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Complete Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development with Unity

You're reading from Complete Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Development with Unity Leverage the power of Unity and become a pro at creating mixed reality applications

Product type Course

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838648183

Length 668 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C#

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Augmented Reality

Authors (2):

Jesse Glover

Jonathan Linowes

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Virtually Everything for Everyone

2. Content, Objects, and Scale FREE CHAPTER

3. VR Build and Run

4. Gaze-Based Control

5. Handy Interactables

6. World Space UI

7. Locomotion and Comfort

8. Playing with Physics and Fire

9. Animation and VR Storytelling

10. What AR is and How to Get Set up

11. GIS Fundamentals - The Power of Mapping

12. Censored - Various Sensor Data and Plugins

13. The Sound of Flowery Prose

14. Picture Puzzle - The AR Experience

15. Fitness for Fun - Tourism and Random Walking

16. Snap it! Adding Filters to Pictures

17. To the HoloLens and Beyond

1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Getting Mixed Reality ready

The HoloLens requires your computer to meet a couple of requirements; this includes the requirements for supporting Hyper-V and being VR-ready. This is also true for utilizing the HoloLens emulator. So, what requirements do we need to meet? Take a look at the following:

64-bit Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise or Education editions.

Note

If you are using Windows 10 Home edition, it does not support Hyper-V or the HoloLens emulator.

64-bit CPU
CPU with four or more cores, or multiple CPUs with a minimum total of four cores
8 GB of RAM or more
GPU with support for DirectX 11.0 or later
GPU with WDDM (Windows Display Driver Model), 1.2 driver or later

We also need a bios that supports the following features, and have them enabled:

Hardware-assisted virtualization
Second-Level Address Translation (SLAT)
Hardware-Based Data Execution Prevention (DEP)

Microsoft has a handy list of specifications to meet, for both laptop and desktop computers, for minimum and recommended settings. Alternatively...

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Authors (2)

Jesse Glover

Jesse Glover

Jesse Glover is a self-taught software developer and indie game developer who has worked with multiple game engines and has written many tutorials on the subject of game development over the past 8 years. He maintains a YouTube channel dedicated to game development made easy and writes for Zenva in his spare time to teach the ins and outs of game development with Unity, CryEngine, and Unreal Engine, just to name a few. Jesse has also written Unity Programming for Human Beings.

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Jonathan Linowes

Jonathan Linowes

Jonathan Linowes is a VR/AR enthusiast, Unity, and full stack developer, entrepreneur, certified Unity instructor, and the owner of Parkerhill XR Studio, an immersive media, applications, and game developer. Jonathan has a bachelor of fine arts degree from Syracuse University, a master of science degree from the MIT Media Lab, and has held technical leadership positions at Autodesk and other companies. He has authored multiple books on VR and AR published by Packt Publishing.

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