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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. You will learn about both the psychology of social interaction and the practical skills to implement it in Unity3D. We will take you through the basics of 3D character animation and how to create body language. You will learn about how to make characters that can respond to players’ speech and body language. You will also learn about avatars: the virtual representation of other players, and agents: computer controlled NPC characters and how to implement both of them. As many people have said before us, social is the future of VR. This course will help you become part of the future of Virtual Reality social experiences.

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Rating 4.0★ based on 7 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (45 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London via Coursera
Instructors Dr Marco Gillies, Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan, Prof Marco Gillies
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Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Software Development

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needed much more time

Needed much more time than expected.

blindly follow along trying

I understand why participants should apply the learnings and make their own version but in this course I ended up having to watch the tutorials multiple times and just blindly follow along trying not to miss a single step that would make everything unusable.

about making virtual characters

I learned a lot about making virtual characters look and behave realistically.

can work around getting

Some assets suggested are not compatible with the latest version of Unity, but you can work around getting some similar from the Unity Asset Store.

difficulty ramped up way

The difficulty ramped up way too hard from the last course to this one.

content needs updates

Great course, but as the rest, some content needs updates (assets deprecated)

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time than expected

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many frustrating things

Many frustrating things in organization details of this specialization courses =( Definitely the most valuable course of the series so far!

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Rating 4.0★ based on 7 ratings
Length 5 weeks
Effort 4 weeks of study, 3-5 hours/week
Starts Jun 26 (45 weeks ago)
Cost $49
From University of London, Goldsmiths, University of London via Coursera
Instructors Dr Marco Gillies, Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan, Prof Marco Gillies
Download Videos On all desktop and mobile devices
Language English
Subjects Programming Art & Design
Tags Computer Science Design And Product Software Development

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