Acerca de este curso: This course will begin your journey to creating Virtual Reality experiences. A Virtual Reality experience is a new world that you step into and are entirely immersed in. Creating a VR experience means creating that world and all the objects in it. In this course you will learn the basics of 3D graphics: how we create objects and how to lay them out to create an environment. You will learn techniques like materials and texturing that make your objects appear realistic. You will also learn about audio techniques to ensure that your experiences sound great as well as looking great. In all of these topics we will pay attention to the particular requirements of Virtual Reality, including pitfalls and performance issues: making sure your environment runs fast enough in VR. You will learn all of this using the professional game and VR engine, Unity3D. Unity is one of the most used game engine and is a relatively easy, but fully featured, introduction to 3D development. The course will culminate in a project in which you will create your own VR scene. VR development is something you can only learn by doing it yourself, so working on your project will be the best way to learn.

Para quién es esta clase: This class is for people who are interesting in become Virtual Reality Developers. You don't need any particular experience of development, but some experience of digital creative work (e.g. photoshop, illustrator, digital music) will be helpful. If you are completely new to VR you might want to first follow our course "Introduction to Virtual Reality", which covers the basic concepts. We don't assume you have any experience of work in 3D graphics or unity. If you already have some experience, then some of the topics will be familiar to you, but we will also cover some VR specific aspects.

Creada por: University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London

Enseñado por: Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan, Lecturer, Department of Computing
Goldsmiths, University of London
Enseñado por: Dr Marco Gillies, Senior Lecturer
Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

Información básica	Curso 2 de 5 en Virtual Reality Specialization
Nivel	Intermedio
Compromiso	4 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week
Idioma	English
Requerimientos de hardware	You will need a virtual reality device, e.g. a smartphone VR device, Oculus Rift or HTC VIVE
Cómo aprobar	Aprueba todas las tareas calificadas para completar el curso.
Calificaciones del usuario	4.6 estrellas Calificación promedio del usuario 4.6Ve los que los estudiantes dijeron

Programa

SEMANA 1

3D Graphics

This week you will begin developing 3D Virtual Reality Environments. We will cover the basics of 3D graphics, including a number of 3D engines and development environments that you can use. We will particularly focus on the Unity3D engine.

16 videos, 7 lecturas, 3 cuestionarios de práctica

Discussion Prompt: Content Creation in VR
Practice Quiz: Reflection on Your Skills for VR Work
Reading: Course Blog
Vídeo: What are 3D Graphics?
Discussion Prompt: Your Favourite VR Environment
Vídeo: Introduction to Integrated Development Environments (IDE)
Vídeo: Why Use A-Frame?
Reading: Learning To Use A-Frame
Vídeo: Open VR with Lance Putman
Vídeo: Unreal Engine
Vídeo: Introduction to Unity
Reading: Learning Unity
Practice Quiz: Choosing Game Engines
Discussion Prompt: Which Engine Will You Use?
Reading: Setting Up Unity
Discussion Prompt: How Was Setting Up Unity?
Vídeo: 3D Space
Vídeo: Unity User Interface
Vídeo: Navigating in Unity
Vídeo: Objects and Meshes
Vídeo: Creating Objects in Unity | Primitives
Reading: Unity Basics
Vídeo: Creating 3D Assets
Vídeo: The Asset Store
Vídeo: Importing Assets From Unity and Other Places
Reading: Importing Assets
Discussion Prompt: Share Your Work
Vídeo: VR Environment Project
Reading: VR Project Brief
Practice Quiz: Planning your project

Calificado: 3D Graphics

SEMANA 2

VR Graphics

In this module you will carry on learning about 3D graphics, including how to use transforms to lay out a 3D scene and how to use materials to give your objects a distinctive appearance. You will also submit the first draft of your project.

16 videos, 4 lecturas

Vídeo: Transforms
Vídeo: Compound Objects
Vídeo: Positioning, Scaling, and Transforming Primitives in Unity
Vídeo: Cameras in VR
Reading: Transforms and Cameras
Vídeo: Unity VR Mode | Setting Up Cameras | Standard and VR
Reading: Setting up VR mode
Discussion Prompt: Setting up Unity for VR
Vídeo: Keyframe Animation
Vídeo: Keyframe Animation in Unity
Reading: Unity Animation
Vídeo: Introduction to Materials
Vídeo: Lights in VR
Vídeo: Lights in Unity
Vídeo: Materials
Vídeo: Materials in Unity
Vídeo: Textures
Vídeo: Textures in Unity
Reading: Graphics in Unity
Vídeo: Working on Your Project

Calificado: VR Graphics Quiz

Calificado: Content Creation Work in Progress

SEMANA 3

VR Audio

In this week you will learn about using sound in Virtual Reality and how you can use advanced 3D Audio techniques to enhance your experience.

14 videos, 2 lecturas

Vídeo: What is Sound?
Vídeo: How Do Humans Perceive Sound?
Vídeo: What is Digital Audio?
Vídeo: How is Sound Useful?
Discussion Prompt: Examples of the Use of Sound
Vídeo: How Do We Use Sound in VR?
Vídeo: General Guidance for Using Sound
Vídeo: How Do We Use Filters in VR?
Discussion Prompt: Using Audio in your Project
Vídeo: Audio Formats, Sources and Listeners in Unity
Vídeo: Audio Effects in Unity
Vídeo: Unity Audio Clips and Files
Vídeo: Audio Mixers in Unity
Vídeo: Audio in Unity | Additional Resources
Reading: Learning More About Audio in Unity
Reading: Now It's Your Turn!
Vídeo: Summary

Calificado: Audio and Revision Quiz

SEMANA 4

Content Creation: What works in VR?

In this final week of the course, we will put together everything we have learned to think about how to create compelling VR worlds. We will start by looking behind the scenes at how 3D graphics hardware works and why VR can be so demanding of computing power. Then we will think about the particular requirements of content creation for VR. You will finish by submitting the final version of your project for a peer review.

11 videos, 5 lecturas, 2 cuestionarios de práctica

Vídeo: Polygons to Pixels
Vídeo: Motion to Photon
Vídeo: Global Illumination
Reading: Unity Shaders
Practice Quiz: What Works in VR?
Vídeo: Why Do We Need Different Graphics Techniques for VR?
Reading: Techniques for Optimising a VR Experience
Practice Quiz: How is VR Content Creation Different?
Discussion Prompt: How is VR Content Creation Different?
Vídeo: Further Learning
Reading: Further Learning in Unity
Vídeo: Unity Resources
Vídeo: Unity Examples
Discussion Prompt: Share a Useful Resource
Vídeo: Learning VR Content Creation
Vídeo: Summary| Creating VR Worlds
Vídeo: Project Advice
Reading: Final Project Requirements
Reading: Thank you

Calificado: Creating VR Environments Project

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Accede a los materiales del curso	Disponible
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Recibe una calificación final	Disponible
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Calificaciones y revisiones

Calificado 4.6 de 5 74 calificaciones

I have done a lot of work in unity already, but i have learned many things in that

Lovely course, thank you

The course comprehensively covered the intended topic and gave me the skills I was expecting of it. The only reason I did not give it 5/5 stars was that much of the material was presented purely verbally with no visual examples. This was luckily not true of the unity workflows, which were easy to follow along with.