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Unreal Engine 4 Virtual Reality Projects

You're reading from Unreal Engine 4 Virtual Reality Projects Build immersive, real-world VR applications using UE4, C++, and Unreal Blueprints

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789132878

Length 632 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Unreal

Concepts

Virtual Reality

Authors (2):

Robert Ruud

Kevin Mack

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. Thinking in VR FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up Your Development Environment

3. Hello World - Your First VR Project

4. Getting Around the Virtual World

5. Interacting with the Virtual World - Part I

6. Interacting with the Virtual World - Part II

7. Creating User Interfaces in VR

8. Building the World and Optimizing for VR

9. Displaying Media in VR

10. Creating a Multiplayer Experience in VR

11. Taking VR Further - Extending Unreal Engine

12. Where to Go from Here

Final word

1. Useful Mind Hacks

2. Research and Further Reading

3. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Index

Chapter 9. Displaying Media in VR

In the previous chapters, we focused on creating real-time 3D media for VR, and spent a lot of time looking at player characters, interface elements, and building the world. Now, we're going to shift gears a bit and explore another important application for VR—displaying movies both on flat screens and in immersive environments.

VR is very good at this. Because it's possible to create a nearly infinite space within the headset, users can experience movies and media on enormous virtual screens with no distractions to take them out of the experience. These screens can take any shape as well. In addition to flat and curved screens, photos and movies of entire environments can be presented in a sphere surrounding the player so that they feel totally immersed in the space. In this chapter, we're going to learn how to create these things.

In particular, we will cover the following topics:

Displaying video on a virtual screen
Displaying video with stereo depth from...

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Authors (2)

Kevin Mack

Kevin Mack

Kevin Mack is a co-founder of Manic Machine, a Los Angeles-based development studio specializing in VR and virtual production development using Unreal Engine. Manic Machine designs and builds games in VR and provides development services to clients and partners in the film and visual effects industries. Prior to this, he co-founded WhiteMoon Dreams, which developed traditional and VR games and experiences. Earlier work includes design on the Medal of Honor series for EA, Fear Effect series for Kronos Digital Entertainment, and several titles for Disney Interactive. Kevin holds a BFA in film production from New York University and an MFA in film directing from the American Film Institute.

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Robert Ruud

Robert Ruud

Robert Ruud is a co-founder of Manic Machine, where he focuses primarily on the design and development of Manic Machine's proprietary tech and gameplay experiences. Prior to this, he spent six years at Whitemoon Dreams, where he designed and engineered gameplay for the successfully kickstarted game, Warmachine: Tactics, which was one of the first games to be released to market using Unreal Engine 4, and where he also led the design exploration for the company's location-based VR experiences. Robert holds a BA in philosophy from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, where his studies focused on cognitive science and philosophy of the mind.

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