Two powerful recent additions to Unity have been the Video Player component (and API), and the Shader Graph tool. Between them, they offer easier and more configurable ways to work with visual content in games. For example, they help with the loading and playing of videos on different visible objects, and provide a comprehensive way for non-shader programmers to construct sophisticated shader transformations using a visual graphing approach.
Introduction
The big picture
The two core new Unity features discussed in this chapter are Shader Graphs and the Video Player. Each has its own section below.