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Unity Virtual Reality Projects - Second Edition

By : Jonathan Linowes
Book Image

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)

Polling for clicks

The simplest way to obtain user input is just get the current data from an input component. We've already seen this using the Input class and VR SDK. Presently, we will write our own input component that maps the Unity (or SDK) input to our own simple API in MyInputController. Then, we'll write a BalloonController that polls the input, as illustrated:

Our own button interface functions

You may recall that the MeMyselfEye player rig may have device-specific toolkit child objects for a particular VR SDK. The version for OpenVR, for example, has their [CameraRig] prefab. The version for Daydream has the Daydream Player prefab. It makes sense to add our MyInputController component to MeMyselfEye,...