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.

In these tutorials, you will do the following:

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

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 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 

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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.

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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 - VR Basics 

VR Software Setup 

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.

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

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

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 

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Custom VR Development

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Fill in Design Document for events & interactions

Add haptics and audio

Implement event-based interactions 

Set up controller interactors and layers

Create a main menu UI

Recap

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By the end of this lab, your personal project will have most of its core functionality. 

This lab will draw on skills learned in the following lessons:

This challenge is part of the Create with VR course. 

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VR Developer Pathway Facilitator Kit.zip

VR Developer Pathway Facilitator Kit (Google Drive)

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Skill-L2-Prog.VRp-2: Develop a VR app that demonstrates common interactions using Unity's XR interaction toolkit.

o-L2-Prog.VRp-2.1: Implement locomotion in VR.

o-L2-Prog.VRp-2.2: Implement grabbable objects and sockets in VR.

o-L2-Prog.VRp-2.3: Implement a worldspace UI in VR.

o-L2-Prog.VRp-2.4: Implement controller- and object-based interaction events in VR.

o-L2-Prog.VRp-2.5: Implement spatial audio in VR.

Develop a VR app that demonstrates common interactions using Unity's XR interaction toolkit.

2 - VR Events and Interactions

VR Events & Interactions

Before you resume work on your project, you need a plan for what you’re actually going to work on. You will continue filling out your design document so you have a clear plan of action for this lab.

1.  Pick up where you left off with your design document:

Re-open the document you created during Lab 1.


2.  Fill out Section 4 (Events and Interactions) of the document:

Determine if you will be using direct interactors, ray interactors, or both, including how you would toggle between them.

Describe the haptic / audio feedback, as well as any other 3D sounds you expect in your scene

List specific object Activation functionality, where if the user is holding an object and presses the trigger, something will happen.

Describe the main menu of the app, including what can be done from that menu.

If relevant, describe other UI elements in the scene.


3.  (Optional) Add more specific details to your design document:

You should now have section 4 of your Design Document complete, providing direction for this lab where you will be implementing your app’s core functionality .

For all of the interactors set up on our controllers, add audio and haptic feedback.

1.  Add haptic feedback to your controllers:

Follow the instructions in the Audio and Haptics tutorial.


2.  Add audio feedback to your controllers:

Follow the instructions in the Audio and Haptics tutorial..


3.  Add 3D / ambient feedback to the environment, including the use of Reverb Zones:

You should now experience haptic and/or audio feedback on desired events with your controllers. There should also be 3D environmental sound in your scene.

If you have any event-based interactions planned for your app (e.g. when you press the trigger, when the scene loads, when you tilt an object, etc), take the time to get those functional now.

1.  To add Activation events for certain objects in your app: 

Follow the instructions in the Activation Events tutorial.


2.  To add additional event-based functionality to the scene:

Add actions to other interaction events such as OnHoverEntered, OnSelectEntered, etc.

Add new events from the Course Library > Scripts folder such as OnButtonPress, OnSceneLoad, OnTilt, etc.

You should now have core event-based functionality implemented in your app.

If you plan on using a combination of Ray and Direct Interactors, you need to set those up for each hand, and if relevant, the ability to toggle between them.

1.  To implement interactors for each hand:

Follow the instructions in the Direct and Ray Interactors tutorial.


2.  To configure layers so that each interactor can only interact with specific interactables:

You should have the appropriate interactors implemented for each hand, including the ability to toggle between them. Using layers, these interactors should only be able to interact with appropriate objects (i.e. sockets can only receive specific objects, rays not being able to grab certain objects, etc).

One User Interface (UI) nearly all apps should have is some kind of main menu UI. 

Follow instructions in the User Interface tutorial.


3.  To add additional in-world UI screen:

Create additional world space canvases and display them in relevant contexts for the user.

You should now have at least one main menu UI, which the user can click out of, a reset screen, and any additional UIs required for the functionality of your app.

Lab 2 - Personal Project Events & Interactions

Overview Video

1. Fill in Design Document for events & interactions

2. Add haptics and audio

3. Implement event-based interactions

4. Set up controller interactors and layers

5. Create a main menu UI

6. Recap

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