VR Prototyping in Unity

How to Get Started

I would recommend these two videos to get you orientated visually to the things you need to understand when starting to work with VR in Unity.

Devices

• Wikipedia: List of virtual reality headsets
• VRCompare

Headset

• Wikipedia comparison of VR headsets
• VR Compare

We have the Meta Quest 2 available your use. Some others as well, but no so easily.

Computer and Operating System for Development

To be able to have access to all possibilities and features, I would recommend using Windows.

Mac is able to only deploy the application to the headset, it’s not possible to do real-time testing.

Linux is also possible for deployment but it gets a little complicated and probably quite a headache.

Developer Tool (Game Engine)

There are two main options for developing applications to the Quest 2

• Unity
• Unreal Engine

You can use either one, Unity is better documented for VR.

SDK

There are many SDKs (Software Development Kit) for VR. The main ones you could use are:

• Oculus Integration Now Meta XR
• Unity XR Interaction Toolkit
• SteamVR (OpenVR)
• MRTK

For the purposes of this class, I would recommend using the Unity XR Interaction Toolkit, this is what the video linked on the top of this page will help you setup.

How to Learn More?

You could consider taking some courses at Aalto that focus more on VR if you are interested.