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There are 4 modules in this course
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. You will learn about the basic concepts and technologies of VR Interaction. You will then get hands on, learning about how to move around in VR and how to interact with the objects in your world. The course will finish with some advice from experts on VR interaction design and you will do a project where you will get real experience of developing VR Interaction.
Welcome to Week 1! In this week, we will cover interaction in VR. You will discover different types of interaction, and how interaction works with different HMDs. We'll end the week by introducing you to this MOOC's project.
Welcome to 3D Interaction Design in Virtual Reality•5 minutes
Natural Interaction•5 minutes
Magic Interaction•4 minutes
Active and Passive Interaction•4 minutes
Affordances•6 minutes
VR Interaction Theory•3 minutes
Standard HMDs•12 minutes
Other Devices•5 minutes
Project Requirements•4 minutes
Unity Examples•6 minutes
Interaction Scripts•7 minutes
5 readings•Total 110 minutes
Course Blog•10 minutes
VR Interaction•30 minutes
Getting Started in Unity•10 minutes
Download the VR Interaction Package•30 minutes
VR Interaction Project Brief•30 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Planning your project•30 minutes
Introduction to VR Interaction and User Input•30 minutes
3 discussion prompts•Total 30 minutes
An example of VR interaction•10 minutes
User Input in VR•10 minutes
Interaction Samples•10 minutes
Moving around in VR
Module 2•3 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to Week 2! This week, we'll cover moving around in VR. We'll look at physical navigation, such as walk-in-place, and virtual navigation, such as teleportation. You will end the week by beginning your project, and submitting your work in progress.
What's included
9 videos3 readings1 assignment1 peer review
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9 videos•Total 37 minutes
Introduction to Navigation in VR•3 minutes
Real Walking•5 minutes
Redirected Walking•4 minutes
Walk-in-Place•3 minutes
Virtual Navigation•3 minutes
Teleporting•5 minutes
Teleportation•5 minutes
Travel in VR | Quality Factors•4 minutes
Project Advice•5 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
Implementing Walk In Place•10 minutes
Implementing Teleporting•10 minutes
Movement in VR•10 minutes
1 assignment•Total 30 minutes
Physical and Virtual Navigation•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
Project Work in Progress•60 minutes
Interacting with Objects in VR
Module 3•3 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to Week 3! This week, we will be looking at interacting with objects in VR. We'll cover topics such as interacting with objects within reach, hyper-natural interaction, and magic interaction. We'll then move on to physics interaction, and how this works in VR.
What's included
16 videos2 readings2 assignments
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16 videos•Total 123 minutes
Introduction to Objects Interaction | Part 1•6 minutes
Introduction to Objects Interaction | Part 2•5 minutes
Object Interaction Within Reach•5 minutes
Hyper-Natural Interaction•4 minutes
Magic Interaction•7 minutes
Evaluation Metrics•5 minutes
Introduction to Physics Interaction•2 minutes
Physics Objects•4 minutes
Physics Objects in Unity•13 minutes
Physics in VR•3 minutes
Physics interaction in Unity (part 1)•15 minutes
Physics interaction in Unity (part 2)•16 minutes
Physics interaction in Unity (part 3)•11 minutes
Physics interaction in Unity (part 4)•15 minutes
State Machines•2 minutes
State Machine Interactions in Unity•10 minutes
2 readings•Total 20 minutes
Physics in Unity•10 minutes
Unity State Machines•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 60 minutes
Object Interaction•30 minutes
Physics and State Machine Interaction•30 minutes
Challenges in VR interaction and User Interfaces in VR
Module 4•4 hours to complete
Module details
Welcome to Week 4! In the final week of this MOOC, we'll be looking at challenges in VR interaction, and user interfaces in VR. You'll begin by learning about graphical user interfaces in VR, including abstract interfaces and diegetic and non-diegetic UI, before moving on to designing VR interaction.
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Reviewed on Dec 23, 2017
Very good course showing how to use VR interaction techniques. Thank you!
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Reviewed on Jul 13, 2018
Learnt quote a few useful things. Especially liked that this course finally involved some coding. If only by reviewing the NewtonVR and VRInteraction examples and modifying the code.
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Reviewed on Nov 16, 2022
If you practice yourself more, this course is rally good and practical for you.
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