total beginner need guidance

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Hello,
i am Selim Maalouf, Mechanical Design Engineer at Technica international, and an avid gamer and VR enthusiast.

i own an HTC VIVE and i love it, so i had an idea to merge engineering and the VIVE for Work.

i plan to use Autodesk Inventor Files (company’s CAD program of choice) to import our solutions into a virtual reality simulation to use at trade shows and exhibitions and as a sales tool.

i aim to build a prototype on my own personal time using mockup assets i build with inventor to pitch to the general manager.
what i will use unity 3d with the Virtual Reality Toolkit

i have no knowledge of game development or unity, i code in VB for some engineering applications so i feel i can easily learn C scripting

am i doing this right?

hope to someday be a strong contributor to this community.

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Well, if you already have some experience with VB, C# will be easy to learn. Programming is programming. Concepts from one language will often be useful in another.

For a first step, try to write a simple game where you can press keys on the keyboard to move a box around on the screen. Once you get the basics of stuff like that, it is pretty straight forward.

Here is a link to the Learn section:

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