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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

Crystal balls


To begin, let's have a little fun while we apply a regular rectangular image as a texture to a sphere, just to see what it does and how bad it looks.

First, set up a new scene for this chapter by performing the following steps:

  1. Create a new scene by navigating to File | New Scene. Then, navigate to File | Save Scene As... and name it 360Degrees.

  2. Create a new plane by navigating to GameObject | 3D Object | Plane and reset its transformation using the Transform component's gear icon | Reset.

  3. Insert an instance of MeMyselfEye from the project prefab, set its Position to (0, 1, -1), and delete the default Main Camera.

Now, create the first sphere and write a rotator script while you're at it. I'm using the EthanSkull.png image that was provided with this book (drag and drop it into the Project Assets/Textures folder). Then, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a new sphere by navigating to GameObject | 3D Object | Sphere, reset its transformation using the Transform component's gear icon...