
Start the road toward becoming a VR developer
This certification is designed for anyone who has foundational skills in both Unity and C# programming. With this certification, you can show postsecondary programs and employers that you’ve taken your first step toward mastering the foundations of creating VR experiences with Unity.
What’s on the exam?
You can expect to see questions across the following topics.
Download the full list of what’s covered on the Unity Certified User: VR Developer exam below.
VR Project Setup
- Implement package management to enable VR
- Configure project settings according to VR platform requirements
- Determine the appropriate rendering pipeline
- Identify appropriate Unity object scale
Interaction
- Understand Unity VR best practices for UI
- Determine the components needed for a user to physically manipulate objects
- Understand types of head tracking and degrees of movement in VR equipment
- Apply appropriate locomotion techniques
- Explain the use of spatialized sound and how to implement it
Optimization
- Given a scenario, determine how to optimize a texture
- Identify the effect of poly count on runtime
- Identity the effect of particles and visual effects on runtime
- Identity the effect of lighting and shadows on runtime
- Predict the effect of latency to the user experience
Learn and practice
These tools will help you prepare to pass this certification.
Unity Learn platform
Advance your Unity skills with over 750 hours of free, on-demand learning content and live learning sessions. Check out the following courses on Unity Learn:
Courseware
Learn to design and develop your own virtual reality (VR) applications with the Unity Certified User: VR Developer courseware.
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