👉Recommended Resources

Unity Integration with Github Mark Young :: YouTube (this is a series)

Recommended Books Non-fiction

• The VR Book: Human Centered Design for Virtual Reality by Jason Jerald, PH.D.

• Disruption: Emerging Technologies and the Future of Work by Victor del Rosal

• Storytelling for Virtual Reality: Methods and Principles for Crafting Immersive Narratives by John Bucher

• Marketing New Realities: An Introduction to Virtual Reality & Augmented Reality Marketing, Branding, & Communications by Cathy Hackl and Samantha G. Wolfe

• Understanding Virtual Reality: Interface, Application and Design, By William R. Sherman and Alan B. Craig

• Hamlet on the Holodeck, by Janet Murray

Speculative Fiction

• Ready Player One: A Novel by Ernest Cline

• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson

• Neuromancer by William Gibson

• Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge

• He, She and It by Marge Piercy

• Pygmalion's Spectacles by Stanley G. Weinbaum

Recommended Science Fiction Films

• Welt am Draht (World on a Wire) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

• Brainstorm directed by Douglas Trumbull

• Total Recall directed by Paul Verhoeven

• Until the End of the World directed by Wim Wenders

• The Lawnmower Man directed by Brett Leonard

• Strange Days directed by Katherine Bigelow

• Johnny Mnemonic directed by Robert Longo

• The Matrix directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski

• eXistenZ directed by David Cronenberg

• Ready Player One directed by Steven Spielberg

Recommended Television

• Star Trek: The Next Generation, the holodeck
• Black Mirror, episodes San Junipero and Striking Vipers

Recommended VR Showcases

• Rlab. https://www.rlab.nyc/
• “Tribeca Immersive.” Tribeca Film Festival. https://www.tribecafilm.com/immersive
• “XR.” SXSW. https://www.sxsw.com/conference/xr/
• “XR For Change.” Games for Change. http://festival.gamesforchange.org/festival-xr-for-change
• “VR/AR Award.” The Lumen Prize. https://lumenprize.com/award/vrar-award/

Recommended Resources for Creative Process

• Fair Use Media (images / audio /video)

  • http://creativecommons.org
  • https://www.pond5.com/
• Royalty-Free sound

  • http://freesound.org
  • http://freemusicarchive.org
  • http://ccmixter.org
  • http://soundbible.com
  • http://www.audioblocks.com
  • http://incompetech.com
• Creative Commons Video

  • http://archive.org