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Unity Virtual Reality Projects - Second Edition

By : Jonathan Linowes
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Unity Virtual Reality Projects - Second Edition

By: Jonathan Linowes

Overview of this book

Unity has become the leading platform for building virtual reality games, applications, and experiences for this new generation of consumer VR devices. Unity Virtual Reality Projects walks you through a series of hands-on tutorials and in-depth discussions on using the Unity game engine to develop VR applications. With its practical and project-based approach, this book will get you up to speed with the specifics of VR development in Unity. You will learn how to use Unity to develop VR applications that can be experienced with devices such as Oculus, Daydream, and Vive. Among the many topics and projects, you will explore gaze-based versus hand-controller input, world space UI canvases, locomotion and teleportation, software design patterns, 360-degree media, timeline animation, and multiplayer networking. You will learn about the Unity 3D game engine via the interactive Unity Editor, and you will also learn about C# programming. By the end of the book, you will be fully equipped to develop rich, interactive VR experiences using Unity.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Fun with photo globes

To begin exploring these concepts, let's have a little fun as we apply an ordinary (rectangular) image as a texture to a sphere, just to see what it does and how bad it looks. Then, we'll use a properly distorted equirectangular photosphere texture.

Crystal balls

Auntie Em! Auntie Em! cried Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, as she gazed into a crystal ball seeking help from the Wicked Witch. Let's consider making a crystal ball using Unity, my little pretty!

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...