Have you been dreaming about VR since you were wee, or are you wondering what all the fuss is about? Either way there’s no ignoring virtual reality right now. The good news is you don’t need to spend loads of money on special hardware to give it a go. With a simple cardboard viewer you can turn your smartphone into a VR headset and step into another world. So how would you like to make your very own world and get right inside it?
In this workshop I’ll introduce some open source technologies for building VR experiences that run in the browser on a smartphone or any of the VR platforms available today. Then you’ll get started on hacking your own reality! Along the way you’ll learn some fundamental principles that apply to developing VR experiences on any platform.
All you need to bring is a laptop and a smartphone. If you already have a viewer or headset then you can bring it along, but don’t worry if you don’t as we will provide some viewers for you to use. You don’t need to know anything about web development or any particular language as we’ll be starting pretty much from scratch. However, if you’re already a VR expert then we would still love you to come along and help somebody else get started!
Cat Hawker is a senior web developer at the BBC in Glasgow.
