Google Daydream VR Cookbook : Building Games and Apps with Google Daydream and Unity

The Complete, Up-to-Date Guide to Building AR and VR Games

Keene also provides an extensive library of downloadable, up-to-the-minute ARCore and Daydream code to jumpstart your project. In addition, he takes you through crucial UX design principles and best practices learned from building large scale VR and AR apps at Google.

Google Daydream VR Cookbook shows you how to:

• Install and explore the Google Daydream development tools
• Master basic and advanced Daydream Controller techniques
• Implement intuitive VR user interfaces
• Integrate audio, video, and realistic physics into your VR games
• Install and explore the ARCore SDK and development tools
• Learn how to build AR apps that solve real user needs
• Master AR game development using ARCore
• Optimize VR and AR game performance

Whether you are a software developer, UX professional, visual designer, beginner, or you come from a different design field, this book is a great practical introduction to VR and AR.

Sam Keene is a San Francisco–based Australian who works as a Senior User Experience Engineer at Google. His work focuses on virtual and augmented reality platforms. As a kid in the late ’80s, he started programming on a Commodore 64 and has worked professionally as a mobile software engineer and interaction designer for more than a decade. Sam has lectured in Interactive Media at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, and his work has won numerous industry accolades including Gold Cannes Lions, IxDA, D&AD, and One Show awards. He now spends most of his spare time with his wife and daughter collecting records, skateboarding, and when possible, playing early ’90s arcade games.