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Complete Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development with Unity

By : Jesse Glover, Jonathan Linowes
Book Image

Complete Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development with Unity

By: Jesse Glover, Jonathan Linowes

Overview of this book

Unity is the leading platform to develop mixed reality experiences because it provides a great pipeline for working with 3D assets. Using a practical and project-based approach, this Learning Path educates you about the specifics of AR and VR development using Unity 2018 and Unity 3D. You’ll learn to integrate, animate, and overlay 3D objects on your camera feed, before moving on to implement sensor-based AR applications. You’ll explore various concepts by creating an AR application using Vuforia for both macOS and Windows for Android and iOS devices. Next, you’ll learn how to develop VR applications that can be experienced with devices, such as Oculus and Vive. You’ll also explore various tools for VR development: gaze-based versus hand controller input, world space UI canvases, locomotion and teleportation, timeline animation, and multiplayer networking. You’ll learn the Unity 3D game engine via the interactive Unity Editor and C# programming. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll be fully equipped to develop rich, interactive mixed reality experiences using Unity. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Unity Virtual Reality Projects - Second Edition by Jonathan Linowes • Unity 2018 Augmented Reality Projects by Jesse Glover
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we helped you set up your system for VR development and built your project for your target platform and devices. We discussed the different levels of device integration software and then installed software that was appropriate for your target VR device onto your development machine and asset packages into your Unity project. While we have summarized the steps, all of these steps are well documented on the device manufacturers sites and in the Unity manual and we encourage you to look at all the relevant documentation.

At this point, you should be able to preview your VR scene in Unity Editor's Play mode. And you should be able to build and run your project and install and run it as a binary directly on your device.

In the next chapter, we'll work more on the diorama scene and explore techniques to control objects in virtual reality. From a third-person perspective, we'll interact with objects in the scene (Ethan, the zombie) and implement look-based control.