About 6 months ago, like many indie devs, I began pushing away from the Big-4 on mobile to a much bigger audience (desktops & consoles) and part of that includes going VR.
I just wanted to say I’m excited to have ordered an OSVR headset today (thanks to continued sales of apps and games on BlackBerry especially). On a side note, I’ll probably be ordering an Oculus eventually, because they are dominating the scene. But the OSVR headset did certainly catch my eye.
If anyone else is playing in the OSVR scene, I’d love to hear what they are up to And to get an idea of any gotcha’s they may have encountered. I’m sure some folks out there have alpha headsets, and I need to think of which of my mobile apps to invest time into reworking for use on a VR headset.
I’ve also ordered the hacker kit, I’m sure Vive or Rift would be the ones dominating the market, but for VR prototyping I think this is a nice product and cheaper than the consumer version of Rift/Vive.
I’m currently working on a prototype of a VR RPG similar in look and feel to the King’s Field saga.
I’m using the Wiimote as current input (I hope to port it to STEM system in the future, meanwhile I accept razor hydra donations ) so the player can hold and move the torch and lit the dungeon, also swinging the sword to kill slimes is really fun
That’s such a cool idea. I have some box of wiimotes in the basement (I use them for Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects). I never though to us them that way. Your game idea sounds brilliant
Thanks! In fact when the wii was released I thought that it would be great to combine the motion controller with a modern VR headset, unfortunately after the 90s the VR madness was long forgotten.
Now that the VR is on the rise again and the commercial versions are going to be in stores in some months, I think it’s a good time to develop it
Until I get the HDK (From the pre-order email looks like it won’t arrive until December) I’m focusing on controls and general gameplay, without head movement the current prototype is kind of boring, but still here’s a little video of the sword swinging:
And the test arena + the current player model. It will be great when I would be finally able to see this with the HDK
And to get an idea of any gotcha’s they may have encountered. I’m sure some folks out there have alpha headsets, and I need to think of which of my mobile apps to invest time into reworking for use on a VR headset.
) so the player can hold and move the torch and lit the dungeon, also swinging the sword to kill slimes is really fun