CITH Workshop: Deploying the Unity Open XR Demo Scene to the HTC Vive Focus

CITH kicks off its workshop series with artist and ARTSLab Graduate assistant Ella Pigg.

October 27, 2025

In this inaugural workshop, Ella walks us through the basic mechanics of the HTC VIVE Focus Vision headset, controllers, and hand tracking. We build and deploy the VIVE Open XR Sample Scene from Unity to the headset and cover optimal project and build settings, package management for building XR applications to the Focus Vision headset, as well as basic editing for the application scene.

CITH Workshop: Deploying the Unity Open XR Demo Scene to the HTC Vive Focus
Presenter: Ella Pigg

Tools and Technologies Covered in this Workshop

Unity
OpenXR
VR

Watch more CITH tutorials on ARTSLab’s YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@unmartslab

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