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Engine Recommendation: Unity
Engine Recommendation: Unity
A powerful engine with a lot of tools, great tutorials, a license that lets kids make things without a cost, and a community of educators and students around the world.
Another great course to get started with Unity AR for mobile devices.
Hardware Recommendation Mixed Reality:
Microsoft HoloLens 2
Hardware Recommendation Mixed Reality:
Microsoft HoloLens 2
A powerful mixed reality device that creates an interactive window into an immersive world.
This site has a variety of mixed reality tutorials:
This website has a variety of different parts that all describe the Mixed Reality Toolkit and the various features that it includes.
Photon PUN 2 makes it super easy to make multiplayer and multiuser experiences in Unity. It is free to download and there are some easy to use tutorials for general use here and tutorials for the MRTK here.
Hardware Recommendation Virtual Reality:
Oculus Quest 2
Hardware Recommendation Virtual Reality:
Oculus Quest 2
A powerful headset with wireless, passthrough, a thriving application ecosystem, and the ability to connect it to a computer for a GPU boost to the graphics.
This site gives opportunities for distribution of experiences without the high overhead of the publishing requirements of the traditional Oculus App store.
Indie experiences are available on the site, but using the site does require putting the Oculus Quest 2 into developer mode. This page will get you started.
3D Modeling Recommendation:
Blender
3D Modeling Recommendation:
Blender
3D Model Resources
3D Model Resources
Sketchfab is a leading site for 3D models and includes a very large 3D library with many, many assets available for free. Schools and universities can create their own profiles and load up 3D models for others to use. Pay attention to the licensing terms and agreements before using models.
This is a site to find quality 3D models for sale with licenses that allow you to use them in XR experiences and they run sales on a regular basis. I always send a message to the artists asking for permission before using their models in school-based experiences.
This is a resource for getting a variety of different resources from the Smithsonian including many assets that are part of the Smithsonian Open Access initiative.
This site has a variety of resources including highly detailed models of a variety of different Mars landers, satellites, rovers, and helicopters.
This site has lots of NASA models in various formats, but it has mostly models for 3D printing. While that is true, there are also lots of models that work in XR with a little work.
This is a great simple tool for students to use to create their own 3D models using combinations of basic shapes and negative space.
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