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Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022

By : Steven Antonio Christian
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Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022

By: Steven Antonio Christian

Overview of this book

Virtual reality (VR) has emerged as one of the most transformative mediums of the 21st century, finding applications in various industries, including gaming, entertainment, and education. Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022 takes you into the fascinating realm of VR, where creativity meets cutting-edge technology to bring tangible real-world applications to life. This immersive exploration not only equips you with the essential skills needed to craft captivating VR environments using Unity's powerful game engine but also offers a deeper understanding of the philosophy behind creating truly immersive experiences. Throughout the book, you’ll work with practical VR scene creation, interactive design, spatial audio, and C# programming and prepare to apply these skills to real-world projects spanning art galleries, interactive playgrounds, and beyond. To ensure your VR creations reach their full potential, the book also includes valuable tips on optimization, guaranteeing maximum immersion and impact for your VR adventures. By the end of this book, you’ll have a solid understanding of VR’s versatility and how you can leverage the Unity game engine to create groundbreaking projects.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Part 1: Philosophy and Basics of Understanding Virtual Reality
3
Part 2: Technical Skills for Building VR Experiences in Unity (Assets, GameObjects, Scripts, and Components)
12
Part 3: Projects: Putting Skills Together
21
Part 4: Final Touches

Recording Virtual Reality Videos

In this chapter, we’re going to be building on what we've already done with our animated show by utilizing the animation in a variety of different ways. The best part about animation is that it allows you to create experiences in VR, but then also record those as videos that you could play on a variety of different platforms. These platforms could be a local storage device, such as a mobile phone or a computer playing a video through a media player, or you could upload the video to a service such as YouTube or Vimeo and play it as a strip on a streaming platform. Since Unity is a real-time rendering engine, you can play that animation in real time, as we saw in the previous chapter. But you’re not limited to that, and that’s the best part about working in Unity and working on VR experiences. The same content that we create for VR can be rendered and saved as a video to play as a video file, or ported to a console to be played...