Building virtual reality with unity and steam VR / by Jeff W Murray.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Murray, Jeff W., author

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Video games--Design.

Video games.

Video games--Programming.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This book takes a hands-on approach to getting up and running with virtual reality using the Unity game engine. By utilizing the free SteamVR libraries, the book and its example code is compatible with the main virtual reality head mounted displays currently available.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Author

Prerequisites

Introduction

Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to the Virtual World

How Long have we been Virtual?

Before The Headset

The Birth of The Head-Mounted Display

The Road to Consumer Vr

Home PC VR

Consumer Vr Rebirth

Complications and Challenges of Vr

Latency

Juddering and Smearing

The Screen Door Effect

VR Sickness

VR Space

Tracking

Location-Based Entertainment

Tracking Infinite Spaces

Movement

Input

Body Tracking

Vive Trackers

Motion Capture Suits

Hand Tracking

Eye Tracking

Feeling VR

Designing and Developing for Vr

Plan: Any Sort of Plan Is Better than No Plan!

Get Your Main Interactions in Place Early

Test on Real People

Look for Combination and Flow

Realism Is Not Always the Most Realistic

Recap

Chapter 2 Healthy VR Experience

What Is Interpupillary Distance And Why Should I Care?

Real IPD

How to Measure Your IPD

Virtual IPD

Knowing When to Stop (the Telltale Signs of Oncoming VR Sickness)

Dry Eyes

Sweating

Aching

Nausea

Headache

Take Breaks

Eat, Drink, and Be Virtually Merry!

Do Not Break Your Back Making VR Things! Test Carefully

Chapter 3 Getting Set Up for Unity SteamVR Development

Installing Steamvr

Install The Steam Client

Set Up A Steam Account

Install Steamvr

Start Steamvr

Setting Up A Unity Project For Steamvr

Downloading Unity To Make A New Project

Unity Editor Crash Course

Editor Views and Panels

Terminology and Common Use Things

Unity Terminology

Creating A New Unity Project

Downloading the SteamVR SDK for Unity

Setting up SteamVR in Unity

Setting up SteamVR Input

A Room With A Vr View.

Download and Extract Example Project Source Files

Adding SteamVR to an Existing Scene

The SteamVR Camera Rig

Test the Scene

SteamVR Camera Positioning and Repositioning

Save The Project And Keep Backups

Problems?

Chapter 4 The SteamVR Interaction System

Download And Extract Example Project Source Files

The Player Prefab

Making The Door Interactive

Add Teleportation

Picking Up And Throwing Objects

Chapter 5 Building a Main Menu

"Show, Don't Tell!"

Building The Main Menu Ui With Unity Gui

Unity GUI

Open the Example Project

Getting Steamvr to Work With Your Ui

Test Out The Scene!

Reacting to Interaction

Script Breakdown

Attach Buttons to the Script

Loading Scenes Correctly With Steamvr

Adding Scene Loading to Your Menu

Create a LevelLoader GameObject

Add Level Loading to the MenuController Script Component

Set Up the Level Loader Reference

Add Scenes to Build Settings

Test Level Loading

Using A Laser Pointer For Ui Interactions (And An Introduction to Scripting With The Steamvr Input System)

Add Components to the Hands GameObjects

Add Controller Input to the Laser Pointer

Building The Main Menu Ui With Steamvr Physical Buttons

Build a Physics-Based Button

Add SteamVR Button Components

Hook Up the Button to Scripting

Fading In And Out

Add a Fade Out to the Main Menu

Making Your Own Skybox Inside Unity

Create a SteamVR Skybox for the Compositor

Using a Custom Skybox for Loading

Interaction Using Only Your Head

Chapter 6 Advanced Interactions

Open The Example Project

Adding Spray Functionality to the Spray Bottle

Using Vibration/Haptic Feedback.

Setting Up The Skeleton Poser to Use A Hand Pose

The Skeleton Poser Component

The Pose Editor

The Blending Editor

Posing Your Hand

Blending Poses

Try Out The Scene

Chapter 7 Making the Most of Virtual Reality with Audio

The Virtual Reality Audio Space And Beyond

Software

Common Terms

Ambient Sound

Listener

Binaural Audio

Mono Sound

3D Sound

Doppler Effect

Spatial Sound

HRTF

Steam Audio

FMOD

Using Unity Audio For Vr

Unity Audio Settings

Setting a Scene with Ambient Sound

The AudioSource Component

Adding Audio to the Bug Game

Ambient Audio

Adding Music

Bringing Life to the World

Mixers

Snapshots

Groups

Views

Setting Up Mixers in the Audio Mixer Window

Adding Mixer Groups

Setting Audio Sources to Use the Audio Mixer Groups

Testing and Mixing Audio

Audio Effects

Try Out the Audio

Using Steam Audio For Vr

Adding the Steam Audio API to Unity

Download Steam Audio

Set Up the Level for Steam Audio

Steam Audio Materials

Choose Metal from the Dropdown

Setting Up an Audio Source for Steam Audio

Reflection

Precalculating the Steam Audio Scene

Quick Vr Audio Design Tips

Chapter 8 Building Seated or Static VR Experiences

A Seated Experience

Setting Sitting Or Standing Calibration In Code

Moving Around Inside A Vehicle

Try the Example Project

Preview the Scene

Chapter 9 Virtual Reality Sickness

What is Vr Sickness?

Personal Experience

Vr Sickness Symptoms And Cues

Vection

Field of View

Interpupillary Distance

Illness

Locomotion/Movement

Age

Frame Rate

Depth Perception

Rate of Linear or Rotational Acceleration

Positional Tracking Errors.

Sitting Versus Standing

Can We Solve It?

Chapter 10 Hands-On, Practical Techniques for Reducing VR Sickness in Unity

Using Unity'S Ui Canvas For Field of View (Fov) Reduction

The FOV Mask

Programming the Dynamic Scaling Script

Try Out the Example

An Alternative Approach

A Third-Person Camera Suitable For Vr

Open and Try Out the Example File

Programming

The Third-Person VR Camera Rig

A Fake Nose? How Does It Smell?

Chapter 11 Unity Engine Polish and Optimization

Optimizing Unity For Vr

The Rendering Statistics Windows (Stats)

CPU vs. GPU

The Unity Profiler

Profiler Modes

Finding Out If Your Project Is GPU-Bound or CPU-Bound

What Do the Squiggles Tell You?

Using the Profiler

Batching

Occlusion

Try Occlusion Out with the Example Unity Project

Adding Occlusion Areas

Bake the Occlusion Cells

Try It Out

Quick Code Tips

Cache Object References

Prioritize Where in the Update Cycles Your Code Runs

Only Run Scripts When You Need To

Geometry and Modeling

Materials

Level of Detail (LOD)

Lighting

Lightmapping

Per-Pixel vs. Vertex Lighting

Quality Settings

Collisions, Mesh Colliders, and the Layer Collision Matrix

Final Word

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781000768367

1000768368

9780429295850

0429295855

OCLC:

994491595