eXcess Reality Podcast

We’re not the only ones who get locomotion motion sickness in VR! https://twitter.com/tipatat/status/1277721491182780416 And then we discussed some VR hacks:VR Tunneling Techniques to prevent motion sickness in VR (Used in Google Earth when moves around) – https://github.com/sigtrapgames/VrTunnellingPro-Unityand Fixed Foveated Rendering, to optimize headsets by rendering the areas in your peripheral vision in lower resolution – [...]

This week, we discuss different toolkits that help with VR and AR development, and more of the Oculus Quest VR experiences we’ve tried! Free open-source webXR clone of Beat Saber: moonrider.xyzOur cooking channel: youtube.com/sushidaytv An Update on the Evolution of the Oculus Platform: https://www.oculus.com/blog/an-update-on-the-evolution-of-the-oculus-platform-/ Dev-related things we’ve been looking into:XR Interaction Toolkit: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/[email protected]/manual/index.htmlUnity Learn Premium: [...]

We have our Oculus Quest! If you missed the PS5 announcement stream, you can find the VoD here: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/647985596 Elixir was the first experience we tried on the Quest, and we loved it: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/quest/3793077684043441/ We’re starting to look into VR dev!Still planning on the VR Tray Table Jam in August: https://itch.io/jam/tray-table-vr-jamSon has started playing with [...]

Our new Oculus Quest is here! What should we download? In this episode, we started by talking about Microsoft’s Mixed Reality Dev Days.You can find the keynote video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvVAXyiR3LYAnd after we recorded, links to all the other talks were posted here! https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/mixed-reality/mr-dev-days-sessions Then we move on to web-based XR.Read more about WebGL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGL_APIthree.js: https://threejs.org/babylon.js: [...]

Welcome to the very first episode of the eXcess Reality podcast! To start off with some exciting news… we were finally able to order an Oculus Quest! We’ve just passed the one year anniversary of the release of the Oculus Quest and Rift S – https://www.oculus.com/blog/celebrating-the-one-year-anniversary-of-oculus-quest-and-rift-s And Facebook is reporting that they’ve sold $100m worth [...]

Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast and video series, eXcess Reality! First things first – who are we, and why are we doing this? My name is Allison, and I’m joined by Son, my husband. (No he’s not my son, his name is “Son”. We have no kids, although I’m sure you’ll [...]