Virtual reality
I enjoy playing In Death: Unchained & Pistol Whip on Oculus Quest 2. Playing Walkabout Mini Golf with friends is a great remote social bonding experience.
I find the displays on Oculus still lacking a lot and my eyes get tired very fast of using them. Meta is investing billions into making VR/AR work and I am happy they did take this bet as new hardware will unlock things we simply couldn't do before.
I trust Apple to do a better job with their VR/AR headset and am waiting for the release of it to start developing for this new paradigm.
One idea I want to make is a kind of life linter. I set some rules for what I shouldn't do, like buying chocolates in supermarket and it will lint me for this in real time. Like show a red cross next to the chocolate bar as I try pick it up. A true configurable AR display is actually fascinating in what it can unlock.
I am confident that the advancements in computer vision can let you write your own neural nets that can then run either on device itself or in the cloud and stream the pixels overlaid on your physical reality.
Games
- Lambda1VR - Port of the Xash3D-FWGS Half Life Engine to Oculus Quest.
Notes
- It’s only a metaverse if it’s decentralized and trustless, otherwise it’s just sparkling virtual reality.
- Facebook has a patent for a real-time online ad auction system that turns "organic objects" within a virtual world into "sponsored objects". The patent describes a similar process for advertisers to bid on "sponsored locations" within the metaverse.
- You need 8K per eye at 120 FPS for VR to work well
Links
- Glen Keane – Step into the Page
- Carmack Oculus Connect 5
- Future of VR at Oculus Connect 6 (2019)
- LOVR - Virtual Reality Engine.
- SideQuest - Open app store for mobile android based VR devices such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Quest or other android based devices. (Web)
- Simula - VR window manager for Linux that runs on top of Godot. (HN)
- Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Physic Examples
- Godot Oculus Quest Toolkit
- Virtual Reality DOS - Experimental "PC running DOS" emulator inside a VR environment.
- Half-Life: Alyx's SDK walkthrough (2020)
- Mozilla Hubs - Share a virtual room with friends. Watch videos, play with 3D objects, or just hang out. (Code)
- A-Frame - Make WebVR.
- Relativty - Open-source VR headset. (HN) (Code) (Discord)
- Facebook Connect: John Carmack Unscripted Live (2020)
- Venture Reality Fund
- Oculus Quest Mixed Reality app for iOS
- Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory (HN)
- ALVR - Stream VR games from your PC to your Oculus Quest via Wi-FI.
- Varjo - Advanced virtual and mixed reality devices.
- When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet (2020) (HN)
- Why the liquids in Half-Life Alyx look so dang good (2021)
- OpenVR Advanced Settings Overlay - Adds an overlay to the OpenVR dashboard that allows access to advanced settings and useful utilities.
- Oasis - Be Who You Really Are.
- Bullet Physics SDK - Real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
- My Convoluted VRChat Google Meet Setup (2021)
- Printing In Virtual Reality
- W3Reality - Elevating the Web to VR.
- LÖVR - Open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences. (HN)
- Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers
- LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves (HN)
- What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week (2021) (HN)
- SimulaVR - Office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux. (HN) (HN)
- Oculess - Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices. (HN)
- vrLauncher - Allows you to launch various /hidden/ options of the Oculus Quest.
- The metaverse is bad, sorry (2021) (Tweet)
- Pimax - VR Headset | Virtual Reality Equipment. (Twitter) (12k Reality Series)
- Voices of VR Podcast
- Facebook Connect 2021
- Facebook Meta (HN) (Founder's Letter) (Article)
- Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse (2021) (HN)
- The metaverse is bullshit (2021) (HN)
- Billionaires See VR as a Way to Avoid Radical Social Change (2021) (Tweet)
- Inevitabilities in Facebook’s Meta play: exploitation, crime, regulation
- Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom (2021)
- Checklist for Virtual Reality game developers
- Microsoft and the Metaverse (2021) (HN)
- Rats in Doom VR (HN)
- The Machine To Be Another - Embodiment Virtual Reality (EVR) System that credibly facilitates the Body Transfer Illusion.
- Trippy things to do with VR (2021)
- Awesome Metaverse
- I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR (2022) (HN)
- Immers Space - Seeks to free the Immersive Web from the pitfalls of the social media era by using a decentralized model based on open Web standards.
- Hotham - Framework for creating incredible standalone VR experiences.
- Jolt Physics - Multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library suitable for games and VR applications.
- Mondradiko - Future-proof VR engine for creating multiplayer virtual reality experiences.
- My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise (HN)
- Lifecast - 3D video for VR. (HN)
- Simular VR: Lenses and Schematics (2022) (HN)
- Nice VR games (2022)
- Zuck's Metaverse Revenge (2022)
- Immersed - Spawn 5 virtual monitors in VR to optimize focus & productivity.
- ViroReact - AR and VR library for React Native.
- Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality' (2022) (HN)
- NeuralPassthrough: Learned Real-Time View Synthesis for VR (2022) (Code)
- StereoKit - Easy-to-use mixed reality library for building HoloLens and VR applications with C# and OpenXR. (HN)
- Overte - 3D social software project seeking to incrementally bring about a truly free and open metaverse. (Code)
- Ask HN: Anyone tried development using an Oculus? (2022)
- Eye-tracking is a missing input device for VR experiences (2022) (HN)
- Awesome VR UX
- PICO VR
- Meta Quest Pro (HN)
- Wolvic - Full-featured browser exclusively for standalone AR and VR headsets. (Code)
- holovolo - Watch volumetric VR video on Quest 2 or WebVR. (HN)
- Obscure technical VRChat knowledge
- Ask HN: Working in a VR Headset? (2022)
- Gearchy - Internet's first Goggles manager.
- Zuckerberg's leaked email on VR strategy (2015) (HN)
- Building a Dynamic VRChat World (2022)
- VR Performance Toolkit - Performance-oriented collection of mods for VR games.
- Virtual and Augmented Reality (2022)
- The Billions-Dollar VR/AR Headset Question (2023) (Reddit)
- Why VR/AR Gets Farther Away as It Comes Into Focus (2023)
- Bigscreen Beyond – Small VR Headset (2023) (HN)
- Nice VR games (2023)
- Meta’s AR/VR hardware roadmap for the next four years (2023) (HN)
- Immersive Web Emulator - Browser extension that emulates Meta Quest devices for WebXR development.
- ion 3D Engine - JS library for building 3D websites and virtual reality experiences.
- In your opinion, what are the top 8 must-buys on Quest 2? (2023)