Road to the Metaverse – Workshop 2: Prepare your digital assets for real-time 3D, AR and VR

Volumetric video, photogrammetry, data preparation — learn all the metaverse-building elements and so much more.
Here’s a sneak peak of what you’ll take away from the full length webinar:

In our latest Road to the Metaverse workshop, Prepare your digital assets for real-time 3D, Unity senior technical specialists Ben Radcliffe and Jerome Maurey-Delaunay showcase the fundamentals of building immersive worlds, tools to capture real-world objects, and how to import popular data formats in Unity.

Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll learn from this workshop:

• Managing asset workflows
• Capturing physical objects using photogrammetry tools
• Preparing and optimizing data
• How to build a scene in Unity

Timestamps:

• 1:57 - Metaverse stories
• 4:02 - Asset resources
• 8:29 - Digital assets
• 22:31 - Package Manager
• 30:04 - gITF
• 35:50 - Photogrammetry
• 38:19 - Physical assets: Image capture
• 41:04 - Physical assets: Volumetric video
• 50:53 - Data preparation and performance optimization
• 1:11:45 - Data preparation with Unity Asset Transformer Studio, formerly known as Pixyz Studio
• 1:26:17 - Live demo: Visual scripting

Want to learn more about the metaverse? Check out Unity’s on-demand professional training or connect with a Unity expert for a personal demo and to get your questions answered.

Meet your hosts

Ben works with Unity's creator communities to advance the art and science of storytelling and digital transformation through the use of real-time 3D technology. He has over 20 years of experience creating location-based entertainment, animation, and visual effects for companies such as Disney, Lucasfilm, and Industrial Light & Magic, as well as transportation design and visualization for Gulfstream and Bombardier.

Jerome acts as an ambassador for Unity's growth into new industries, specifically automotive, transportation and manufacturing. He has two decades of experience building interactive user experiences across web, extended reality (XR), installations, mobile and embedded devices for brands such as Tata, Airbus, and Panasonic Avionics, as well as architectural visualization apps for Herzog & de Meuron and Zaha Hadid Architects.

Drew is a Unity ambassador showcasing the latest in virtual reality and augmented reality innovations from Unity. Coming from Finger Food ATG (now Unity Accelerate Solutions), where he presented to prospective customers across multiple industries and spoke at a variety of key industry events, Drew is a key player in telling the Unity story.