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How to share your data

How to share your data - Unity Tutorial

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How to share your data

- [Instructor] There are a host of data sharing technologies out there. You can poll a web server and get data as far as HTTP will allow you. You can build a custom UDP or TCP/IP service that will work from device to device, so it will skip a server. You can also use a multiplayer server, which allows us to have a central server that all of our devices talk to. There are a lot of existing services out there like Multiplay, PlayerIO, and SpatialOS. You can also try to write your own custom socket or web socket solution. To make sure that we select the right service, we set up a selection criteria. First, the service needs to be easy to work with and to set up. We want to make sure that if we use a management dashboard, we don't have to get up to too many shenanigans just to get going. Secondly, we want a really simple Unity integration. This goes for both installing a Unity package to get going as well as when we…

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