Most of us like a virtual/augmented reality experience. Then how about building games on it? This is a journey on XR development and the technology’s relevance outside the gaming industry.
20. VR in other areas
And more ...
Image Courtesy - classvr.com
21. AR in other areas
And more ...
Image Courtesy - armeasure.com
22. ● Unity tutorials https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials
● Google’s getting started on VR
○ https://developers.google.com/vr/develop/unity/get-started-android
○ https://developers.google.com/vr/develop/unity/controller-support
● Google’s getting started on AR
○ https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/unity/quickstart-android
○ https://developers.google.com/ar/develop/unity/tutorials/hello-ar-sample
● Google I/O '18 and Google I/O '19 AR/VR related videos
References
- A quick history
- we wanted to do something different for the booth in a conference few months back
- we thought why not games with different tech stack
- so there comes XR games!
- we were thinking what about Hello Valak when you turn around!
- then we thought it would be more appropriate to show a javascript logo or something but that was original thought :)
- for me to design a VR game, I had to know
- VR
- game development
- mobile app
The concept of VR is simple, a virtual world. But i have to design a world first!
- there were a lot of options like unreal, unity
- out of them unity’s tutorials were simple to get started
- go thru the code to understand how it works
- why can’t I make an interactive game with VR instead of a Hello whatever?
- how to control the phone
- phone’s orientation (how you tilt - Input.acceleration.x)
- keyboard or joystick (only axis is enough - Vertical or Horizontal)
- Project Settings -> Input
- Didn’t know which joystick button was for what!
The conference/booth is over now.
- Similar to Vr there is a Hello AR in google
Talk about
Difficulty in finding the plane
Need an arcore supported device! > N7.1 or sdk 25
Difficulty in understanding the source code
A little deep dive on how it works
- Difficulty
- search for planes
- put on VR glass to test!!
No need to build and install. Preview but in phone
Available for unity and unreal
No need to build and install. Preview but in phone
Available for unity
Enable x86
Enable x86
Messaging is you can help your clients with VR/AR
- https://fotonvr.com/why-virtual-reality-is-necessity-of-schools-in-2019/
- https://thinkmobiles.com/blog/virtual-reality-real-estate/
Talk about shopping experience and indoor navigation
Messaging is you can help your clients with VR/AR
- air measure
- kayak - measure cabin baggage
- google lens and much more