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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

By : Jonathan Linowes
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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

By: Jonathan Linowes

Overview of this book

What is consumer “virtual reality�? Wearing a head-mounted display you view stereoscopic 3D scenes. You can look around by moving your head, and walk around using hand controls or motion sensors. You are engaged in a fully immersive experience. On the other hand, Unity is a powerful game development engine that provides a rich set of features such as visual lighting, materials, physics, audio, special effects, and animation for creating 2D and 3D games. Unity 5 has become the leading platform for building virtual reality games, applications and experiences for this new generation of consumer VR devices. Using a practical and project-based approach, this book will educate you about the specifics of virtual reality development in Unity. You will learn how to use Unity to develop VR applications which can be experienced with devices such as the Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard. We will then learn how to engage with virtual worlds from a third person and first person character point of view. Furthermore, you will explore the technical considerations especially important and possibly unique to VR. The projects in the book will demonstrate how to build a variety of VR experiences. You will be diving into the Unity 3D game engine via the interactive Unity Editor as well as C-Sharp programming. By the end of the book, you will be equipped to develop rich, interactive virtual reality experiences using Unity. So, let's get to it!
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Unity Virtual Reality Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
11
What's Next?
Index

Build for the Oculus Rift


If you have a Rift, you've probably already downloaded Oculus Runtime, demo apps, and tons of awesome games. To develop for the Rift, you'll want to be sure that the Rift runs fine on the same machine on which you're using Unity.

Unity has built-in support for the Oculus Rift. You just need to configure your Build Settings..., as follows:

  1. From main menu bar, navigate to File | Build Settings....

  2. If the current scene is not listed under Scenes In Build, click on Add Current.

  3. Choose PC, Mac, & Linux Standalone from the Platform list on the left and click on Switch Platform.

  4. Choose your Target Platform OS from the Select list on the right (for example, Windows).

  5. Then, click on Player Settings... and go to the Inspector panel.

  6. Under Other Settings, check off the Virtual Reality Supported checkbox and click on Apply if the Changing editor vr device dialog box pops up.

To test it out, make sure that the Rift is properly connected and turned on. Click on the game Play button...