My wife and I were walking around the mall and I saw they were doing Vive demos at the Microsoft store. We jumped in line and waited. It is always a funny experience watching others in VR especially when it is room scale. I was directed to prepare myself for this and that. I signed a Microsoft waiver and I stepped into the room scale boundaries. At this point, I was ready to be underwhelmed. The first demo was "The Blu" produced by WEVR Labs. It was a very powerful experience. This is what prompted me to look at the PS4 VR to hold me over for the Vive.
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This is a quick run down of 3D for those coming from a design or UX background moving into VR/AR.
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Let me start off by saying VR is amazing. It is my tech passion. I am so damn fortunate to get to see this go mainstream in my lifetime. When Google Cardboard came out an engineer friend and I were pretty excited. We had just finished our first polished game in Unity and both on app 3 or 4.
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Well, I encountered a few issues with my old version of Maya 2011.5 and Domemaster and the way the camera was rendering was being funky(I could not define a distance from the geometry). I do not want to waste tons of time on getting a camera set-up properly in such an old version. I decided to purchase Mettle to see if I could get the same output quality. So far renders are much faster. No real surprise there. Below is my first go with Mettle Skybox V2.
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