Introduction to Tilt Five and Unity
Tilt Five utilizes a system composed of glasses, a special game board with a retroreflective surface, and a motion-tracked wand controller. The glasses project an image from each eye to the game board, which reflects back to the player’s eyes to achieve a stereoscopic effect. The glasses track their position relative to the game board, as well as the position of the wand.
To use this system with a Unity project, we provide a plugin to act as a bridge between the Tilt Five hardware and Unity.
Requirements
- OS: Windows 10
- Unity 2018.4 LTS and newer
Add the Tilt Five Unity Plugin to your Project
Add the custom package
- If you haven’t already, now is the time to download our latest software, including the Unity plugin.
- Within the SDK folder, navigate to the Setup subdirectory and follow the instructions within to set up your new Tilt Five hardware.
- In Unity, create or open a project.
- From the SDK folder, drag TiltFive-Unity-SDK.unitypackage into your Unity Project panel. OR From the Unity Assets menu, choose Import Package > Custom Package, then browse to and select the TiltFive-Unity-SDK.unitypackage file and click Open.
- In the Import Unity Package pane, click All to select all the items (they should be selected by default)
Creating a Tilt Five Capable Scene
Now that you have imported the plugin, it’s time to display something on the glasses. There are three required components that must be present in a Tilt Five capable scene: a Game Board, a Camera to be controlled by the headset’s positional data, and a Tilt Five Manager. These instructions will give you the simplest Tilt Five capable scene with the tracking origin at [0.0, 0.0, 0.0].
- Create a new scene.
- Disable or delete the Main Camera GameObject.
- Add a cube to the scene at [0.0, 0.5, 0.0].
- In the Project window, under Assets > Tilt Five > Prefabs, drag the Tilt Five Prototype prefab into the Hierarchy, and ensure that its Transform component has a position of [0.0, 0.0, 0.0] and a rotation of [0.0, 0.0, 0.0].
- Press Play to run the scene in the editor.
Configuring Settings
- Enabling MSAA is recommended to smooth out sharp edges.
- DirectX11 is required on Windows - OpenGL rendering is not yet supported.