Today, the global game engine Unity Technologies Introduces Unity 5.6, which is the final version of Unity 5.x version cycle. The new version brings many new features for development. In terms of virtual reality, this version now has native support for Google VR. Thus making developers to create an application burst for Google VR devices.
Talking about the virtual reality aspect, this version now has native support for Google VR.
With the new version of Unity 5.6 Google VR native support, developers can now more easily publish their own applications into the Google Cardboard and Google Daydream. And of course will significant have a performance boost.
Unity 5.6 New Features
The specific features about Unity new version in blog are:
In order to get the best performance from Daydream platform and to tackle with the delay problem, we have integrated the Google VR development kit. So in order to take advantage of the platform’s heavy asynchronous projection technology (asynchronous re projection) and VR performance mode in this new version of Unity 5.6.
Google VR Inherited Support
And last year’s Google released Daydream is one of the Google I/O VR SDK for Unity that is currently in comparison. So we now offer a more streamlined workflow, providing a significantly improved performance and lower latency . There are no pre files, scripts or manual configuration needs to be modified to get started. So you just have to enable the VR and Daydream set as the target platform. So making it easy to create your own virtual world.
In this new version we can also easily switch in and out of VR mode. So that your application can easily be extended to a full Google VR audiences. As well as having the full native support for Google Cardboard. Similarly the Cardboard application can also run on an old equipment. So this new Unity application works in order to make such virtual applications to reach more users. At the same time, Android exclusive Cardboard support is also coming for IOS.
Unity 5.6 Beta Version in 2017 April
While earlier this month, Unity also demonstrated Unity 2017 (in 2017 Unity will not use version 5.6 series and intends to use new naming. While the details of the beta version claims that this version will be for non-programmers. And it also has many design options for artists. The beta version of Unity 2017 will be released by next month.
Download Unity 5.6
More information on new features of Unity 5.6 and for download Unity 5.6 please refer to the link below:
Unity Official