Welcome to VR Beginner: The Escape Room! In this learning project, you’ll have the opportunity to explore and create basic VR interactions supported by the XR Interaction Toolkit package.

Turn concepts into reality with this session on virtual reality (VR). Battle-tested by games, and used across industries more than any other VR platform, Unity provides the bleeding-edge technology to unleash your creative potential. In this session, we will learn how to set up a VR project and leverage the XR Interaction toolkit samples.​​​​​​

The Houdini Engine for Unity plug-in gives artists and studios the ability to widely deploy procedural assets created in Houdini to the Unity real-time 3D platform for use in game and XR development, virtual production and design visualizations. Watch the recordings of the live sessions held November 8 and 10, 2021, to explore using Houdini + Unity for your procedural asset generation. In this series you will: Learn to take advantage of Houdini Engine for Unity to build a procedural asset pipeline. Learn how to: Install the Houdini plug-in Make use of procedural assets in Unity Create your own procedural assets Build a level using procedural assets from Houdini Learn about Vertex Animation Textures

AI has been a topic for years, but some incredible product launches tied to AI have brought it heavily into the forefront. This week we are joined by Joel Sadler and Michael Running Wolf who have been working with AI for years to gain an understanding of what this could mean for our technological futures. ​Dr. Joel Sadler, is an educator at Stanford University, serial entrepreneur, and XR + AI technology expert. As adjunct faculty at Stanford he teaches STEAM courses exploring how virtual and augmented reality VR and AI can empower the next generation of creative learners. His research at MIT/Stanford has ranged from wearable prosthetics to educational toys. He is a co-founder of several award winning technology companies including Piper Learning and PatchXR, that pioneer learning skills through AI guidance and virtual play. He holds ME/CS degrees from MIT/Stanford and has published widely on the themes of creative computing, and making technology more accessible for all. ​Michael Running Wolf: Michael was raised in a rural village in Montana with intermittent water and electricity with grandparents who only spoke their tribal languages, Cheyenne and Lakota. These languages like many other indigenous languages are near extinction. It is through this lens, combined with his Masters of Science in Computer Science and professional experiences with Amazon, IBM, AT&T Wireless and Lawrence Livermore National Lab that he found his true passion: endangered indigenous language revitalization using XR technology.

In this official course from Unity, you will learn to design and develop your own Virtual Reality (VR) applications. You will create prototypes, attempt challenges, and complete quizzes to build and solidify your skill set. At the same time, you will be guided through creating your own unique VR project from start to finish, beginning with a blank design document and ending with a fully functional project. Whether you want to create an interactive walkthrough of an ancient ruin, a product configurator for a car manufacturer, a simulator for operating dangerous machinery, or any other experience, this course will help you bring those ideas to life in VR. Thanks to Andrew, creator of the VR with Andrew YouTube channel, for collaborating with us on this course. Educators who want to bring this curriculum into their classroom should refer to Create with VR for Educators.

Join Michael to learn about the potential of these technologies to preserve culture and ways to support underserved learners to be future creators.

The road to the metaverse is paved in real-time 3D. But the challenges for creators are plenty – from capturing, transforming, visualizing and optimizing right-time data to creating, distributing and operating rich, interactive, immersive experiences that will engage stakeholders anywhere. Get ready to start your journey and learn the skills to thrive in the next era of computing.

Learn from a panel of instructional design and classroom educator experts about the secret ingredients for creating powerful and memorable learning experiences with the industry-leading interactive design and development tool.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the different types of content that can be created with the Unity Engine. By the end of this tutorial, you'll be able to: Define the term "real time". Describe how real-time creation software is used in different industries. Identify a variety of real-time creators by their usage of Unity or their job role. Explain what a real-time game engine is and how it is used.