IT Professional Curricula     Software Development Solution Area     Software Development Principles     Exploring Virtual Reality

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There are many environments available to create Virtual Reality apps. In this course you will learn about the GoogleVR platform and the Unreal Engine and how they can be used to create virtual reality apps.

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Objectives

Steam and Unreal start the course describe how to install Unreal Engine on a development machine configure Unreal Engine for developing Android apps create a new Blueprint-based project in Unreal Engine Building a VR App modify Unreal Engine project settings to facilitate GoogleVR development create a pawn that represents a user's VR viewpoint modify a Blueprint to add a line trace for gaze-based interaction implement gaze-based interaction by hit testing based on a line trace use Unreal tools to debug a line trace Deployment configure Unreal Engine settings to be able to build a VR project for Android deploy a GoogleVR app from Unreal to a connected Android device Practice: Unreal and SteamVR create a Steam and Unreal VR app