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[Content poll] More VR?

  • Yes! 21
  • No, not interested. 83
  • 2018-09-05
  • —2018-09-12
  • 104 votes
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Content

Hi everyone,

As I mentioned in the monthly briefing, I wanted to poll this.

Poll is pretty straightforward, if you have a VR headset or some other means of watching these images properly, and would like to see more, you know what to do ;)

If there's enough of you, I'll definitely consider working on more than a few or single piece a month!

Comments

Lorien Wright

Quick query, does the VR operate like sitting inside a spherical stereoscopic image, or does it have limited 6 degrees of freedom?

Hentaibee

Hmmm..nope. Animation and flat 3d preffered next few years.

balloondolls

Yes, from my understanding you can pretty much look around without any hindrance (from the source point since it's a still)

Leslael

In short... i have no VR glasses... so I think it is a loss of time as most of us probably dont have one.

Jake

I work with vr and would love to help if you need unity tips/pointers

SirValiant

Yep you can rotate over x / y axis. The images are 360 stereoscopic. Imagine your are in an office chair, you can swivel and then see a different part of the image. Or look up or down etc. No positional tracking, though, its not like a game or anything, as BD says its viewed from a fixed point in space. I guess that would make it 2 degrees of freedom? I don't remember tilting being tracked, but I could be wrong on that, or was a limitation of the software I was using (Steam VR).

Adam Plantz

While I don't have a VR headset and no plans for one right now, this might be something that would encourage me to get one. I'd say to continue to play around with it but probably don't put too much time into now as most people are probably not equipped to experience it.

balloondolls

Hey Jake thanks! Haven't looked at unity in years but it definitely seems to have grown up quite a bit

Jake

Could be as easy as just dropping an animated or non animated model into a unity scene, adding a vr camera controller plugin, and then hopping in. Depends on the size/complexity of the model :) Have a HTC Vive, and the hp mixed reality headset so can test for you no worries

Brittany Bovine

Honestly, I think the VR is neat, but I have no way to look at it, and, unless it's a video, I don't really see the point of looking at a static image in VR. If I did, I would be 100% down, but like Hentaibee said, I'd rather see animation and flat 3D for now. :)

SirValiant

Does Unity let you export as an Android apk that could work on Google Cardboard? I'm guessing that would be what most people who want to try out vr would have access to.

Jake

It does yeah. Would be fun if it could be built as an exe too for steamvr. Would love to walk around one of the models! But stereoscopic 360 images can also be done in unity. I think the 3d scene is maybe even easier though!