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Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects - Third Edition

By : Jonathan Linowes
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Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects - Third Edition

By: Jonathan Linowes

Overview of this book

This third edition of the Unity Virtual Reality (VR) development guide is updated to cover the latest features of Unity 2019.4 or later versions - the leading platform for building VR games, applications, and immersive experiences for contemporary VR devices. Enhanced with more focus on growing components, such as Universal Render Pipeline (URP), extended reality (XR) plugins, the XR Interaction Toolkit package, and the latest VR devices, this edition will help you to get up to date with the current state of VR. With its practical and project-based approach, this book covers the specifics of virtual reality development in Unity. You'll learn how to build VR apps that can be experienced with modern devices from Oculus, VIVE, and others. This virtual reality book presents lighting and rendering strategies to help you build cutting-edge graphics, and explains URP and rendering concepts that will enable you to achieve realism for your apps. You'll build real-world VR experiences using world space user interface canvases, locomotion and teleportation, 360-degree media, and timeline animation, as well as learn about important VR development concepts, best practices, and performance optimization and user experience strategies. By the end of this Unity book, you'll be fully equipped to use Unity to develop rich, interactive virtual reality experiences.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Exploring Interactive Spaces

Successful virtual reality (VR) applications put the player into a believable place and allow them to explore and interact with objects in the environment. In this chapter, we'll explore the creation of an interactive space and introduce some new development topics, including level design, 3D modeling, and data management, to implement an interactive space you can experience in VR. The scene is a photo art gallery where you can showcase your own photos. We'll design a simple floor plan that your visitors can move around via teleportation.

You will learn how to use ProBuilder, Unity's built-in level design package, to create an architectural space, including extruding shapes to make walls, doors, and windows. You will also learn about data management using lists, data structures, and scriptable objects. In addition, you will gain more experience with lighting, materials, interaction...