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Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022

You're reading from   Enhancing Virtual Reality Experiences with Unity 2022 Use Unity's latest features to level up your skills for VR games, apps, and other projects

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804619537
Length 566 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Philosophy and Basics of Understanding Virtual Reality
2. Chapter 1: Philosophy of Building Immersive Experiences FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2: Technical Skills for Building VR Experiences in Unity (Assets, GameObjects, Scripts, and Components)
4. Chapter 2: Building VR Scenes in Unity 5. Chapter 3: Working with Inputs and Interactions 6. Chapter 4: Using Game Objects, Materials, and Prefabs 7. Chapter 5: Implementing Animation – Physics and Colliders 8. Chapter 6: Lighting Your Worlds and Experiences 9. Chapter 7: Creating Immersion with Sound 10. Chapter 8: Working with C#, Unity Events, and Input Actions 11. Chapter 9: Unlocking the Power of Render Pipelines 12. Part 3: Projects: Putting Skills Together
13. Chapter 10: Design Thinking for Virtual Reality Experiences 14. Chapter 11: Adding Audio to a Virtual Reality World 15. Chapter 12: Building an Art Gallery 16. Chapter 13: Animating a Virtual Reality Experience 17. Chapter 14: Recording Virtual Reality Videos 18. Chapter 15: Enhancing Virtual Reality Rigs 19. Chapter 16: Triggering Actions in Virtual Reality 20. Chapter 17: Destroying Objects in Virtual Reality 21. Part 4: Final Touches
22. Chapter 18: Optimizing Your Virtual Reality Experiences 23. Index 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a 360° video

Having 360° video in VR is quite interesting. You get to see that a lot in virtual tours, and you also see it in VR roller coasters. One of the best parts about having 360° video is that it makes videos much more accessible because you don’t need a headset to have 360° video experiences. You can actually have those experiences on a web browser using tools from YouTube and a variety of other sources.

In this section, we will use the Unity Recorder to create a 360° video file from our animated show, much as we did with the animated show MP4 file. Then, we will add metadata to it so that the platforms we play the 360° video on understand that it’s a 360° video. After that, we can upload it to a video source such as YouTube to stream and share.

To record a 360° video of the animated scene, follow these steps:

  1. Duplicate the recorder track and disable the original recorder track.
  2. Click on the recorder...
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