Oh man, so nervous and so excited to be heading into the last weeks of Launch Pad! I've certainly learned a lot through trial and error with my time in Unity these past few weeks! Earlier this week I deployed my first test OSIG file to my Samsung and...
So last week I was complaining about the vehicular traffic simulation not working. It turns out that after porting the scenes, I had forgotten to update the Physics Manager's collision matrix with the correct settings. This determines which game obje...
Hi Launchpadders!If we didn't get the chance to meet in person, my name is Ashton Kennedy. I'm a filmmaker with 8 years of (2D) video production experience in LA and Dallas. I am currently working on my MBA and have been focusing my studies on innova...
The OVRProfile utility should be able to get information about the user's preferences.I want the user's name.Does anyone have this working?After calling TriggerLoad() the OVRProfile enters the LOADING state briefly then enters the ERROR state.Here is...
I’m not impressed with the quality of text rendering on the Gear VR in the apps that I have tried so far. The text has to be really big to be legible - any insights on how to make smaller font sizes look good? I'm using text elements within a Canvas ...
Hey all! This week, I decided that I wanted to spend a little more time redefining my experience and the result of that was that I've gone ahead and started teaching myself the basics of Blender to make my own assets for my experience. The hodgepodge...
We hit two major milestones in our #OculusLaunchpad prototype project: We tested a new slider with our VR 360 Camera, which went very well and we also did a first cut of two prototypes which we were able to view in Oculus GearVR to assess our shootin...
I'm FREAKING OUT! Invited a gaming tech guru and a game producer friend over for dinner to discuss my game and get some tips. I learned that I'm STILL not ready to show a producer for help with time frames and budgets. The only feedback I received wa...
Hi gang!Weeks 7 and 8 have been slower going than I was hoping. I'm finding my project to be harder and harder the more I move away from pre-viz to actual development in Blender and Unity. For TLE to look polished it's really going to need a few extr...
My collaborator Cyril who will be designing this in Unity, hit the tutorials and thinks it is "daunting" but doable. He reviewed the Game Design document (bless him) and did not quit (bless him again.) I spent this week cutting out little paper objec...
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Hi guys!I'm a couple days behind posting my Update, sorry about that! Flew to Sweden on Monday and am just getting to it now.Overall, it’s been a great week building my foundation elements in Unity finally! I’m having trouble loading video here for s...
I spent the past week attempting to port PHOBOS to the Android Platform. It wasn't easy and extremely slow. As I reported last week, the first attempt at porting simply didn't work (and the whole project was around 8 GB). So after being frustrated a ...
I am curating a 5 hour afternoon of digital poetry, prose, and performances at The Kitchen, a renowned experimental art/performance space in NYC on September 10th from 1-6. It is free and open to the public. If you are in NYC, please come by! This af...
I'm a little late in posting week 8's update but that is because I was surprised how painfully slow converting a project designed for Oculus Rift from the getgo (currently 8 GB) to GearVR is. I've pretty much followed what this guy did: https://www.y...
I've been spending some time over the past several weeks working on a project that didn't feel like it really had much promise, in addition to just diving deeper into more work with Unity around inputs, learning a bit about networking, and actually b...
These weeks are combined b/c I was at Comic Con for almost a week, so there was nothing going on (except trying the new Stan Lee VR comic series, which is super cool).My daughter did the cutest concept art for me for my game. One of the characters is...
We're at our third week for our VR dev of ROM! This week was spent exchanging ideas on how we wanted to test VR specifically in the confines of our game, and decided to work on making a recreation of our first room in-game!When we designed the backgr...
I was feeling good about the work I had accomplished this week, until I came here to type it up and started reading about other's progress. I feel like such a NOOB. CANNOT give into Imposter Syndrome! Shifted into the GDD section that lays out what a...
I've been working on a lot of development practice in Unity over the past week(s) in preparation for a big push to get work done on my LaunchPad projects. A few things that I've done recently:Worked on options for converting existing Unity games / pa...
I fleshed out my characters further this week, and I think they're all set (except I might swap a few genders after reading this article in WIGI's newsletter today:Where are all of the video game moms). http://www.polygon.com/features/2Had a GREAT me...
Has anyone had success creating 360 videos and using unity to create some interaction? I'm mainly looking at gazed based interaction where the viewer can look at a "hotspot" and go into a different video.
So it was a hard last couple of weeks to stay focused with everything that’s been going on in the States. Minnesota, Baton Rouge, Dallas. It’s been difficult every day to be on social media, to watch cable news, and see your feed and your TV get over...
Hey everyone- Here are some updates on the experiences we've been working on! (From our blog- if you want to see the videos that go alongside this check out the full post by clicking on the title below!)July Updates: Breathing, Flying, Biofeedback an...
Alright, this has been a week of technical difficulties, which is fine, that's how you know you're making stuff!Basically I've been trying to mock up a room prototype that is *exceedingly* simple by design, and still issues. Right this moment Unity i...
I've recently learned first hand how difficult it is to try and work full time and have that side hustle, at least for my particular circumstances. I've been teaching at a tech summer camp for the past month at UCLA/UCSD. It's fun, challenging, and I...
I've just made a Google form for gathering helpful results of usability test. Here is the link of the form.https://goo.gl/GQ6bEKBefore starting prototype test, please read the following scripts for you to understand the purpose of my test.Thank you v...
I sketched storyboard and design rough wireframes of my prototype design based on the last UX development (the following link.)https://forums.oculus.com/developer/discussion/40255/digitized-ux-design-and-presentation#latestSince my UX design progress...
I'm starting a video series called "Conversations with Friends" It is an informal interview with a friend who works in AR/VR/MR and we talk about aesthetic philosophy and the future of immersive storytelling. First one is with Catherine Rehwinkel htt...
Having a blast this week learning even more about materials, shaders and scale in Unity. You can read the more narrative account of the week on my blog: http://www.bananafrog.co/launch-pad/2016/7/25/week-9The beginning of the week was focused on rewo...
