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Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from   Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects Learn VR development by building immersive applications and games with Unity 2019.4 and later versions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217333
Length 592 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Jonathan Linowes Jonathan Linowes
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Virtually Everything for Everyone 2. Understanding Unity, Content, and Scale FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Your Project for VR 4. Using Gaze-Based Control 5. Interacting with Your Hands 6. Canvasing the World Space UI 7. Teleporting, Locomotion, and Comfort 8. Lighting, Rendering, Realism 9. Playing with Physics and Fire 10. Exploring Interactive Spaces 11. Using All 360 Degrees 12. Animation and VR Storytelling 13. Optimizing for Performance and Comfort 14. Other Books You May Enjoy
Using Gaze-Based Control

Right now, our diorama is a third-person virtual reality experience. When you go into it, you're like an observer or a third-person camera. Sure, you can look around and add controls that let you move the camera's viewpoint. However, any action in the scene is seen from a third-person perspective.

In this chapter, we'll pretty much stay in third-person mode, but we'll get a little more personally involved. We will explore techniques that can be used to control objects in your virtual world by looking and staring. Our character, Ethan, will be under your control, responding to where you look. Furthermore, we'll start programming the Unity scripts. Along the way, we will discuss the following topics:

  • Adding AI (artificial intelligence) and a navmesh to our third-person character, Ethan
  • Unity programming in C#
  • Using your gaze to move...
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