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HoloLens Beginner???s Guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464729
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface Welcome to the New World FREE CHAPTER HoloWorld I am in Control User-Friendly Interface Now That Is How It Should Sound Not So Blank Spaces The Tools of the Trade Share What You Have Got Putting It All Together Fixing Problems

Unity audio components


In this section, we will break down Unity's audio components to the degree that we will be needing throughout the project. These components are the Audio Listener, the Audio Source, and the Audio Mixer.

Audio Listener

The Audio Listener, simply put, is a component designed to work exactly like a pair of human ears. Its purpose is to hear the sounds in the application world and transmit that to the user, through their speakers.  

Much as your head can only be in one place at a time, in Unity, there can only be one active Audio Listener at a time. There may be times when doing sound tricks may require multiple listeners turning on and off. In those cases, if you have more than one Audio Listener active at the same time, you will get an error.  

The Audio Listener is a component that is automatically created and attached to the Camera object on its creation. Generally speaking, you will never move this from the Camera object. Also, due to its simplicity of purpose, the Audio...

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