Virtual Reality Mini-Degree

Build your own VR games and apps with Unity!

Virtual reality is transforming some of the world’s biggest industries – including games, healthcare, education, tourism, real estate, architecture, law enforcement, and the automotive industry. Skills in working with VR are in hot demand, leading to great opportunities for developers.

Unity is the perfect choice for creating VR experiences – it’s a robust and versatile platform that includes powerful tools, and extensive support for VR hardware devices, making it easy for beginners and experienced developers to create immersive experiences.

 

 

The Virtual Reality Mini-Degree

The Virtual Reality Mini-Degree is the world’s most comprehensive collection of courses on building virtual reality applications with Unity. You’ll be guided step-by-step through creating real VR projects, including:

These courses will fast-track your VR development journey – after mastering the basics of Unity, you’ll create your first VR app in just 1 hour! The skills you’ll learn are in high demand throughout a variety of industries, and will help you to join a fast-growing market of innovators.

 

Learn All About
  • Coding basics with C# & Unity
  • Movement
  • VR-optimized UI design
  • Hand-tracked controllers
  • Industry best-practices
  • Simulations and games

 

Build VR Projects

Create a portfolio of virtual reality projects, including:

 

Curriculum

LEVEL 1: UNITY BASICS
  • Unity Editor
  • Object manipulation
  • C# scripting
  • Your first projects

Virtual Reality Mini-Degree - Level 2

LEVEL 2: VR FUNDAMENTALS
  • XR Interaction Toolkit
  • Movement & interaction
  • Headset variations
  • VR games & simulations

Virtual Reality Mini-Degree - Level 3

LEVEL 3: VR CONTROLLERS 
  • Controller tracking
  • Button mapping
  • Reticle interaction
  • Grabbing objects

Virtual Reality Mini-Degree - Level 4

LEVEL 4: AVATARS 
  • Camera setup
  • Player controllers
  • Game mechanics & physics
  • UI development

 

Why Learn Virtual Reality?

Virtual reality has gone from a rising trend to an industry mainstay. Whether for games, retail, or even education, users and businesses are flocking to VR. As companies foresee the increasing impact of this technology, demand for VR developers – along with their salaries – is expected to rise.

Linechart showing the number of VR users will increase in the next few years

List of various facts about Unity

Average salaries for VR, AR, and XR developers

Linechart showing the forecast for revenue increase of VR until 2030

WHO CAN TAKE THESE COURSES?

We start with the absolute basics and go through everything step-by-step – so even if you have zero experience in programming, you’ll be able to easily follow along.

More experienced? Whether you’re wanting to brush up, expand your skills, or learn a new technology, our courses are structured in a way that makes it easy to skip ahead to the lessons that are relevant and interesting to you.

REINFORCE YOUR LEARNING

Zenva’s courses feature quick challenges that will speed up your learning.

Access live coding lessons where you can practice coding right in your browser, and instantly see the results of any changes you make to the code:

Reinforce key concepts with in-course quizzes, which appear throughout courses: