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XR Development with Unity

You're reading from   XR Development with Unity A beginner's guide to creating virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences using Unity

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805128120
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anna Braun Anna Braun
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Raffael Rizzo Raffael Rizzo
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 – Understanding the Basics of XR and Unity FREE CHAPTER
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to XR and Unity 3. Chapter 2: The Unity Editor and Scene Creation 4. Part 2 – Interactive XR Applications with Custom Logic, Animations, Physics, Sound, and Visual Effects
5. Chapter 3: VR Development in Unity 6. Chapter 4: AR Development in Unity 7. Chapter 5: Building Interactive VR Experiences 8. Chapter 6: Building Interactive AR Experiences 9. Chapter 7: Adding Sound and Visual Effects 10. Part 3 – Advanced XR Techniques: Hand-Tracking, Gaze-Tracking, and Multiplayer Capabilities
11. Chapter 8: Building Advanced XR Techniques 12. Chapter 9: Best Practices and Future Trends in XR Development 13. Index 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

How did Unity evolve as a platform for XR development?

Unity Technologies, now a billion-dollar titan in the realms of gaming and XR, emerged from humble origins in a cozy Copenhagen flat in 2004. The company’s journey to dominating the market with its Unity game engine has been equally fraught with uncertainty and turbulence, like that of XR technologies.

In 2002, a Danish graphics student sought aid on a digital forum, where a Berliner high schooler with backend experience joined him. Serendipity united their game studio dreams. With only a father’s financial cushion and café wages, they created their first game in 2005 – an alien, trapped in a life-support sphere, navigating Earth. Players tilted the world, and the alien rolled, gathering gems and evading CIA capture, utilizing wall-sticking and jumping tricks. The game’s difficulty overshadowed its cutting-edge lighting, and it found little success. Recognizing their talent for building tools...

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