Virtual reality

I enjoy playing In Death: Unchained & Pistol Whip on Oculus Quest 2. Playing Walkabout Mini Golf with friends is a great remote social bonding experience.

Games

• Lambda1VR - Port of the Xash3D-FWGS Half Life Engine to Oculus Quest.

Notes

• It’s only a metaverse if it’s decentralized and trustless, otherwise it’s just sparkling virtual reality.
• Facebook has a patent for a real-time online ad auction system that turns "organic objects" within a virtual world into "sponsored objects". The patent describes a similar process for advertisers to bid on "sponsored locations" within the metaverse.
• You need 8K per eye at 120 FPS for VR to work well

Links

• Glen Keane – Step into the Page
• Carmack Oculus Connect 5
• Future of VR at Oculus Connect 6 (2019)
• LOVR - Virtual Reality Engine.
• SideQuest - Open app store for mobile android based VR devices such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Quest or other android based devices. (Web)
• Simula - VR window manager for Linux that runs on top of Godot. (HN)
• Oculus Quest Hand Tracking Physic Examples
• Godot Oculus Quest Toolkit
• Virtual Reality DOS - Experimental "PC running DOS" emulator inside a VR environment.
• Half-Life: Alyx's SDK walkthrough (2020)
• Mozilla Hubs - Share a virtual room with friends. Watch videos, play with 3D objects, or just hang out. (Code)
• A-Frame - Make WebVR.
• Relativty - Open-source VR headset. (HN) (Code)
• Facebook Connect: John Carmack Unscripted Live (2020)
• Venture Reality Fund
• Oculus Quest Mixed Reality app for iOS
• Sega VR Revived: Emulating an Unreleased Genesis Accessory (HN)
• ALVR - Stream VR games from your PC to your Oculus Quest via Wi-FI.
• Varjo - Advanced virtual and mixed reality devices.
• When will virtual reality take off? The $100 bet (2020) (HN)
• Why the liquids in Half-Life Alyx look so dang good (2021)
• OpenVR Advanced Settings Overlay - Adds an overlay to the OpenVR dashboard that allows access to advanced settings and useful utilities.
• Oasis - Be Who You Really Are.
• Bullet Physics SDK - Real-time collision detection and multi-physics simulation for VR, games, visual effects, robotics, machine learning etc.
• My Convoluted VRChat Google Meet Setup (2021)
• Printing In Virtual Reality
• W3Reality - Elevating the Web to VR.
• LÖVR - Open source framework for rapidly building immersive 3D experiences. (HN)
• Full-body tracking in VR using AprilTag markers
• LucidVR open source force feedback VR gloves (HN)
• What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week (2021) (HN)
• SimulaVR - Office-focused, standalone VR headset built on top of Linux. (HN) (HN)
• Oculess - Removes account requirements and telemetry from Oculus Quest devices. (HN)
• vrLauncher - Allows you to launch various /hidden/ options of the Oculus Quest.
• The metaverse is bad, sorry (2021) (Tweet)
• Pimax - VR Headset | Virtual Reality Equipment. (Twitter) (12k Reality Series)
• Voices of VR Podcast
• Facebook Connect 2021
• Facebook Meta (HN) (Founder's Letter) (Article)
• Interview with Mark Zuckerberg about the Metaverse (2021) (HN)
• The metaverse is bullshit (2021) (HN)
• Billionaires See VR as a Way to Avoid Radical Social Change (2021) (Tweet)
• Inevitabilities in Facebook’s Meta play: exploitation, crime, regulation
• Ask HN: How is the “metaverse” concept different from the Second Life boom (2021)
• Checklist for Virtual Reality game developers
• Microsoft and the Metaverse (2021) (HN)
• Rats in Doom VR (HN)
• The Machine To Be Another - Embodiment Virtual Reality (EVR) System that credibly facilitates the Body Transfer Illusion.
• Trippy things to do with VR (2021)
• Awesome Metaverse
• I Spent Hundreds of Hours Working in VR (2022) (HN)
• Immers Space - Seeks to free the Immersive Web from the pitfalls of the social media era by using a decentralized model based on open Web standards.
• Hotham - Framework for creating incredible standalone VR experiences.
• Jolt Physics - Multi core friendly rigid body physics and collision detection library suitable for games and VR applications.
• Mondradiko - Future-proof VR engine for creating multiplayer virtual reality experiences.
• My First 80 Days of VR for Exercise (HN)
• Lifecast - 3D video for VR. (HN)
• Simular VR: Lenses and Schematics (2022) (HN)
• Nice VR games (2022)
• Zuck's Metaverse Revenge (2022)
• Immersed - Spawn 5 virtual monitors in VR to optimize focus & productivity.
• ViroReact - AR and VR library for React Native.
• Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality' (2022) (HN)
• NeuralPassthrough: Learned Real-Time View Synthesis for VR (2022) (Code)
• StereoKit - Easy-to-use mixed reality library for building HoloLens and VR applications with C# and OpenXR. (HN)
• Overte - 3D social software project seeking to incrementally bring about a truly free and open metaverse. (Code)
• Ask HN: Anyone tried development using an Oculus? (2022)