VR Weekend Workshop: Learn Unity VR

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<H2>Intro to Virtual Reality Weekend Workshop </H2>
VR is blowing up right now! The space is expected to grow into a $150 billion dollar industry by 2020. With the recent release of Playstation VR and soon Google Daydream and more, now is the time to learn how to be a part of this industry.
Join us on December 9th - December 11th, where in just 3 short days we'll teach you how to build VR experiences. The workshop will focus on teaching you Unity VR, enabling you to build fully functional VR apps in no time! You'll also make new friends and get to try amazing VR experiences.
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<H2>About UploadVR</H2>
Upload is the leading news, coworking, events, and education provider in the VR industry. For more info check out <A HREF="http://www.uploadvr.com" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.uploadvr.com</A>.
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<H2>Prereqs:</H2>
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a computer with Unity installed 
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Basic C# coding knowledge (if you've never programmed before then put a few hours in at <A HREF="https://mva.microsoft.com/en-US/training-courses/c-fundamentals-for-absolute-beginners-16169?l=Lvld4EQIC_2706218949" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Microsoft Virtual Academy</A> or <A HREF="http://www.learncs.org/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">LearnC#</A>. Either one will prepare you enough for this course).
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<H2>What's provided:</H2>
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Food + drinks  all three days
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HTC Vives and Oculus Rift's for testing your products on
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VR Gaming experiences to play with during down time
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Free online courseware for you to continue your VR education
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Discounts to VR software and future VR education programs
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<H2>VR Weekend Schedule:</H2>
Friday, August 19th (6pm-9pm)
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6:00pm: Dinner, Drinks, and play VR games in our Holodeck Rooms
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6:30pm: VR Weekend Talk: Jazmin Cano, High Fidelity
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7:00pm: Intro to Unity | Building your first VR Experience
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9:00pm: Light drinks then we're done for the night, get a big nights sleep for tomorrow
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Saturday, August 20th  (10am-7pm)
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10:00am: Breakfast, meet and greet, and play VR games in our holodeck rooms
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10:30am: VR Weekend Talk: Jewel Lim and Jake Stull, FOUNDVR
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<LI>11:00am-1:00: Learn to make your first VR game, SKI BALL </LI>
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1:00pm: Lunch
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<LI>1:30pm-6:00pm: Finish making your VR SKI BALL Game</LI>
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<LI>6:00pm-7:00pm: Stick around, test your game and play with some of ours</LI>
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Sunday, August 21st (10am-7pm)
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10:00am: Doors open, breakfast :)
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10:30am: Go over your SKI BALL game, address concerns and work through blocks
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12:00pm-1:00pm: Learn about the Unity Asset Store and prep for your 2nd VR Experience: Shooter
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1:00pm: Lunch
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1:30 - 5:30pm: Finish building your Shooter game
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<LI>5:30 - 7:00pm: End of class celebration and drinks, game testing and playing with VR</LI>
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<H2>About the Guest Speakers and Instructors </H2>
GUEST SPEAKERS
 
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Jazmin Cano
Marketing and Events Coordinator, High Fidelity 
Jazmin Cano has been developing 3D content for Virtual Reality games and education since her first experience using DK1 in 2013. Most recently, she operates as High Fidelity's Marketing and Events Coordinator, organizing hackathons and meetups in the metaverse and in person. While working in VR she has experience building worlds to be seen in the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard. In her free time, she creates 3D artwork, plays PC games, and visits local comic book shops in search of new sci-fi material.
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Jewel Lim
Producer at FOUNDVR
Jewel Lim is a hybrid artist-developer and is the Producer of Found, a VR experience born out of the Upload Academy (in partnership with MakeSchool). With degrees both in visual arts and computer science, her passion is to bridge art and technology by creating meaningful and impactful experiences, particularly in areas of education, data visualization, and cinematic experiences, using VR technologies. Selected to participate in a highly selective mentorship-incubator program called Oculus Launch Pad by Oculus, she works with the Found team to realize a cohesive and moving interactive cinematic experience. Through her product management expertise, she ensures that all parts of the process, from creative to technical, are in line with the team’s collective vision, while also participating as a developer and designer. 
Jake Stull
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CG Artist at FOUNDVR
Jake Stull is an illustrator, animator, and CG artist. With a focus on storytelling, he builds scenes and characters, bringing them to life in 3D.  Working primarily in Maya, zBrush, and Photoshop, he has three years of experience in the animation and gaming industry.  His background in illustration and animation has helped him to collaborate on the artistic vision shared by everyone on the Found team.
 
INSTRUCTORS
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<H3>Benjamin Taller </H3>
Lead Instructor @ Upload Academy, formerly built games @Sony @Zynga @Kabam
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's currently an instructor at the Upload Academy, an 8 week intensive VR coding academy in partnership with MakeSchool.
 
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Sky Nite
Best selling author of Virtual Reality Insider + CEO of Dimension VR + Instructor @ Upload Academy
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 Upload. Sky is also an instructor at the Upload Academy, an 8 week intensive VR coding academy in partnership with MakeSchool. You can normally find Sky at meetups around town, VR forums, and on the top of Reddit for all kinds of <A HREF="http://imgur.com/r/oculus/zdNydoM" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">wonky stuff. </A> 
Looking to continute your education after VR Weekend? Check out the Upload Academy!
Spawned by a partnership between Upload and MakeSchool, the Upload Academy is a fully immersive 8-week course aimed at creating the next generation of VR developers and content creators. The Upload Academy is designed to help existing developers learn the tools and workflows to build high quality VR experiences and be a high value member of a VR dev team. Combining Upload's industry knowledge and MakeSchool's coding academy expertise, students are well equipped to enter the VR workforce upon graduation.
No refunds. Questions?
Please contact Ned Atkins. ned@uploadvr.com

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