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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)

Optimizing your scene with static objects

Another way of optimizing your scene is to let Unity pre-compute a lot of the processing work in advance rather than at runtime. You can do this by informing Unity that specific objects will not change or move in the scene. This is accomplished by defining these game objects as static and then baking them into specific Unity system contexts, including lighting, occlusion, batching, navigation, and reflection probes. In the top-right of the Inspector window for each game object is a Static checkbox that can be used to set the object to Static for all Unity systems that can use it. Alternatively, you can choose the down arrow to select the static setting for individual systems, as shown in the following screenshot:

Ordinarily, if you're going to make an object Static, go ahead and check Everything, unless you know you need to refine it. The specific Static flags are as follows:

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