So, Hallie and I are up on the Sonoma Coast in my friend's home in Timber Cove. We are here because my friend's property has it's own redwood forest and creek in the back. We spent the morning collecting "real" moss and ferns for texture maps and pho...
You can always find my more extended Updates on my blog here:http://www.bananafrog.co/launch-pad/2016/7/1/week-6High-level OverviewIt's been a week of intensive product development in terms of getting my Vision captured and investigating what kind of...
In working on the pattern language for navigation in our project we had an unusual element surface. Below is the original inspiration for the dandelion fluff in our project. It is a picture I took in Muir Woods in 2006 that a lot of people responded ...
Hi everybody! Here's a video update of some meditative/abstract art experiences we've been working on at JunoVR!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prH3TTiwac4&feature=youtu.be
We accomplished a 360 VR Prototype Film Shoot for our Klamath Siskiyou Film Project and are in Post-Production on our first concept films. Here is the Flickr Album for the shoot which will augment social media communication. We have secured our websi...
Ok- as part of the responsibilities of being in the first Oculus Launchpad dev group, each of the 100 people who were selected from a national pool of applicants (that would be me!) is being asked to create a developer blog. Not only about our experi...
Today's development news is exciting because now PHOBOS is starting to feel like a real application.At this time I have about 11 scenes created, with more on the way. However, they are all mostly disconnected with each other, nor are they really mean...
When my phone is inside the GearVR, Windows does not recognize my GearVR, as an Android device, when it is attached to my PC via the *GearVR's* USB port. As a result, I cannot push a build to the phone while the phone is attached to the GearVR. As a ...
Hello everyone! I'm Wanni! (Pronounced Wahh-niii~)Gushing about Launch PadIt is good to have met so many passionate individuals from such diverse backgrounds! Being chosen for the Launch Pad was beyond my wildest dreams! I moved to America a year ago...
Hello, all!Since this is my first post, why not start with the obvious question: Why VR?I believe one of the best uses of VR is to share experiences and perspectives that you couldn’t otherwise. Take the example of recording a 360 Video of a sunset i...
Date 6.6.16, Week 0Who am I?:My name is Manuel A. Marcano, but most people call me either Nico(knee-koh) or Hurakan(who-rah-khan). I'm an Afro-Indigenous game designer from the Taino nation of Puerto Rico with roots in the Tupi-Guarani of Brazil. I'v...
Hello everyone, my name is Shayna Moon, and I'm a producer currently operating out of Austin, Texas! I have been in the games industry for about 3 years now.My first step is to understand VR development a little better, so to that end I've enrolled i...
When your fern gets a bug and turns into a wildly animated snake-frawned live plant when you get too close. It would have been awesome for another project or underwater. It happened after adding animated koi in a pond, all better now but it was fun f...
I created a public directory for OSIG files:https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B42NCWHRyTCqUjRwS2tYTjVxMzQCurrently, it contains my OSIG file and @MissFacetious OSIG file.Add yours :smile: FYI: To share your build, your app must include the OSIG file ...
I've posted the heartier update on my blog at:http://www.bananafrog.co/launch-pad/2016/6/27/week-5In Summary:It's been a fairly intensive week of programming tutorials. Big successes this week, completing 3 programming tutorials (back-to-back).But de...
So it has been close to a month from our start of our project. We had done allot of work lately. decided to add some features in the application. We wanted to have a new environments and characters in the the scenes. From what we had before was desig...
Quick update: I didn't get to post last week, since I was showing my (non-VR) game, FRKN WKND, at IndieCade's booth at the E3 video game convention. It was a lot of fun, lots of people played and liked the game, plus I saw fellow Launch Pad participa...
Snowball Fight is the second major VR experiment coming from Verge of Brilliance. BackstoryI started a snowball fight game last year at a Facebook Hackathon. At the time I wanted to make an asymmetric multiplayer experience where controller players c...
Hey All --We are nearly complete with infrastructure and platform upgrades to commence filming Shifting POV's Kwan Yin Series [based on the film Klamath Siskiyou ksfilm.org]. The Kwan Yin Series combines Mindfulness Mediation in the pristine natural ...
Hey all!Just got back from vacation, where I actually managed to get a surprising amount of non-coding work done on my project! Never underestimate the power of getting offline for a bit - I found it helped me fill in a lot of different gaps that had...
Metaphorical leaps and bounds have been very welcome this week--we're avoiding literal leaps and bounds here at Story Tonic in the hopes that our app will be challenging cognitively and emotionally, but not cause physiological discomfort.With our ren...
I’ve been thinking a lot about the idea of 3D interfaces on the gear VR. I find that the majority of the apps that I use all have flat 2D interfaces to select various content. I believe one day (hopefully in the near future), the gear VR will have po...
This past week I was able to accomplish the first pass of my storyboard thumbnail sketches. These took me a little longer than I anticipated because I ran into a challenge with "framing the shot." As we learned at the bootcamp, users now have a full ...
This week's progress is all about "The Pit", a scene that was modeled not too long ago and is now complete with the necessary logic. So let's do a walk-through of what the patient can experience in this scene.1) The patient starts in a room with vari...
Heyo! We're MidBoss, and we're the team of Matt Conn, Connie Sims and Sergio Kossio and we have this game Read Only Memories, which is a queer cyberpunk adventure game. It's filled with very diverse cast, and we're currently working on releasing a fu...
Hi there. I had planned on uploading a build today to share, but I am very unclear on how / where to do this. Has anyone done this yet?
I'm ALL UP IN my Game Design Document. I'm literally learning names of the gameplay mechanics that I've loved for so long. Classification has been hard b/c of my lack of knowledge, but god bless the internet! It's tough, yet cathartic, to get all of ...
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Hi Everybody!First of all I just want to say how inspiring it is to pop into the forum! You guys just rock!!!! I love seeing the progress and developments and hope everyone is feeling the joy of 'strength in numbers' as I am.So it's that time for my ...
Also, continuing to learn conversational Japanese--so I can interview and film Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro's androids when I go to Japan in the fall. One of the guiding muses for Atomic Vacation is a little robot girl I saw on Youtube. I finally contacted D...
