#gunspinningvr

[demonixis]

Now that the version 1.2.1 is out I can focus on the Universal Windows Platform version. This version is also important because it targets multiple devices such as regular PC, VR and.. Xbox One! Thanks to the Xbox Creator Program, you can create an UWP game and publish it to Xbox One. The game appears in a new section on games called Creator Program.

The version in this video is a simple click and deploy of the UWP version on my retail Xbox One. I just enabled the developer mode using the required app. It’s not yet ready, but I was pleasantly surprise because it works very well, without any kind of optimizations or anything else.

I started to work on specific components for UWP, to use the more features I can. That’s my current TODO list:

Building a better “console” FPS component

Xbox Live

Mixer

Cloud save (between VR, standard PC and Xbox)

Learderboard

Simplified menu (you don’t need all those options)

Better transitions between scenes

However I’m stuck on some parts because I use Unity 2017.2b9 and

There are bugs

The Mixed Reality integration is unstable (right now the near clipping plane is stuck to 20m. That breaks my per layer culling system)

The Xbox Live (Creator Program) for Unity is not compatible with .Net 4.6 (The funny part is that it’s not compatible because of a compatibility library to emulate some features of .Net 4.6)

I can not give you an estimated date, but the game will be on Xbox when all the problems are solved. That being said, it should not take so much time.

[demonixis]

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3vS7LiBc8Q)

[demonixis]

After some hacking, GunSpinning VR works on the Windows Universal Platform! 

Windows 10 Store, Windows 10 Mobile AND Windows 10 Mixed Realtiy.

My problems was about plugins 

SteamVR plugin (a lot of hacks, an issue has been opened)

OSVR plugin (I submited a Pull Request for that)

Ximmerse (A PR soon too)

[demonixis]

OSVR Unity support on Linux and Mac is not good as Windows because on those systems, you just have the minimum, aka Head/Positional Trakcking.

With small changes in the sources, I was able to add the distortion correction, which is IMHO the minimum. My pull request is ready to merge, we just have to wait...

So yes! You can do VR on Linux and Mac with OSVR, it's not as supported as Windows, but I'm working on it (when I can ;))

[demonixis]

Hey guys!

The alpha 0.2 will be released next week, probably on tuesday. One of the best feature in this release is a better HTC Vive support! Thanks to Wanadev (the company where I work), I'm able to use its Vive to bring a full support. It's not done,  because controllers are used in the menu only to validate an action. The selection is done with the gaze. However, you have a full control of the gun in game mode! According to many VR games, I also added a teleportation option.