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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)

Enhancing your scenes with post-processing effects

So, we've seen how the Render Pipeline can use environment lighting, PBR Materials, Light GameObjects, and Probes to render realistic views of your scene. But wait! There's more! You can add post-processing effects to the fullscreen camera buffer image before it appears on the screen. Post-processing effects are often used to simulate the visual properties of a physical camera and film. Examples include Bloom (fringe lighting extending the border of extremely bright light), Color Grading (adjusts the color and luminance of the final images, like an Instagram filter), and Anti-aliasing (removing jaggy edges). You can stack a series of available effects that are processed in sequence.

For example, the Vignette effect darkens the edges of the image and leaves the center brighter. In VR, during a fast-paced scene (such as a racing game or roller coaster), or when teleporting, using a Vignette can help reduce motion...