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VR Development

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Welcome to VR Development! This learning pathway is designed for anyone interested in learning to create experiences for VR. This pathway assumes a basic knowledge of Unity and basic knowledge of programming. 

Skills you will learn

  • Program custom VR interactions in order to meet the requirements of a project brief.
  • Optimize the performance of an app in order to meet headset framerate requirements.
  • Deploy VR projects to Unity-supported head-mounted displays (HMDs).
  • Develop a VR app that demonstrates common interactions using Unity's XR interaction toolkit.
  • Evaluate a proposed VR experience in order to suggest ways it could be improved. 
  • Decide which XR hardware to target, given the goals of a particular project.

Syllabus

VR basics
  • Tutorial: Welcome to the VR Pathway
  • Tutorial: VR Software Setup
  • Tutorial: 1.1 - VR Project Setup
  • Tutorial: 1.2 - VR Locomotion
  • Tutorial: 1.3 - Grabbable Objects
  • Tutorial: 1.4 - Sockets
  • Tutorial: Challenge 1 - Architecture Review
  • Tutorial: The VR software landscape
  • Tutorial: Lab 1 - VR Personal Project Basics
  • Tutorial: Submission 1 - Share your Work
  • Mission Checkpoint

Events and Interactions
  • Tutorial: 2.1 - Audio and Haptics
  • Tutorial: 2.2 - Activation Events
  • Tutorial: 2.3 - Direct and Ray Interactors
  • Tutorial: 2.4 - User Interface
  • Tutorial: Challenge 2 - 3D Painting
  • Tutorial: The XR hardware landscape
  • Tutorial: Lab 2 - Personal Project Events & Interactions
  • Tutorial: Submission 2 - Share your Work
  • Mission Checkpoint

Ergonomics and Optmization
  • Tutorial: 3.1 - Comfort and Accessibility
  • Tutorial: 3.2 - Optimization
  • Tutorial: 3.3 - Lighting
  • Tutorial: 3.4 - Building and Sharing
  • Tutorial: Challenge 3 - Training Simulation
  • Tutorial: Keeping up with XR technology
  • Tutorial: Lab 3 - Personal Project Ergonomics & Optimization
  • Tutorial: Submission 3 - Share your Work
  • Mission Checkpoint

Custom VR Development
  • Tutorial: What is in this mission?
  • Project: Project 1: XRI Template walkthrough
  • Project: Project 2: Escape Room Project brief
  • Tutorial: Project 3: Clone with a twist!
  • Mission Checkpoint

Taught by

Joy Horvath

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