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Anna Braun
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Anna Braun

Anna Braun is a Unity expert, who is specialized in creating XR applications. At Deutsche Telekom, Anna has developed XR prototypes in Unity. One prototype enabled warehouse workers to find commodities more easily through the use of special location data and Augmented Reality. At Fraunhofer, Anna specialized in Hand-Tracking and worked on a VR education platform. Her master's degree in Extended Reality has a special focus on Eye Tracking, Deep Learning, and Computer Graphics. She is a published author in the tech space and regularly speaks at conferences hosted by academia or non-profits like the Mozilla Foundation. Anna co-founded a company that offers XR consulting and development.
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Raffael Rizzo
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Raffael Rizzo

Raffael Rizzo is a XR developer and Unity expert. During his work at Deutsche Telekom, he consulted companies on the use of digital twins and implemented augmented reality wayfinding solutions. At Fraunhofer IGD, Raffael worked on a VR education platform. He developed a VR training program for a soccer academy to test the children's reaction times. For the same academy, Raffael created an application that uses computer vision and machine learning to automatically evaluate ball juggling. His master's degree in Extended Reality encompasses Rendering, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and 3D Visualization. Raffael co-founded a company specializing in XR consulting and development.
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Building interactive VR experiences without code

After exploring the demo scene in Chapter 3, let’s build interactive VR experiences ourselves, starting with a virtual car exhibition. In the experience we are going to build, the user should be able to walk around the ground via continuous movement (walking with the joystick) and via teleportation (only to teleportation anchors).

To kick off our experience, create a new project by following the Setting up a VR project in Unity and the XR Interaction Toolkit section in Chapter 3. If you have followed the steps in Chapter 3, you can just open the existing project for this chapter and go through the following steps.

Once your project is loaded, begin by creating a new empty scene. This can be done by navigating to Assets | Scenes in the project window, right-clicking, selecting Create | Scene, and naming it CarExhibition.

By double clicking on it, you’re now inside the newly created scene that contains only a Main...

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Anna Braun

Anna Braun is a Unity expert, who is specialized in creating XR applications. At Deutsche Telekom, Anna has developed XR prototypes in Unity. One prototype enabled warehouse workers to find commodities more easily through the use of special location data and Augmented Reality. At Fraunhofer, Anna specialized in Hand-Tracking and worked on a VR education platform. Her master's degree in Extended Reality has a special focus on Eye Tracking, Deep Learning, and Computer Graphics. She is a published author in the tech space and regularly speaks at conferences hosted by academia or non-profits like the Mozilla Foundation. Anna co-founded a company that offers XR consulting and development.
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Raffael Rizzo

Raffael Rizzo is a XR developer and Unity expert. During his work at Deutsche Telekom, he consulted companies on the use of digital twins and implemented augmented reality wayfinding solutions. At Fraunhofer IGD, Raffael worked on a VR education platform. He developed a VR training program for a soccer academy to test the children's reaction times. For the same academy, Raffael created an application that uses computer vision and machine learning to automatically evaluate ball juggling. His master's degree in Extended Reality encompasses Rendering, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, and 3D Visualization. Raffael co-founded a company specializing in XR consulting and development.
Read more about Raffael Rizzo