Emerging Technologies

Virtual and Augmented Reality Development Fundamentals

Immersive applications fail on comfort and interaction long before they fail on graphics, and a beautiful scene that makes people nauseous or leaves them unsure what to do is a failed application. This course covers building usable ones. Delegates work through the hardware landscape and what each class of device can and cannot do, three dimensional scene construction including scale, which matters more in immersive work than anywhere else, and performance budgets, since a dropped frame rate causes physical discomfort rather than mild annoyance. Interaction design follows: hands, controllers, gaze and the affordances that tell a user what is possible. Comfort and locomotion are covered directly. Augmented reality tracking and anchoring in real environments are addressed. The course closes on testing with real users, on deployment and on the applications genuinely worth building.