So this tutorial originally wasn’t meant to be but I figured out that I forgot to include the ability to throw objects in my last one. So forgive me if this one is a little short. The reason that we can’t throw things now is that we are using fixed joints, which means that the…
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Steam VR 2.0 Simple-Complex Grabbing Tutorial Unity Part 1
There are many VR grabbing tutorials out there, why should you read this one? Watch this: Ok, for those who haven’t been trying to create this exact result for months hitting their heads against the wall for hours, I’ll explain. Most tutorials just teach you to connect the grabbed object to the controller using parenting…
How To Use SteamVR (2.0) Input In Unity
Not much need to be said about the new input system steam has implemented. People hate it, I like it, people hate me. I hope I’m kidding about that, we’ll see when this article goes live. But the reason I like it is probably that I understand it, and from what I can tell that…
How To Implement Walking in Unity SteamVR
There is now a new updated tutorial based on this one, so still read this one, but make sure to check out the new one for bug fixes, jumping code, and general improvement. Also, the latest version of the code and an example scene are included in the VR instincts plugin on GitHub. One of…
How To Make A VR Button In Unity
One of my most popular articles is the one where I teach how to make a button in Aframe, so I thought I would make one for unity. The first thing you want to do is make two cubes and position and scale them in such a way that they look like this: We also…
The Complete Guide To Animating Hands In Unity With SteamVR
By popular request, there is a new tutorial that uses blend states instead of animation states that you can find here. For this tutorial you are going to need your own hand model, I’m sorry but you don’t want mine: You can make it in blender or any other 3D cad software you like, I…
Getting Started With Unreal Engine For VR
Welcome to the complete guide to starting out your journey with Unreal Engine. In this article, we are going to go through everything on the list below. Table Of Contents Quick start guide Creating a VR pawn Adding motion controllers Getting input Quick start So you probably want to get a quick demo up and…
Server Commuinication-Aframe Game Tutorial:2
In our last tutorial, we set up our node js server. In this tutorial, we build on it and learn how to send messages to and from our server, for this we are using node js and socket IO. The first thing we want to do is install socket.io, we do this using our computer’s…
Setting up and Testing AFrame With Node JS
So a big struggle for me and many others is when programming with AFrame you cant load assets from your computer, stuff like images or 3d models. You can only get assets if they are hosted on a website. While this is easily fixed by developing on Git-Hub, Glitch, Nocities, or Surge, (All recommended by…
How to make a VR red dot gun sight in unity
So you want to make a VR shooter and you realized that generic gun sights don’t work that well in VR. The red dot sight is much better for VR since it is a lot easier to use especially if you are like me an have a Windows MR headset where you sometimes have to deal with twitchy…