© Rakesh Baruah 2020
R. BaruahVirtual Reality with VRTK4 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5488-2_1

1. Setup

Rakesh Baruah1 
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Brookfield, WI, USA
 

To begin developing immersive experiences with Unity and VRTK, we must first download and install the required tools. These tools include: Unity, an integrated development environment (IDE), and Git for either Windows or Mac.

I’m not going to lie to you: Setting all of this up might not be easy. There are many steps, and many points at which something could go wrong. I will try to be as agnostic in regard to platform as I can, but I am accustomed to developing with Unity on a PC running Windows 10. Unity is cross-platform, though, for both your development environment as well as deployments. Both Windows ...

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