ar/meshing/meshing_physics_real_world)

[Convert a Screen Point to a Real-World Position Using Depth](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/how-to/ar/depth/convert_point_world_position)

[How to Query Scene Segmentation and Highlight Semantic Channels](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/how-to/ar/query_semantics_real_objects)

[How to Exclude Semantic Channels with Mesh Filtering](https://www.nianticspatial.com/docs/nsdk/how-to/ar/meshing/semantic_mesh_filtering)