Virtual Reality Training

Curriculum:

• Understanding the concept of virtual reality
• Overview of the developments in virtual reality over the years
• Getting acquainted with hardware and software requirements for virtual reality
• Understanding the physiological aspects and perception
• Installing and configuring Unity Engine
• Learning sprites and physics joints in Unity
• Building a terrain in Unity using the built in terrain tool set
• Understanding raycasting and rigidbody
• Deploying a scene on Google Cardboard
• Learning unity particle systems for enhanced effects
• Creating the user interface for a virtual environment
• Configuration of Oculus Rift
• Installing the Oculus software development kit
• Deploying a scene on Oculus Rift

VIRTUAL REALITY WITH UNITY 5 (Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard)

INTRODUCTION TO VR

• What is a virtual reality
• Modern VR experiences 
• History

OVERVIEW

• Hardware 
• Software 
• Human physiology and perception

VISUAL PERCEPTION

• Perception of depth
  
• Perception of motion
  
• Perception of color
  
• Combining sources of information

Introduction to Unity

• Getting to Know the Unity Editor
  
• The Project Dialog
  
• The Unity Interface
  
• The Project View
  
• The Hierarchy View
  
• The Inspector View
  
• The Scene View
  
• The Game View <br>
  
• Honorable Mention: The Toolbar
  
• Navigating the Unity Scene View
  
• The Hand Tool o Flythrough Mode

Game Objects

• Dimensions and Coordinate Systems
• Putting the D in 3D
• Using Coordinate Systems
• World Versus Local Coordinates
• Game Objects
• Transforms
• Translation
• Rotation
• Scaling
• Hazards of Transformations
• Transforms and Nested Objects

Models, Materials, and Textures

• The Basics of Models
  
• Built-In 3D Objects
  
• Importing Models
  
• Models and the Asset Store
  
• Textures, Shaders, and Materials
  
• Textures o Shaders
  
• Materials o Shaders Revisited

3D Terrain

• Terrain Generation
• Adding Terrain to Your Project
• Heightmap Sculpting
• Unity Terrain Sculpting Tools
• Terrain Textures o Importing Terrain Assets
• Texturing Terrain

Environments

• Generating Trees and Grass
  
• Painting Trees
  
• Painting Grass
  
• Terrain Settings
  
• Environment Effects
  
• Skyboxes
  
• Fog
  
• Lens Flares
  
• Water
  
• Character Controllers
  
• Adding a Character Controller
  
• Fixing Your World
  

Lights and Cameras

• Lights
  
• Point Lights
  
• Spotlights
  
• Directional Lights
  
• Creating Lights Out of Objects
  
• Halos o Cookies
  
• Cameras o Anatomy of a Camera
  
• Multiple Cameras
  
• Split Screen and Picture in Picture
  
• Layers o Working with Layers
  
• Using Layers

Game 1: Amazing Racer

• Design
  
• The Concept
  
• The Rules
  
• The Requirements
  
• Creating the Game World
  
• Sculpting the World
  
• Adding the Environment
  
• The Character Controller
  
• Gamification
  
• Adding Game Control Objects
  
• Adding Scripts o Connecting the
• Scripts Together
  
• Playtesting
  

Collision

• Rigidbodies
  
• Collision
  
• Colliders
  
• Physics Materials
  
• Triggers
  
• Raycasting

Prefabs

• Prefab Basics
  
• Prefab Terminology
  
• Prefab Structure
  
• Working with Prefabs
  
• Adding a Prefab Instance to a Scene
  
• Inheritance
  
• Instantiating Prefabs Through Code
  

User Interfaces

• Basic UI Principles
  
• The Canvas
  
• The Rect Transform
  
• Anchors
  
• Additional Canvas Components
  
• UI Elements
  
• Images
  
• Text
  
• Buttons
  
• Canvas Render Modes
  
• Screen-Space Overlay
  
• Screen-Space Camera
  
• World Space

Particle Systems

• Particles
  
• Unity Particle Systems
  
• Particle System Controls
  
• Particle System Modules
  
• Default Module
  
• Emission Module
  
• Shape Module
  
• Velocity over Lifetime Module
  
• Limit Velocity over Lifetime Module
  
• Force over Lifetime Module
  
• Color over Lifetime Module
  
• Color by Speed Module
  
• Size over Lifetime Module
  
• Size by Speed Module
  
• Rotation over Lifetime Module
  
• Rotation by Speed Module
  
• External Forces Module
  
• Collision Module
  
• Sub Emitter Module
  
• Texture Sheet Module
  
• Renderer Module
  
• The Curve Editor

Animations

• Animation Basics
  
• The Rig o The Animation
  
• Animation Types
  
• Creating the Animation
  
• Animation Tools
  
• Animation Window
  
• Creating a New Animation
  
• Record Mode
  
• The Curves Editor

Animators

• Animator Basics
  
• Rigging Revisited
  
• Importing a Model
  
• Configuring Your Assets
  
• Rig Preparation
  
• Animation Preparation
  
• Creating an Animator
  
• The Animator View
  
• The Idle Animation
  
• Parameters
  
• States and Blend Trees
  
• Transitions
  
• Scripting Animators

Audio

• Audio Basics
  
• Parts of Audio
  
• 2D and 3D Audio
  
• Audio Sources
  
• Importing Audio Clips
  
• Testing Audio in the Scene View
  
• 3D Audio
  
• 2D Audio
  
• Audio Scripting
  
• Starting and Stopping Audio
  
• Changing Audio Clips

Game Coin Collection

• Design o The Concept
  
• The Rules o The Requirements
  
• The Arena o Creating the Arena
  
• Texturing o Finish the Arena
  
• Game Entities
  
• The Player
  
• Coins o The Colored Coins
  
• The Control Objects
  
• The Goals
  
• The Game Controller
  
• Improving the Game

Publish and Deploy

• Managing Scenes
  
• Establishing Scene Order
  
• Switching Scenes
  
• Persisting Data and Objects
  
• Keeping Objects
  
• Saving Data
  
• Unity Player Settings
  
• Cross-Platform Settings
  
• Per-Platform Settings
  
• Building Your Game
  
• Build Settings

VR Projects Examples

• Ray cast and Gaze control
  
• Using AI Third Person Controller
  
• Working with UI
  
• Working with VR Sample Assets

Unity Integration with VR (OCULUS RIFT)

• Introduction to oculus rift
  
• Rendering the field of view
  
• The oculus sdk and rift interaction
  
• Integrating oculus unity integration
• package Note
  
• This course does not cover Scripting in
• unity with C# or JavaScript&rsquo;s
  
• This course uses pre-built Scripts for
• additional functionalities.