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 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
by Ryan Sullivan, on January 25, 2016 - Unity & DK2 & VR & Running In Place & Locomotion
I spent a good part of Saturday cleaning up this code, messing with v.3 and doing some experimentation. I wanted to make sure it would actually work for the game I originally started designing it for, so I dropped it into Score! and gave it a shot. Overall I am very happy with how it works. It seems the
by Ryan Sullivan, on January 21, 2016 - Unity & DK2 & VR & Running In Place & Locomotion
After convincing myself that running in place had some merit I decided to take things a bit further. I had an idea for this that involved recording the most recent X frames and averaging them, then spent the day at