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Mobile VR - Getting Started Guide

Having access to a VR device is easier than you think, you just need a mobile phone and an affordable Mobile headset. These are some options we recommend, whatever option you choose, just make sure that they are able to fit your phone. You won't need extra controllers or fancy additional gadgets.

Headset options around the world

Amazon US

ETVR 3D VR Headset

Amazon UK

KINGA VR Glasses

Aliexpress

Box Movie 3D Goggles

There are many different tools you can use to create VR content, some will allow you to create simple content fairly easyli and some will help allow you to create very robust interactive applications but will require more effort, here we provide a list of different tools along with a description.

A-Frame

This is a fun to use online tool that will require you to do some basic coding, they have very cool and ready to test projects on their webpage. This is a list of useful links if you want to start exploring it.

Unity 3D

This is a very popular opensource Game Engine, this is the kind of tool professional VR Developers use to create content, it will require more effort to learn how to use it but it will allow you to take things to the next level, it is also worth mentioning that we do have lots of experience supporting students, bellow you will find a list of useful links to get you started.

Setting Up Unity