Virtual reality has exploded in recent years thanks to improved technologies like the Meta Quest, Unity VR, and Insta 360. This month, we’ll be teaching how to make a VR game with Unity and bringing several different hardware devices for students to play with.
If your student has their own VR hardware and/or gaming laptop, we encourage them to bring them as we have limited units available. Here is a good tutorial. Download the Unity Oculus integration here.
We used this video to help us figure it out.
To do this, you have to be a registered “developer”. This process is free. Go to dashboard.oculus.com on your PC and create an ‘organization’.
Install the driver software for your device. Go to developer.oculus.com on your PC and download the drivers for your headset.
Download SideQuest here.
This was the trickiest part for us. You’ll need a compatible Samsung device or find some other way to get Gear VR apps from the Oculus store. Then, download Minecraft Gear VR to your device. Next, download the Xbox app from the Play store. Finally, extract the APKs from your device to your PCs with a tool like APK Extractor.
After you have downloaded and made an account on Sidequest you should see this button at the top right. Click that then select the APK files for Minecraft VR and Xbox to start installation.
To do this, all you have to do is turn on your Bluetooth controller then go to settings on the Quest, click See All, then click Experimental Features, then click Pair with gamepad.
Almost done. Go out of Settings, then go to Library, click on Unknown Sources on the edge of the screen then click on Minecraft.
If that doesn’t work, you can also try Vivecraft and Voxel Works Quest.
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