How Virtual Reality Works
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How Virtual Reality Works at edX Overview
How Virtual Reality Works
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Learn how virtual reality technology works by writing simple VR programs with WebVR.
Duration | 6 weeks |
Total fee | ₹7,016 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Credential | Certificate |
How Virtual Reality Works at edX Highlights
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- Learn from expert instructor with almost two decades of experience in virtual reality who leads the Immersive Visualization Laboratory at UC San Diego.
- Requires effort of 5-7 hours per week
- Earn a certificate from The University of California, San Diego
How Virtual Reality Works at edX Course details
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Skills you will learn
What are the course deliverables?
- Types of virtual reality devices and their strengths and weaknesses
- How virtual reality applications differ from other interactive software programs
- What makes a virtual reality application successful
- What to avoid when writing virtual reality software
- Basic VR programming using WebVR
More about this course
- Participants will explore the foundations of user-friendly virtual reality app development for consumers, as well as enterprise solutions
- Learn to evaluate devices necessary for virtual reality applications, what their differences are, how you write interactive applications for virtual reality
- Discuss the most frequent problems you are going to need to solve to write virtual reality software
- Explore the basics of virtual reality software through copying and modifying JavaScript to explore tradeoffs in VR application design
- By the end of this course understand what is important for successful virtual reality software and learn how to write simple virtual reality programs themselves with WebVR
How Virtual Reality Works at edX Curriculum
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Week 1: VR definition and display systems
Week 2: 3D Tracking and Input Devices
Week 3: How to interact with the VR environment
Week 4: How to move around in VR
Week 5: 3D Menus and Text Input
Week 6: VR app design
How Virtual Reality Works at edX Entry Requirements
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Eligibility criteria
- Prerequisites: Basic concepts of programming languages
Conditional Offer
- Not mentioned
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Other: A lot of practical and real life examples to make the topics more interesting and understandable. Guest lecturers also add to the attraction of learning from a number of professionals in the field.
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