Author Alvin Wan

December 5, 2019 — In this tutorial, you will write the game mechanics for a virtual reality game, which is closely coupled with the real-time multiplayer elements of the game. Read more…

August 20, 2019 — In this first part of the series, you will learn how to create a virtual reality scene with interactive game elements. These game elements can later be used for a fully-fledged, multiplayer VR game. Read more…

March 20, 2019 — In this final part of Alvin’s tutorial, the finishing touches will be added to the endless runner VR game. These will pave the way for concepts in building multiplayer games. Read more…

March 13, 2019 — If you’ve ever wondered how games with keyboard-less support for VR headsets are built, then this tutorial explains just what you’re looking for. Here’s how you too can bring a basic, functioning VR game to life. Read more…

March 6, 2019 — Virtual reality (VR) is an experience based in a computer-generated environment, and following Alvin’s introduction to programming in VR, this article series aims to introduce more VR concepts in the context of building a game. Read more…

November 6, 2018 — In this tutorial, Alvin Wan will program three-dimensional objects and add simple interactions to these objects. Additionally, you can learn how to build a simple message passing system between clients and servers. He will specifically focus on point-and-click adventure games. Such games are a casual class of games; the goal is to point and click on objects in the scene, to finish a puzzle. You will build a simple version of such a game but in virtual reality. Read more…

September 7, 2018 — What are the fundamentals of machine learning, and what are the necessary tools to evaluate risk and other concerns in a machine learning application? The goal of machine learning is to find patterns in data and use those patterns to make predictions. In this article, Alvin Wan will cover everything you need to get started. By the end, you should have an understanding of how to advance your practice and study of machine learning. Let’s begin! Read more…

August 29, 2018 — how can we detect the moment you and your phone are in the kitchen, or bedroom, or living room? With today’s commodity hardware, there are a myriad of possibilities: In this tutorial, Alvin Wan will show you how to build a desktop app that predicts which room you’re in using a simple machine learning algorithm: least squares. The code applies to any platform, but we only provide dependency installation instructions for Mac OSX. Read more…