Node-oversdk lets web developers create Rift games
I've been working on a rift demo using an amazing library by wwwtyro, node-ovrsdk, and my mind is somewhat blown at the opportunities that this library opens up.
This library allows you to create Rift games with javascript, and its server implementation, node. This means you can leverage the many libraries that exist for javascript, some of which include:
Mumble: https://github.com/Rantanen/node-mumble
X-box controller: https://github.com/andrew/node-xbox-controller
Speech recognition: https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js
Voxel Worlds: http://voxeljs.com/
Audio: http://www.jsdb.io/audio/?sort=rating
Real-Time Data: https://www.firebase.com/
And of course, you'll need the popular WebGL library: http://threejs.org/
wwwtyro has already made one game using node-oversdk, and has released a tutorial to get you started. If you're like me, coming from the web development world, you've got to check his work out. I've gotten farther in two days using this than I did in one month with Unreal.
This library allows you to create Rift games with javascript, and its server implementation, node. This means you can leverage the many libraries that exist for javascript, some of which include:
Mumble: https://github.com/Rantanen/node-mumble
X-box controller: https://github.com/andrew/node-xbox-controller
Speech recognition: https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js
Voxel Worlds: http://voxeljs.com/
Audio: http://www.jsdb.io/audio/?sort=rating
Real-Time Data: https://www.firebase.com/
And of course, you'll need the popular WebGL library: http://threejs.org/
wwwtyro has already made one game using node-oversdk, and has released a tutorial to get you started. If you're like me, coming from the web development world, you've got to check his work out. I've gotten farther in two days using this than I did in one month with Unreal.