Today we released a third look at our new game, The Field, a WW2 VR FPS inspired by Battlefield 1942. This means flag captures, soldiers in varying kits, and vehicles. In this video, we head to the Highlands Obstacle Course to take a look how other players look and move. Run, crouch, belly to the ground, climb, and hand-over-hand. We’ve got it all.
Oculus sent us some nice goodies, including an Oculus Go and Rift, as part of their Start program. They had also requested that everyone send in their unboxing videos once the package was received. Well, rather than doing a plain, ordinary unboxing video I did in VR within our The Field game environment (our WW2 VR FPS). Enjoy!
Amazingly, both Hugo Barra, and Jason Rubin, (both at Oculus) tweeted about my video. What a day!
Today we released a second look at our new game, The Field. The Field (may not be the final name) is a WW2 VR FPS inspired by Battlefield 1942. This means flag captures, soldiers in varying kits, and vehicles. In this video, we head out to the Greenwood Range to test out some of the American rifles and talk about some of the available kits. An important safety lesson is presented following the credits.
This video was posted to /r/oculus and it looks like once again the game is holding the top position on the subreddit. Woohoo! It is great to see so many people as excited for a BF1942-like game in VR as we are.
Today we released a first look at our new game, The Field. The Field (may not be the final name) is a WW2 VR FPS inspired by Battlefield 1942. This means flag captures, soldiers in varying kits, and vehicles. In this video, we go through driving a jeep between the hedgerows of Normandy, and the taking of a base.
This video was posted to /r/oculus where it spent the entire day in the number one spot. It was great to see that so many people are as interested in BF1942 in VR as we are. More videos are coming as progress continues to be made.
May has been a busy month. First a demo for CVR2017, and now working with Quantum Capture to put together a demo for AWE2017.
The guys at Quantum Capture turned AWE co-founder and CEO, Ori Inbar, into a virtual human. We then put him into a number of situations depending on if the demoing player puts an Oculus Rift or a Microsoft Hololens on his head. In the house pictured above, when you put on the Hololens, Ori is surrounded by fish as part of a simulated, augmented reality environment.
That’s right, we put AR inside VR. That’s how we roll.
Worked once again with the fine folks at Quantum Capture to put together a virtual reality demo for CVR2017.
This demo, for the Oculus Rift, walks the player through assembling their own virtual human. You start off with a collection of heads to choose from, some of whom are easily distracted by bright objects. You may pick up each head and inspect it, all while the head and eyes stare into your soul.
MorganBot then has you choose a body and cloths for your head. Feel free to place and remove those heads at will! All-in-all a fun little demo to show off virtual humans in VR.
Escaporia is a new project from Gnometech that will be released on all desktop VR platforms. Relax, listen, and let your mind wander.
Created with Unreal Engine 4, Escaporia supports streaming music and YouTube videos. Coming soon.
Today Turtle VR 1.0 is now available for the public to download and try out. Turtle VR is a virtual reality experience that allows you to use a virtual tablet, Google Blockly, and a programmable turtle to creating drawings in VR in real-time using command blocks. You may download Turtle VR and find out more at the Turtle VR home page.
Building a program block by block
Create fractal patterns in 3D
As part of the weekly Unreal Engine Livestream, the guys at Epic had a short talk on Turtle VR during the Community Spotlight section. You can catch it here:
Turtle VR is a new virtual reality experience created by Gnometech. With a tablet style interface combined with Google’s Blockly, we are able to drive a programmable turtle in real-time while in VR. Draw and explore geometry using the blocks Turtle VR provides, and browse through the provided catalog programs. Block-based programming makes it easy for anyone to get started.
The Turtle VR demo will be available for free following Oculus Connect 2. It requires a Razer Hydra and Oculus Rift to operate. We would love to get this running on the HTC Vive or Oculus Touch!
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Turtle VR is a beginning for us. A prototype of a more extensive VR experience we have been planning for a while. We look forward to sharing more once we get the Turtle VR demo out the door.