Jul 24 2018Building Magnum with Emscripten on Windows

~ 3 Minute Read.

At Vhite Rabbit I’ve been using Magnum to build Emscripten based web projects for quite a while. Since the Oculus Rift constrains me to Windows for development and sometimes things are hard to set up there, I hereby share the way to compile Magnum with Emscripten …

Jul 23 2018WebVR Pong Visual Overhaul

~ 1 Minute Read.

One of the most requested changes for WebVR Pong was transparent paddles. While I argued for a while that having to guess where the ball is adds to the game’s difficulty, I quickly gave in, especially with Florian pushing for it as well.

And they were …

Jul 22 2018Magnum Oculus SDK Example

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Quite a while ago (in 2015) I contributed my first example to Magnum: the Oculus SDK Integration Example.

This example demonstrates how to use the acompanying Oculus SDK Integration, a wrapper around the Oculus Desktop SDK to make rendering for the Oculus Rift easier with Magnum.

I …

Jul 21 2018Not So Daily?

~ 3.5 Minute Read.

I posted five posts in the last eight days. I missed the first one on the 13th of July, on which I attended my last KNIME [1] Summer Party and had an other thing on my mind that I will write about eventually. I wasn’t …

Jul 19 2018Inhouse Logfile Analytics Email

~ 5 Minute Read.

I recently mentioned that I wrote a script to do some inhouse apache log file analytics to supervise trafic on my blog. I love python for this kind of quick scripting stuff, so here is how I did that with pandas, jinja2 and python standard libraries.

Jul 17 2018VR in Public

~ 2 Minute Read.

I was confronted with an interesting situation recently: since I show around WebVR Pong everywhere, I brought a Gear VR along with me to a dinner to show my father and brothers.

While I am totally used to wearing some VR headset anywhere, my father seemed rather …

Jul 16 2018In Denial of my Inner Data Scientist

~ 1.5 Minute Read.

After working on the KNIME Analytics Platform and KNIME Image Processing extensions for over five years as a student employee, I somehow passively aqcuired some data science knowledge without ever expressing real interest for it.

I am a computer graphics guy. That’s what I love …

Jul 14 2018How to WebXR in July 2018

~ 5 Minute Read.

With WebVR Pong I ventured into an unfinished web API and since I had never gotten in touch with javascript much, I had to learn a couple of things that may be natural to the webdevs amongst you.

Note that I come from a WebVR use case …