Unity is quickly becoming the standard game engine for learning to develop games, virtual reality, and augmented reality applications. Now it is quickly becoming the standard platform for developing AI and ML applications as well, partly due to the excellent reinforcement learning platform the team at Unity has built. This Unity ML platform is a key component in our desire to use the tool, since it currently is at the cutting edge of advanced AI for games.
The AI team at Unity, led by Dr. Danny Lange and their senior developer Dr. Arthur Juliani, have made numerous suggestions and contributions to ideas for content in this book, both directly and indirectly. This, of course, has had a huge impact on using Unity for major portions of this book.
Installing Unity is quite straightforward, but we want to make sure we get the installation just right the...
