Using Google ChromeCast From an Android/iOS Game Built in Unity

Hello,

I am looking for some direction for building a game in Unity that allows a player to mirror or cast game results and cinematic's to a Google ChromeCast. I am surprisingly finding very little information about it. I thought it would be more ubiquitous given how many apps can cast to your TV these days. Unfortunately, when it comes to Unity, the only real information about it has been a depreciated Google plugin in the Asset Store from 2016 that obviously does not function.

I am hoping someone on the forum has experience creating there own plugin for ChromeCast or know of a tutorial for creating a connection to ChromeCast and can point me in the right direction.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

I'd also like to know how to do this. I found the following asset:

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/integration/google-cast-remote-display-plugin-beta-50168

But all the reviews from the last 3 years gave it 1 star and said it doesn't work in newer versions of Unity. The asset hasn't been updated since 2016.

Anyone know any more about this?

 

My 0.2 cents:
-Can't you just cast the whole desktop via chrome browser, why would that not work? Then just play the game.
-Other option is to import some c# sdk/library (quick search I find https://github.com/Tapanila/SharpCaster or https://github.com/kakone/GoogleCast) to your game source, make use that api to cast direct from the game, not sure of the legalities if that would be allowed, or even work, maybe you can post your results here.

 

The question was about casting from Android and iOS. Not sure if chrome browser app can do that to cast other apps on either of those platforms, but also we want users not to have to go to that trouble and cast directly from our apps.

Those links might be useful failing all else, but probably means writing separate plugins for each platform or some kind of per-platform integration to get this working in Unity. First one talks of Xamarin so not sure if that's usable from Unity.

 

Wow, can't believe Unity doesn't support this. This must be some kind of road block by Google. Who would buy their Stadia games if anyone could just cast a Steam or App game from their phone? It's basically the same thing as the Stadia.

 

If you find something, write. Also in search

 

Hi Guys
Did anybody ever get this working, particularly by building their own plugin for Unity? I'm trying to develop educational games/content for kids in a mobile app (ios and android) but need to be able to natively cast to chromecast. The handshake from mobile device to chromecast seems to use a pretty simple multi-cast discovery protocol and I didn't notice anything proprietary that would prevent a handshake from an app built similarly to the Cast SDK, or am I missing something?
Appreciate any guidance or help in this space folks.

 

It's a bit of a lift but you can use Unity Render Streaming plugin to stream to a browser window. There's a demo project for this and you can even interact with the app through the browser. It's built on WebRTC which Chromecast uses so there may be some direct Chromecast support possible too. You should ask on the URS forum.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.renderstreaming@3.1/manual/index.html
github: https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/UnityRenderStreaming
forum: https://forum.unity.com/forums/unity-render-streaming.413/

 

Cheers mgstauff, i'll look into the links and submit query on the URS forum. I really appreciate the help mate.