Unreal for Mobile and Standalone VR: Create Professional VR Apps Without Coding

Description

Apply the techniques needed to build VR applications for mobile and standalone head-mounted displays (HMDs) using the Unreal Engine. This book covers the entire VR ecosystem including production tools, Unreal engine, workflows, performance and optimization, and presents two fully-developed projects to reinforce what you've learned. Media designers, CG artists and other creatives will be able to take advantage of real-time engine techniques and easy-to-learn visual scripting logic to turn their creations into immersive and interactive VR worlds. Gear VR, the Oculus Go and other Android based VR HMDs are becoming exciting new platforms for immersive business presentations, entertainment and educational solutions. The Unreal engine, one of the world’s most powerful and popular game engines, is now free to use and has become increasingly popular for real-time visualizations and enterprise solutions in recent years. With Unreal's powerful blueprint visual scripting system, non-coders can now design blueprints in Unreal, unlock the power of rapid prototyping, and create complex interactions without a line of code. Get your copy of Unreal for Mobile and Standalone VR today and begin using this powerful tool-set to create high-end VR apps for a wide range of applications from games, B2B, to education. What You'll LearnExplore the VR ecosystem, including history, recent trends and future outlook Review tool set, graphics and animation pipeline (Blender, Zbrush, Substance Painter and others) Examine graphics optimization techniques Set up a project and the target platform Design interaction with Unreal blueprints Deployments, testing, further optimization Who This Book Is For Multimedia designers, CG artists, producers, app developers. No coding experience is required. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi The VR Ecosystem and What to Expect in the Years to Come (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 1-14 VR Production Tools, Workflow, and Pipeline (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 15-51 Before You Start (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 53-86 Unreal for VR: Basic Ingredients for an Oculus Go Project Setup (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 87-140 Comparing the Gear VR, Oculus Go, and Oculus Quest (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 141-167 Creating an Interactive VR Presentation (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 169-197 An Introduction to Creating VR Game Mechanics (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 199-258 Performance, Profiling, and Optimizations (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 259-294 Conclusion and Resources (Cornel Hillmann)....Pages 295-316 Back Matter ....Pages 317-324