Acerca de este curso: Meeting another person is one of the most amazing experiences you can have in Virtual Reality. It is quite unlike communicating through any other medium except a real life face-to-face conversation. Because the other person is life size and shares a virtual space with you, body language works in a way that cannot be done on a flat screen. This course will enable you to create realistic social interactions in VR. You will learn about both the psychology of social interaction and the practical skills to implement it in Unity3D. We will take you through the basics of 3D character animation and how to create body language. You will learn about how to make characters that can respond to players’ speech and body language. You will also learn about avatars: the virtual representation of other players, and agents: computer controlled NPC characters and how to implement both of them. As many people have said before us, social is the future of VR. This course will help you become part of the future of Virtual Reality social experiences.
Para quién es esta clase: This class is for people who are interested in becoming 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 courses "Introduction to Virtual Reality", "3D models for Virtual Reality" and "3D Interaction Design in Virtual Reality" which cover the basic concepts and how to create 3D models and interaction design.
Creada por: University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London
Enseñado por: Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan, Lecturer, Department of Computing
Goldsmiths, University of LondonEnseñado por: Dr Marco Gillies, Senior Lecturer
Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London
| Información básica | Curso 4 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 |
Programa
SEMANA 1
Introduction to Virtual Characters
In this module you will start to learn about the role of human-like characters in VR. Characters can represent other real people: avatars, or they can be computer controlled: agents. Either way they are the very foundation of social interaction in VR.
10 videos, 6 lecturas, 1 cuestionario de práctica
- Discussion Prompt: Introduction to Virtual Characters
- Vídeo: Virtual Characters | Realism
- Discussion Prompt: Virtual Character Realism
- Vídeo: Agents and Avatars
- Discussion Prompt: Agents and Avatars
- Vídeo: Applications of Virtual Characters
- Vídeo: Introduction to Character Animation
- Discussion Prompt: Virtual Character Application
- Vídeo: Cristina
- Vídeo: Designing Virtual Characters
- Reading: Uncanny Valley
- Reading: Course Blog
- Reading: Getting Started in Unity
- Vídeo: Importing a Virtual Character to Unity
- Reading: Where to Download Virtual Characters
- Vídeo: Embodiment in Unity using Mobile VR
- Reading: Unity Mecanim Tutorial
- Reading: Virtual Character Project Brief
- Vídeo: Project Briefing
- Practice Quiz: Planning your project
Calificado: Virtual Characters Quiz
SEMANA 2
Body Animation in VR
In this module you will learn about the role of the body in social interaction and also about how to animate and control virtual characters' body movements.
12 videos, 4 lecturas
- Discussion Prompt: Observe other's body language.
- Vídeo: Introduction to Skeletal Animation
- Vídeo: Introduction to Motion Capture
- Discussion Prompt: Motion Capture
- Reading: Markerless mocap
- Vídeo: Speech
- Vídeo: Posture and Gesture
- Discussion Prompt: Gestures
- Vídeo: Backchannel
- Vídeo: Sensing the User’s Body Language
- Vídeo: Proxemics
- Vídeo: Body Language for Avatars
- Reading: Bodily Communication
- Discussion Prompt: A great example of body animation
- Vídeo: Applying Motion Capture Data onto a Virtual Character
- Reading: Where can you find Mocap data
- Reading: The Virtual Character Interaction Scripts
- Vídeo: Speech Interaction
- Vídeo: Gesture Interaction
Calificado: Body Movement
Calificado: Virtual Character
SEMANA 3
Facial Animation
The face is one of the most important social and emotional signals. In this module you will learn about the role of the face and eyes in social interactions and how to recreate them in VR.
7 videos, 3 lecturas
- Vídeo: Introduction to Facial Expressions
- Discussion Prompt: Facial Motion Capture
- Vídeo: Introduction to Facial Expression in Unity
- Reading: Interaction Scripts
- Vídeo: Blinking and Lip Sync Animation
- Reading: Facial Animation: find out more
- Discussion Prompt: A great example of facial animation
- Vídeo: The Importance of Gaze in Social Interaction
- Discussion Prompt: A great example of gaze animation
- Vídeo: Gaze Interaction
- Reading: Gaze Animation
- Vídeo: Other Facial Features and Their Psychological Effect
- Discussion Prompt: Body language around the world
Calificado: Facial Expressions
SEMANA 4
Social VR
This module brings together everything you have learned about virtual characters to talk about how you can build truly social experiences in VR.
7 videos, 6 lecturas
- Discussion Prompt: How does social interaction work?
- Vídeo: The Psychology Behind Social Interaction
- Reading: Automatic Imitation
- Reading: Extended reading: applications using Virtual Characters
- Vídeo: Challenges in Human-Avatar Interaction
- Reading: Human-avatar: Social VR apps
- Discussion Prompt: Challenges in Human-avatar interaction in VR
- Vídeo: Challenges in Human-Agent Interaction
- Reading: Human-agent interaction
- Vídeo: Evaluation of Social Interaction in VR
- Vídeo: Self-Avatar | Implementation and Applications
- Reading: Embodiment - implementation and psychological effect
- Vídeo: Summary of Social VR
- Reading: Thank you
Calificado: Interactive Virtual Character
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Tarifa
| Comprar curso | |
|---|---|
| Accede a los materiales del curso | Disponible |
| Accede a los materiales con calificación | Disponible |
| Recibe una calificación final | Disponible |
| Obtén un Certificado de curso para compartir | Disponible |
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This was a fun course. Needed much more time than expected.
Definitely the most valuable course of the series so far! I learned a lot about making virtual characters look and behave realistically. The Unity scripts provided and explained as part of the course were very helpful. Thank you, and I am looking forward to the next course! - Steve
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SM
Great course, congratulations to the organizers. Some assets suggested are not compatible with the latest version of Unity, but you can work around getting some similar from the Unity Asset Store.