Google Head Tracking Unity 
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 24, 2016
After announcing Daydream earlier this year, Google’s platform for high-end virtual reality on Android, the company has now says the Daydream VR SDK has reached version 1.0 Building upon the prior Cardboard SDK, Google has now combined both Cardboard and Daydream development into the Google VR SDK.
Road to VR
MARCH 8, 2017
Mobile VR solutions like Samsung’s Gear VR currently employ rotational tracking only. The data is sent to a computer via UDP packet over Wi-Fi, and the results are displayed using the game engine Unity, as shown in the brief demonstration video heading this article.
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AllThingsVR
MAY 19, 2016
Start Developing For Google Daydream VR Right Now if You Have a Google Nexus 6P Yesterday, at Google I/O, the company unveiled the first details of its new virtual reality platform, Google Daydream. Naturally, there are some specific prerequisites in place to get started with Google Daydream development.
Road to VR
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
There’s a rumor going around that Nintendo is making a VR headset in partnership with Google. There was no head tracking, motion controllers, or even games that wouldn’t have played equally as well on a standard Gameboy.
UploadVR Between Realities podcast
OCTOBER 26, 2016
The system is already used on the $3,000 HoloLens, an advanced augmented reality system, but with it employed on a low-cost VR headset Microsoft may have leapfrogged efforts by both Facebook and Google, powered by Windows. In the meantime, for Windows-focused developer Object Theory, a home-grown solution to input might be a possibility.
ARVR
DECEMBER 1, 2020
A form of non-verbal communication through the body (typically the hands or head) that, when tracked by a motion sensing device, can be interpreted as movement and mirrored in virtual reality. Google Poly ?—?a In addition, most HMDs include head tracking sensors so that the system can respond to a user’s head movements.
Headjack
OCTOBER 2, 2015
We wanted a multi-platform solution that could support all kinds of features that are not possible using an existing distribution pipeline like YouTube, which currently only supports Google Cardboard. Unity is not build to playback video very well and we had to do a lot custom coding to get it working flawlessly.
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