Preface

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1. Part 1: Philosophy and Basics of Understanding Virtual Reality

2. Chapter 1: Philosophy of Building Immersive Experiences FREE CHAPTER

• What is an immersive experience?
• What are the essential components of an immersive experience?
• Understanding XR, AR, VR, and MR
• How does VR work?
• Approaching VR development
• Summary

3. Part 2: Technical Skills for Building VR Experiences in Unity (Assets, GameObjects, Scripts, and Components)

4. Chapter 2: Building VR Scenes in Unity

• Technical requirements
• Setting up a Unity project
• Navigating the Unity interface
• VR setup
• Headset setup
• VR scene setup
• Testing in the Editor
• Testing on a device
• Summary

5. Chapter 3: Working with Inputs and Interactions

• Technical requirements
• Why do interactions matter?
• Setting up a demo scene using primitive shapes
• Setting up the locomotion system
• Adding interactor components
• Multiple object interactions
• Adding haptic feedback to our VR controllers
• Adding attach points to virtual objects
• Adding socket interactors to our demo scene
• Extending XR Interaction Toolkit
• Summary

6. Chapter 4: Using Game Objects, Materials, and Prefabs

• Technical requirements
• Creating a grid with Primitive GOs
• Creating a materials library
• Assigning custom materials and assets to GOs
• Creating a custom VR demo room with ProBuilder
• Designing a demo room floor plan with Google Drawings
• Converting the floor plan into a 3D room with ProBuilder
• Decorating the VR demo room with Polybrush and vertex painting
• Creating prefabs with our GOs
• Organizing project assets with folders in the Project tab
• Exporting project assets with Unity packages and FBX Export
• Summary

7. Chapter 5: Implementing Animation – Physics and Colliders

• Technical requirements
• Introducing Unity’s physics system
• Introducing Unity’s animation system
• Summary

8. Chapter 6: Lighting Your Worlds and Experiences

• Technical requirements
• Getting to know the Unity lighting system
• Simulating indoor lighting
• Modifying quality settings for lighting
• Introducing post-processing
• Summary

9. Chapter 7: Creating Immersion with Sound

• Technical requirements
• Getting to know Unity’s audio and sound system
• Adding background music with Global 2D audio sources
• Adding audio events to our VR rig
• Adding spatial audio with 3D audio sources
• Summary

10. Chapter 8: Working with C#, Unity Events, and Input Actions

• Technical requirements
• How does C# work in Unity?
• Creating custom input actions
• Getting to know Unity Events
• Creating portals with colliders and events
• Switching between scenes with portals
• Summary

11. Chapter 9: Unlocking the Power of Render Pipelines

• Getting to know Unity’s Scriptable Render Pipeline
• Exporting our built-in render pipeline project
• Importing our package into Universal Render Pipeline
• Importing our package into High Definition Render Pipeline
• Enabling post-processing in URP and HDRP
• Converting render pipelines within a project
• Summary

12. Part 3: Projects: Putting Skills Together

13. Chapter 10: Design Thinking for Virtual Reality Experiences

• Technical requirements
• An introduction to design thinking
• Creating our design document
• Experienced design
• Summary

14. Chapter 11: Adding Audio to a Virtual Reality World

• Technical requirements
• Adding park audio
• Adding car audio
• Adding NPC audio
• Summary

15. Chapter 12: Building an Art Gallery

• Technical requirements
• Creating a gallery mesh
• Adding indoor lights
• Adding light switches
• Creating a drawing system
• Hanging a picture frame
• Summary

16. Chapter 13: Animating a Virtual Reality Experience

• Technical requirements
• Understanding the animation pipeline
• Writing a synopsis
• Writing a script
• Drafting storyboards
• Creating a sequence animatic
• Adding audio
• Previsualizing a sequence
• Setting up cameras with Cinemachine
• Downloading 3D characters
• Downloading animations from Mixamo
• Setting up animated characters
• Adding animation clips to our timeline
• Adding VFX
• Adding background characters
• Summary

17. Chapter 14: Recording Virtual Reality Videos

• Technical requirements
• Working with the Unity Recorder
• Building a VR theater experience
• Creating a 360° video
• Summary

18. Chapter 15: Enhancing Virtual Reality Rigs

• Technical requirements
• Adding animated hands to the VR rig
• Adding and toggling between the ray interactor and the direct interactor
• Making the VR rig run
• Making our VR rig jump
• Making the VR rig crouch
• Summary

19. Chapter 16: Triggering Actions in Virtual Reality

• Technical requirements
• Creating and configuring a VR settings menu
• Triggering animations in the scene
• Adding portals for navigation
• Creating and controlling a bouncing basketball
• Summary

20. Chapter 17: Destroying Objects in Virtual Reality

• Technical requirements
• Creating a grenade
• Making a simple hand cannon
• Making a complex hand cannon
• Making projectiles
• Making projectile variants
• Destroying GameObjects with projectiles
• Adding health to an object
• Creating a shatter prefab
• Summary

21. Part 4: Final Touches

22. Chapter 18: Optimizing Your Virtual Reality Experiences

• Technical requirements
• Optimization in Unity
• Optimizing draw calls
• Optimizing material settings
• Optimizing camera settings
• Optimizing images and textures
• Optimizing audio files
• Optimizing animation files
• Optimizing the lighting system
• Optimizing project settings
• Applying optimizations to our VR world
• Summary

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