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by Ryan Sullivan, on April 17, 2016 - Unity & VR & Running In Place & Locomotion & HTC Vive
This is a simple scene for testing out the running in place mechanic I have been working on. Directions follow, but basically you run in place and travel in the direction pointed to by your hips. Easy to find download If you try it out I would love to hear your feedback, so please contact me [ email | twitter ] with your
by Ryan Sullivan, on April 13, 2016 - Unity & DK2 & VR & HTC Vive
I have a small confession to make... As mentioned previously, I had attended the Boston VR Vive Hackathon, where I was fortunate enough to be one of the first lucky few to try a Vive Pre. It kind of broke
by Ryan Sullivan, on April 13, 2016 - Unity & VR & Running In Place & Locomotion & HTC Vive
So now that I got a Vive Pre there were no more excuses. Once I got over the initial binge of trying out the other devs' available demos (SO AWESOME) it was time to get down to business. v5 for
by Ryan Sullivan, on March 06, 2016 - Unity & DK2 & VR & Running In Place & Locomotion
The problem with v.3 was that it would register lots of noise as signal, when really it was just noise, i.e. false steps. Since I had some interest in learning the event system in Unity, I started an approach that would detect discrete steps and send it as a step event, which would then move the user forward.
by Ryan Sullivan, on February 28, 2016 - Unity & DK2 & VR & Running In Place & Locomotion
While trying to tune the values of v.2 so that it was a bit more responsive I had an idea for doing it that seemed to make a lot more sense. Trigger Capsule! ... I should state here, that this is where I had originally stopped writing this post before actually implementing it. After a fair bit of work, I