More research

VR

There are lots of desktop software that allows you to do VR at home on your own laptop/desktop, this means that people don’t need to go to higher education to learn these skills. 

Unity 3D is an app that is used to create VR games and is quickly becoming the default tool for VR development due to its ease of use and ability to quickly prototype VR applications with it. Unity 3D is free for personal use, so it is very accessible to people that want to learn how to make VR. 

Blender is also another piece of software that is quickly becoming a favourite modeler for many VR developers. It’s free and open source software written in Python and is available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. There’s a huge community of people devoted to this software and its use. Many websites provide tutorial videos, forums, and documentation. 

Owning VR device has even become more accessible and cheaper in the past years, with the release of the PlayStation VR, and it being only £299.99 to buy (not including the costs of the PS4). 

With the raise of these software’s and devices means that people can now learn and produce VR products at home without going to higher education to learn this skill. 

I found plenty of online tutorials on making VR applications such as.
https://developer.oculus.com/documentation/unity/latest/concepts/unity-tutorial/
https://makezine.com/2016/03/24/makers-introduction-vr-best-software-tools-free/

Online courses

This is happening with lots of different technology that someone would have to go to University to learn, they can now learn at home, for a lot cheaper than going to University.  There are now loads of different websites where you can do online courses, in lots of different mediums. 

I looked at a website called ‘Online Academics’. I found a course for ‘Game design’ on this website, it was 12 months long, and gave you an ‘Online Academics Certified Diploma’ and is £159.99 payment in full for the whole course. 

Within the course you will: 

-      Use Unity 3D to create your own mobile game

-      Understand the key principles of game design

-      Work with a variety of different mobile platforms

-      Program and refine your game

-      Release your game into the world through Apple, Google and Windows app stores

Course features:

-      Adaptive technology for a personalised learning experience

-      Course content written from real-life experience by experts in the field

-      Content can be accessed via any platform (mobile, tablet, computer), at anytime
 
Update! I went back so I could reference the website, and they completely changed it.