The "I'm effin Quarantined" Megathread
Governments across the Globe are in Quarantine, so I figured that this community could use a thread to discuss our first-hand experience of its impact. As a side note, I never would have guessed that a global pandemic would be the primary driver to getting VR more mainstream! :p For me, I had taken a long break from VR. I have maybe engaged in VR for 1 hour ever 2-3 weeks. It's been that way for nearly 6 months now. Mostly because I feel that I've experienced so much since I first acquired my Rift in 2016; I got to the point that everything (even new AAA titles) started to feel like 'more of the same.' This is something that has impacted me before. For example, I began gaming with the Atari 2600 as a kid, moved on to NES, SNES, Sega, and eventually PC Gaming. But I took a very long break from gaming (over 5 years) because I hit a point where everything on every gaming platform felt like a regurgitation of something I've done before. However, now that I'm stuck home for at least 2 weeks during quarantine... it's time to jump back on to the fray! So... What games/experiences will you be engaging in with VR? What non-VR activities will be occupying your time? Are you one of the people who can work from home during quarantine? Or is this pandemic negatively impacting your job? Are you hoarding food and toilet paper? I'll answer first: I will be (finally) completing SkyrimVR. Before I took my VR "break," I had already completed both DLC's in SkyrimVR, and I'm already near the end of the main quest. After that, I will be loading up Stormland. I'm playing through Divinity Original Sin for the first time, in preparation for the upcoming release of Baldur's Gate 3. Beyond software, I will be doing lots of exercise.. Gotta keep up the conditioning! Since I'm a software engineer who has been working from home primarily for at least the past 10 years, this quarantine will be... more of the same. I'm a non-hoarder, but wondering if I will regret it.
Dreaming about being in VR
I never had dreams about being in VR until I got the Gear VR. Once I got the CV1, dreaming I'm in VR became more frequent. One time I actually fell asleep with my headset on and had a dream I was in VR. Imagine how I felt when I actually woke up and still had the headset on. I'm sure reading Ready Player One and watching Sword Art Online contributed to my dreams. Anyone else having dreams about being in VR?What was your favorite VR Holiday gift?
I'm curious as to how many folks received a Holiday Gift specific to Virtual Reality. Whether a piece of Hardware or Software. For me it was the GelPro Elite Floor Mat: I stood on this for an hour straight playing through the Single Player campaign of The Unspoken; the difference was impressive. Having been on my feet in VR for many long hours beginning back in April of 2016, I can say that having a high-end stress-relief floor mat feels awesome. There are plenty of other great mat's out there, and I highly recommend any of them to anyone who spends a great deal of time with Standing Experiences in VR. Anyone else get any fun/cool VR gifts?Loading html5 videos in Oculus Web Browser
Hi everyone! I'm working on an application in AFRAME, where mp4 videos are loaded "on-demand" with javascript, but i have problems. Sometimes the Oculus Web Browser, despite the explicit load() of the video, does not start the loading, and does not track any event related to the video (no progress/canplay etc). Could it be a problem with caching or mp4 codecs? Is there a preferred way/best practice to loading html5 videos? Here is the main code, which works on Chrome/Firefox desktop & Android. Any reference/example could help a lot, thank you! var promisePlay; videoEl.src = src; videoEl.load(); videoEl.crossOrigin = "anonymous"; videoEl.addEventListener("progress", (e) => { var videoEl = e.target; console.log(' progress: ' + this.bufferedVid(videoEl), " ", videoEl.readyState); }, false); videoEl.addEventListener("canplaytrough", (e) => { console.log(" canplaytrough:", videoEl.id, videoEl.readyState); }, { once: true }); videoEl.addEventListener("stalled", (e) => { console.log(" stalled: " + this.bufferedVid(videoEl)); //try to load again videoEl.load(); }, false); videoEl.addEventListener("waiting", (e) => { console.log(" waiting: " + this.bufferedVid(videoEl)); //videoEl.load(); }, false); videoEl.addEventListener("canplay", (e) => { console.log(" canplay:", e, videoEl.id, videoEl.readyState, this.bufferedVid(videoEl)); faceEl.setAttribute("material", "src: #" + videoEl.id); promisePlay = videoEl.play(); var isPlaying = videoEl.currentTime > 0 && !videoEl.paused && !videoEl.ended && videoEl.readyState >= READY_STATE_FLAG && this.videoFlags[videoEl.id].playing; if (!isPlaying & promisePlay !== undefined) { promisePlay .then(() => { faceEl.setAttribute("material", "src: #" + videoEl.id); let vidObj = { volume: 0 }; AFRAME.anime({ targets: vidObj, volume: 0.85, duration: TIME_FADEIN_VOLUME_MS, easing: "linear", update: function() { videoEl.volume = vidObj.volume; } }); console.log(" *prom* playVideo: ", videoEl.id, videoEl.src, videoEl.readyState, videoEl.currentTime, videoEl.paused, videoEl.ended); }) .catch(err => { // AFRAME.log("*prom* err: playVideo:"+ err.toString()); console.log(" *prom* err: playVideo:" + err.toString()); }); } }, { once: true });
Oculus GO Permission screen shows package name instead of game name
Hi, I have sideloaded an apk file of my game that has an ALPHA on the oculus release channel. My game has Oculus Avatars, so there will be a permission page asking if "This [game name] can access your microphone". The problem is the [game name] is showing my package name instead of my game name. How do I change it so it will show the game name?
