Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022

Unleash your creative potential by creating real word virtual reality projects in Unity to Render pipelines, produce games, Optimising VR experiences, and XR development

Key Features

• Understand the fundamentals and build a solid foundation of XR development
• Learn technical Skills for building VR experiences in Unity like - Assets, Game Objects, Scripts, and Components
• Create engaging and innovative projects for virtual reality using the unity game engine

Book Description

Virtual reality is one of the most emerging mediums of the 21st century. It can be applied to a variety of different industries: games, entertainment, and education.

Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022 is a project-based exploration of virtual reality that will help you navigate the intersections of creativity and technology, and apply them to real-world projects. You will learn the basics of creating virtual reality projects and understanding the fundamentals of XR development. You will use many features and tools of the Unity game engine to build on the VR development knowledge to build truly immersive experiences.

By the end of the book, you will have a solid foundation of how VR can be used and how you can use the Unity game engine to create innovative projects.

What you will learn

• Leverage the power of the Unity Game engine to explore Virtual reality
• Understand of VR and how to integrate Unity into the general workflow
• Build and test a variety of VR experiences for headsets, computers, and mobile devices
• Integrate traditional game and animation tools into VR reality experiences
• Explore worldbuilding techniques to create expansive VR experiences
• Integrate optimization techniques to improve the performance of the experiences

Who This Book Is For

This book is intended for individuals that are familiar with the Unity game engine, and are interested in exploring virtual reality. Game developers, VR developers, and creators that are familiar with the Unity game engine, and are interested in exploring virtual reality; including crucial principles and techniques for virtual reality development in Unity 2022, will benefit the most front his book. A basic understanding of the Unity User interface, navigation, and C# is ideal

Table of Contents

1. Philosophy of building immersive experiences
2. Building VR Scenes in Unity
3. Working with Inputs and Interactions
4. Using Game Objects, Materials, and Prefabs
5. Implementing Animation, Physics and Colliders
6. Lighting Your Worlds and Experiences
7. Create immersion with Sound
8. Working with C#
9. Unlocking the Power of Render Pipelines
10. Spatial Audio in the Park Project
11. Building Art Gallery/Museum project
12. Animated Show Project
13. 360 Video Project
14. Trigger playground project - Shooting and throwing (basketball)
15. Tips to Optimize your VR experiences and improve performance