DESCRIPTION
DATE: Tuesday, January 28, 2025
TIME: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
LOCATION: SPEEA TUKWILA HALL (15205 52nd Ave S., Tukwila, WA 98188)
You are signing up to attend this session in-person.
Class size is limited to 15 people.
This training WILL NOT be recorded.
OBJECTIVES
Once you pick up an object in VR, how do you put it back in place? In this
class, students will learn how to "snap" objects back into place after picking them up. We will learn how to spawn a "ghost" object when we pick something up, how to create a collision event to trigger a snap, and how to "snap" the original object back to its original location. We will also cover how to adjust the thresholds, which will make the snap feature more or less sensitive. By the end of the class, students will be able to pick up an object in VR, see a faint outline of the object's original location, and "snap" the object back in its original location.
This “Advanced” course will focus on making custom interactions in VR, so students will be able to interact with hand tools, buttons, and levers, in addition to creating interactive VR menus. The course will require a lot of coding, so students should have a solid understanding of coding principles before taking the “Advanced” course. If a student does not have much experience with coding, it is highly recommended they take a Python development course beforehand. The instructor recommends this course on Udemy.com:
course Instructors
Patrick O'Neill
Patrick O'Neill serves as head of AR/VR technologies for Product Development (PD) in Boeing Commercial Airplanes. In this role, he leads the team responsible for virtual prototyping of various PD initiatives, ranging from individual technologies to entire airplane programs. O'Neill has led AR/VR development on a wide variety of programs, including the New Mid-market Airplane (NMA), ecoDemonstrator, T-7A Red Hawk, NASA X-66 Sustainable Flight Demonstrator, and Wisk Aero. O'Neill is a member of Boeing's Technical Fellowship as an Associate Technical Fellow in Immersive Technologies. O'Neill is also co-chair of the Boeing XR Community of Excellence steering team and he teaches a series of Ed Wells classes within Boeing on AR/VR development using Unreal Engine. Prior to joining Boeing in 2014, O'Neill was a simulation technician at an accident reconstruction firm where he created virtual simulations of engineering analyses for use in litigation.