11 Sep 2018

Resources for VR development in Unity with VRTK

Resources for VR development in Unity with VRTK

VRTK

VRTK is arguably one of the best assets out there to get you started on developing VR experiences for Unity. It recently released version 4 which is still in beta but already very stable and useable.
It can be found here: https://www.vrtk.io.

At this point it is still lacking a lot of documentation but the VRTK Academy - https://academy.vrtk.io will be expanded with further tutorials and has everything to get you started. VRTK is distributed with a sample scene (The Farm) that has examples of all of its features and can be used to dive in further.
Additionally there is a regularly expanded list of raw Brain Dump videos from its creator, covering various topics, which can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTiD-q2AfVNKkEyEidnbUcw9DAxCvVLG2.

An overview about the components VRTK is build upon can also be found on VRTK’s youtube channel:

Oculus Developers

A host of Oculus related resources can be found on Oculus’ Developer Portal. Even though it’s focused on Oculus’ own ecosystem of head mounted displays, a lot of the information found on the site and the blog that is useful for VR development in general:

A course on how to get started with VR development in Unity:
https://learn.unity.com/course/oculus-vr

An overview about common rendering pitfalls applicable to any head mounted display and an article on how to avoid aliasing in VR from Oculus CTO John Carmack himself:
https://developer.oculus.com/blog/common-rendering-mistakes-how-to-find-them-and-how-to-fix-them/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12183340

Usefull Unity VR Assets

Unity

Not only related to VR development, but an introduction to Scriptable Objects in Unity and a followup talk on how to build your game architecture using Scriptable Objects.

Talks and presentations about interaction design for VR »