{"id":7723,"date":"2016-04-26T18:12:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T22:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2019-06-18T23:19:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T03:19:55","slug":"developing-gear-vr-day-0-workshop-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/developing-gear-vr-day-0-workshop-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Samsung Developer Conference: Developers Get Real with Gear VR"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"VR<\/a>

VR Evangelist Dustin Wish helps attendees on Day 0 of the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco\u2019s Moscone Center during the Gear VR: Developing Apps for the Virtual World workshop.<\/p><\/div>\n

APK. UI. SDK. JNI.<\/strong> <\/em>If those acronyms sound foreign to you, don\u2019t worry\u2014you\u2019re not alone. But this is a language easily understood by those attending the \u201cDay 0\u201d hands-on session on developing for the Gear VR at the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

As one of four interactive workshops designed to kick off this year\u2019s conference, Gear VR: Developing Apps for the Virtual World<\/strong> session drew developers from near and far for the opportunity to learn how to build a fully-functioning game app for the Samsung Gear VR<\/a>. Using the Unity game engine as the development platform, the session also served as a how-to guide for setting up the optimal environment for creating VR apps, as well as how developers can publish them in the Oculus Store.<\/p>\n

\"Gear<\/a>

Gear VR: Developing Apps for the Virtual World workshop participants get hands-on practice on developing apps from the best in the industry.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cGear VR is the next big thing for everyone,\u201d said Mark Schoennagel, with Unity.<\/strong> \u201cIt\u2019s mind-boggling what you can do today. Today we\u2019re showing people how to create Gear VR applications, enabling them to get their hands dirty, \u2026 developing apps and learning best practices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Filmmaker and painter, Luska, walked away from the session with a newfound excitement about the possibilities virtual reality could have on her craft.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m trying to combine the elements of game design into VR filmmaking,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

\"Gear<\/a>

Gear VR: Developing Apps for the Virtual World workshop participants get hands-on practice on developing apps from the best in the industry.<\/p><\/div>\n

On top of learning the ins-and-outs of VR app development, five lucky attendees walked away with Samsung Gear VR powered by Oculus headsets\u2014giving them the chance to put the skills they learned during the session to real-world use.<\/p>\n

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APK. UI. SDK. JNI. If those acronyms sound foreign to you, don\u2019t worry\u2014you\u2019re not alone. But this is a language easily understood by those attending the \u201cDay 0\u201d hands-on session on developing for the Gear VR at the Samsung Developer Conference (SDC). As one of four interactive workshops designed to kick off this year\u2019s conference, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":7727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17550,29718],"tags":[259,697],"blue-badge":[],"class_list":["post-7723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-emerging-technology","category-product","tag-gear-vr","tag-samsung-developer-conference-sdc"],"acf":{"turn_off_retargeting":false},"fimg_mobile_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/14185608\/MG_3493-e1461707857257.jpg","fimg_url":"https:\/\/img.us.news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/14185608\/MG_3493-e1461707857257.jpg","primary_category":{"term_id":17550,"name":"Emerging Technology","slug":"product-emerging-technology","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17550,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":29718,"count":307,"filter":"raw","term_link":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/category\/product\/product-emerging-technology\/","term_path":"product\/product-emerging-technology"},"badge":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"blue-badge","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.samsung.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blue-badge?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}