VR Weekend Workshop by UploadVR

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<H2><STRONG><STRONG>Intro to Virtual Reality Weekend Workshop</STRONG><BR></STRONG></H2>
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<H2>About This Workshop</H2>
<P>VR is blowing up right now! The space is expected to grow into a $150 billion dollar industry by 2020. With Android VR and Playstation VR coming out Q4, you can bet this is right time to start learning how to be a part of this industry!</P>
<P>Join us on June 3rd-5th, where in just 3 short days we'll teach you how to build real VR experiences. The workshop will focus on teaching you Unity VR, which will do most of the heavy lifting so that you can build fully functional VR apps in no time! You'll also make great friends and get to play with a lot of great VR experiences. </P>
<P>Free food and drink throughout the weekned. Hope to see you there!</P>
<H2>About UploadVR</H2>
<P><A TARGET="_blank" HREF="www.uploadvr.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">UploadVR</A> is the leading news, events, and education provider in the VR industry. For more info check out <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.uploadvr.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.uploadvr.com</A></P>
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<H2><STRONG><EM>Prereqs:</EM></STRONG></H2>
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<P>a computer with Unity installed </P>
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<P>Basic C# coding knowledge (if you've never programmed before then put a few hours in at <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/c-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners-16169?l=Lvld4EQIC_2706218949" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Microsoft Virtual Academy</A> or <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.learncs.org/" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LearnC#</A>. Either one will prepare you enough for this course).</P>
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<H2><STRONG>What's provided:</STRONG></H2>
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<P>Food + drinks  all three days</P>
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<P>HTC Vives and Oculus Rift's for testing your products on</P>
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<P>VR Gaming experiences to play with during down time</P>
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<P>Free online courseware for you to continue your VR education</P>
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<P>Discounts to VR software and future VR education programs</P>
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<H2><STRONG>VR Weekend Schedule:</STRONG></H2>
<P><STRONG>Friday, June 3rd (6-9pm)</STRONG></P>
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<P>6:00pm: Drinks, meet and greet, and play VR games in our holodeck rooms</P>
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<P>7:00pm: Intro to Unity and VR with special guest Philip Rosedale (Founder Second Life / High Fidelity)</P>
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<P>8:00pm: HW assignment of stuff to prep for tomorrow (installing Unity)</P>
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<P><STRONG>Saturday, June 4th  (10am-6pm)</STRONG></P>
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<P>10:00am: Breakfast, meet and greet, and play VR games in our holodeck rooms</P>
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<P>11:00am: Go over HW assignment, start first Unity project</P>
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<P>12:00pm: Lunch and more VR gaming</P>
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<P>1:00pm -- 6:00pm: Learn to make your first VR game, SKI BALL</P>
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<P><STRONG>Sunday: June 5th (10am-6pm)</STRONG></P>
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<P>10:00am: Doors open, breakfast :)</P>
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<P>10:30am: VR design principles guest talk by special speaker</P>
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<P>11:00am: Go over your SKI BALL game, address concerns and work through blocks</P>
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<P>12:00pm-1:00pm: Lunch, Play, and Learn</P>
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<P>1:00pm: - 6:00pm: Learn about Asset Stores and make a VR SHOOTER game</P>
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<P>6:00pm: Potential Game of Thrones after party “Where are my VR dragons!?”</P>
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<H2>About the Instructors + Speakers</H2>
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<H3>Phillip Rosedale<BR></H3>
<P>Founder @Coffee + Power, @SecondLife,  and @High Fidelity</P>
<P>Philip Rosedale has an extensive background in the development and pioneering of streaming technology, having built his first computer in 4th grade, and started his first computer software company while still in high school.In 1995 he developed FreeVue, a low-bitrate video conferencing system for Internet-connected PC's, resulting in the acquisition of his company in early 1996 by RealNetworks.</P>
<P>He is a serial founder and pioneer in social and virtual worlds. He started the largest online virtual social world (Second Life) and is currently building one of the most heralded VR startups, High Fidelity. </P>
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<H3>Patrick Hackett<BR></H3>
<P>Founder @TiltBrush, VR @ Google</P>
<P>Patrick built what is probably the most popular VR experience to date, TiltBrush, which was <SPAN>acquired</SPAN> by Google in 2015. He nows works on Google's VR design team where he's creating the next big thing!</P>
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<H3>Benjamin Taller<BR></H3>
<P>Lead Instructor @ VR Academy, formerly built games @Sony @Zynga @Kabam</P>
<P>Benjamin Taller has been a virtual world pioneer for most of his life, starting at a young age making levels and mods for Doom, Duke Nukem 3d, and Quake.  He always knew VR would be the eventual future of gaming.  Ben went to school for computer science and joined Metaplace in 2008.  Shortly after Metaplace Ben worked at Sony Online Entertainment building AAA virtual worlds.  He worked on Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures: a large scale Star Wars Massively Multiplayer Online World.  Ben subsequently worked at both Kabam and Zynga on social and mobile games.  He has been using Unity professionally for almost four years. He currently splits his time between building VR teaching resources and building his VR DJ experience startup.</P>
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<H3>Sky Nite</H3>
<P>Best selling author of Virtual Reality Insider + CEO of Dimension VR + Instructor @ VR Academy</P>
<P>Sky Nite wrote Virtual Reality Insider which has been the bestselling VR book in the world for the last 2 years. He then taught himself the VR stack and went on to build a VR game company, Dimension VR before joining UploadVR and the VR Academy to teach how to build modern VR products to others. You can normally find Sky at meetups around town, VR forums, and on the top of Reddit for all kinds of <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://imgur.com/r/oculus/zdNydoM" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">wonky stuff. </A></P>
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