Unity3D and the Oculus Rift

A guide to creating games with the Oculus Rift. Get to know different techniques, which are crucuial for VR development.

Created by: Florian Maurer
M.Sc. / Computer Science

What Will I Learn?

• Know basic and advanced techniques needed to dive into VR game development
• Extend the standard assets, such as the FPSController or simply the MainCamera, with your own scripts
• Use the direction the player is looking in while playing for different purposes such as aiming, shooting, selecting objects, trigger functions by looking at objects and more
• Use techniques such as raycasting or instantiating objects
• Know how to deal with graphical user interfaces in virtual reality

Requirements

• We will use Unity3D for this course. The latest version can be downloaded from the official unity website. A developer kit of the oculus rift can come in useful in order to apply the learned techniques.
• This course is also useful to users without an oculus rift, as all seen techniques and examples are also valid and applicable for non-VR development.
• Evidently, we cannot use the oculus rift's full potential without programming, but of course everything will be explained with the necessary detail. I will link you to the respective documentation pages in case you wish to look something up.

Target audience

• If you are interested in Unity3D or virtual reality, then this course is for you. Participants of this course are thereafter able to develop their own applications with the Oculus Rift. This course covers everything from the basics, such as using the headtracking for aiming, shooting and selecting objects up to alternative movement models, namely bird's eye camera controls or teleporting. Useful programming skills can be picked up along the way as we practice the new techniques with several training examples in the Unity3D environment.