Designing and Developing Immersive 3D Metaverse Experiences

Goldman Sachs Sees the Metaverse as $8 Trillion Opportunity. It is the future and next generation of the internet. This program will teach you to design and build 3D Metaverse Experiences to take advantage of this opportunity.

The online program consists of seven modules (three semisters) listed below and will mainly be focused on imparting knowledge by training students to develop projects. The classes will mainly be taught on the weekends or after 7:00 pm (Pakistan Time) on weekdays so that everyone can attend. We will be using Zoom to conduct classes so that students from anywhere in the world can attend.

Faculty Application Form

If you are interested in teaching in this program, you are requested to fill out the following form (if shortlisted we will schedule an interview with you):

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Please note that all faculty members will be paid as per industry standards.

Program Duration and Fee

The program will consist of three semisters. The fee will be Rs. 10,000 per semister. The students will have an option to pay an one time fee of Rs. 20,000 for the entire program covering all three semisters i.e. instead of paying Rs. 30,000 for the program they will pay Rs. 20,000 and get a discount of Rs. 10,000.

Per Semister: Rs. 10,000

One Time: Rs. 20,000 (Covers 3 Semisters)

Panaverse Community

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Program Modules

Module I: Metaverse Introduction and Theory

Module II: Learning 3D with Blender

Module III: Computer Graphics Programming

Module IV: Learning C# and OpenXR with Unity 2021

Module V: Designing Immersive 3D XR Experiences

Module VI: 3D Simulation and Design collaboration with Omniverse, Universal Scene Description (USD) and Python

Module VII: Building Avatars for the Metaverse

Module I: Metaverse Introduction and Theory

Watch this video to Understand the level 3D Graphics Technology has reached

What is Metaverse

What’s All the Hype About the Metaverse?

The Metaverse Has Already Arrived. Here’s What That Actually Means

Explainer: What is the 'metaverse'?

The new metaverse gold rush

The Metaverse could be a problem

Facebook, Walmart and How Companies Shouldn’t Set Up in the Metaverse

How Metaverse Works? | Secrets of Metaverse | Explained in Hindi

Metaverse is the Future

Nvidia CEO: The metaverse will be 'much, much bigger than the physical world'

3 Stocks to Buy With a $30 Trillion Metaverse Market on the Way

The Information estimates that the metaverse could be worth about $82B by 2025

The Metaverse Is Coming And It’s A Very Big Deal

Metaverse in the Enterprise

7 ways the metaverse will change the enterprise

How the metaverse will let you simulate everything

Challenges of Metaverse that Needs to be Solved

The DeanBeat: The problem of the sniper and the metaverse

7 Challenges of The Metaverse

Assignment 1:

Read and Understand the above articles

Assignment 2:

Make a Metaverse presentation from the Articles you have read in Assignment 1 using Google slides. Please Donot share the slides with anyone except me, until I instruct you to do so.

Five reasons we are doing this:

When making something we remember
To make a summary of the material
To teach others from this material
Have reference material for ourselves
To see who are the leaders and best workers in this group

Module II: Learning 3D with Blender

Blender development is being funded by heavyweights in the real-time 3D (RT3D) space such as Apple, Unity, AMD, Intel, Meta, NVIDIA, AWS, Epic Games, Adobe, Microsoft, and Decentraland. It is expected to become the standard asset creation tool for metaverse.

Blender 3.0+ Download

Blender 3.0 Beginner Tutorial

Blender 3.0 Hotkey

Blender Projects Textbook: Blender by Example 2nd Edition

Blender Textbook: The Complete Guide to Blender Graphics: Computer Modeling & Animation 7th Edition by John M. Blain

Best Hardware Performance for Blender Rendering

Assignment 3:

Build a 3D Donut using Blender 3 as shown in these video tutorials.

Assignment 4:

Build a 3D Sword in the Stone using Blender 3 as shown in these video tutorials

Assignment 5:

Build a Viking Scene using Blender 3 as shown in chapter 2 of the Book Blender by Example 2nd Edition

Assignment 6:

Modeling a Time Machine using Blender 3 as shown in chapters 3 and 4 of the Book Blender by Example 2nd Edition

Assignment 7:

Build a Modern Kitchen using Blender 3 as shown in chapters 5, 6, and 7 of the Book Blender by Example 2nd Edition

Assignment 8:

Illustrating an Alien Hero with Grease Pencil as shown in chapter 8 of the Book Blender by Example 2nd Edition

Assignment 9:

Animating an Exquisite Corpse in Grease Pencil as shown in chapter 9 of the Book Blender by Example 2nd Edition

Assignment 10:

Animating a Stylish Short with Grease Pencil as shown in chapter 10 of the Book Blender by Example 2nd Edition

Assignment 11:

Create a Baby Dragon as shown in chapters 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 of the Book Blender by Example 2nd Edition

Module III: Computer Graphics Programming

A Very Gentle Introduction to Computer Graphics Programming

Computer Graphics Textbook: Computer Graphics from Scratch - A Programmer's Introduction to 3D Rendering

Module IV: Learning C# and OpenXR with Unity 2021

Learning C# by Developing Games with Unity 2021

OpenXR

The time to embrace OpenXR is now

Oculus is “All in on OpenXR,” New Developer Features Will Come to OpenXR Only

Unity OpenXR Plugin

Module V: Designing Immersive 3D XR Experiences

Designing XR Textbook: Designing Immersive 3D Experiences - A Designer's Guide to Creating Realistic 3D Experiences for Extended Reality

Module VI: 3D Simulation and Design collaboration with Omniverse, Universal Scene Description (USD) and Python

Part 1: Python

Python Crash Course, 2nd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming

Part 2: Pixar's Universal Scene Description (USD)

Universal Scene Description (USD) is an open source framework developed by Pixar for exchanging 3D computer graphics data across different applications. It is designed to be flexible and extensible to other collaborative environments that run interconnected tools, such as NVIDIA Omniverse. More than a dozen companies from Apple, Nvidia, Adobe, to Unity support USD. The standard is on the cusp of becoming the solder that fuses all sorts of virtual and physical worlds into a metaverse.

Five Things to Know About USD

To 3D and Beyond: Pixar’s USD Coming to an Industry Near You

Watch Introduction to Pixar's Universal Scene Description

What is USD: A Primer

OMNIVERSE DEVELOPER RESOURCE CENTER

Python Crash Course, 2nd Edition: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming

Assignment: Developing a Tetris game with PixarUSD and Python Scripting in Omniverse Kit

Plumbing for the Metaverse with Universal Scene Description (USD)

It started at Pixar. Now it's the Apple-backed 3D file format viewed as HTML of metaverse

USD at Nvidia

USD Official Docs

USD Tutorials

Getting Started with USD for Collaborative 3D Workflows

Outline Introduction

Overview of Pixar USD features and components

Understanding the USD composition

Preparing the Development Environment

Building and installing dependencies and components

Setting the environment variables for Python

Authoring USD

Creating a USD stage

Creating and editing prims

Referencing layers

Converting layers into different USD file formats

Traversing prims in a stage

Creating and editing variants

Applying transformations, animations, layer offsets, and shading

Working with Plugins and Examples

Modifying variant examples in Blender

Generating USD assets from Blender

Modifying USD scenes with Blender

Setting up and using Usdview plugin

Building schema classes

Part 3: Omniverse

OMNIVERSE DEVELOPER RESOURCE CENTER

Assignment: Developing a Tetris game with PixarUSD and Python Scripting in Omniverse Kit

Module VII: Building Avatars for the Metaverse

This module focused to bring ultra realistic humans and creatures to metaverse using machine learning and biomechanics. We will use Ziva tools which has been acquired by Unity for this purpose. We will also use Blender and Unity Character tools.