Learning

How steep is the learning curve for the students and various challenges

One of the trickiest things with learning VR is understanding the polycounts of models and optimizing them so that the hardware can support the work done.

The courses are focused on creating outcomes and they lack educating students about basic user research and user testing which impacts their projects overall. I wouldn't call it difficult. It is annoying. It is a very long process. It is 150 steps just to set up the basic interactions. The UI of the softwares is really bad, it takes days just to understand the software. Just to get to 5% you have to put in your 100%.

There are atlernatives like Spatial and Decentral where coding isn't required but it does not have any interactions and tech is still developing.

Understanding AR VR is not difficult but to make something on software you need patience and problem solving mentality.