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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from   Unity Virtual Reality Projects Explore the world of virtual reality by building immersive and fun VR projects using Unity 3D

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783988556
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jonathan Linowes Jonathan Linowes
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Virtually Everything for Everyone 2. Objects and Scale FREE CHAPTER 3. VR Build and Run 4. Gaze-based Control 5. World Space UI 6. First-person Character 7. Physics and the Environment 8. Walk-throughs and Rendering 9. Using All 360 Degrees 10. Social VR Metaverse 11. What's Next?
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Ethan, the walker


A starting point for much of VR is gaming. So, we might as well start out from there, too! We are going to give our character, Ethan, a life of his own. Well, sort of (or not), because he's going to become a zombie!

We left off at the diorama, with Ethan hanging out. You can make him run around the scene if you have a keyboard or gamepad, but in today's VR having that is not guaranteed. In fact, if you're viewing the scene with a Google Cardboard, it's pretty unlikely that you'll have a handheld controller (notwithstanding the Bluetooth game controllers). Let's be honest. Even with the Oculus Rift, requiring a keyboard or a gamepad controller is not very user-friendly, since you can't see your hands. Perhaps, there's another way to make him move around. One technique is to use the direction of your gaze while wearing your VR headset.

Before we attempt this, we'll first transform Ethan into a zombie and have him walk around aimlessly without any user control. We'll do this...

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