While VR technology is rapidly advancing, we'll try to capture the basic principles and techniques that you can use to make your VR games and applications immersive and comfortable. We walk through a series of hands-on projects, step-by-step tutorials, and in-depth discussions using Unity 5 and other free or open source software. This book takes a practical, project-based approach to teach you the specifics of virtual reality development with the Unity 3D game engine. It's like you're really in some other virtual world. You can engage in a fully immersive experience. You can look around by moving your head and walk around by using hand controls or motion sensors. What is consumer virtual reality? By wearing a head-mounted display (such as goggles), you can view stereoscopic 3D scenes.

Preface Today, we are witnesses to the burgeoning of virtual reality (VR), an exciting new technology that promises to transform in a fundamental way how we interact with our information, friends, and the world at large. He has founded several successful start-ups and held technical leadership positions at major corporations, including Autodesk Inc.

He has a fine arts degree from Syracuse University and a master's degree from the MIT Media Lab. He is a veritable VR and 3D graphics enthusiast, full-stack web developer, software engineer, successful entrepreneur, and teacher. The author biography A preview chapter from the book, Chapter 7 'Physics and the Environment' A synopsis of the book’s content More information on Unity Virtual Reality ProjectsĪbout the Author Jonathan Linowes is the owner of Parkerhill Reality Labs, a start-up VR/ARĬonsultancy firm.

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