The 2023 Metaverse & AR Developer Bundle

The Metaverse, as you probably know, is the next step in the evolution of the internet and socializing and communicating on the internet. Basically, new virtual worlds are emerging and the opportunities are quite big for those who know what to look for. It's like getting into a new country where everything is built from the ground up. We are talking about shops, buildings, companies of all sorts that provide different services. Even different events will be held in the Metaverse, like concerts and other types of shows. The impact that this new evolutionary step in the progress of the internet and the way we interact and communicate will have is going to be huge.

This course will cover what the Metaverse is, what we should know about this trend, and what options we have now to capitalize on it. Like with anything else, it is very good that we are here at the early start, the opportunities are bigger but you need to get yourself informed and learn what to look for. So don't miss out on this train, join the course, and get immersed in what the Metaverse can mean for you.

NEW COURSE!

• Access 9 lectures & 1 hour of content 24/7
• Understand what the Metaverse is
• Learn how you can benefit from this trend & technology
• Learn tips for finding good projects
• Explore specifics that need to be known

Explore Unity’s XR Interaction Toolkit to quickly develop interactive VR experiences!

The XR Interaction Toolkit provides you with a variety of pre-built, easy-to-use systems and components for implementing interactive objects in VR. Not only does this encompass common features such as teleportation, grabbable objects, UI interaction, and more, but it also allows you to simultaneously develop your projects for Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2, and Oculus Rift S.

You’ll go through the toolkit’s various features step-by-step – all while building a VR kitchen scene where you can move around and grab various cooking-related objects to interact with. Regardless of the type of VR project that you wish to make, mastering these techniques will provide you with the strong foundation needed to build any number of VR experiences.

• Access 14 lectures & 1 hour of content 24/7
• Set up the XR Interaction Toolkit
• Create interactable objects
• Implement teleportation-style movement
• Deal with hand grabbing controllers
• Add particle effects based on object orientation

Build a block-breaking rhythm game for Oculus Quest, Oculus Quest 2, and Oculus Rift S! Using Unity’s XR Interaction Toolkit systems and C#, you’ll master techniques for creating interactive blocks that can be placed along a moving track and sliced with VR controllers to the beats of a song. You’ll learn both how to utilize Unity’s XR Interaction Toolkit for games and how to create systems for rhythm games that can be expanded with added songs, different block-types, and more.

• Access 18 lectures & 1 hour of content 24/7
• Make block-breaking animations
• Detect hit and missed blocks
• Track scores and game over states
• Create tracks with beat markers
• Move tracks towards a stationary XR rig

Giving players the opportunity to interact with their surroundings can play a key part in player immersion and enjoyment. Take your VR games and experiences to the next level by developing a reusable VR pointer and interaction system as you create an educational space experience about the International Space Station and its various components. The system created in this course can be used with hand-tracked controllers on all the major platforms.

• Access 18 lectures & 1 hour of content 24/7
• Create interactable objects in VR
• Develop a VR pointer system
• Adapt the system for controllers, & for reticle (for gaze-based interactions)
• Work with different events
• Put it all together in a simple educational experience

Develop an AR spaceship-shooting game while gaining skills that will allow you to exploit real-world space. Through this course, you will dive into Unity and AR Foundation, Unity’s single API package to develop for both iOS’s ARKit and Android’s ARCore, while exploring the basics of AR game development. You’ll gain the skills necessary to spawn virtual objects automatically without manual input from the user, and the foundations needed to develop more robust games that use the physical world and your mobile device’s camera to create unique experiences.

• Access 11 lectures & 1 hour of content 247
• Implement shooting mechanics triggered by tapping the screen
• Use placement indicators to place key objects
• Spawn enemies into the world randomly & at set intervals
• Manage projectiles for better performance
• Set up game over mechanics, UI elements, & more in AR

Learn advanced block manipulation in augmented reality and allow users to create structures on any detectable plane in the physical world. With AR Foundation, the cross-platform package for Unity AR development, this course will walk you through building a voxel-like block-building game. You’ll learn how to create, destroy, and snap virtual objects together upon detected planes in the real world, ultimately creating new building experiences for users to enjoy.

• Access 14 lectures & 1 hour of content 24/7
• Set up an AR scene session
• Apply different materials to change block aesthetics
• Allow block placement only on valid locations on an AR detected plane
• Destroy virtual blocks placed within the scene
• Snap blocks together to allow for the building of structures
• Connect block creation, destruction, & selection to a Unity created UI

Build a robust furniture placement and design application – all within AR. Using Unity and the cross-platform development package AR Foundation, you will learn skills for manipulating virtual objects for advanced AR experiences, including how objects need to be moved, rotated, or modified. Through this process, you will be able to create your own interior design application that allows users to interact with their real-world environments in new ways.

• Access 11 lectures & 1 hour of content 247
• Set up UI elements to work with AR applications
• Spawn virtual objects & snap them to planes
• Select spawned objects & move them
• Alter virtual objects’ color, rotation, & more

The goal of this course is to teach anyone how to create simple Virtual Reality experiences that can run on any web browser, using a declarative HTML-like syntax. All you need to enroll in this course is basic HTML skills. No VR headset is required – all the projects run as “non-VR” 3D web applications out of the box. Virtual Reality is an overall new technology. The effort to bring VR to the web is driven by the desire to create an open ecosystem of VR experiences, what’s called the Metaverse.

• Access 11 lectures & 2 hours of content 247
• Create simple VR websites w/ A-Frame
• Work with primitives, textures, & transforms
• Load 360º photos that work on both VR & non-VR
• Learn how to create animations

Start developing the core skills needed for Augmented Reality development by creating a simple object spawning application. Using the popular Unity game engine, you will dive into creating apps that allow for the placement of virtual objects within the real world – all using your iOS or Android device’s camera. Through this course, you will also learn the fundamentals of Unity’s AR Foundation, a package that allows you to develop for iOS’ ARKit SDK and Android’s ARCore SDK with a single, cross-platform API. With these skills acting as the foundations for a wide range of more complex projects, you’ll soon be building many different AR apps for multiple devices.

• Access 12 lectures & 1 hour of content 24/7
• Set up Unity to use AR Foundation
• Detect various planes with your device’s camera
• Create a placement indicator where the position is dependent on camera view
• Spawn virtual objects into the “real world” by tapping the screen