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Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from   Unity 2020 Virtual Reality Projects Learn VR development by building immersive applications and games with Unity 2019.4 and later versions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217333
Length 592 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Preface 1. Virtually Everything for Everyone 2. Understanding Unity, Content, and Scale FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting Up Your Project for VR 4. Using Gaze-Based Control 5. Interacting with Your Hands 6. Canvasing the World Space UI 7. Teleporting, Locomotion, and Comfort 8. Lighting, Rendering, Realism 9. Playing with Physics and Fire 10. Exploring Interactive Spaces 11. Using All 360 Degrees 12. Animation and VR Storytelling 13. Optimizing for Performance and Comfort 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Playing 360-degree videos

The steps for playing a 360-degree video are pretty much the same as adding regular rectangular videos to a Unity project, that is, using a Video Player to render the video onto a Render Texture. In the case of 360 videos, we can render that Render Texture inside a photosphere, as we did in the previous section. Let's build that now.

If you do not have a 360-degree video handy, search for web-free downloads and pick one that's not too long and of a limited file size. (Try googling 360 videos download – https://www.google.com/search?q=360+videos+download). The example used here (licensed under Creative Commons) can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hundra_knektars_marsch_p%C3%A5_Forum_Vulgaris.webm (the file download link is https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Hundra_knektars_marsch_p%C3%A5_Forum_Vulgaris.webm). It's very low resolution (1,920 x 860) and is just being used for this demo. Usually...

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