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Unity Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from   Unity Virtual Reality Projects Explore the world of virtual reality by building immersive and fun VR projects using Unity 3D

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783988556
Length 286 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Virtually Everything for Everyone 2. Objects and Scale FREE CHAPTER 3. VR Build and Run 4. Gaze-based Control 5. World Space UI 6. First-person Character 7. Physics and the Environment 8. Walk-throughs and Rendering 9. Using All 360 Degrees 10. Social VR Metaverse 11. What's Next?
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Understanding the Unity characters


A first-person character is such a key asset in a VR project that we really should understand its components inside out. So, before we go about building one for our project, it would be a good idea to take a close look at the built-in components and standard assets that Unity provides.

Unity components

As you probably know, each Unity game object contains a set of associated components. Unity includes many types of built-in components, which you can see by browsing the Component menu in the main menu bar. Each component adds properties and behaviors to the object that it belongs to. A component's properties are accessible via the Unity editor's Inspector panel and scripts. A script attached to a game object is also a type of component, and may have properties that you can set in the Inspector panel.

The component types used to implement first-person characters include the Camera, Character Controller, and/or Rigidbody, and various scripts. Let's review each...

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