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Anonymous
April 12, 2013
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Virtual Oculus Lounge

Is anybody interested in hanging out in an Oculus Rift Virtual Lounge?
I've been kicking the idea around.

It is incredibly easy to just hop in and create rooms using something like the unity bootcamp photon networking demo
but I was wondering what would make this special enough for folks to actually use to interact and hang out together
in a virtual space.

For the demo I'm talking about, reference
"Mirrored Reality - Prototyping Unity Soldier Networking More"
viewtopic.php?f=29&t=157

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    Dakor
    Participant
    April 13, 2013
    You might want to check out the Virtual Cinema / Conference room / Lounge from Namielus:
    viewtopic.php?f=29&t=316

    In an other Forum he speculation about adding an Virtual Arcade as well, its allready pretty impressive to my mind :)
    Writer for Bloculus.de the German Virtual Reality Developer Blog Professional software developer for VR, Collector of old Gaming Hardware
    Anonymous
    April 14, 2013
    Yes, we're already talking about it. I've followed his stuff for quite a while.
    However, what this would be is specifically a VR room for Oculus VR chat and discussion.
    Krisper
    Up and Coming
    April 14, 2013
    I would love to have a place to log in and chat with other Rift owners.
    360FOV
    Up and Coming
    April 26, 2013
    Here is the ultimate Virtual Oculus Lounge - especially if they have it so you can set up private areas.

    http://www.roadtovr.com/2013/04/25/second-life-oculus-rift-support-5264?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=second-life-oculus-rift-support
    “My ally is the Force. Life creates it, makes it grow. It’s energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we…not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock…everywhere!"
    Aodh
    Participant
    April 26, 2013
    would like to see hydra support here for avatars. would replace emoticons.
    360FOV
    Up and Coming
    April 26, 2013
    Adding some kind of face recognition to the Rift that could detect emotion and transfer it to the avatar model would really increase immersion!
    “My ally is the Force. Life creates it, makes it grow. It’s energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we…not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock…everywhere!"
    mdk
    Up and Coming
    April 26, 2013
    "harleycw" wrote:
    Is anybody interested in hanging out in an Oculus Rift Virtual Lounge?
    I've been kicking the idea around.


    The same idea occurred to me after seeing this forum area. If someone is doing this I could help by doing some art assets.
    geekmaster
    Up and Coming
    June 23, 2013
    Namielus just started his indegogo funding campaign about an hour ago.

    Namielus' Oculus Virtual Lounge:
    http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/virtuaview/x/3696649

    I was his first backer, and I created this image, that anybody can add to their forum signature:
    VirtuaView.jpg
    You can use this code in your User Profile Signature:
    Namielus' Oculus Virtual Lounge:
    [url=http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/virtuaview/x/3696649][img]https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/download/file.php?id=379[/img][/url]

    He needs our help. Let's support this project! :D

    UPDATE: There is a new smaller image and signature code block (as requesting by a thread owner) here:
    viewtopic.php?f=24&t=401&p=24855#p24855
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    Peejle
    Up and Coming
    June 23, 2013
    I fully support the overall concept and I will back it... When the avatars are better.
    Floating heads and floating hands aren't up to par when compared to the many examples of full body avatars on the forum including shadows and arms. When the project matches that or a better implementation I'm in.

    Peejle
    geekmaster
    Up and Coming
    June 23, 2013
    "Peejle" wrote:
    I fully support the overall concept and I will back it... When the avatars are better.
    Floating heads and floating hands aren't up to par when compared to the many examples of full body avatars on the forum including shadows and arms. When the project matches that or a better implementation I'm in.

    Peejle

    I like to encourage people up front when I can afford it. They WizDish is a bit out of my price range when I am not sure it will work for me. But the Oculus Virtual Lounge is not that expensive, and early support will HELP it grow into what you want.

    When looking for it earlier I found this thread, but I see now it has its own thread here (under a different name):
    viewtopic.php?f=29&t=316
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