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Published inNov 2023
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Shaun Ferns
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Shaun is a lecturer at Technological University Dublin. He is currently teaching on the BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Media where he is lead in the delivery of the Multimedia Stream. He is currently exploring serious games for construction-related training as well as the opportunities transmedia provides in improving user experience and engagement in cultural archive artifacts. His educational research is currently driven by his interest in self-determined learning (heutagogy), rhizomatic learning theory, micro-credentialing /digital badging, and curriculum development.
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Sinéad Murphy
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Sinead Murphy is currently Data Analytics Manager for the Irish NGO Trocaire. She has over 25 years of computing experience, including freelance IT training and database consulting, university lecturing in mathematics, IT skills and programming at TU Dublin (Ireland) and Middlesex University (London). She is a published academic, with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics, computing and data science. She is passionate about the use of IT for understanding and visualising data, and using that understanding to make meaningful differences in the world. She is currently exploring the use of Python and Unity for data analytics and interactive visualisations.
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Beginning with the XR Interaction Toolkit

Having got a project onto a VR headset with the previous recipe, let’s add some interaction with the XR Interaction Toolkit. Player interaction with VR projects involves very different components and user actions than for typical first- or third-person controllers. Players may move via teleportation, so they have to be able to select the destination point they wish to teleport to. Hand controllers and even human hand tracking can be used to allow users to grab, release, and move objects. Alternatively, they may select objects with laser raycasts. Real-world interactable components can be simulated, such as press-in buttons, levers, and switches. The XR Interaction Toolkit provides features for all of these VR interactions, and its samples allow us to get to know, and repurpose, examples of different interactables in a playground VR scene.

In this recipe, you’ll create a scene with an XR Origin from the XR Interaction Toolkit...

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805123026

Authors (3)

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Shaun Ferns

Shaun is a lecturer at Technological University Dublin. He is currently teaching on the BA (Hons) in Creative Digital Media where he is lead in the delivery of the Multimedia Stream. He is currently exploring serious games for construction-related training as well as the opportunities transmedia provides in improving user experience and engagement in cultural archive artifacts. His educational research is currently driven by his interest in self-determined learning (heutagogy), rhizomatic learning theory, micro-credentialing /digital badging, and curriculum development.
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Sinéad Murphy

Sinead Murphy is currently Data Analytics Manager for the Irish NGO Trocaire. She has over 25 years of computing experience, including freelance IT training and database consulting, university lecturing in mathematics, IT skills and programming at TU Dublin (Ireland) and Middlesex University (London). She is a published academic, with undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in mathematics, computing and data science. She is passionate about the use of IT for understanding and visualising data, and using that understanding to make meaningful differences in the world. She is currently exploring the use of Python and Unity for data analytics and interactive visualisations.
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