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.
You will learn about both the psychology of social interaction and the practical skills to implement it in Unity3D. We will take you through the basics of 3D character animation and how to create body language. You will learn about how to make characters that can respond to players’ speech and body language. You will also learn about avatars: the virtual representation of other players, and agents: computer controlled NPC characters and how to implement both of them.
As many people have said before us, social is the future of VR. This course will help you become part of the future of Virtual Reality social experiences.
Ce cours fait partie de la Spécialisation Réalité virtuelle
Building Interactive 3D Characters and Social VR
proposé par
Université de Londres
Goldsmiths, Université de Londres
Programme du cours : ce que vous apprendrez dans ce cours
Semaine
1Introduction to Virtual Characters
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.
10 vidéos (Total 70 min), 6 lectures, 2 quiz
10 vidéos
Virtual Characters | Realism5 min
Agents and Avatars5 min
Applications of Virtual Characters11 min
Introduction to Character Animation3 min
Cristina5 min
Designing Virtual Characters7 min
Importing a Virtual Character to Unity8 min
Embodiment in Unity using Mobile VR15 min
Project Briefing2 min
6 lectures
Uncanny Valley10 min
Course Blog10 min
Getting Started in Unity10 min
Where to Download Virtual Characters10 min
Unity Mecanim Tutorial10 min
Virtual Character Project Brief10 min
2 exercices pour s'entraîner
Virtual Characters Quiz30 min
Planning your project10 min
Semaine
2Body Animation in VR
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.
12 vidéos (Total 67 min), 4 lectures, 2 quiz
12 vidéos
Introduction to Skeletal Animation5 min
Introduction to Motion Capture3 min
Speech7 min
Posture and Gesture4 min
Backchannel4 min
Sensing the User’s Body Language2 min
Proxemics2 min
Body Language for Avatars5 min
Applying Motion Capture Data onto a Virtual Character10 min
Speech Interaction11 min
Gesture Interaction7 min
4 lectures
Markerless mocap10 min
Bodily Communication10 min
Where can you find Mocap data10 min
The Virtual Character Interaction Scripts10 min
1 exercices pour s'entraîner
Body Movement10 min
Semaine
3Facial Animation
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.
7 vidéos (Total 58 min), 3 lectures, 1 quiz
7 vidéos
Introduction to Facial Expressions4 min
Introduction to Facial Expression in Unity19 min
Blinking and Lip Sync Animation5 min
The Importance of Gaze in Social Interaction4 min
Gaze Interaction15 min
Other Facial Features and Their Psychological Effect4 min
3 lectures
Interaction Scripts10 min
Facial Animation: find out more10 min
Gaze Animation10 min
1 exercices pour s'entraîner
Facial Expressions30 min
Semaine
4Social VR
This module brings together everything you have learned about virtual characters to talk about how you can build truly social experiences in VR.
7 vidéos (Total 23 min), 6 lectures, 1 quiz
7 vidéos
The Psychology Behind Social Interaction4 min
Challenges in Human-Avatar Interaction4 min
Challenges in Human-Agent Interaction4 min
Evaluation of Social Interaction in VR3 min
Self-Avatar | Implementation and Applications3 min
Summary of Social VR1 min
6 lectures
Automatic Imitation10 min
Extended reading: applications using Virtual Characters10 min
Human-avatar: Social VR apps10 min
Human-agent interaction10 min
Embodiment - implementation and psychological effect10 min
Thank you10 min
Enseignants
Dr Sylvia Xueni Pan
Lecturer, Department of ComputingGoldsmiths, University of London
Dr Marco Gillies
Senior LecturerComputing Department, Goldsmiths, University of London
À propos de Université de Londres
The University of London is a federal University which includes 18 world leading Colleges. Our distance learning programmes were founded in 1858 and have enriched the lives of thousands of students, delivering high quality University of London degrees wherever our students are across the globe. Our alumni include 7 Nobel Prize winners. Today, we are a global leader in distance and flexible study, offering degree programmes to over 50,000 students in over 180 countries. To find out more about studying for one of our degrees where you are, visit www.london.ac.uk
À propos de Goldsmiths, Université de Londres
Championing research-rich degrees that provoke thought, stretch the imagination and tap into tomorrow’s world, at Goldsmiths we’re asking the questions that matter now in subjects as diverse as the arts and humanities, social sciences, cultural studies, computing, and entrepreneurial business and management. We are a community defined by its people: innovative in spirit, analytical in approach and open to all.
À propos de la Spécialisation Réalité virtuelle
This specialisation from the University of London will introduce you to virtual reality.
Virtual reality is one of the most highly requested skill sets in the jobs market, and this specialisation will give you an introduction to the subject and key skills in the field. You will hear from world-leading lecturers and industry experts, use Unity to develop your own VR environment, and end the specialisation by creating your first VR game.
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