Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality technologies are improving at a rapid pace, quickly becoming the next major revolution in how we will use computers and have radically new digital experiences. Building a new VR experience is challenging. All the rules are different from the legacy 2D screens we are used to work with. Thinking in a real 3D space means rethinking the entire experience from scratch: what content do I need, what is comfortable for my users, what is exciting? Trying things out requires new tools and new approaches. The best way to see how things work in VR, is to build and experiment in VR as well. Also, it is a lot of fun! Most of this talk is on-stage VR demo sessions, where I will show several useful and free prototools to quickly prototype new ideas in VR.

1. Prototyping VR in VR
@PeterHendriks80

2. About Peter
• Experienced full stack “Enterprise” Software
Developer
• Certified VR Nanodegree
• By Google, Unity3D, Udacity
• J-Fall VR app
• Not a 3D artist ;)

3. Agenda
• Intro
• Prototyping
• Tool demo
• Q & A

5. Demo: Welcome to Light Fields (Google)

6. Virtual Reality: two new super powers
Immersion Natural 3D interaction

7. Industries where VR is a game changer
• Entertainment
• Education
• Professional training
• Design
• Sales
• Defense
• Healthcare
• Architecture
• …

8. A new VR experience: hard questions
• User experience
• Goals?
• Usability?
• Comfort?
• …
• Content
• Realism?
• Get or create it?
• Who manages it?
• …
• Technology
• Platform?
• Performance?
• Distribution?
• …
Start with
goals!

9. Prototyping: go in VR as fast as you can
• You can’t test immersion/natural 3D interaction in
2D
• Lots of best practices in 2D don’t translate to 3D
• Hard to test with real users

10. Prototyping: quick & simple VR
• Goal is cheap & fast
• Easy to try new ideas
• Quick iteration
• Some imagination needed

11. Tool: Unity3D “Editor XR”
• Most popular VR/AR app development
tool
• Editor XR additional plug-in
• Allows editing in VR
• “Preview”, finalized in fall 2018
• https://github.com/Unity-
Technologies/EditorXR

12. Tool: Blocks by Google
• Simple content creation tool
• Free, works on Vive, Rift
• Export models to Google Poly
• Import into Unity3D

13. Demo: Unity3D Editor XR and Blocks

14. Question/Answers
@PeterHendriks80