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 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 …

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 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 …

Jul 11 2018WebVR Pong

~ 1 Minute Read.

Two blog posts ago I mentioned a WebVR game we were making for the Virtuleap WebXR Competition at Vhite Rabbit.

“WebVR Pong” is a multiplayer game we wrote in C++ with the Magnum Graphics Middleware and compiled it to web assembly using Emscripten. Like the name suggests …