11-11:15: Housekeeping

• Get a free Unity3D user ID here: https://id.unity3d.com/
• If you want Unity on your laptop, use the EXACT same version as on lab computers.
• Quick S. Korea report. VR treadmill, 360 videos of a Buddhist temple and palaces.
• Great work on team videos! I'm starting to watch them. You should, too (not just your own).
  • Coffee Roasters (Joshua Race)
  • Women's Soccer (Shir)
  • Lava Pour (Julian)
  • Animal Shelter (Kyle)
• And from the other section:
  • Horror Story (Alina Li)
  • SU Sailing Team (Glen Wolyner)
  • Creepy Family Dinner (Lenny Martinez)
  • Dog Park (Nadia Persaud)
  • Wedding
• Public service announcement: Thurs-Saturday in Food.com, #Newhouse4PR giving to help Hurricane Maria victims in PR and Virgin Islands.

11:15-11:25: Presentation

• Sergey Korovayny, VR in marketing

11:25-11:30: Unity: What can it let you do?

• Immersive news projects, like Harvest of Change.
• Most projects from Emblematic and anything walkaround in the Vive.
• Export for Mac, PC, and other platforms like gaming systems. Even the web!
• Let's look at that Harvest of Change project in Unity.

11:30-12:20: How Unity works. Follow along!

Now you will create a scene in Unity3D. If you get lost you can follow along in these notes. Today, focus on doing the following:

• Getting around the Unity environment
• Making a simple scene
• Creating a terrain and applying a texture
• Using the Asset Store
• Adding items from the Asset store to your scene
• Adding 3D sounds to your scene
• Moving through your scene using a First Person Controller
• Exporting your scene for Mac or PC
• Saving your project files to your portable hard drive
• Loading your project and/or scene on an Innovation Lab PC

Look ahead to Assignment 4

• Assignment 4 is to create a Unity scene that you can move through. Note, you will need to use some of what you learn in the next class session to complete the assignment.