Oculus Bots Demo

Howdy All

If you don’t want to read my stuff, click below for Oculus Bots… The rest of this is exerpted from the readme. Please let me know what you think and any suggestions you have. I presume my spelling errors will be well reported. Obviously if there are any download issues please let me know right away. This runs on x86 only.

Short Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHqvgpcFhwc

Full Video: http://youtu.be/0Tmt7TMrKvY

Download: http://bit.ly/ZUObHJ

I’m Jesse Joudrey, from Jespionage entertainment. I’ve been waiting for the Oculus since last E3 (and so were we all, I know).

The day my kit arrived I was ecstatic and I was packing for a four day trip during which I wouldn’t be able to use it. Then I got injured and spent a bunch of time in bed. Finally yesterday I got a chance to play with the Tuscany demo, then the Sixense Tuscany demo (the one with hands) and then I started dropping oculus player objects into any unity environment I could find.

I got bored of that this morning and made Oculus Bots, which is a repurposing of Unity’s Angry Bots demo. None of the art in this is mine, and little of the scripting. I just stand on the shoulders of giants and flick the tiny switches.

Version 1.0:

  1. You can’t die. Who wants to die in a tech demo.
  2. The respawn system is totally broken, but this isn’t really a problem (see #1)
  3. The level geometry is not made for this type of perspective. Most obviously, there’s no roof. Secondarily, it may look like you should be able to shoot around something but sometimes you can’t. That’s the level geo for you.

I just want to close with how much I love Unity and Oculus. I’ve been playing with “VR” for years and I had no idea how to solve the latency and field-of-view issues until Oculus and Carmack started talking. Has anyone notice that he’s a pretty bright lad?

Watch this space. I’ve got other stuff in the works.

Cheers
Jesse Joudrey
jesse@jespionage.com
@JesseJoudrey
http://www.jespionage.com

Howdy All
I’ve uploaded a video play-through of the demo

Interesting fact: If you play the video full screen with an Oculus on, you get the full effect!

So, how does the Oculus feel.>> is that amazing??_