Prototyping Stack Space
When I joined eleVR last year, one of the first project ideas we had was for a shared online art studio for critique and collaboration. We wrote up the idea into a proposal document that detailed why we thought it … Continued
Expressive Programming in VR
It’s a little early to be writing about this project, but the amount of interest it has generated among our colleagues has led to its starting to spread by word of mouth and private demo, so I thought I’d share … Continued
Hyperbolic VR and H²xR
If you’ve been following our hyperbolic VR project [project page], you’ll be happy to know that we finally moved it over to its own github page and updated the API for webVR. Positional tracking is now working in the Vive, and … Continued
Cross Platform VR/AR Development in Unity for Vive and HoloLens
Introduction & Summary Hi, I’m Steve Sedlmayr and this is my first guest blog post here at eleVR. I’m a self-taught software engineer with a little over 10 years of experience. For the past several years of that career, … Continued
Collision in VR: 9 Techniques
Traditionally in video games, when you successfully detect that the player camera has collided with an object such as a wall, the camera stops moving and the player is under the impression that they have been physically stopped by the object. … Continued
Three Adventures in Cable Management
It’s crazy how often working with cutting-edge futuristic technology involves a literal cutting edge. The same box cutter that Emily used to create our prototype camera head out of foam core has found a new job stripping audio cable. The past couple posts have … Continued
How VR Headsets Could Reduce Lag
This is a guest post by Andy Lutomirski, a contributor to eleVR Player.I’ve played with, and written code for, the Oculus Rift DK1 and DK2. Both of them have a nasty problem: when you turn your head, there’s a very noticeable lag … Continued
Audio for VR film (binaural, ambisonic, 3d, etc)
Binaural audio is perfect for VR. Binaural audio recordings, on the other hand, are not. Not at all. Just as a stereo pair of videos gives us the illusion of a 3d view from exactly one perspective, but does not … Continued