Jul 29 2018VR Escape Room: Rendering

~ 4 Minute Read.

This is the third post in a series about the virtual reality escape room project I did together with Daniel Bogenrieder and Roxanne Low at the University of Konstanz.

Jul 28 2018VR Escape Room: Redirected Walking

~ 4:30 Minute Read.

This is the second post in a series about the virtual reality escape room project I did together with Daniel Bogenrieder and Roxanne Low at the University of Konstanz.

Jul 27 2018Building a Virtual Reality Escape Room

~ 6 Minute Read.

Today I had my final presentation of a virtual reality escape room project I did at the University of Konstanz. Together with Daniel Bogenrieder and Roxanne Low, we built this project in the Unity Engine, using a variety of technology: Leap Motion, the HTC Vive Pro, redirected …

Jul 26 2018Looking Up

< 1 Minute Read.

In the previous post I wrote about how you behave differently around people “above your level”, i.e. the people you look up to.

One of the things that helps me get them “on my level” from my perspective is realizing that most of these people had …

Jul 25 2018On the Same Level

~ 2 Minute Read.

You know how you sometimes meet people who are just “on the same level” as you are? Today I had a super interesting conversation with a collegue of mine and it turned out she has pretty much the same mindset as I have. [1] Additionally she brought …

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

< 1 Minute Read.

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 …