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Mastering Oculus Rift Development

You're reading from Mastering Oculus Rift Development The next frontier of gaming and simulation

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786461155

Length 306 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Single Board Computers

Author (1):

Jack Donovan

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Exploring a New Reality with the Oculus Rift FREE CHAPTER

2. Stepping into Virtual Reality

3. Improving Performance and Avoiding Discomfort

4. Interacting with Virtual Worlds

5. Establishing Presence

6. Adding Depth and Intuition to a User Interface

7. Hearing and Believing with 3D Audio

8. Adding Tone and Realism with Graphics

9. Bringing Players Together in VR

10. Publishing on the Oculus Store

Chapter 7. Hearing and Believing with 3D Audio

Experiencing something is so much more than seeing it. We've been focusing on visual elements of VR, but for a truly immersive experience, we need to engage as many of the player's senses as we can, and this applies particularly to hearing.

A lot of the information we process based on our hearing is subconscious; for instance, if sound waves hit the back of our ears, what we hear is muffled by their conical shape. This muffling tells our brain that the sound is originating from behind us. If the sound waves bounce off our shoulders before entering our ears, that tells our brain that the sound is above us.

In typical screen-based games, this level of audio realism isn't possible, because the lack of head tracking makes our ears stay in the same static spot. However, with HMDs like the Oculus Rift, we can calculate the relative position and rotation of each ear, meaning the potential granularity of a realistic audio system...

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Authors (1)

Donovan

Donovan

Jack Donovan is a 24-year-old software engineer living in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont with a BS in game programming and soon after joined IrisVR, a startup founded in Burlington to create oneclick software for architects to visualize models in virtual reality. IrisVR moved to New York City after being accepted into the startup incubator program Techstars and has since moved to an independent office in NoHo, where Jack continues to work. Jack also wrote OUYA Game Development By Example, a book focused on the basics of developing games for the Android-powered OUYA console. Both books use the Unity3D engine for development, which Jack has been using to develop games and software in since 2010.

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