VR Gaming News: April 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018

Run Dorothy Run | Mildly Camp Runner Game (Oculus Rift VR Gameplay)

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Bullets and More | with James Wallace (Oculus Rift Gameplay)

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UKRifter guesting on - The Hive Presents: Battle of the VR Influencers

FRIENDS BECOME ENEMIES | From Other Suns (Virtual Reality Gameplay)

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VR Quiz Game ‘Go Guess’ Uses Google 360 Captures to Make You Guess Where You Are

Update: Giant $500M Chinese VR Theme Park Opens Doors to the Public

A giant robot looms over the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of Guizhou province in China. The new VR park, named simply ‘Oriental Science Fiction Valley‘, has now opened its doors; within them reside a bevy of VR attractions and rides that hope to capitalize on China’s steadily growing VR industry.

Update (04/30/18): A new English-language CGTN report has surfaced via German VR publication VRODO detailing yesterday’s opening of China’s giant VR theme park. The video is posted below.

Contrary to the Reuters report, both the CGTN report contends the park is in fact the result of a ¥3B (~$470M USD) investment and not the previously reported $1.5B USD investment. We’ve corrected the headline and clarified the original article which follows below.

Original article (11/27/17): As reported by Reuters, the massive VR park spans 330 acres (134 hectares) and houses within its various sci-fi-inspired buildings 35 different VR attractions—including everything from shooters, virtual roller coasters, to guided spaceship tours of the region’s most scenic spots.

Its organizers have already spent ~~$1.5 billion~~ $470 million creating the park, and while it features a few non-VR attractions such as bungee jumping (from the arm of the robot), most rides will use some combination of VR headsets and motion platforms.

Occupying one of the poorest provinces in China, the park aims to revitalize the area when it partially opens February next year.

“After our attraction opens, it will change the entire tourism structure of Guizhou province as well as China’s southwest,” Chief Executive Chen Jianli told Reuters.

“This is an innovative attraction, because it’s just different,” Jianli said.

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MLB Batting Game ‘Home Run Derby VR’ Now Available on PSVR, Vive & Rift

Major League Baseball’s Home Run Derby VR will let you step into the box and swing for the bleachers. The game, first trialed at All-Star FanFest back in June, is now heading to a total of 10 ballparks for the 2018 season, and also to consumers on PSVR and SteamVR-compatible headsets including HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

Update (04/30/18): Both the Steam page and PSN page are now live, charging $20 for a chance to step into the virtual batter’s box at Marlins Park (Miami), Nationals Park (Washington, DC) and Progressive Field (Cleveland). The original article announcing availability follows below.

Original article (02/23/18): According to a Forbes report, a consumer version of the game will offer support for the platform’s respective motion controllers, and will feature virtual versions of all three All-Star Game locations: Miami’s Marlins Park, D.C.’s Nationals Park, and Cleveland’s Progressive Field, where the 2019 Midsummer Classic will be played.

~~There aren’t any pricing or other detail at this time, although MLB says they’ll be releasing it at a later date~~ (see update above).

While the list of ballparks featuring the out-of-home version isn’t public yet, the report holds that at least two demonstrations are confirmed; one in Puerto Rico for the Indians and Twins games in April and the other in Mexico for the Dodgers and Padres games in May. Previous demos have included HTC Vive headsets coupled with Vive Trackers attached to physical baseball bats—something that’s definitely a surreal and immersive experience.

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Oculus Go, Mirage Solo, and Vive Focus Standalone Headsets Compared

Lytro Website Goes to Life Support Mode as Company Winds Down After Google Acquisition

Sunday, April 29, 2018

Pinatas Rockets | Sadly Flawed Wave Shooter (Oculus Rift VR Gameplay)

Preview: ‘Carly & the Reaperman’ Plays Like a Co-op Version of ‘Moss’

Saturday, April 28, 2018

AM I WORTHY TO BECOME A WEREWOLF YET? | Skyrim VR Gameplay (HTC Vive Pro) - Part 5

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Dead Ground: Arena | Advanced Zombie Wave Shooter (Oculus Rift VR Gameplay)

Let's Kill Zombies VR | Basic Zombie Wave Shooter (Oculus Rift Gameplay)

Google Shares Promising Research on Low-cost, Mobile Inside-out Controller Tracking

Friday, April 27, 2018

Report: Apple Developing AR/VR Headset with 8K Resolution Per-eye Slated for 2020

According to a report by CNET, citing an anonymous “person familiar with Apple’s plans,” the company is working on an AR/VR headset targeting 8K resolution per-eye, scheduled for launch in 2020.

As Apple continues to hire, file patents, and buy up companies relating to AR and VR, rumours swirl about what the company might be working on. With similarities to a Bloomberg report late last year, a report today from CNET says that Apple is working on a headset with both AR and VR capabilities that the company hopes to launch in 2020.

The device, purportedly codenamed T288, is said to be targeting 8K resolution per-eye, and be powered by a dedicated host device with a custom Apple chip, and would transmit information wirelessly to the headset over a 60GHz connection. The report also indicates inside-out tracking for the headset rather than external trackers.

SEE ALSO

Apple's Latest VR Patent Describes a Compact VR Headset with Eye Tracking

As for the reliability of this information, it’s hard to gauge. I’m surprised to hear a codename mentioned, as secretive Apple projects have been known to use multiple codenames across compartmentalized groups as a means of rooting out leakers. It’s also surprising how closely this latest report mirrors the prior Bloomberg report, including the codename and purported 2020 launch window—the anonymous source could be the same individual. If this information is indeed authentic, I suspect it’s coming from someone outside of Apple, possibly a supplier or contractor, who may be extrapolating some information.

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For Apple’s part, the company has been silent on plans for its own AR/VR hardware, but publicly embraced VR last year when it made a number of announcements about how the Apple ecosystem would support VR, like support for SteamVR and the HTC Vive.

SEE ALSO

Apple CEO on AR Headsets: 'We don't want to be first, we want to be the best'

On the AR front, Apple has made a strong push for the technology through its existing devices, rolling out its ‘ARKit’ tracking technology to support phone-based AR experiences on hundreds of millions of iOS devices.

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Eleven Table Tennis VR | Crikey I LOVE THIS! (Oculus Rift Gameplay)

Nostalgia in Games

Nostalgia. The word brings to mind a joyous familiarity felt when engaging in something in the present that we really enjoyed doing in the past. Gaming is no different.

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VRLA’s John Root on AR, Privacy, & eSports in VR

‘Beat Saber’ Developer Confirms Plans for Color Blind Mode, Soundtrack Release

Beat Saber, the hotly anticipated VR rhythm game launching May 1st, relies heavily upon colors to guide players in striking the correct notes. For those with color blindness, this could make the game more challenging. Fortunately the developer has confirmed plans for a color blind mode. Furthermore, the Beat Saber soundtrack will be released alongside the game itself.

Color blindness makes it difficult to distinguish some colors from others. According to the National Eye Institute, 8% of men and 0.5% percent of women with Northern European ancestry have a common form of red-green color blindness, a smaller number having blue-yellow color blindness, while total color blindness (monochromacy) is comparatively very rare.

Beat Saber uses unique colors to indicate which hand should be used to chop incoming notes (represented as floating blocks). Considering those colors are red and blue—not one of the common color blind pairs—even players with common forms of color blindness shouldn’t have trouble playing the game. But in some cases it still may be harder for some to separate the note colors than others.

Beat Saber developer Jan “Split” Ilavsky understands this well; he told me that he himself is afflicted by color blindness, and knows it can be frustrating to not be able to play a game because of it.

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New Report from ILMxLab & Disability Visibility Project Shares Insights on VR Accessibility Design

Ilavsky told me that he plans to develop a colorblind mode for Beat Saber, though said it wouldn’t be ready for launch, but would likely be added to the game in a later update. He’s on the lookout for people who have trouble separating red and blue, so if that’s you or someone you know, consider reaching out to him on Twitter.

As for the game’s music, which features a list of original electronic tracks, composer Jaroslav Beck has confirmed that the standalone Beat Saber soundtrack will be released alongside the game on May 1st, giving players a chance to thump to their favorite tunes even when they can’t be slicing to the beat. Here’s a sample of the unique musical style that Beck has brought to the game:

Beck hasn’t confirmed the price of the soundtrack, but has previously released some of the game’s singles on streaming and paid services alike.

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Thursday, April 26, 2018

VR MECH SIMULATOR - EPIC MECH BATTLES!! | VOX Machinae VR Gameplay (HTC Vive)

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Competition Announcement: Unbreakable VR Runner 10 Steam Keys to Win!

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How Video Games Can Affect the Brain

Video games are very popular among children of all the ages. And, due to our tech pace world, it is continuing to grow even more. Children and even the adults find video games as their mode of entertainment.

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Virtual Builds is Offering SteamVR Tracking Development Kits & Expertise

Wednesday, April 25, 2018

‘Echo Arena’ Update Overhauls Social Lobby, Makes Way for ‘Echo Combat’

HTC Vive Lens MOD Tutorial: How to get better sharpness & image quality in VR

In this tutorial video, Im replacing the HTC Vive fresnel lenses with Gear VR lenses going through a step by step tutorial for much better sharpness in VR, bigger sweet spot, better VR image quality and less god rays and glare. The tutorial includes full setup guide on how you replace the Vive lenses, and I'm also giving you many testing examples, VR through the lens recordings, lens comparisons and my own lens review with final conclusions. Did you know that you can use a mod (custom lens adapters) to replace the existing HTC Vive lenses with Gear VR 2016 or 2017 lenses, and obtain noticeably sharper VR image with bigger sweet spot view, same field of view, almost no god rays at all and a more clear image overall while playing VR games? ▶ Get a Gear VR headset cheap: https://goo.gl/fKuZA6 In this full HTC Vive lens replacement tutorial I'm taking you step-by-step throughout the disassembly of the Gear VR, to lens adapter setup, Vive lens replacement and also adjustment software tutorial to correct any visible distortion. ▶ Support me on Patreon if you appreciate my work, thanks! https://goo.gl/QMFPPH Timeline in this video: 00:00 Intro 00:45 Taking apart the Gear VR and remove lenses 02:12 Insert lenses into the custom lens adapters 02:54 Remove original lenses from HTC Vive 03:43 Insert the first Gear VR lens into HTC Vive 04:00 First lens tests & comparisons in VR 04:31 Testing & lens comparisons in Steam VR environment 07:19 Testing & lens comparisons in various Test charts 16:42 Replace the second Vive lens with Gear VR lens 18:07 Software tutorial: Distortion correction step-by-step 22:37 First lens tests in VR game Skyrim VR 24:02 In-depth discussion talk about HTC Vive lens replacement issues, flaws, fixes and stuff you need to know before trying to replace the HTC Vive lenses on your own. 38:57 Final conclusion Useful links from this HTC Vive lens replacement tutorial video: ▶ Real o Virtual Test charts (Steam VR environment): https://goo.gl/y4symw ▶ Gear VR Lens adapter for installation on HTC Vive: https://goo.gl/2eBcZ8 ▶ HTC Vive lens replacement MOD review and guide on Reddit: https://goo.gl/j7XJgw ▶ Needed software for lens distortion correction: https://goo.gl/L4Me1N ▶ Get a cheap Gear VR 2016 or 2017 headset: https://goo.gl/fKuZA6 Thanks for watching my HTC Vive Lens MOD Tutorial on how you easily can replace your Vive fresnel-lenses with Gear VR lenses for better image quality. I hope you found this video helpful and please ask me anything if you have any questions regarding this HTC Vive MOD. This HTC Vive VR lens tutorial video took me more than 3 days to make, so I hope you will like it! Leave a Like if you enjoyed, and subscribe for much more VR content, reviews, tutorials and gameplays coming up on SweViver. #tutorial #HTCVive #MOD #GearVR #lens #replacement

VR World Creation Engine ‘NeosVR’ to Launch Open Beta May 4th

Developer Tomáš ‘Frooxius’ Mariančík, known for his work on the early Oculus experience SightLine, recently announced that NeosVR, the multiuser VR world creation engine, is headed into open beta starting May 4th.

Update (04/25/18): Mariančík recently released a video announcing the open beta’s availability (seen below). In it you can see some of the complexity you can create with NeosVR, all of which is possible in the company of multiple users.

We’ll be taking a deeper look at the beta before it opens to the public next month, so check back soon. The original article follows below.

Original article (04/11/18): Mariančík describes NeosVR as a “metaverse engine,” although you might think of it more as a multi-user platform that lets you build worlds and experiences in VR itself while collaborating with others in real-time.

Here’s Mariančík in his own words:

My primary VR project – a VR universe for our ideas, thoughts and imagination, bridging the gap between people’s minds and technology. It uses many novel technologies and approaches to create a dynamic virtual world that has a mind of its own, but grants you “superpowers” to change and influence this universe, creating your own experiences and sharing them with others.

Check out the video above for a sneak peek of what’s to come. The scene, Mariančík says, was “built and recorded in NeosVR in realtime multiplayer.”

The freeform mass of floating stuff in Mariančík’s example is a worthy illustration of the complexity a single world can hold, but what is it all for?

In its latest update, named the ‘User Friendly Update’, the alpha version saw a new mechanic that allows you to interlink individual worlds, represented as tiny orbs. The “world orb” also has a 360 thumbnail and number beside it to indicate how many users are within it. This essentially allows you to build several interlinked, multiuser spaces filled with objects of all types, so you could make your own art gallery, photogrammetry-based tour through a physical place; almost anything you can imagine using NeosVR’s toolset.

~~If you’re interested in signing up for access to the NeosVR beta, head over to the project’s main site here~~ (see update above). Once we get our hands on NeosVR, you can bet we’ll have a deep dive into what makes it tick. In the meantime, check out the time-lapse video below for a quick demo of just how you might make such a complex scene.

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Oculus Opens Applications for 2018 Launch Pad Mentorship Program

Leap Motion Teases More Minimalist User Interface Elements for AR Headsets

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

Unbreakable VR Runner | Christ on a bike, I'm unfit (Oculus Rift VR Gameplay & Review)

ESCAPING FROM THE UNDERWORLD!! | Carly and the Reaperman VR Co-op Gameplay (HTC Vive Pro)

Carly and the Reaperman VR is an awesome local co-op VR game where you have to escape the underworld with your partner. This is an early access demo - full version is coming out in June! Subscribe to join our VR adventures! → https://goo.gl/bSJ6L8 Carly and the Reaperman – Escape from the Underworld is a local co-op VR platformer. One person controls Carly on the PC without a VR headset and the other person in the headset controls the reaperman. Together you have to try to work together and escape the underworld. ► Watch another assymentrical local co-op VR game → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RRYmAUK1O4 More HTC Vive (Pro) Gameplays & Reviews → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYl0nceTmYU&list=PL86GNGPnZ0siwDr9AoFLro8NF4CnAqSYx More Oculus Rift + Touch Gameplays & Reviews → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKXodZ6Oryg&list=PL86GNGPnZ0sg8QLhWQ9WSnXY4Vyzx-ghA [SUPPORT US *] ► Get VRcovers for your headset (Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, WMR) → https://goo.gl/U3ZSRD ► Get the HTC Vive (Free Shipping and $50 VIVEPORT Credit) → https://goo.gl/KXdqtG ► Get the HTC Vive Pro → http://bit.ly/2IVLgwS ► Get the Oculus Rift + Touch → https://amzn.to/2qvE3Mo * These are affiliate links. You don't have to use them but if you do, a small referral fee will go to this channel. Supporting the content. If you use it, thanks a lot! ► Or become our Patron → https://www.patreon.com/casandchary ► Join our Discord → https://discord.gg/YH52W2k A special thanks to our Patreon Superchamps for their amazing support: - Daniel L. - Ben P. - Wintceas - Baxorn Much love, Cas and Chary VR #carlyandthereaperman #coopvr #multiplayervr #vr #virtualreality

Pimax Unveils New Knuckles-style Controller, Supports SteamVR 2.0 Tracking

‘Paper Valley’ Review – Settling the Busy Mind by Throwing Paper Airplanes

VRLA 2018 Returns to Los Angeles May 4th & 5th – Save 15%

Everything We Know About Oculus Go (so far)

Nanotechnology Researchers Are One Step Closer to the Perfect ‘Meta-lens’ for AR/VR Headsets

Monday, April 23, 2018

Baam Squad | Kids Play in Virtual Reality: Part 2 the big 'un (Oculus Rift VR Gameplay)

Vive Pro Bundle With 2.0 Base Stations & Controllers Priced at $1500 in Japan (pre-tax)

Samsung Funds Episodic VR Videos, Filmmakers Use Company’s $10K ‘Round 360’ Camera

Insta360 Extension to Make Editing 360 Video in Adobe Premiere Faster, Higher Quality

Want to Build A Mobile Game App? Check Out These Development Tools

This article is going to highlight a few useful tools for developing a mobile game app. Read on to know why most of the game app developers trust these tools. Temple Run, Candy Crush etc. are some popular mobile games that got millions and billions of users worldwide.

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What to Expect in AR and VR at Facebook’s F8 Developer Conference

‘Archangel: Hellfire’ Update to Bring Off-rails Multiplayer June 28th, Beta Starts May 25th

‘Campfire Creepers’ Delivers Classic ’80s Horror in VR, Now Available on Oculus Rift & Gear VR

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Sunday, April 22, 2018

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Saturday, April 21, 2018

BECOMING A WEREWOLF IN VR?! | Skyrim VR Gameplay (HTC Vive Pro)

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Tutorial: How to use HTC Vive controllers with Windows Mixed Reality headset in Steam VR

Full step-by-step tutorial on how to use HTC Vive controllers together with all Windows Mixed Reality headsets such as the Samsung Odyssey playing Steam VR games in Virtual Reality. This how-to tutorial explains how you setup and calibrate HTC Vive wireless controllers to work with Samsung Odyssey and all other Windows Mixed Reality (WMR) headsets with outstanding VR tracking. Do you want to use your WMR headset with the Vive controllers and get much more accurate wireless controller tracking in VR games? With a few tweaks, all Windows Mixed Reality headset owners can now finally utilize the rock solid Lighthouse laser VR tracking from HTC. I hope you will find this tutorial helpful, and that it will give you a better VR experience using your Samsung Odyssey or other WMR headset while playing VR games and applications! This video was entirely made with the Samsung Odyssey Windows Mixed Reality device. I'm also trying out the Vive controllers with Odyssey while playing Skyrim VR. You can use all Windows Mixed Reality headsets with the Vive controllers in Steam VR and games, such as the Samsung Odyssey, Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo Mixed Reality headset. Read more posts about how you step-by-step add Vive controller support to Windows Mixed Reality in Steam VR on Reddit: https://goo.gl/429TiY Check out my VR Benchmark with Windows Mixed Reality ASW on a Gaming Laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9n2tyHCoDw If you enjoy Skyrim VR on Samsung Odyssey, check out my gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vT5tDgsnb4 Thank you for watching my tutorial on how to enable HTC Vive controller and Lighthouse support with WMR headsets. Leave a Like and subscribe for much more VR content, tutorials, reviews and gameplays coming up! #Tutorial #HowTo #HTCVive #controllers #WindowsMixedReality #SteamVR

Friday, April 20, 2018

Oculus Offers Up Developer Quick-start Guide for Bringing Apps to Go

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go.

Oculus writes in a new post on their developer blog that Oculus Go is binary-compatible with Gear VR, and most applications can be launched on the headset without any modifications, but the post covers a few of the key differences between the mobile VR headsets that developers will need to consider:

Google Play Services: Unlike the Samsung Galaxy devices that run Gear VR, Oculus Go does not ship with Google Play Services installed. You cannot rely on Google Play Services (e.g. Google Firebase, Google Cloud Messaging, etc), or third-party libraries that depend on Google Play Services (e.g. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go.

2D Surfaces: Oculus Go does not have a 2D phone display, and therefore some app behaviors (such as push notifications, or authentication via a separate Android application) do not make sense on Oculus Go.

Camera: Oculus Go does not have a camera, and cannot run applications that rely upon access to a camera.

HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD. Your app should not refer to an HMD touchpad when running on Oculus Go.

Different Controller: The Oculus Go Controller and Gear VR Controller share the same inputs: both are 3DOF controllers with clickable trackpads and an index finger trigger. Though these two devices provide the same inputs, the physical design of each is distinct. If your app displays a visible controller, you should change the model displayed depending on whether you are running on Gear VR or Oculus Go. Alternatively, a stylized controller model that is distinct from both the Oculus Go Controller and the Gear VR Controller is acceptable.

Recent SDK Required: Some very old Gear VR apps are still running on pre-1.0 releases of the Mobile SDK. These apps are not supported on Oculus Go.

Furthermore, the company lays out in simple terms how to implement some of the new features that developers ought to consider—like Fixed Foveated Rendering, Dynamic Throttling, and the headset’s optional 72Hz mode. The post also recommends specific versions of development tools that devs will want to use to access such features:

We recommend developing for Oculus Go and Gear VR with the following tools:

Unity 5.6.5p2 or 2017.4.2 with Oculus Utils 1.24.1 or later (required for many new features described [herein]).

Unreal 4.18, pulled from Oculus’ GitHub mirror.

For native code applications, Mobile SDK 1.21 or later.

Oculus Go, which was announced last year and has been in the hands of developers for some time now, is expected to launch imminently, potentially as early as at Facebook’s F8 developer conference early next month.

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‘Ready Player One’ Behind-the-scenes Shows How Spielberg Used VR in Production

Image courtesy Fxguide / Warner Bros Pictures

As an official partner of Ready Player One, HTC has been using the film to highlight its VR wares. In addition to releasing several VR experiences inspired by the movie, the company has released a behind-the-scenes short showing how immersive virtual reality was used in the production process.

As blockbuster films increasingly rely on CGI, filmmakers have looked for better ways to visualize the virtual worlds that are eventually rendered for the final movie. Huge portions of Spielberg’s Ready Player One take place in a completely computer-generated virtual world (with fully digital characters), nearly 90 minutes of its 180 minute runtime, according to Fxguide.

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With so much of the film taking place in CGI, Spielberg and others were able to easily peer inside of virtual sets using consumer VR headsets during production. In doing so, the director, actors, and others were better able to visualize the virtual world that would eventually surround them in the film, informing performances, shots, and set design in real-time, according to a new behind-the-scenes short release by HTC:

Fxguide has a great detailed breakdown of Ready Player One’s production process, noting that Industrial Light & Magic produced everything in the film’s ‘Oasis’ virtual world, while Digital Domain handled motion capture and visual effects in the real world portions. Fxguide’s Mike Seymour explains how the film leveraged virtual production techniques:

Spielberg commented after filming that, “every single set in the OASIS is virtual, so they created an avatar for me that let me walk through the space and see the actual set. And once I figured out how I was going to shoot each sequence, I asked the actors to put on the goggles so they could get a feeling of what their environment looked like. Otherwise you’re acting in a big white room with a bunch of digital cameras looking down at you. It’s confusing for any actor or director to walk onto a bare-naked set and try to imagine what’s there. With the goggles on, we didn’t have to imagine. All we had to do was remember what it looked like when we were back in the motion capture volume.”

Spielberg also utilized a custom virtual camera rig specially developed for him by motion capture production supervisor Clint Spillers, who had worked with the director on both of his previous mocap films. Having made note of Spielberg’s likes and dislikes on those projects, Spillers consulted with robotic engineer Jim Kundig at Digital Domain to develop and fabricate a lighter, ergonomically friendly handheld virtual camera rig, complete with its own small screen to monitor the real-time game engine render. “Steven could quickly toggle through lenses or adjust his perspective with the push of a button. It’s the slickest camera rig ever designed,” Spillers says with a smile.

And while HTC naturally wants to highlight the Vive’s use in the production of the film, apparently a number of headsets were used throughout. Girish Balakrishnan, the film’s Virtual Production Lead at Digital Domain, tweeted, “we used Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and HoloLens during the filming of Ready Player One, not just one headset. Each one was used at a different stage of production. When shooting mocap, Rift. When scouting virtual cameras, Vive. When on the practical set, Hololens.”

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Steam & Viveport Spring Sales Feature Big Savings on Top VR Titles

If you’re still rebounding from Steam’s Winter sale a few months ago, well, your wallet is in for some ‘Spring cleaning’ as both Steam and Viveport have put out some heavy discounts on top VR titles.

On Steam, some notable VR games at steep discounts are (prices shown with discount applied):

Star Trek: Bridge Crew ($20)
The Talos Principle VR ($20)
Space Pirate Trainer ($9)
I Expect You to Die ($20)
In Death ($15)
Sprint Vector ($21)
Fallout 4 VR ($42)

As it stands now, there are over 60 VR titles on sale through Steam, so make sure to check out the full list of titles here.

There is some overlap with the Viveport sale, but don’t write it off just yet. If you own an HTC Vive and are invested in the Viveport ecosystem, you can get a $10 Viveport Wallet credit, and a one-month Viveport Subscription code when you purchase any three titles.

Check out the full list of Viveport sale titles here.

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