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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

By : Jonathan Linowes
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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

By: Jonathan Linowes

Overview of this book

What is consumer “virtual reality�? Wearing a head-mounted display you view stereoscopic 3D scenes. You can look around by moving your head, and walk around using hand controls or motion sensors. You are engaged in a fully immersive experience. On the other hand, Unity is a powerful game development engine that provides a rich set of features such as visual lighting, materials, physics, audio, special effects, and animation for creating 2D and 3D games. Unity 5 has become the leading platform for building virtual reality games, applications and experiences for this new generation of consumer VR devices. Using a practical and project-based approach, this book will educate you about the specifics of virtual reality development in Unity. You will learn how to use Unity to develop VR applications which can be experienced with devices such as the Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard. We will then learn how to engage with virtual worlds from a third person and first person character point of view. Furthermore, you will explore the technical considerations especially important and possibly unique to VR. The projects in the book will demonstrate how to build a variety of VR experiences. You will be diving into the Unity 3D game engine via the interactive Unity Editor as well as C-Sharp programming. By the end of the book, you will be equipped to develop rich, interactive virtual reality experiences using Unity. So, let's get to it!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Unity Virtual Reality Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
What's Next?
Index

Jumping


When we created the trampoline, I mentioned that our implementation doesn't require you to jump to start bouncing. However, jumping is a fun idea, whether on a trampoline or not. Some games use the keyboard spacebar or a controller button to make your avatar jump. We'll now implement a simple jump gesture from the VR headset, which applies a vertical velocity to our movement.

Note

Note that this will not work with headsets that lack positional tracking, such as Google Cardboard and GearVR.

Feature: When I jump, my character in VR jumps.

To implement a jump gesture, we'll look for a rapid change in the Y position of the headset, which is very similar to the head nod gesture that we did in Chapter 5, World Space UI, (which checked for a rapid change in the x-axis angle). When a jump gesture is detected, we'll apply a vertical force to the first-person , as follows:

  1. With MeMyselfEye selected in Hierarchy, create the script by navigating to Add Component | New Script.

  2. Name it JumpGesture...