In recent years, virtual reality has become one of the hottest topics around. Though it has been attempted several times in the past, it was often written off as a gimmick before being able to truly take hold. However, this time virtual reality is here to say – so what does that mean for everyone? … Read more
You can access the full course here: Build a Micro-VR Game What is Virtual Reality? Virtual reality exists on the spectrum of mixed reality. This ranges from the real world to virtual reality. Real world. Augmented Reality (AR) is the rendering of virtual objects on top of the real world (think furniture apps, Pokemon Go, Minecraft … Read more
You can access the full course here: Hand Grabbing Controllers in VR Project Setup Create a new new Unity project so we can begin with the course. First, we want the ability to actually test out our game inside of the editor, in VR. In order to do this, firstly make sure that you have … Read more
You can access the full course here: Project-Based Oculus Avatars and Platform SDK Oculus App For this project, you’ll need and existing Oculus account. Login to it and navigate to the Developers page. Here, click on the Manage button. This will take you to the My Apps page. If you haven’t setup an organisation yet, it will … Read more
The camera in VR vs non-VR applications In Unity, a camera is a device that captures and displays the game world to the user. The way you work with cameras in VR is different to that of normal 3D games and applications, so that is the first thing we will address here. In a non-VR … Read more
You can access the full course here: VR Projects – Build an RPG Creating the Level If you go to the Models folder, you’ll see all of our modular pieces to create our level. Drag in the grass model and then drag in the grass PNG file to attach the texture. Rename the object to Grass, and then attach … Read more
You can find our latest VR courses here: Virtual Reality Mini-Degree Transcript Part 1 Hi there, welcome to the course. My name is Pablo Farias Navarro and I’ll be your instructor. In this course, you’ll learn to create a room-scale experience where you are a giant dinosaur and you have to fight, throw things at … Read more
You can access the full course here: VR Projects – Third-Person Platformer Game Adapting a Canvas for VR To begin, we’ll be adapting our home screen canvas so that it can be seen in VR. First, select the canvas and set the Canvas component’s “Render Mode” to World Space. Then set the position of the … Read more
