Unity ® Virtual Reality (VR) Development: No Coding Approach

Compare VRTK 4 with other VR SDKs, highlighting Arctic's cross-platform, free and open-source framework. It bundles locomotion, object interaction, and UI controls to streamline VR development.

Install Unity 2019, import the Oculus Integration SDK and Open VR packages, configure VR in player settings, and set up the demo scene to test Oculus and Open VR integration.

Install the required SDK and import Telia packages, then prepare the demo scene. Learn to use Arctic and Oculus camera rig prefabs from the packages to configure in-scene cameras.

Set up a root MTV game object and a child camera rig, adjust transforms, and attach camera rig prefabs from runtime packages and oculus integration for editor testing with keyboard.

Set up the tracked alias to represent an active camera rig in Unity by listing three rigs—space shuttle simulator, Oculus integration, and Oculus camera rig—and select one active rig.

Configure the oculus ovr camera rig for spatial testing, set tracking origin to floor level, and activate a single camera rig; use oculus integration for hand animations with alternative controllers.

Use the object states prefab to switch between three camera rigs in your scene by assigning each rig to target slots and keeping only one active.

Map left and right control objects to Oculus controller transforms to mimic hand movements; start with cuboid hands, then switch to virtual animated hands and discuss cross platform input.

Explore how an interactor detects and grabs intractables, contrasting direct interaction with distance grab using a reticle, and preview grabbing mechanics in Unity VR development.

Set up Oculus controllers as cuboid avatars by attaching the interactions interactor prefab to both left and right controller aliases, then drag from the project to see cuboid hands.

Import vr hands package in Unity, set up left and right prefabs, mirror left hand, and map controller inputs to open, grab, release, and teleport animations for spatial simulator.

Learn to animate custom VR hands in Unity by consolidating action inputs from Oculus, Vive, Xbox, keyboard, and mouse into a common intermediary object to drive grab and release animations.

Learn to configure bidirectional grab in Unity VR without coding by wiring left and right interactor grab actions to intermediary hand objects, and enable velocity tracking for realistic throws.

Experience real interactions in Unity VR by setting up intractable objects. Build on the white cube demo to learn picking up objects, orientation handles, and second reactions.

Set up an interactable cube that you can grab with either hand, featuring primary and secondary grab actions and testable behavior in the space shuttle simulator.

Configure customized pickup orientation handles for interactable objects in a Unity VR setup, compare follow transform versus follow rigid body, and test left and right hand grab alignment.

Explore vr movement concepts, focusing on teleportation to reduce motion sickness, and examine Arctic's movement modes—from instantly teleport and dash to teleport targets, smooth and snap rotation, and arm swinging.

Implement instant and dash teleportation in Unity vr using a bezier pointer, with green valid targets and red invalid cues, and map controllers to trigger via display 3.0 teleport player.

Configure teleporter to work with the covid pointer, moving the play area to the target location with offset and rotation, and implement instant and dash teleportation driven by left-stick input.

Learn to set up teleport targets in Unity VR using teleport target point and area prefabs, configure spatial target dispatchers and events, and test restricted teleportation for large-scale navigation.

Learn to implement slide movements and rotations in Unity VR using thumb-stick axes and locomotor prefabs, including vertical/horizontal slide, smooth rotate, snap rotate, and warp snap rotate, with input actions.

Set up a pseudo body in Unity to prevent passing through objects by mapping headset movement to a following body with colliders and ignored game objects, rolling back on divergence.

Deactivate capsule colliders on each Oculus hand and adjust grab volumes to enable distance grab, then display a pulsating reticle when pointing to objects and add a toggle action.

Set up a vertical distance grabber in Unity VR by creating an empty child object and linking the distance grab prefab to a hand interactor, then test with play mode.

Set up telekinesis movement and a straight pointer to enable grabbing distant objects, adjust transition duration to 0.5 seconds, and enable visibility when the pointer activates.

Compare traditional heads-up displays with in-world UI, and learn to create 3D UI using a worldspace canvas and interactive 3D buttons controlled by a pointer.

Set up a straight spatial pointer for VR, configure inputs from Oculus, Vive, Xbox, and keyboard M, and activate it via a special pointer activator with a boolean action.

Set up a 3d spatial clickable button linked to a spatial targets dispatcher to dispatch events for buttons and teleport targets, and test with keyboard and VR controllers.

Set up a spatial button group in Unity VR to ensure the special point interacts only with three DUI buttons, via a spatial target processor and dispatcher workflow.

Explore how spatial buttons in Unity VR customize appearance using enabled and disabled style settings across inactive, hover, and active states, adjusting button text, font size, color, and mesh.

Set up the option buttons group within the special button group in Unity VR, connect it to the special target despatcher, and ensure only one option activates at a time.

Set up a slider in Unity VR using a linear transform drive, build a knob and bar, and show a visual tooltip with values 0–10 and step 1.

Learn an undocumented hack to have a straight pointer interact with the slider knob by using a UI layer rule, an interactor at the pointer end, and a toggle activation.

Learn to interact with three DUI spatial buttons using your hands for direct, pointer-free VR UI, set up each button's properties and interactor slots, and test with the VR headset.

Import and set up Unity's 2D UI elements for VR using VRTK, deploy a world-space canvas, then configure pointers and the event system to enable interaction.

Learn to create snap zones that snap and insert interactive objects using an interaction snap zone prefab, and build tool holders that display tool names with tool tips.

Import the tool holder UI as a Unity package, place the tool holder prefab in the environment, and prepare axe and hammer with proper tags and colliders to become interactable.

Convert the axe and hammer into interactive objects in Unity VR development using the interaction menu, then configure primary and secondary grab actions and test grabbing.

Set up snap zones in Unity with slapdown package, adjust mesh to a sphere, tune highlights and collision areas, enable smooth snapping via transition duration, and playtest in virtual reality.

Set up holsters that move with the player using the mutator follow prefab, enabling left and right holsters to carry tools, adjust offset, and follow the play area alias.

Explore angular and linear drive prefabs from Artic, creating a steering wheel, door, lever, and button; compare physics and non-physics controls and learn when to minimize joints for multiplayer VR.

Create a VR steering wheel in Unity using an angular transform drive that rotates around the y-axis with a -180 to 180 degree limit, then align the wheels accordingly.

Set up a VR push button that presses on touch and springs back on release using a linear transform drive and events.