Getting Started With VRTK For VR Development

We started off by creating a new unity project. I am using Unity Hub to do this but it works in the normal unity launcher as well. I suggest using Unity 2018.2.6f1 (Latest Version at the time of writing this).

Next we will need to install VRTK (as of writing VRTK from the asset store doesn't work) so we are going to need to get it from github. We are also going to grab the SteamVR plugin so we can build our game for multiple VR headsets.

• VRTK
• SteamVR

Now we will open the VRTK zip file and extract VRTK-3.2.1.zip>VRTK-3.2.1>Assets and put the VRTK folder into your Assets folder.

Then open the SteamVR.Plugin.unitypackage. If you have unity open already you will see a popup that looks like this.

Just click import and we will move on. If you get the following popup just click "I Made a Backup"

Then you will get this popup, just click Accept All.

Now we are going to open an example scene, to get how VRTK works. I'm going to open the example VRTK scene 004_CameraRig_BasicTeleportation.unity

Before starting the example click on the gameobject called [VRTK_SDKManager]

Go to the inspector and click the Auto Populate Button to get your SDKs setup.

Now you are ready to start developing your own VR content.