Virtual Reality & Unity setup for beginners.

Bharath N
3 min readAug 26, 2021

As a beginner, when you want to start your career as a VR developer, then you have to know about what actually is VR.

VR is a area where a Player or User will be interacting with the virtual environment using electronic devices such as HTC Vice, Oculus etc.

To develop a VR application the most commonly used engines are

  1. Unity Engine — for beginners.
  2. Unreal Engine

Make sure that you have unity account, before downloading.

You can download the Unity engine from the https://unity.com/

Click on Get Started.

Choose Individual > Personal > Get started

> Start here

> Agree and download.

and the unity will start downloading. When the download completes search for Unity Hub in the search bar, the unity hub will opens

On the left select the installs, in the top right click on ADD

Select the version > NEXT

Click on DONE, that will install Unity of required version and Packages.

Come back to Unity Hub and select the Projects on the top right Click on the NEW

Give a Project Name and Select the folder location where you want to store your Unity projects and Click on CREATE.

This will create a Unity Project for you.

The Unity editor will opens automatically after creating the project.

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