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Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects

Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects - Third Edition

By : Jonathan Linowes
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Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects

Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects

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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.
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Using environment lighting

The Environment lighting settings offer the ability to specify contributors to environmental illumination including a Skybox and Fog. A Skybox is a panoramic texture representing the sky that is drawn behind all objects in a scene as if at a far distance. We used the Wispy Skyboxes, for example, in previous chapters, and Skyboxes are discussed in more detail in Chapter 11, Using All 360 Degrees. More than rendering how the sky looks, with the Environment Lighting settings opened (using Window | Rendering | Lighting | Environment), you can specify if and how much the Skybox texture contributes to the Global Illumination and set its intensity level, as shown in the following screenshot:

For more details on using these and other settings in this window, consider the following pages from the Unity Manual:

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