VR dev AREA 51

I’m starting to try to develop a so called Vertical slice of a VR Game with Alien Scifi vibes called Area51 and I’m keeping a log diary of all my endeavours, challenges, learnings and stuff that I need to write down so I have a trail of what I did in the end ;-). First off; getting my VR development environment in the right state. Found the following helpfull pointers on getting VRTK installed in unity. Not sure I will stick to Oculus Utilities (I have been using the cross platform SteamVR until now and been quite impressed by it) but I might try to develop something for the Oculus Quest, so why not try it out ? At least it will push me to take into account the performance and triangle count from the beginning.

1. Open the Unity Hub and Using Unity 2018.4 LTS create a new project named “Escape Room Vertical Slice” and save it to the Desktop
2. Go to the Asset Store in Unity and search for Oculus Integrations
3. Click Import and Install
4. When prompted to install the update for Oculus Utilities click “Yes”
5. When prompted to restart click “Yes”
6. Next Go to “Window” and open “Package Manager”
7. Locate “Oculus Desktop” and click “Install” Located in the upper right corner of the window
8. Go to https://git-scm.com/ and install Git
9. Once you have Git navigate to Desktop/Escape Room Vertical Slice
10. Right-click the “Assets” folder and select “Git Bash Here”
11. In the Command Window that pops up enter:
12. git clone –recurse-submodules https://github.com/ExtendRealityLtd/VRTK.git
13. In the Command Window Enter:
14. git clone https://github.com/ExtendRealityLtd/VRTK.Tutorials.OculusIntegration.git
15. Return to Unity and let it load
16. When prompted with the “[VRTK]-Manage Input Mapping” window click “Add Input Mappings” on the bottom
17. You should see a “VRTK” folder in the projects Asset folder now, meaning you are ready to move on to the next video

Update !

The VRTK stuff is already outdated it seems. Sigh….

You now have to install VRTK.prefab from
https://github.com/ExtendRealityLtd/VRTK.Prefabs/releases

And adjust your manifest.json in packages/ with

{
“scopedRegistries”: [
{
“name”: “npmjs”,
“url”: “https://registry.npmjs.org/”,
“scopes”: [
“io.extendreality”
]
}
],
“dependencies”: {
“io.extendreality.vrtk.prefabs”: “1.0.2”,
“com.unity.ads”: “2.0.8”,
“com.unity.analytics”: “3.2.2”,
“com.unity.collab-proxy”: “1.2.15”,
“com.unity.package-manager-ui”: “2.0.8”,
“com.unity.purchasing”: “2.0.3”,
“com.unity.textmeshpro”: “1.4.1”,
“com.unity.xr.oculus.standalone”: “1.38.3”,
“com.unity.xr.openvr.standalone”: “1.0.5”,
“com.unity.modules.ai”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.animation”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.assetbundle”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.audio”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.cloth”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.director”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.imageconversion”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.imgui”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.jsonserialize”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.particlesystem”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.physics”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.physics2d”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.screencapture”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.terrain”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.terrainphysics”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.tilemap”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.ui”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.uielements”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.umbra”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.unityanalytics”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.unitywebrequest”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestassetbundle”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestaudio”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.unitywebrequesttexture”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.unitywebrequestwww”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.vehicles”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.video”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.vr”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.wind”: “1.0.0”,
“com.unity.modules.xr”: “1.0.0”
}
}