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Virtual Reality

Dr Marco Gillies, Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan, Prof Marco Gillies, and Prof Sylvia Xueni Pan

This specialisation from the University of London will introduce you to virtual reality.

Virtual reality is one of the most highly requested skill sets in the jobs market, and this specialisation will give you an introduction to the subject and key skills in the field. You will hear from world-leading lecturers and industry experts, use Unity to develop your own VR environment, and end the specialisation by creating your first VR game.

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Five courses

Introduction to Virtual Reality

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This course introduces Virtual Reality (VR), covering the basics (hardware, history) to applications, psychology, and challenges.

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3D Models for Virtual Reality

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This course introduces you to creating Virtual Reality experiences. VR experiences are new worlds that you step into and are entirely immersed in. Creating a VR experience means creating that world and all the objects in it.

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3D Interaction Design in Virtual Reality

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This course will teach you about one of the most important aspects of VR: how you interact with a VR world. Virtual Reality is completely different from an on-screen app or game. You are completely immersed in a VR world, so it doesn't make sense to interact only through buttons or menus. You will get the most out of VR if you can interact with the world just as you would with the real world: with your natural body movements.

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Building Interactive 3D Characters and Social VR

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Meeting another person is one of the most amazing experiences you can have in Virtual Reality. It is quite unlike communicating through any other medium except a real life face-to-face conversation. Because the other person is life size and shares a virtual space with you, body language works in a way that cannot be done on a flat screen. This course will enable you to create realistic social interactions in VR.

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Making Your First Virtual Reality Game

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Virtual Reality is one of the most exciting experiences that technology can give us. The immersion and presence you can have in VR is quite unlike any other medium. This course will take you through all of the steps you need to create a VR game or other project.

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Learning objectives

Discover the fundamentals of virtual reality, the hardware and history, different applications, and the psychology and challenges of the medium.
Learn the basics of 3d graphics, how we create objects and how to lay them out to create an environment.

Explore how you interact with a vr world, including the concepts and technologies of vr interaction.
Utilise the skills you have learnt to create your own vr game or project.

Discover the fundamentals of virtual reality, the hardware and history, different applications, and the psychology and challenges of the medium.
Learn the basics of 3d graphics, how we create objects and how to lay them out to create an environment.
Explore how you interact with a vr world, including the concepts and technologies of vr interaction.
Utilise the skills you have learnt to create your own vr game or project.

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Time

56 hours

Level

Introductory

Via

Coursera

Institutions

University of London

Goldsmiths, University of London

Instructors

Dr Marco Gillies

Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan

Prof Marco Gillies

Prof Sylvia Xueni Pan

Level

Introductory

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