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3D Interaction Design in Virtual Reality

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University of London

3D Interaction Design in Virtual Reality

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Course 3 of 5 in the Specialization Virtual Reality

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.

From the lesson

Interaction in VR

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.

Project Requirements4:15

Unity Examples5:58

Interaction Scripts6:33

Meet the Instructors

Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan
Lecturer, Department of Computing
Goldsmiths, University of London
Dr Marco Gillies
Senior Lecturer
Computing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London

In this course, we want you to learn how to create

virtual reality interactions but you can't learn it just by listening to us.

You have to do it yourself and

consequent to that we're going to get you to do a project as part of

this course and I'm going to talk you through some of the requirements of

the project with a little example I've created.

So this is a basic VR environment and the first kind of requirement,

is that you have a VR environment that represents a space.

So if you followed our lessons on

creating a virtual environment

then you will already have an environment something like this.

And another requirement is that you give a brief description of it and give

some instructions about what to do with the environment and that's the leading key

this time because this course is all about interaction,

so you need to be able to interact with the environment.

And so I'll show you a couple of examples of interactions.

If I look at the books all of the interactions in this course are gaze based.

If I look at the book over there,

it suddenly appears in front of me and I can click to drop it.

And I've also got navigation so I can move around this environment.

If I look at that circle on the floor that's

a teleport target and I will move around

and I will teleport to a new place as you can see I'm in a new place in the whim.

And if I then look at this door behind me

which I can make it open and shut.

So lots of the objects in this environment

responds to my gaze so this is all using gaze based interaction.

That's not essential for this course but it's the form of

interaction that will work on most headsets.

So I just turned on the television by mistake if I look at the TV,

it will make some sound or not make some sound just look at it to turn it off again.

So all of the interaction is gaze based so that means we can learn almost every kind

of headsets from Google cardboard light up to high end headsets.

But you could use controllers if you like but be aware that if you use controllers,

you will have to someone market who also has

a suitable set of controllers so it might take

a bit more time for your coursework to be marked because all

marked by your peers other students.

But the essential thing is that we have

this interaction and as you can see in this environment I have two types of interaction,

I have had navigation so if I look at one of the teleport targets,

I will move around and I have objects interaction.

So if I look at this book I will pick it up and it disappears again.

So those are two basic types of interaction you need in this project.

In the first, work in progress,

we can ask you to do just the navigation

but by the end of the project we will also want you to be able to interact with objects.

So that's your project.

This is what I've made.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what you make and I hope

it's going to be see some really exciting work,

some really exciting interactive VR environments.

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