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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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Steven Antonio Christian Steven Antonio Christian
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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

Downloading animations from Mixamo

Even though we were able to download 3D models of characters from Mixamo, the true power of Mixamo is its extensive library of professionally curated animated sequences. Mixamo has been around for over a decade, and many creators and developers utilize this library to streamline their process of adding animation to their games and experiences. Just like the Unity Asset Store, Mixamo is a great resource for finding a variety of different animated clips that we could add to our characters in our scenes to enhance the animated experiences that we are creating. More importantly, this will save us a lot of time and allow us to have laser-focused searches for animations that have already been created. This is great because we don’t have to imagine what it’s going to look like; we could just utilize the Mixamo platform to test and prototype the animated sequences before we add them to our scene. While Mixamo is a great resource for 3D characters...

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