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You're reading from Virtual Reality Blueprints Create compelling VR experiences for mobile and desktop

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786462985

Length 250 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Tools

Unity

Concepts

Virtual Reality

Authors (2):

John Williamson

Charles Palmer

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. The Past, Present, and Future of VR FREE CHAPTER

2. Building a Solar System for Google Cardboard

3. Building an Image Gallery System for the Gear VR

4. Adding User Interactions to the Virtual Gallery Project

5. Fighting Zombies on the Oculus Rift

6. Scripting Zombies for the Oculus Rift

7. Carnival Midway Games — Part 1

8. Carnival Midway Games — Part 2

9. VR Hardware Roundup

10. VR Terms and Definitions

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Google Cardboard setup

Like the Unity documentation website, Google also maintains an in-depth guide for the Google VR SDK for Unity set of tools and examples. This SDK provides the following features on the device:

User head tracking
Side-by-side stereo rendering
Detection of user interactions (via trigger or controller)
Automatic stereo configuration for a specific VR viewer
Distortion correction
Automatic gyro drift correction

These features are all contained in one easy-to-use package that will be imported into our Unity scene. Download the SDK from the following link, before moving on to the next step: http://developers.google.com/cardboard/unity/download.

At the time of writing, the current version of the Google VR SDK for Unity is version 1.110.1 and it is available via a GitHub repository. The previous link should take you to the latest version of the SDK. However, when...

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Authors (2)

John Williamson

John Williamson has worked in VR since 1995. As a producer/designer, he has shipped over three dozen games (America's Army, Hawken, SAW, and Spec Ops) in nearly every genre (RTS, FPS, Arcade, Simulation, Survival Horror) on nearly every platform (iOS, Android, Wii, Playstation, Xbox, web, PC, and VR). He is also an award-winning filmmaker and has taught game design at DigiPen and Harrisburg University. Now, he works in VR, creating immersive training for a wide range of high-consequence trainers for the US Air Force, Army, and NASA

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Palmer

Charles Palmer is a faculty member and administrator at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, a STEM-focused, private, four-year comprehensive university dedicated to ensuring institutional access for underrepresented students and linking learning and research to practical outcomes. As the Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Entertainment and Learning Technologies, Professor Palmer oversees the design and development of ventures in new and emerging technologies, serves as Program Lead for the undergraduate Interactive Media program, is an adviser to the Learning Technology Masters of Science program, coordinates a high school video game academy, and mentors university students on research projects in the fields of augmented/virtual reality, mobile computing, web application development, digital media and interactive games. As a technologist and public speaker, Charles uses virtual reality, 3d printing, gamification, interactive storytelling, social media and simulations to discuss how training and performance can be improved with the inclusion of the latest technological advances. Professor Palmer is also a co-author of the recently released “Alternate Reality Games: Gamification for Performance” available from CRC Press and Amazon.

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