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Complete Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development with Unity

You're reading from   Complete Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development with Unity Leverage the power of Unity and become a pro at creating mixed reality applications

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Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838648183
Length 668 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
1. Virtually Everything for Everyone 2. Content, Objects, and Scale FREE CHAPTER 3. VR Build and Run 4. Gaze-Based Control 5. Handy Interactables 6. World Space UI 7. Locomotion and Comfort 8. Playing with Physics and Fire 9. Animation and VR Storytelling 10. What AR is and How to Get Set up 11. GIS Fundamentals - The Power of Mapping 12. Censored - Various Sensor Data and Plugins 13. The Sound of Flowery Prose 14. Picture Puzzle - The AR Experience 15. Fitness for Fun - Tourism and Random Walking 16. Snap it! Adding Filters to Pictures 17. To the HoloLens and Beyond 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Measurement tools


We've created a Unity scene, added a few primitive 3D objects, and created a couple of basic textures, including a photograph. Along the way, we learned about positioning and transforming objects in Unity's 3D world space. The problem is that the actual size of stuff in your scene is not always obvious. You could be zoomed up or you may be using either a Perspective or Orthographic view, or other features that affect the apparent size. Let's look at ways to deal with the scale.

Keeping a unit cube handy

I suggest keeping a unit cube handy in your Hierarchy panel. When it's not needed, just disable it (uncheck the checkbox in the top left-hand side of the Inspector panel). It can be used like a measuring stick, or rather, a measuring block when needed. I use one to estimate actual world sizes of objects, distances between objects, heights, and elevations, and so forth. Let's do it now.

Create a unit cube, name it Unit Cube, and place it somewhere out of the way for now, such...

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