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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from   Unity Virtual Reality Projects Learn Virtual Reality by developing more than 10 engaging projects with Unity 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788478809
Length 492 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Virtually Everything for Everyone FREE CHAPTER 2. Content, Objects, and Scale 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. Exploring Interactive Spaces 10. Using All 360 Degrees 11. Animation and VR Storytelling 12. Social VR Metaverse 13. Optimizing for Performance and Comfort 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Unity skyboxes

Back in the olden days, or at least before 360 photos, we simply referred to skyboxes as the way to create background imagery in computer graphics. Skyboxes depict what's far on the horizon, may contribute to the ambient lighting of the scene, be used for rendering reflections on object surfaces, and are not interactable. Unity supports skyboxes as part of the Lighting Environment for each scene. We used skyboxes already in a few of the previous chapters' projects (including Wispy Sky and Skull Platform ones).

Common sources of skyboxes are cylindrical panorama, spherical panorama (360 images), and a six-sided cube. We won't consider the cylindrical one, since it's less useful for VR.

Six-sided or cubemap skyboxes

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