Best tools for creating an office setting for VR experience
I'm looking for the best tools/program to create an office for a VR experience. Basically I need a way to create walls, floors, ceilings, doors, windows, etc, that all match up to the plans given to me by a client. This means I need the ability to determine height, width, and length. Does anyone have any recommendations?Proper Lighting Techniques
I'm looking for some tips and tutorials on proper lighting for unity scenes. I'm specifically looking for the best lighting for a virtual reality experience I'm creating. While baked lighting has helped, I still find a bit of lag due to the sheer number of lighting sources needed to illuminate the scene. While I can't go to a ton of detail as to what the experience is for, I can explain what it is. It's is a large, 1 floor, Office, complete with a receptionist area, elevator lobby, and cubicle farm. Included are also board rooms and conference rooms. Because of the layout, lots of lighting is needed to make it look as natural as possible. If anyone knows of any best practices when it comes to lighting large areas like this, please let me know!
Should VR Headsets be Agnostic?
It is now over 12-months from the launch of both the PC based VR head-mounted displays (HMD's) and we have seen an ever-growing gulf regarding the "exclusivity" of only being able to play one game or another on either of the respective systems. At the same time, we have seen a feud in the VR community towards supporting one side of the fence or the other - levels of animosity that have gotten seriously out of control, to the point that the ex-founder of OVR has supported a device that allows games to be played on an alternative platform. My personal feeling was always that HMD's should be looked at as just "televisions" , and be agnostic, with no restrictions on the TV program you want to watch on them as long as you have the right connection/settopbox. In making their own personal eco-system, this may have offered a business model to try and recouped investment, but would dangerously hamper the growth of the community. Should VR headsets be agnostic? [*Note – for some of you that are too young to remember RCA (television manufacturer) who also acquired a stake in a television broadcaster and tried to have the channel only supply color TV to RCA devices inorder to own the market; but only ended up crippling early adoption of color TV in the market.]
