Who here has half-finished VR projects?

Not half-finished, just slow progress :) Having kids, house and a full time job makes it hard to get any time over for coding VR. I can't discuss any details of my projects but I'm looking at how we can use VR to improve healthcare. I think VR has great potential in this field.

I think this is an important discussion to have, but more from a open source perspective: share the knowledge gathered during painstakingly long debugging sessions for VR!

We all have mind-blowing projects for VR, but so far nothing is open source.

Why I think it's that way; the benefits of collaboration are often poorer than linear. (In the future there might not be employees, but only people collaborating at a distance with extremely distinct interfaces between them):

In my case: audio, copy, program and test.

I don't believe in having more than one person on one task.

I'm contemplating making my project open source; after it's released, but it's not clear yet.

I'm trying this new thing of letting things take the time they need; I even waste time to let things mature.

I only have one guide: work a little on the project each day; but don't force it, if it doesn't come naturally.

Every now and then i get stuck working on my current projects, so rather than get frustrated i play often around with other stuff to see what works and what doesnt in VR, not so much unfinished projects, but im a bit of a tinkerer and have a lot of old non VR 3d models and scenes that i bring into unity to see how it looks, sometimes i buy things from the asset store to check out how other people structure their projects and i often throw a OVR camera in there for fun :)
Below is just a small selection of things ive converted for VR.

This is an unfinished Synagogue by Louis Khan who never got to build it before he died, i lovingly recreated it from blueprints. The way all the arches and structures line up and frame each other is quite fascinating.


A small Japanese house


Human body with X-Ray shaders, this looks quite cool in VR, coding it into something educational might take more time and effort than i have though.


Inside a cell, with this i wanted to split a music track up into individual elements, and apply a different instrument to each of the parts, so as you fly around the soundscape changes and feels alive.


A cave environment put together from the asset store, quite cool, but oh so claustrophobic.



Floating islands that you have to traverse with thin planks, not for people with a fear of heights.


An Egyptian scene


An island that i was doing early vegetation scattering on using rule based distribution (ie, if theres water, dont grow)


The solar system a was playing around with until a certain someone created a phenomenal demo.
(not looking at anyone in particular DRASH!)


A Roman bath, very simple but nice and atmospheric


A scifi spaceship from the asset store, would make a nice stage for a horror, except i seem to hate horror in the rift....


Ant sized prototype, this was quite cool actually despite the crappy models, looking up at giant clovers and house sized insects was awesome.




A medieval town with stuff from the asset store, very cool, but the thought of creating a story and NPC`s made me put this into the too hard basket


If anyone wants to see any of this, give me a shout, and i might do a build of it and put it up.

"basedeltazero" wrote:
Every now and then i get stuck working on my current projects, so rather than get frustrated i play often around with other stuff to see what works and what doesnt in VR, not so much unfinished projects, but im a bit of a tinkerer and have a lot of old non VR 3d models and scenes that i bring into unity to see how it looks, sometimes i buy things from the asset store to check out how other people structure their projects and i often throw a OVR camera in there for fun :)
If anyone wants to see any of this, give me a shout, and i might do a build of it and put it up.

Well, I like all of them, but that'd take a while to do. If you can re-create the floating islands, I would be willing to make a small $5 donation for your efforts.

"mhz" wrote:
Not half-finished, just slow progress :) Having kids, house and a full time job makes it hard to get any time over for coding VR. I can't discuss any details of my projects but I'm looking at how we can use VR to improve healthcare. I think VR has great potential in this field.

That sounds tough. I hope to see your work someday -- I am extremely interested to see what can result from VR+healthcare.

"rupy" wrote:
I think this is an important discussion to have, but more from a open source perspective: share the knowledge gathered during painstakingly long debugging sessions for VR!

I hear you on this. I also think there is a tension between wanting to give things away vs building a career in VR -- in some cases they can't overlap. Monetization of VR in order to put food on the table (and to be able to afford a house near my parents in my case). Fortunately there are already a ton of resources out there for game design, user interface ideas, and game engine tutorials to get people started.

@basedeltazer0 -- whoa! That's some portfolio of unfinished projects. :) All of them are awesome. Maybe a few hours a week you can put some laser focus on one unfinished project and get it out the door. Drain that backlog and let people see how talented you are!

I keep trying to build a full motion and skeletal tracked version of the RedRovr redirected walking system - but unfortunately I keep getting side tracked by trade shows, SDK releases, and hardware prototypes. Ironically - I don't have much time for VR these days.

I created a blog post about the projects I wanted to work on.

• Homeworld port


• Celestia port (Github repo)


• Stellarium port


• Kindle-like text browser and reading application (video)


• XBMC-like video browser and viewer application


• Augumented virtuality: the Iron Man HUD(video)

I actually keep meaning to turn it into top level page and keep it updated with additional ideas and projects, but I never seem to find the time or organizational skills even for that.

I'm also kind of stuck in mid development of my game. I don't even have a DK1, so while I'm developing with rift in mind, it's really hard to imagine what the game will look like in the Rift. I have an early dk2 preorder so I really hope it will arrive soon.
If someone with a Rift wants to try it out and provide some feedback, please PM me.

basedeltazero, I love your artwork, you gotta do something with that ant thing, that would be awesome.

my half done project there's a link to in my signature. I'm working on it practically whenver I can, Planning a DK2 demo. Anybody else planning on making a DK2 demo when the new SDK is ready? I'll probably have to wait till August to release it though wouldn't want to release it without testing it properly.

@jherico, I like the projects you've wanted to port. :)

@brantlew, bummer. I hope you get more time for your own VR experiments!

@rickdangerous, your game looks neat. The "remote flashlight" approach is genius and really plays with shadows in a big way. Feel free to PM me with a build anytime, and I'll give you feedback.

@molton, looking forward to your DK2 demo!