Developing Metaverse: Your first VR Game in Unreal Engine

Name: Developing Metaverse: Your first VR Game in Unreal Engine
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Learn how to develop games for Oculus Quest with zero programming background

Created byDmitry Vasilyev

Last updated 1/2022

English

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What you'll learn

Building applications for Oculus Quest
Designing and developing VR games
Working in Unreal Engine
Working with materials and textures
Optimizing content for fast performance in mobile and VR games

Course content

4 sections • 40 lectures • 6h 31m total length

Introduction2:56
Quick overview of the course

Configuring Unreal Engine for VR development7:18
Building for Oculus Quest7:03
Explore Unreal Engine's virtual reality template and the motion controller map to build and package an Android app for the Oculus Quest, then deploy via USB after enabling developer mode.
Overview of Unreal Engine VR Template5:29
Launch and test the Unreal Engine VR template on Quest, control teleportation and grabbing with motion controllers, and learn about origin, camera, and Guardian setup for VR interactions.
Overview of VR Template Blueprint code7:24
Let's fight motion sickness!2:36

Cleaning up existing VR template7:21
Clean up the VR template by removing unused input events and teleportation, then configure motion controller logic for left-right hand mirroring, string-based switches, and haptic feedback.
Adding sword3:58
Create our Level5:23
Setting up VR Pawn3:38
Position the VR pawn by placing the motion controller at 2000 and enabling auto possess to control it on load, then package for Oculus and bake lightning.
Adding fruits9:48
Create a fruit blueprint with a collision mesh, implement begin overlap with the motion controller, and destroy the fruit on hit to test in VR.
Destruction system11:55
Adding real assets15:29
Open the Epic Games launcher, download free megascans fruit assets, and add them to your VR project. Organize in a content folder and optimize textures to power-of-two sizes.
Optimizing Marketplace assets9:36
Working with Child Actors - Create Watermelon6:14
Adding other fruits6:28
Creating custom destruction system16:14
Create a custom destruction system in Unreal Engine using chunked meshes, materials, and blueprints, with radial impulses and scale tuning for Android and Quest, including auto material assignment and testing.
Improving visuals13:12
Adding new hand model21:39
Despawning fruits2:54
Adding sound effects4:12
Making our custom sword model16:43
Working with sounds11:14
Adding sound to sword7:41
Score system27:22
Create a score system in unreal engine with a Widget_Score that displays and updates the total score, connected to a game manager and a stop game event that shows results.
Input system and animation blueprints21:09
Starting & Ending game, Triggers10:23
Trigger game start by gripping the sword, manage starting and ending logic, spawn and reset objects with a game mode, and address collisions and performance for a smooth Unreal experience.
Super secret hint - fake lightning11:37
discover a frame-rate optimization hack for Unreal VR: replace heavy lighting with a simple unlit material driven by a light direction vector and dot product.
Adding Environment assets7:08
Using SceneCaptureCube18:43
Optimizing Environment35:41
Adding game logic3:53
Add game logic by rotating the fruit manager, enabling a grabbable sword, and bringing butterflies closer to the player; adjust spawn radius, package for Oculus, and test the scene.
We've done it!0:26
Completing the course, they started from scratch and built a beautiful lab for Oculus Quest, offering knowledge to start a retinal developer career in the metaverse.

Requirements

No programming background needed. You can start from complete scratch
Windows based PC + Oculus Quest or any other VR headset

Description

Start one of the most promising careers in IT - become a VR developer. You will learn how to create your first Oculus Quest game, even if you have zero background! You will know the essential parts of Unreal Engine - from level design, to materials and textures, from lightning setup to visual programming in blueprints.

We will learn:

How to install and configure Unreal Engine for VR development
Why we should not start learning from Unreal Engine 5
Basics of creating maps and level design
Material shaders and textures
Sounds and music
Blueprints visual coding
Working with assets
Optimizing performance for VR and mobile
Designing and developing our VR game
Packaging app for Oculus Quest
Tons of tips, tricks and workarounds which you can not find in official documentation

Why you should take this course?

Start one of the most promising and highly-paid careers ever - Unreal Engine and VR developer!
VR is the next web: in the coming 5-10 years, most of the web would transform into Metaverse. We would transfer from 2d websites and mobile apps to interactive world in Virtual and Augmented reality. The biggest companies nowadays - such as Meta (Facebook), Apple, Epic Games, Tencent, Microsoft and hundreds of others make their bet on virtual reality.
Unreal Engine is one of the most powerful and versatile tools nowadays - it is widely used in a range of industries - from games to VR development, from industrial training to virtual movie production, from architectural design to automotive user interfaces.
Start now and be the one to build products of the future!

What do you need to take this course:

Windows based PC (No, Mac is not suitable for VR development)
Oculus Quest or any other VR headset

Who this course is for:

Anyone who wants to start a VR/AR developer career
Web developers who want to investigate new opportunities

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Introduction1 lecture • 3min

Getting to know Unreal Engine7 lectures • 48min

Introduction to VR development5 lectures • 30min

Making first VR Game27 lectures • 5hr 10min

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