Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

About the Author xix

Part I: Getting Started 1

Chapter 1: Terminology and Best Practices 3

Terminology 4

Best Practices 10

Summary 11

Chapter 2: Head Mounted Display Setup 13

Gear VR 14

Rift and Vive 32

Summary 42

Chapter 3: Toolkit 43

Generic Function Library 44

Oculus Function Library 45

Steam VR Function Library 47

Summary 47

Part II: Recipes 49

Chapter 4: Trace Interaction 51

Understanding Trace Interaction 52

Understanding Interfaces 55

Setting Up Trace Interaction 57

Setting Up a Basic Interactive Object 75

Summary 79

Exercises 80

Chapter 5: Teleportation 85

Setting Up Teleportation 86

Visualizing the Teleport 92

Simple Teleportation Volume 95

Summary 101

Exercises 101

Chapter 6: Unreal Motion Graphics and 2D User Interfaces 103

Challenges with 2D UI in VR 104

History and Compatibility of UMG 105

Basic VR Menu 105

Custom Menu Interaction 113

Summary 123

Exercises 123

Chapter 7: Character Inverse Kinematics 125

Introduction to Inverse Kinematics 126

Setting Up Head IK 127

Setting Up Hand IK 137

Summary 144

Exercises 145

Chapter 8: Motion Controller Interaction 147

Why Motion Controller Interaction Works 148

What to Look Out For: The Importance of Affordance 148

Shared Input of the Current Generation of Motion

Controllers 149

Setting Up the World Interaction Project 149

Interacting with Objects 151

Creating the Interactive Objects 163

Summary 187

Exercises 188

Chapter 9: VR Locomotion 189

Simulator Sickness 190

Locomotion Types 190

Locomotion Implementation 194

Summary 205

Exercises 205

Chapter 10: VR Optimization 207

Requirements of VR Rendering 208

Latency Mitigation 209

Performance Improvements 215

VR Project Settings 221

Summary 229

Exercises 229

Part III: Appendices 231

Appendix A: VR Editor 233

Enabling the VR Editor 234

Controlling the VR Editor 235

Summary 241

Appendix B: Resources 243

Epic 244

Oculus 244

Valve 244

Google 245

Community 245

Physical Meetups 245

Conferences 246

Index 247