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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)

Using an Input Manager button

Unity's legacy input manager includes a standard Input Manager for accessing traditional game controllers, keyboard, mouse, and mobile touchscreen input. This includes specific button presses and joystick axes. It also supports input from VR and AR input controllers mapped to logical input axes.

The Input Manager provides an abstraction layer over the physical input devices. You can define logical inputs, such as the Fire1 button to fire a gun, which may be mapped to a physical finger trigger button. Unity has a collection of preset inputs that are available when you create a new project. You can review and edit these settings in your project in the Input Manager settings window (Edit|Project Settings|Input Manager). For a general overview and details of the Unity Input Manager, see https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/ConventionalGameInput.html.

The hand controllers for VR often have a lot of different buttons and axes, and it can...