Unity virtual reality projects : explore the world of virtual reality by building immersive and fun VR projects using Unity 3D / Jonathan Linowes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Linowes, Jonathan, author.

Contributor:

EbscoHost (Servicio en línea)

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unity (Electronic resource).

Virtual reality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Explore the world of virtual reality by building immersive and fun VR projects using Unity 3D

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Linowes Jonathan: Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.

Summary:

Explore the world of Virtual Reality by building immersive and fun VR projects using Unity 3D About This Book Learn the basic principles of virtual reality applications and get to know how they differ from games and desktop apps Build various types of VR experiences, including diorama, first-person characters, riding on rails, 360 degree projections, and social VR A project-based guide that teaches you to use Unity to develop VR applications, which can be experienced with devices such as the Oculus Rift or Google Cardboard In Detail 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! What You Will Learn Create 3D scenes with Unity and Blender while learning about world space and scale Build and run VR applications for consumer headsets including Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard Build interactive environments with physics, gravity, animations, and lighting using the Unity engine Experiment with various user interface (UI) techniques that you can use in your VR applications Implement the first-person and third-person experiences that use only head motion gestures for input Create a...

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: Virtually Everything for Everyone

What is virtual reality to you?

Types of head-mounted displays

Desktop VR

Mobile VR

The difference between virtual reality and augmented reality

Applications versus games

What this book covers

Who are you?

Types of VR experiences

Technical skills that are important to VR

Summary

Chapter 2: Objects and Scale

Getting started with Unity

Starting a new Unity project

The Unity editor

The default world space

Creating a simple diorama

Adding a cube

Adding a plane

Adding a sphere and some material

Changing the scene view

Adding a photo

Coloring the ground plane

Measurement tools

Keeping a unit cube handy

Using a Grid Projector

Measuring the Ethan character

Importing from the Blender experiment

An introduction to Blender

A unit cube

A UV Texture image

Importing into Unity

A few observations

Chapter 3: VR Build and Run

VR device integration software

Unity's built-in VR support

The device-specific SDK

The OSVR project

WebVR

3D worlds

Creating the MeMyselfEye prefab

Build for the Oculus Rift

Build for Google Cardboard

The Android setup

The iOS setup

Installing the Cardboard Unity package

Adding the camera

The build settings

The Play Mode

Building and running in Android

Building and running in iOS

The device-independent clicker

How virtual reality really works

Stereoscopic 3D viewing

Head tracking

Chapter 4: Gaze-based Control

Ethan, the walker

Artificially intelligent Ethan

The Navmesh bakery

A random walker in the town

Interlude - a quick introduction to Unity programming

The RandomPosition script

Zombie-ize Ethan!

Go where I'm looking "The LookMoveTo script"

Adding a feedback cursor

Observations

If looks could kill

The KillTarget script

Adding particle effects

Cleaning up

Chapter 5: World Space UI

A reusable default canvas

The visor HUD

The reticle cursor

The windshield HUD

The game element UI

The info bubble

An in-game dashboard with input events

Creating a dashboard with buttons

Linking the water hose to the buttons

Activating buttons from the script

Look to highlight a button

Looking and then clicking to select

Looking and staring to select

A responsive object UI with head gestures

Using the head position

Using head gestures

Chapter 6: First-person Character

Understanding the Unity characters

Unity components

The Camera component

The Rigidbody component

The Character Controller component

Unity Standard Assets

ThirdPersonController

AIThirdPersonController

FirstPersonController

RigidBodyFPSController

Making a first person

Move in the direction you're looking

Keep your feet on the ground

Don't pass through solid objects

Don't fall off the edge of the world.

Stepping over small objects and handling uneven terrain

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 6, 2016).

Other Format:

Print version: Linowes, Jonathan, Unity virtual reality projects : explore the world of virtual reality by building immersive and fun VR projects using Unity 3D.

ISBN:

9781785286803

1785286803

OCLC:

922588929