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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)

Building a Paddleball game

To build a paddle ball game that lets you use hand-controlled paddles for hitting the ball, we'll make simple game paddles from geometric primitives, parented by the hand controllers in your player rig. Let's serve the balls a little further out in front of you so that they're not dropping directly on top of your head, which is more reachable. To set up the scene, use the following steps to build upon the previous one, moving the drop point and limiting serves to one ball at a time:

  1. You can save the current scene with a new name, Scene-09-Paddleball , by clicking File | Save As
  2. Disable or delete the headCubewe previously added as a child of theMain Camera, if present
  3. Modify the Drop Point forward and to the side at Position (0.6, 10, 0.6)
  4. Modify the Ball Game Controllerto serve only one ball at a time. A quick way to do this is to limit theObject Poolerto size one. Set Ball Game Controller...