Making Your First Virtual Reality Game

This course is part of the Virtual Reality Specialization

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Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan +1 more instructor

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University of London

Goldsmiths, University of London

Virtual Reality SpecializationUniversity of London

About this Course

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. Like many others, you are excited about the possibilities of this new medium and want to get started developing your own VR experiences. This course will take you through all of the steps you need to create a VR game or other project. 
This is the final course in our Specialisation: Virtual Reality. The previous courses teach you the skills you need to make a VR game. This course brings them all together to create a project of your own. 

We will guide you through all the steps of a VR project: coming up with an idea, storyboarding, prototyping, testing and implementation. By the end of this course you will have a complete VR project that demonstrates your skills and could be the first step in creating a professional game. 

We hope this course can be your entry into professional VR development. To help you get started, some good advice always helps. That is why we have interviewed VR experts from all over the world, ranging from technology pioneers with over 30 years experience in VR to the latest cutting edge VR creators. We have asked all of them to give you their advice and we hope it inspires you to become part of the future of VR.

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Intermediate Level

Approx. 27 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

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Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan

Lecturer, Department of Computing

Goldsmiths, University of London

101,379 Learners

5 Courses

Dr Marco Gillies

Senior Lecturer

Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

372,171 Learners

12 Courses

Shareable Certificate

Earn a Certificate upon completion

100% online

Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.

Course 5 of 5 in the

Virtual Reality Specialization

Flexible deadlines

Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.

Intermediate Level

Approx. 27 hours to complete

English

Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish

Offered by

University of London

The University of London is a federal University which includes 18 world leading Colleges. Our distance learning programmes were founded in 1858 and have enriched the lives of thousands of students, delivering high quality University of London degrees wherever our students are across the globe. Our alumni include 7 Nobel Prize winners. Today, we are a global leader in distance and flexible study, offering degree programmes to over 50,000 students in over 180 countries. To find out more about studying for one of our degrees where you are, visit www.london.ac.uk

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

Week 1

5 hours to complete

Welcome

This week you will start the process of creating your first VR Game. We will explain the steps you will go through when you're creating the game and you will start thinking of your idea. You will also meet our experts who will be explaining their VR projects and giving advice to you.

5 hours to complete

17 videos (Total 82 min), 7 readings, 4 quizzes

17 videos

Introduction to the Course3m

Introduction to the Structure2m

Example Projects18m

Shafi Ahmed1m

Avril Furness3m

Harry Brenton3m

Jesus Eduardo Russian1m

David Swapp3m

Lance Putnam3m

Ben Lok2m

Betty Mohler3m

Gregory Welch5m

Tabitha Peck2m

Mar Gonzalez Franco5m

Susumu Tachi4m

Larry Hodges2m

Frederic Fol Leymarie15m

7 readings

Learning Technical Skills10m

Your Project10m

Getting Started in Unity10m

Course Blog10m

Meet The Experts10m

How You Will Learn In This Course10m

How We Will Use To Do Lists In This Project10m

3 practice exercises

What Will You Need To Do For Your Project?30m

Your Project Idea30m

To Do List10m

Week

Week 2

3 hours to complete

The game concept

This week you will be developing your game idea into a more complete design by developing a storyboard.

3 hours to complete

14 videos (Total 49 min)

Week

Week 3

5 hours to complete

Prototyping

This week you will be developing your first working prototype, which will test out the basic mechanics and interaction of your game.

5 hours to complete

4 videos (Total 24 min)

Week

Week 4

4 hours to complete

Testing

Last week you developed a prototype, and this week you will test it with players to see if it works for them and to gather feedback for your future development.

4 hours to complete

6 videos (Total 47 min), 1 reading, 4 quizzes

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TOP REVIEWS FROM MAKING YOUR FIRST VIRTUAL REALITY GAME

by AAJul 7, 2020

This course is great and here is my final project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFtaYW30PIY

by SLAug 1, 2018

Perfect end to the specialisation to put all the skills we lear t to the test.

by MPJul 12, 2020

It really good feel better to do your first game in virtualreality

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About the Virtual Reality Specialization

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

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