Unity Virtual Reality Projects - Second Edition

Teleport spawn points

It is very common in VR applications to limit teleportation to only specific predefined locations within the scene. In that case, you would not need any free-roaming glide locomotion or arbitrary teleportation targets. Instead, you can define the specific teleportation spawn points. Let's see how to do this.

First, let's create a TeleportSpawn prefab to mark our locations:

1. In Hierarchy, create a 3D Sphere and name it TeleportSpawn
2. Reset its transform (gear icon | Reset)
3. Set its Scale to 0.4, 0.4, 0.4
4. Set its Position to something like (2, 0, 3)
5. Create a new layer named TeleportSpawn from Inspector | Layers | Add Layer and fill in the name in an empty slot
6. Select the TeleportSpawn object in Hierarchy again, and now set ...