AXM-E0404 - Designing and Creating Virtual Worlds, Lecture, 23.10.2023-30.11.2023

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• Resources
  Literature

  • Bucher, J. (2018). Storytelling for Virtual Reality, Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives, New York and London: Routledge.
  • Chalmers, D. J. (2022). Reality+: Virtual worlds and the problems of philosophy. Penguin UK.
    
  • Haynes, P. (2001). How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics by N. Katherine Hayles. Body & Society, 7(4), 105-108.
  • Jerald, J. (2015). The VR book: Human-centered design for virtual reality. Morgan & Claypool.
  • Salter, C. (2011). Entangled: Technology and the transformation of performance, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • Slater, M., Wilbur, S. (1997). "A framework for immersive virtual environments five: Speculations on the role of presence in virtual environments", Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, Volume 6, Issue 6, December 1997 pp. 603–616, https://doi.org/10.1162/pres.1997.6.6.603 

  
  

  Podcasts

  • Kent Bye - voicesofvr.com

  
  

  Steam VR experiences (available in the VR Hub)

  • Museum of Other Realities: Alex’s Sci
    
  • Dreams of Dali
    
  • The Isle of the Dead
    
  • The Dawn of Art 
  • Notes on Blindness

  
  

  Mozilla Hubs experiences

  • Feelings: https://hubs.mozilla.com/TqygwLx/feelings/
    
  • Lockdown lobby: https://hubs.mozilla.com/eLfHrrt/lockdown-lobby/
    
  • Ars Electronica 2020: https://www.keplersgardens.info/

  
  

  Other
  

  Monika Bielskyte’s talks related to futurism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixg7e1fWdM0&ab_channel=GoogleDesign
  
  
  Tutorials
  
  

  • Setting up the Oculus Quest for use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVkivmMKikU&ab_channel=VirtualRealityOasis
    
  • Introduction to Mozilla Hubs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QnOsyyebEQ&t=847s&ab_channel=MozillaHubs 
  • Building for Oculus Quest using Unity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWBc0y95obc&ab_channel=CircuitStream 
  • How to create Hubs scenes (virtual worlds) using Mozilla Spoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUECN5fEN-o&t=637s&ab_channel=BenKreimer 
  • Basics of using Google Blocks in VR: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2KByucQ7zk&ab_channel=Annadreambrush
  • Using blender to convert fbx or obj to glb for Mozilla Hubs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpDbcxtxxpM&ab_channel=ExpandedMedia