VR techdegree

Hi Sean,

Great questions! First, yes, the VR Techdegree will include more courses than the ones currently available at the time of this writing (Oct 2016).

The VR Techdegree will have the following requirements:

• Windows 10 PC
• HTC Vive
• NVidia GTX 970 graphics card (equivalent or better)

Right now there's no high-end VR headset that supports macOS. That may change in the future, but unfortunately we're constrained by the present. There's also no other popular option for room-scale VR beyond the HTC Vive. Oculus recently announced room-scale support for the Rift using 2 or 3 Oculus Sensors in combination with the Rift and Touch controllers, but Touch won't be released until December 2016 and their complete room-scale hardware/software support is still on an unclear timeline. When room-scale is officially supported by Oculus, we can begin integrating their hardware/software into our courses, but that will take time.

We probably won't ever teach PS VR development for many reasons. You need to be a registered PlayStation developer, you need to own a PlayStation DevKit (and a PS VR), and all of their development resources are under strict NDA. In fact, even that's a gross oversimplification of why teaching it is intractable, but those are some of the larger points.

Hi Nick,

Have you ever consider to create a unity tech degree program? In my opinion a VR tech degree program is very interesting but since it requires extra equipment ( HTC Vive etc.. ) I am not sure that it will attract a large amount of students. Creating a unity tech degree with some optional VR lessons will be a better way to go. What do you think? Unity is extremely popular and probably many people would take this program

What is the status for the VR Tech Degree is this still going to be offer on this platform anytime soon?

Nick Pettit,

Thanks so much for the reply! Looks like I'll have to save up some money to participate. But I am very happy you guys are offering this Techdegree. Looking forward to the future with Treehouse and Game Development! Btw congrats on your new game Neptune Flux coming out soon! I'll definitely be playing that on my PS4!

Thanks again!

@ Nick Pettit Why HTC Vive? That's an expensive requirement.

Has the VR techdegree been delayed? I can't wait for it to start!

Thanks Nick - is there something I can do to prepare for the courses? Is there a general timeline I can make a rough plan by?

It does! Thank you Nick! :)

Hey Nick!
Any updates on the rollout date for the VR TechDegree? I noticed that "What's new in VR" only has one entry for October and hasn't been updated since. I'm hoping the path wasn't abandoned or put on hiatus.

I'm sad to hear that Nick, I am working through Unity now and about halfway done then I'm on to Beginner VR. Even though the TechDegree is on hold, are more advanced VR courses or tracks on the docket?