VR Quick Start Guide

As faculty member teaching computer graphics and interactive techniques you may desire, or it may be required of you, to incorporate Virtual Reality (VR) into your curriculum. This page is intended to provide some pointers to get started. It is not comprehensive, a more complete curated list of VR resources is currently in preparation. This guide is intended to offer some direction to faculty members in incorporation the teaching of creating VR experiences into their curriculum. It is not aimed at people who want to use VR as a tool in their teaching of other subjects.

Please note: this is a work in progress. The field is developing rapidly. You can comment, suggest improvements and additions, using this google form

Introduction, Questions

• VR and AR - What is the difference?
• Why VR?
• Do I need to know how to code? Do we need CS and Art?
• What aspect of VR to focus on

Getting Started

• Choice of Platform: Hardware
• Explore VR
• Choice of (Game) Engine / Real Time Application Platform
  
  • Getting started with Unity and VR
  • Getting started with Unreal Engine and VR (Coming Soon)

Starter Projects

Here are some projects you can try that give results relatively quickly.

• 360 degrees stereoscopic video (Coming Soon)

• An Immersive Dynamic World
  
  • create 360 degrees stereoscopic render from Maya using the Arnold VR Camera

Essential Reading

• Jason Jerald. 2015. The VR Book: Human-Centered Design for Virtual Reality. Association for Computing Machinery and Morgan & Claypool, New York, NY, USA.