Work in progress, as always…
A quick (one evening) port of my old Duck Hunt VR game to the Oculus (a.k.a. Meta) Quest 2. Mainly to check what kind of performance I can expect from this device.
The build is still a little rough especially on the light and shading side. Also the mapping of the Zapper (gun) to the Quest 2 controllers needs some polishing, as the trigger is off-center on the physical controllers.
I finally pulled the trigger… I have been considering if I should upgrade my HTC Vive set to a new and shiny Valve Index set. My play (and development) time is very limited with two young kids in the house.
In the end I decided that running a Valve Index HMD on my current GPU (Geforce GTX 1080) would be limiting it severely. And upgrading my GPU is not a fun thing to do at this moment (way more expensive than the full Valve Index set).
So I decided to only buy the Valve Index controllers, and keep on using the original HTC Vive HMD for now.
Now I can finally play Half-Life: Alyx 😍 I was holding out until I had the right gear to experience it “The Way its Meant to be Played”.
I have to say, I needed a little adjusting time (after all the VR hours with the old HTC Vive controllers). But in Half-Life: Alyx these Valve Index controllers really rock! The game is also awesome. It is really cool to be back in the Half-Life universe after all these years 😎
Today I introduced my 2-year-old son to Virtual Reality, exploring the ocean life in “theBlu“.
The HTC Vive is now called the “visjes bril” (a.k.a. fish glasses). The big blue whale seems to be a little intimidating for 2-year-old virtual boys 😉 But they really love the jellyfish 😍
My first little Unity 3D Virtual Reality project, inspired by my old friend the Nintendo Entertainment System. Please keep in mind the I have never used Unity 3D before, so this is my first sandbox application…
Download link to DuckHuntVR Alpha 04: http://tinyurl.com/hb3u42x
This Alpha 04 release incorporated a lot of used feedback from the Vive subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/
In particular the feedback gathered during this live coding session: https://www.reddit.com/r/Vive/comments/4pbx4x/duck_hunt_vr_for_the_htc_vive_alpha_03_this_is_a/
Nice, I made the first batch, and received my HTC Vive today 🙂 So I took half the day off []-)
Pre-ordered a nice upgrade for my Oculus Rift DK2… Took me 8 minutes when the countdown timer hit the 00:00…
Hopefully it was fast enough for the first batch of HTC Vive’s []-)
I’m one prototype late to the virtual reality party, but I received my new cool toy today 🙂
