Meeting another person is one of the most amazing experiences you can have in Virtual Reality. It is quite unlike communicating through any other medium except a real life face-to-face conversation. Because the other person is life size and shares a virtual space with you, body language works in a way that cannot be done on a flat screen. This course will enable you to create realistic social interactions in VR.
Building Interactive 3D Characters and Social VR
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Building Interactive 3D Characters and Social VR
This course is part of Virtual Reality Specialization
Instructors: Prof Sylvia Xueni Pan
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There are 4 modules in this course
In this module you will start to learn about the role of human-like characters in VR. Characters can represent other real people: avatars, or they can be computer controlled: agents. Either way they are the very foundation of social interaction in VR.
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10 videos6 readings2 assignments4 discussion prompts
In this module you will learn about the role of the body in social interaction and also about how to animate and control virtual characters' body movements.
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12 videos4 readings1 assignment1 peer review4 discussion prompts
The face is one of the most important social and emotional signals. In this module you will learn about the role of the face and eyes in social interactions and how to recreate them in VR.
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7 videos3 readings1 assignment4 discussion prompts
This module brings together everything you have learned about virtual characters to talk about how you can build truly social experiences in VR.
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