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Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine #5 – Interacting with Buttons & Levers in VR

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DATE: Tuesday, March 18, 2025

TIME: 5:30 - 7:30 PM

LOCATION: SPEEA TUKWILA HALL (15205 52nd Ave S., Tukwila, WA 98188) OR Virtually on Zoom.

Class size is limited to 15 people.

VR headsets will only be provided for in-person participants.

This training WILL NOT be recorded.

OBJECTIVES

Sometimes we are required to interact with objects that we cannot pick

up, and who have very specific motions, e.g. a button is pressed down, a lever rotates, and a drawer is pulled out. How do we make those virtual interactions intuitive and realistic? In this class, students will learn how to interact with a variety of objects that only move on specific paths. We will cover how to lock

the player's virtual hand to the object, and how to set thresholds to release the object when the player pulls their hand away. By the end of the class, students will be able to press a button, pull a lever up and down, and be able to open and close a desk drawer.

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:

https://www.udemy.com/course/complete-python-bootcamp/ (SPEEA ACE is not affiliated with Udemy will not cover the cost of any of their classes.)

Enrollment in this class does not enroll you in the other Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine classes. To enroll in the other classes, you must register at the links below:

· Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine – Class 1: Scripting Unreal and Creating Custom Plugins

· Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine – Class 2: Picking Up Objects

· Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine – Class 3: Snapping Objects Back in Place

· Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine – Class 4: Using Hand Tools in VR

· Advanced VR Development in Unreal Engine – Class 6: Building an Interactive Menu in VR

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.

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