3.1 - Comfort and Accessibility

3.2 - Optimization

3.3 - Lighting

3.4 - Building and Sharing

Challenge 3 - Training Simulation

Keeping up with XR technology

Lab 3 - Personal Project Ergonomics & Optimization

Submission 3 - Share your Work

Mission 3 Quiz - VR Ergonomics & Optimization

Explore ergonomics and optimization for VR for making apps as accessible and comfortable as possible.

In this mission, you will focus on ergonomics and optimization for VR in order to make your app as accessible and comfortable as possible.In these tutorials, you will do the following:

In the Challenge for this mission, you will apply your skills in an industrial training simulation prototype. Then, in the Lab, you'll implement the core functionality of your personal project. Finally, in the Quiz, you will test your new knowledge.

Ergonomics and Optimization

Unity VR Development

Dive into the world of virtual reality with Unity's VR Development Pathway. Learn to design immersive experiences, build VR games, and master Unity's VR tools. Start creating in VR today!

VR Development Pathway - Learn Unity VR Game Development | Unity Learn

 or have the equivalent experience, before starting Unity VR Development.

In addition, basic coding experience is recommended before starting the Custom VR Development mission, which can be obtained via the 

Ready to develop for VR? This guided learning Pathway will prepare you for a job in the VR industry!

Welcome to VR Development! This learning pathway is designed for anyone interested in learning to create experiences for VR. This pathway assumes a basic knowledge of Unity and basic knowledge of programming.

VR Development

Welcome to the VR Pathway

VR Software Setup 

1.1 - VR Project Setup

1.2 - VR Locomotion

1.3 - Grabbable Objects

1.4 - Sockets

Challenge 1 - Architecture Review

The VR software landscape

Lab 1 - VR Personal Project Basics

Submission 1 - Share your Work

Mission 1 Quiz 1 - VR Basics

Learn the basics of setting up a VR project and implementing simple interactivity like locomotion and grabbing objects.

In this mission, you will learn the basics of setting up a VR project and implementing simple interactivity.

In these tutorials, you will do the following:

Set up a VR-ready project with the room of your choice

Implement locomotion so that users can move around the scene

Add grabbable objects users can pick up and throw around

Set up sockets that objects can snap into

In the Challenge for this mission, you will apply your skills in an architectural review prototype. Then, in the Lab, you'll fill out a design document to lay out a concept for your own project, and then begin working on it. Finally, in the Quiz, you will test your new knowledge.

VR Basics

2.1 - Audio and Haptics

2.2 - Activation Events

2.3 - Direct and Ray Interactors

2.4 - User Interface

Challenge 2 - 3D Painting

The XR hardware landscape

Lab 2 - Personal Project Events & Interactions

Submission 2 - Share your Work

Mission 2 Quiz - VR Events & Interactions

Learn how to implement more complex interactions in VR to make the experience more immersive, such as audio, haptics, and user interfaces.

In this mission, you will implement more complex interactions in VR to make the experience more immersive.

Apply new functionality to specific objects

Allow the user to toggle between multiple types of interactors

In the Challenge for this mission, you will apply your skills in a 3D painting prototype. Then, in the Lab, you'll implement the core functionality of your personal project. Finally, in the Quiz, you will test your new knowledge.

Events and Interactions

What is in this mission?

Explore the sample scene

Set up the scanner

Code the scanning functionality

Balloon Inflator

Escape Room project overview

Number pad

Keycard reader

Sliding Door

Mission 4 Quiz - Custom VR Development

Clone with a twist!

Submit your final project

Learn to write scripts for advanced interactions in VR applications, and create your own unique VR project.

In the previous missions, you used pre-made interaction scripts provided to you as part of the Create with VR project. This mission will teach you to write scripts specifically for VR applications. You’ll write these scripts from scratch in the context of three separate projects.

In project 1, the XRI example scene created by the XR Interaction Toolkit team, you'll reference existing code and documentation to program some more advanced, customized interactables.

In project 2, you’ll follow guidelines from a project brief to create part of a VR escape room. Rather than following step-by-step instructions here, you’ll only receive hints.

In project 3, which you’ll submit to receive your pathway badge, you’ll create your own unique VR project. The challenge here is to create a clone with a twist: a version of an established VR experience, but with a unique alteration.

, you should already have a good foundational knowledge of scripting in the Unity engine to make the most out of this learning content.

If you don’t already have a foundational understanding of scripting, now is an excellent time to learn. We recommend you complete the 

If you feel almost ready but want to brush up on a few skills without doing the entire Junior Programmer pathway, why not check out the 

Custom VR Development

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Overview

Why is keeping up-to-date important?

How do you keep up?

Don’t be afraid to try new things

Next steps

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The technology and trends in VR change at a rapid rate. In the time it takes you to complete this pathway, there will have probably been changes in the industry already! 

In this tutorial, you will learn the following things:

Tips and tricks for keeping up to date efficiently

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Included in this plan are Unity Pro, cloud-based collaboration, cloud build, free Unity assets, and much more!

VR Developer Pathway Facilitator Kit.zip

VR Developer Pathway Facilitator Kit (Google Drive)

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The VR Developer Pathway Facilitator Kit includes everything you need to successfully bring this Pathway into your learning context including a syllabus, complete lesson plans, standards alignment, teacher preparation guide, and more.  

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If you’re working in VR development, taking time to keep up to date with the changing technology has major benefits. 

In this tutorial, you’ll learn why it’s crucial to stay up to date and the best ways to do that.

It can be fun and interesting to stay up to date on the latest trends in technology, but there are also several practical benefits.

When you ask employers in fast-changing technologies what they are looking for, they typically say that they are looking for people who are excited and eager to learn about and work with new tech.

To assess this in interviews, many employers will ask questions like, “What new technology are you excited about?” or “What are you currently tinkering with or working on in your spare time?”

Since being in this industry requires you to stay up to date and constantly learn new things, it will help you get a job if you can show your employer you’re interested in the latest developments.

When advising clients or designing new applications, being aware of the latest trends allows you to create up-to-date and relevant products. 

If you’re aware of new or upcoming trends, you can make sure your designs account for them, saving you work in the long run. With knowledge of what’s on the horizon, your designs won’t immediately go out of date.

If you stay up to date on the latest releases of frameworks and tools for VR development, you can save yourself a ton of work.

Imagine you spent weeks perfecting a hand controller or doing custom code for smooth teleportation. Then you see on a blog that someone released an open-source tool that does all of that for you – and implements it even more effectively than your system does. If you had been aware of these advances, you wouldn't have wasted all your time.

But don’t just take our word for it. Hear our established creators’ perspectives on the importance of keeping up with the trends.

There are a few simple steps you can take to ensure you don’t miss any significant updates in the field:

If you follow at least two of the VR / XR resources listed below, you’ll be in the loop on the latest developments in the industry. Choose a couple that you like and subscribe to them. 

UploadVR  - VR and AR news, including reviews, guides, and analysis on the XR industry.

VRScout - VR news, projects, and videos. 

The Ghost Howls - VR and AR blog by an industry expert, including interviews, reviews, news, and tutorials. 

Road to VR - VR news, including the latest updates, reviews, and guides.

Reality Check by Mathew Olson — The Information  - Daily newsletter on the latest developments in VR & AR. 

Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) / Twitter - Interview podcast featuring the pioneers of VR looking at the future of the industry. 

Whether it’s Twitter, Google, or Meta, clicking on any one news article will result in more articles on that topic showing up in your feed. You can also usually select articles and indicate that you are not interested in them. In doing this, you can train a news algorithm to become your personal AI-driven XR news curation machine. You might consider creating a work-specific account and have that be dedicated to XR news. Then, you can easily stay up to date by simply scrolling through your well-trained XR news feed. 

In addition to keeping up with XR industry news, you should try and stay current on significant updates to the tools at your disposal. For example, if you’re using the XR Interaction Toolkit – as we are in this pathway – you can occasionally check the publically available product roadmap to see what’s being worked on or the online changelog to see what’s been released.

For more insights, listen to our established creators talk about what it’s like to work with such fast-changing tech:

You may not be comfortable with it yet, but employers want to see that you’re not scared to tinker with new technology. 

If a new demo, sample, or API comes out, try to download it, check it out, and play around with it. In a job interview, it tells an employer a lot if you can say, “Oh yeah, I tried that out, and it was pretty cool.”

And don’t worry if you don’t have the hardware to try it yourself. Watching someone else tinker with the technology also goes a long way.

Hear from a few established creators on the importance of learning new things in fast-changing fields like this one:

With just a couple of these tips and tricks, you can rid yourself of that fear of missing out on the latest trends. 

Keeping up with XR technology

1. Overview

2. Why is keeping up-to-date important?

3. How do you keep up?

4. Don’t be afraid to try new things

5. Next steps

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