VR/AR Design Resources

In 2017 I put together an extensive list of resources for people looking to get into VR design/development. Having gone through the process myself, I know it can be confusing & overwhelming at times. Some of the information here may be dated, but hopefully this can help to point you in the right direction! And if it's helpful, please pay it forward by sharing with friends, and let me know on Twitter! (@doriandargan)

VR/AR Design - Where do I get started?

• The UX of VR

• The email I send anyone who asks me how to get started with VR design

• I Am Learning 3d

• From Web Dev to VR Dev

• Why you should be starting VR/AR/MR design & development right now

• UX pointers for VR design

• Get started with VR: user experience design

• Becoming a VR Artist - Where do I Start?

• Interior Design and Environment Art: Mastering Space, Mastering Place

• Setting up my VR Machine

• xR.design - AR & VR interaction examples

• The Coming Wave of Virtual Reality Creation Tools

• The product design challenges of AR on smartphones

• Best Practices for Mobile AR Design

• Art Direction Document Template

Tools

• Engines: Unity, Unreal

• Frameworks: A-Frame, ARKit

• Modeling: Blender, Cinema4D, Maya, Google Blocks

• Animation, Rigging: Mixamo

• Toolkits: Virtual Reality Toolkit, NewtonVR

• Sketching / Prototyping: Tiltbrush, Quill, Sketchbox, Gravity Sketch

Technical Resources

• VR Glossary

• Unity Tutorials

• More Unity Tutorials

• Blender Tutorials

• Oculus Best Practices

• Unity Hotkeys

• Good lighting resources for Unity

• How to Render your Blocks with Unity

• GPU Performance for Game Artists

• The Book of Shaders

• Unity Compute Shaders

• Create a Fog Shader

• Mixed Lighting in Unity

• Getting Started in WebVR

• Export a rotating GIF in Blender

• In-Depth With Tilt Brush 8.0: Paint In 2D And Capture 360-degree Videos

• Game Engine Architecture

• Vision Science

• Computer Vision: Algorithms and Applications

Looking to the Future

• Jesse Schell (CEO, Schell Games): Updates from the Future

• Epic's Tim Sweeney on Virtual Reality and the Future of Civilization

• Here’s What It’s Going to Take For Augmented Reality to Take Over The World

• The Gigantic List of Augmented Reality Use Cases

• Why is ARKit better than the alternatives?

• Why Apple’s glasses won’t include ARKit

• The first decade of augmented reality

• Snapchat AR Research

• What's Up with Augmented Reality Contact Lenses?

• HYPER-REALITY

• UNCANNEY VALLEY - Incredible Dystopian VR Future Short Film

Getting a Job in VR

• Transitioning to a Career in AR/VR Design

• How to Get A Job in VR

• How VR became my job because I didn’t give up

Starting a VR Business

• Lessons Learned: Raising a seed round for a VR startup

• Why you’re mispricing your VR seed round

• What Facebook’s announcements at F8 2017 mean for VR & AR startups

Community & News

• Voices of VR Podcast

• Mailing Lists: AllthingsVR, VR Digest, VR Design Weekly

• My Twitter List: VR-AR

• Women in VR/AR

• Unity Forums

• unityslackers.com