Nice Magnifying Glass Effect!
The guys at EPIC have come through! Forward rendering is INDEED an option! … and of course well done to us! (PS… Sorry about the shiz vid quality…)
The Framework Is Complete!
We now officially support both Vive Wand and Oculus Touch! (sorry Leap Motion, we are a little behind here…). Hypercube VR Framework 0.2.334.6 is now game ready. That means we can start doing fun stuff, instead of working on mechanics …
All Of Your USB Are Belong To Us!
The Rift doesn’t like having things taken away from it, especially USB resources…. Not… one … bit. As a small dev, we have a bunch of 1Tb USB 3 drives for backup… I know… you are going to …
“The Dream”, The first scene…
I recently found a fantastic piece of software that helps me storyboard Project “ENKI”. As a side-effect, it is forcing me to write a novel. It is called “The Novel Factory” and is a brilliantly organized piece of work. This …
Codename “ENKI” – Walpurgis Noir
Here is a screenshot of map 2 from project “ENKI”, rendered by Unreal Engine 4.14.3, with forward rendering and VR optimized.
Thoughts On VR and CVA
It has been a long time since I have made an update. Suffice to say that my Father had a CVA event (Cerebrovascular Accident or Stroke). I have since looked into white paper research concerning the uses of …
Thank You Oculus For Keeping DK2 support
My father had a stroke around two weeks ago. He lives in Scotland, I live in the U.S. (Florida). I am going across to visit him in the rehab center. He has motor issues and cannot speak correctly, although he …
The Early Days of 3D Shooter Sickness
I had almost forgotten about this… When the first DOOM shareware was released on December 10th, 1993, I spent hours trying to download it from BBS’s. iD software had taken their “3D” engine tech to another level! I had my …
Codename “Enki”
I think in order to get people into a VR experience, the start to that experience/game should be a “hall” where they can experience the essential atmosphere of what is to come. Using our hybrid locomotion techniques, we have completed …
To Move Or Not To Move…
Developing a VR framework in UnReal Engine 4 Developing a VR framework that can be re-purposed to anything we wish has been a journey of fits and starts, especially with regards to user input devices. Initially, when Oculus released their …