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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)

Building for GearVR and Oculus Go

To build for Samsung GearVR and Oculus Go mobile devices, you will use the Oculus SDK. These are both Android-based devices so you must set up your development machine for Android development as described previously (Oculus Go is binary and compatible with GearVR). Then complete the following steps in Unity:

  1. Configure your Unity Build Settings to target the Android platform.
  2. In Player Settings, under XR Settings, set Virtual Reality Enabled
  3. Ensure Oculus is at the top of the Virtual Reality SDKs list.
  4. Download and Install the Oculus Integration package from the Asset Store, as instructed previously.

Now we will add the OVR camera rig to the MeMyselfEye object in our scene. These steps are like the Standalone Oculus Rift setup described previously. In this case, you can use the same MeMyselfEye prefab for both Rift and GearVR.

  1. Look in your Project...