TUTORIAL

Bio: Dr. Phillip G. Bradford is on the faculty at the University of Connecticut. He is the director of the computer science program at the University of Connecticut in Stamford.

He is a computer scientist with extensive experience in academia and industry. Phil was a post-doctoral fellow at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, he earned his PhD at Indiana University, an MS form the University of Kansas, and a BA from Rutgers University. He was on the faculty at Rutgers Business School and the University of Alabama’s Engineering School. He worked for BlackRock, Reuters Analytics, founded a startup and worked with a number of early stage firms. He was a Principal Architect for General Electric. Phil has a deep belief in bringing real research to practice. This is the root of his entrepreneurial perspective. Phil has a handful of best-in-class results. His Erdős Number is 2. He has given over 70 talks in 10 countries and he is the author or co-author of over 70 articles.

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Goal

To gain basic VR skills using A-Frame and related systems. This includes building basic visual effects for VR and basic animations. This will work for Android and iOS phones using small VR headsets.

You must have a laptop. For the last part we will use a Ubuntu VM.

Background

This tutorial uses small plastic VR headsets.

We will start with web-browser VR – such as  webxr-api-emulator from the Mozilla Development Foundation

You can do everything here on your own machine.  We will use a basic Ubuntu VM for the animation topic.

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