Complete virtual reality and augmented reality development with unity : leverage the power of unity and become a pro at creating mixed reality applications / Jesse Glover and Jonathan Linowes.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Glover, Jesse, author.
• Linowes, Jonathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Virtual reality--Computer programs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (652 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Publishing Ltd, [2019]

Summary:

This Learning Path makes you an expert developer of AR and VR applications by teaching you everything - from the basic principles of AR application development to developing immersive and fun VR applications using Unity 3D and Unity 2018.

Contents:

• Intro
• Title Page
• Copyright
• About Packt
• Contributors
• 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
• How virtual reality really works
• Stereoscopic 3D viewing
• Head tracking
• Types of VR experiences
• Technical skills that are important to VR
• Summary
• Chapter 2: Content, Objects, and Scale
• Getting started with Unity
• Creating 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
• Using third-party content
• Creating 3D content with Blender
• An introduction to Blender
• A unit cube
• UV Texture image
• Importing into Unity
• A few observations
• Creating 3D content in VR
• Exporting and importing Tilt Brush models
• Publishing and importing using Google Poly
• Editing Unity in VR with EditorXR
• Setting up EditorXR
• Using EditorXR
• Chapter 3: VR Build and Run
• Unity VR Support and Toolkits
• Unity's built-in VR support
• Device-specific toolkits
• Application toolkits
• Web and JavaScript-based VR
• 3D worlds
• Enabling Virtual Reality for your platform
• Setting your target platform
• Setting your XR SDK
• Installing your device toolkit
• Creating the MeMyselfEye player prefab
• Building for SteamVR
• Building for Oculus Rift
• Building for Windows Immersive MR
• Setting up Windows 10 Developer mode
• Installing UWP support in Visual Studio
• UWP build.
• Setting up for Android devices
• Installing the Java Development Kit (JDK)
• Installing Android SDK
• Via Command Line Tools
• About your Android SDK root path location
• Installing USB device debugging and connection
• Configuring the Unity External Tools
• Configuring Unity Player Settings for Android
• Building for GearVR and Oculus Go
• Building for Google VR
• Google Daydream
• Google Cardboard
• Google VR Play Mode
• Setting up for iOS devices
• Have an Apple ID
• Install Xcode
• Configuring the Unity Player Settings for iOS
• Build And Run
• Chapter 4: Gaze-Based Control
• Ethan, the walker
• Artificially intelligent Ethan
• The NavMesh bakery
• A random walker in the town
• The RandomPosition script
• Zombie-ize" Ethan!
• Go where I'm looking
• The LookMoveTo script
• Adding a feedback cursor
• Observing through obstacles
• If looks could kill
• The KillTarget script
• Adding particle effects
• Cleaning up
• Short intro to Unity C# programming
• Chapter 5: Handy Interactables
• Setting up the scene
• Creating a balloon
• Making it a prefab
• Basic button input
• Using the Fire1 button
• OpenVR trigger button
• Daydream controller clicks
• Polling for clicks
• Our own button interface functions
• Creating and releasing balloons
• Inflating a balloon while pressed
• Using scriptable objects for input
• Creating the scriptable object
• Populating the input action object
• Accessing the input action object
• Simulation testing with scriptable objects
• Using Unity events for input
• Invoking our input action events
• Subscribing to input events
• Really using your hands
• Parenting balloons to your hand
• Popping balloons
• Interactable items
• Interactables using SteamVR Interaction System
• Interactables using Daydream VR Elements
• Summary.
• Chapter 6: World Space UI
• Studying VR design principles
• A reusable default canvas
• Visor HUD
• The reticle cursor
• The windshield HUD
• The game element UI
• Using TextMeshPro
• 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 starting to select
• Pointing and clicking with VR components
• Using Unity UI and SteamVR
• Using Unity UI and Daydream
• Building a wrist-based menu palette
• Chapter 7: Locomotion and Comfort
• Understanding Unity characters
• Unity components
• The Camera component
• The Rigidbody component
• The Character Controller component
• Unity Standard Assets
• ThirdPersonController
• AIThirdPersonController
• First-person FPSController
• RigidBodyFPSController
• Using glide locomotion
• 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
• Starting and stopping movement
• Adding comfort mode locomotion
• Other locomotion considerations
• Techniques for teleportation
• Looking to teleport
• Teleporting between surfaces
• Teleport spawn points
• Other teleport considerations
• Teleportation toolkits
• Teleporting with SteamVR Interaction System
• Teleporting with Daydream Elements
• Resetting center and position
• Supporting room scale teleportation
• Managing VR motion sickness
• Chapter 8: Playing with Physics and Fire
• Unity physics
• Bouncy balls
• Managing game objects
• Destroying fallen objects
• Setting a limited lifetime
• Implementing an object pool
• Headshot game
• Paddle ball game.
• Deflector versus paddle
• Shooter ball game
• Juicing the scene
• Great balls of fire
• Skull environment
• Audio synchronization
• Chapter 9: Animation and VR Storytelling
• Composing our story
• Gathering the assets
• Creating the initial scene
• Timelines and Audio tracks
• Using a Timeline to activate objects
• Recording an Animation Track
• A growing tree
• A growing bird
• Using the Animation editor
• A wafting nest
• Animating other properties
• Animating lights
• Animating a scripted component property
• Controlling particle systems
• Using Animation clips
• Shaking an egg
• Using Animator Controllers
• Definitions for Animation and Animator
• ThirdPersonController Animator
• Living Birds Animator
• Learning to fly
• Hacking the birds
• Fly away!
• Making the story interactive
• Look to play
• Resetting the initial scene setup
• More interactivity ideas
• Chapter 10: What AR is and How to Get Set up
• Available AR packages
• Defining AR
• An incomplete list of AR devices
• Advantages and disadvantages of the different AR toolkits available
• ARCore
• ARKit
• Vuforia
• ARToolKit
• Building our first AR applications
• Setting up Vuforia
• Setting up ARToolKit
• Setting up ARCore
• Setting up ARKit
• Building Hello World in ARKit
• Chapter 11: GIS Fundamentals - The Power of Mapping
• What is GIS?
• The history of GIS
• GIS techniques and technologies
• Ways to capture GIS
• Converting from raster to vector
• Projections and coordinate systems
• Spatial analysis with GIS
• Data analysis with GIS
• GIS modeling
• Geometric networks
• Hydrological modeling
• Cartographic modeling
• Map overlays
• Statistics used with GIS
• Geocoding
• Reverse geocoding
• Open Geospatial Consortium Standards
• Web mapping
• GIS and adding dimension of time.
• Semantics
• The implications of GIS in society
• GIS in the real world
• GIS in education
• GIS in local governments
• GIS and augmented reality
• Applications of GIS
• Gaming and GIS
• Chapter 12: Censored - Various Sensor Data and Plugins
• Project overview
• Getting started
• Sensors
• Leveraging sensors with plugins
• Writing unity plugins
• C# language plugin
• C++ language plugin
• Swift language plugin
• Objective-C language plugin
• Java language plugin
• Creating a sensor driver in Java
• Chapter 13: The Sound of Flowery Prose
• Conceptualizing the project
• Basic idea/concept
• Choosing the right programming language
• Choosing your release platform
• Choosing your game engine, libraries, and frameworks
• Developing the game design and application design document
• Bonus - UML design
• Prototyping
• Setting up the Unity project
• Code implementation details
• Working with XCode
• Chapter 14: Picture Puzzle - The AR Experience
• Project background
• Installing Vuforia
• Differences between macOS and Windows setups
• Windows project setup
• Building the Windows project
• macOS project setup
• Building the macOS Project
• Working with Xcode
• Chapter 15: Fitness for Fun - Tourism and Random Walking
• Background information on Mapbox
• Setting up Mapbox
• Important items to note
• Setting up the project
• Scripting the project
• Finalizing the project
• Chapter 16: Snap it! Adding Filters to Pictures
• What is OpenCV?
• Creating the project with paid assets
• Installing and building OpenCV
• Downloading OpenCV
• Downloading CMake
• Configuring the CMake and OpenCV source files.
• OpenCV with Unity.

Notes:

• Description based on print version record.
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ISBN:

• 9781838644864
• 1838644865

OCLC:

1099316565