Second Life and Virtual Worlds
VoidPointer Linden is telling us Oculus Rift support is now feature complete. We should see it release Linden ‘soon’. Apparently he is one of the ones working on Oculus and the Viewer. If you are not using Oculus then there is no apparent change to the viewer. When asked Void answered things look ‘really’ cool. … Read more
Numerous people are working on Virtual Reality projects. Here is an example of where one team is. [youtube B_JpcmSEGzw] They might have gotten further ahead if they had used Second Life. The world would definitely have looked better.
Another update to the CtrlAltStudio Viewer is out. See: Alpha 5: Configurable Walk Speed and Kinect Control. This is the viewer that offers normal, stereoscopic 3D, and Oculus Rift viewer modes. Now it offers an interface for Kinect. Also added is a walking speed adjustment. All of these are neat additions to the basic Firestorm … Read more
If you have never played a Cyan Worlds made game you have missed out. They do highly immersive games with incredible graphics. When they made the hit game Myst, it pushed people to buy CD drives, which I understand were a ‘new thing’ at the time. People were blown away by the high quality graphics. … Read more
Check out the castAR VR system. This is now a funded, but still open, Kickstarter project. [youtube RmHHGOBOUWA] This is the one-ups-manship that the free market creates. This combines Oculus, Google Glasses, and shutter glasses. I’m not sure about the claim of no motion sickness. I think that is likely true in the AR mode. … Read more
Inara and Hamlet have just written about Cloud Party and Oculus. I am happy to see that Cloud Party is thinking Oculus Rift. But… really!?! In a web browser? If you saw my previous post you know that browser-makers are dropping plugins. Right now they can’t drop all of them because the replacement, HTML5, is … Read more