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I just created a simple landing page for my book, “The Google Daydream VR Cookbook”. If you’re interested in AR or VR development and/or design then this is the book for you. It will be shipping in the next week or so.
The reason I’ve been a bit slow in posting to the blog lately is that I’ve been busy writing a book on Daydream VR and ARCore development. The book is called the Google Daydream VR Cookbook – Building Games and Apps in Daydream, ARCore, and Unity. It covers everything you need to know about designing and developing games … Continue reading Google Daydream VR Cookbook
**WARNING** This video contains gratuitous (and poorly animated) cartoon violence 😉 . Some weapon mechanic tests I’ve been working on for a game. Thinking about how to port the two handed bow and arrow mechanic to Daydream…
It is the great paradox of virtual reality that we can be whoever we want to be, do whatever we want to do, and yet for some reason it all feels a bit lonely. We are social animals but the truth is that most people find virtual reality rather isolating. Isolation is boring, and bored … Continue reading Building a Multiplayer Game in Daydream VR and Photon
This is a quick and easy technique for extracting data from the GvrLaserPointerImpl’s raycast system without going through the GvrPointerInput system or the targetObject’s TriggerEvent. Using the Player gameObject pattern of my previous tutorials or the same pattern from the Daydream SDK demos you can use this method to easily make a teleportation system with all … Continue reading Daydream VR: Raycast Data From the GvrBasePointer Without an EventTrigger
Spatialized audio refers to sound that appears to come from a particular direction in 3D space. It is one of several inputs that combine to create a sense of immersion for the user within the VR environment. The Daydream SDK comes with a suite of robust components that allow us to effortlessly simulate the complex behavior of … Continue reading Spatial Audio in Daydream VR
I’ve been really impressed by all of the work the Daydream VR team have put into the Unity SDK. The more I dig around the more I find useful little gems in there to get Daydream devs up and running quickly. This tutorial will show you how to easily create a video player for 360 spherical … Continue reading Building a Video Player in Daydream VR
(03/14/17 updated to work with Google VR SDK 1.3 and the Unity 5.6 beta) Since writing my previous Daydream tutorials many things have changed in the Daydream Unity SDK. This post is a comprehensive tutorial taking you through the steps involved in creating an interactive Daydream controller based app from scratch. By the end, we’ll have a … Continue reading Building a Daydream Controller Based App From Scratch
I’ve been receiving a lot of messages from people having problems building Daydream apps from Unity to their phone. So this is a quick post to go over the basics of doing just that, in 6 easy steps. It’s been a while since I went over the basics of setting up Daydream and since then a … Continue reading Building Daydream VR From Unity To Your Phone In 6 Easy Steps
Have you ever walked into an antique store and been struck with an overwhelming urge to grab things off the shelves and start throwing them against the walls? Well, you’re in luck because that kind of antisocial behavior is one of the singular pleasures of being a VR developer. Smashing, breaking and destroying digital things … Continue reading Throwing Objects in Daydream VR and Unity