Introduction to Virtual Reality (Udacity)

By the end of this course, you will have created and deployed a VR application. You will understand the physical principles of VR and you will use that knowledge to create a comfortable, high-performance VR application using Unity.

The journey to becoming a VR developer starts with mastering the underlying hardware and software principles. This course covers the foundational skills needed to produce professional VR experiences that are comfortable, polished, and performant.

VR development is an amazing career, with both demand and salaries rising. Every innovative VR professional relies on a core set of tools and principles. If you’re going to succeed, then you need to master them, too.

What You Will Learn

Lesson 1

What is VR?

- Learn the basic history of VR development

- Learn the physical principles of VR including display optics and orientation tracking

- Understand how comfort & presence play a role in VR development

Lesson 2

Platforms & Paradigms

- Learn the difference between native game engines and web platforms

- Learn how tracking in VR works

- Learn about the different platforms currently available for VR development

Lesson 3

Hello World

- Learn about to install and open a project in the Unity platform

- Learn how to view inspect and gain a basic understanding of the Unity platform interface

- Install and open an app in Google cardboard

Prerequisites and Requirements

No programming experience is required. If you are new to virtual reality, and ready to start learning about this amazing technology, then this is the perfect place to begin! We will teach and use the Unity platform to edit a VR app, so you should have access to a computer running Mac OS X (10.8+) or Windows (7, 8, or 10).