Overview

In this section, the pages and subpages provide all information regarding XR including support given by SOLO (example, available hardware equipments), and internal/external resources to help with your XR research journey.

Navigation

Support through SOLO

• Support for your research or educational project via SOSXR
• Available Hardware
• --Under construction -- XR apps (potentially) used in research / education
  • Publicly available
  • Developed at Universiteit Leiden
• Open Source Packages
• Remote & On-Site Assistance
• External Help
• Future
• Contact

Community

• XR Teams
• XR ERA by LLInC

Introduction to XR

• Why XR?
• You don’t need to strive for realism
• Presence is about not breaking the experiences’ reality
• 6DOF or bust, except when its 360 videos

Resources

Learn XR

1. Insta360

• Insta360 Beginner's manual

2. Unity

 General

Building

• What is a build?
• To Build or not to Build?
• Build often and test the build thoroughly
• Build to Device
• Reduce Build Times
  • Offload Builds to another machine

Assembly Definitions & Namespaces

• Assembly Definitions
• Namespaces

Additive Scenes

• Addive Sceneloading in Photon

Prefabs

• Prefabs
• Prefab Variants
• Caveats and possibilities
• Instantiating Prefabs && Contact them through your code

Unity Versions

• Choosing and using Unity versions
• Versions for multiple devices / developers
• Level of Risk with updating
• Downloading new versions through Unity Hub
• Downloading Archive versions

(ii) Story, Sequencing, Animation, & Emotion

Animation

• Animation Basics
• Transitions vs BlendTrees
• Controlling animations via code
• Changing animations
• IK & FK
• Facial animation, emotions & speech

Blendshapes

• Facial animation, emotions & speech

Timeline

• Timeline
  • SOSXR Open Source Timeline Extensions
  • Extending Timeline functionality
  • Animator Playable
  • TimeControl Playable
  • General points to consider
  • Why do this?
  • Need help?

(iii) Coding

Better Practices

• Staying sane in a growing project
• Organizing your Project
  • Smaller projects: Organise by Type
  • Larger / multiple projects: Organise by Function
• Avoiding a spaghetti mess

Inheritance & Interfaces

• Under development

Naming things

• Write human-readable code
• Name to promote reuse

Testing your code

• Creating a test suite for your code

Useful C# Practices

• Better Practices
• Singletons
  • (Very) simple solutions instead of Singletons
• Scriptable Object Variables

Scriptable Objects

• • Getting Started
  • Caveats, tips, and quirks
  • Resources

Events

• C# Events
• Singleton Events System
• Unity Events
• Scriptable Object Events

3. Asset Management

Asset Store

• The Asset Store
• Sharing & Licensing
• Working with various Assets simultaneously
• Time available to learn the ways of the asset
• Under active development?

Useful Assets

• SALSA: LipSync Emoter and EyeMovement
• Scriptable Objects Architecture
• UMotion Animation Creator
• Odin Inspector
• PlayMode Saver
• Double-Sided Shaders
• Inverse Kinematics && FinalIK
• Tweening

Creating and using Packages

• Resources

Miscellaneous Resources

Cinemachine

• Cinemachine

Networked Standalone HMD

• Possible HMD Devices
• Viewing
• Viewing Device
• Networking
  • Matching specific participants and viewers
• Ownership
• Data

Localisation

• Overview
• Obtaining the Package
• Contributing

Multiplayer

• Photon Overview
• Requirements
• Obtaining the Package
• Contributing

Saving

• Under Development

UI

• Resources

Research Specific Resources

Unity Experiment Framework

• Overview
• Generating a Session
• Data Collection
• Links

Biopac Integration

• Under development

Data

• Under development

Tobii Eye Tracking

• Possibilities
• Tobii Ocumen
• Devices
  • Ocumen Capable
  • Other Devices
• Tobii SDK

EEG

External Courses and Books Suggestions

• In general
• Getting Started
• Intermediate
• Advanced
• Research Specific
  • Unity Experiment Framework (UXF)
  • bmlTUX
  • PSY-VR
• Books
  • Coding
  • Design & Philosophy
  • VR & VR Philosophy
  • Unity Specific

• Choosing the right XR package

XR in Unity

• Covering Head-to-Toe of Unity - 2023 Resources

Example Projects

• Networked Standalone HMD