Mixed Reality Development Fundamentals

Learn how to develop immersive mixed reality applications using Unity.

Introduction

• Introduction
• Getting started
• What is mixed reality?
• Setting up
• Health and safety

1. Introduction to Unity

• What is Unity?
• Unity APIs
• User interface in mixed reality
• Setting up the camera parent
• Setting up a scene
• Setting up the controllers
• Understanding the controllers
• Controllers in action

2. Developing in Unity: Gaze

• Introduction to gaze
• Building gaze
• The gaze target class
• The gaze class
• Gaze in Unity

3. Developing in Unity: Movement

• Movement in mixed reality
• Building movement using the controllers
• Teleporting
• Ad hoc teleportation

4. Developing in Unity: Speech and Audio

• Introduction to speech and audio
• Setting up audio in Unity
• Voice command tips
• Spatial sound in Unity
• Getting your MR application working with audio
• Conclusion to speech and audio

5. Conditional Compilation

• Introduction to conditional compilation
• Conditional compilation in Unity
• Building for UWP
• Conclusion to conditional compilation

6. Designing for MR

• Introduction to designing for mixed reality
• Creating simple models using Paint 3D
• Exporting Paint 3D models
• Topology and polygon count
• Engons and triangles
• Normal maps and bump maps
• Creating maps using CrazyBump
• High poly to low poly using Maya

7. Optimization and Debugging

• Introduction to optimization and debugging
• Exploring the Profiler
• Fixing issues in Visual Studio
• Reviewing fixes in Unity
• Exploring the Frame Debugger
• Fixing your scene in Unity
• Optimizing your scene
• Top tips for optimization

8. Deploying with Visual Studio 2017

• Building a Visual Studio solution in Unity
• Building the application in Visual Studio
• Deploying and sideloading
• Submitting to the store