In 2020, I participated in several virtual conferences and volunteered in some. This includes SIGGRAPH 2020, ICMI 2020, ISWC 2020 and ISS 2020. This article is a brief overview of the tools I was introduced to and learnt, and my thoughts on them as a presenter, attendee and a student…

Hubs is the talk among several communities who organize virtual conferences (Of course there are other platforms as well), as it allows participants with VR headsets as well as those who don’t, to be immersed in the virtual scene. Accessibility and experience are key in drawing people towards this technology…

‘IntelliSense’ is a code completion tool that is built into Microsoft Visual Studio. This is a question you might get during the early days of your Unity development. I see many ask this question during workshops. So thought of putting the steps into an article. If you wonder, when you…

Hand gestures can be considered as one of the most intuitive interaction modes in human-computer interaction (HCI)/ Human Device Interaction (HDI), especially with the latest trends introduced with Mixed reality (XR). (Well, gestural interactions has its own challenges and shortcomings which is one of the contemporary research areas). …

This is a brief article on how to set up Unity for VR development, specifically for Oculus Quest. This will be helpful for you to get started with Oculus Quest development and to read and follow my future articles related to Oculus Quest development. With the latest Unity release (2019.3.X…

Welcome to the final part of this article series on building your first VR game with Oculus Quest, without writing a single line of code. If you have followed Part 1 and Part 2 until the end, your Unity window should look like below in Figure 1.

This is a continuation of my previous article, Build your first VR game with Oculus Quest and Unity — Part 1. There, we set up unity with necessary resources and configurations. In this article let's set the camera and then model our VR controllers. …

This pandemic sheltering could drive people to think of the usage of Mixed reality (XR) a step ahead of SciFi movies. In brief, XR is the symbiosis of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). These technologies have the potential of creating its own ecosystem where it will change how…

This is a very brief article on how you can enable developer mode on your Oculus Quest. This will help you to sideload the apps that you build. When you initially set up your Oculus Quest, the first thing you would do is download and install the Oculus app to…