Challenge — Adding Video and Audio in Your Scene

In this challenge, you’ll apply your newly developed Video Player component skills to fix the Video Player in the car showroom environment. After this, you can use the same process to make other informative videos or sound sources in a VR scene to communicate information to your user.

In this challenge, you'll set up the Video Player to enhance the overall usefulness of the showroom.

What Will You Do?

1. Add 3D and 2D audio to your Unity project.

2. Add and position video content in your Unity Scene.

3. Use the Video Player Controller to allow users to start, pause, and stop video playback while in VR.

Locating the Video Player

Adding a Video Player component

1. Locate the Video Player (Video > Video Player).
2. Add a Video Player component by clicking Add Component and searching for Video Player.

Equip the Video Player component with the Video Clip.

Setting the Video Clip

We want to add the play/pause feature to this video. We’ll do this by adding a component to the Video Player called Video Controller.

The Video Controller component values

Here’s how you add a Video Controller script; then you’ll have a couple more steps.

Adding the Video Controller

1. Toggle the Video Clip to Loop.
2. Attach a Video Controller to the Video Player component. (Note: You’ll find the Video Player reference in the Hierarchy underneath the Video GameObject.)

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What is a Video Controller?

A Video Controller is component that allows the use of a play and pause button with your Video Player. This component is a quick way to add UI functionality to the Video Player.

Note that you have some empty fields on the Video Controller script (Video Player, Play and Pause buttons). We'll be assigning these fields with their respective UI elements.

The completed Video Controller component

Drag the video player GameObject to the open slot next to Video Player.

Assigning the Video Player variable

Do the same for both of the buttons.

Assigning the button variables

1. Find the Play and Pause buttons under the Canvas GameObject.
2. Drag them into the Video Controller component’s respective Play and Pause Button properties.

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What is the Source Property?

The Source Property in a Video Clip component tells Unity where the media is located. Is it on the web or a local clip?

(Note: Your Source defaulted to the Video Clip setting. This is what we want so that we can play back the Unity trailer.)

You have now added audio and video to a Unity Scene that is ready for playback in VR.

By completing this module, you’re now able to:

1. Add 2D and 3D audio to your Scene to enhance the user experience
2. Include video clips in your Scene to display useful information