Franc-Tamponnage 2018 goes AR & VR!



Magna Vox is an association located at Dijon organizing concerts in the Burgundy – Franche – Comté region. In 2017 we already participate to the Franc Tamponnage‘s edition, with some applications you can find here. This time we improved one and create two others!

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Making a Unity game for the HTC Vive and the Oculus Gear

We currently faced the challenge of making a VR game (under NDA, so we can’t mention the game or even provide screenshots or code) for the HTC Vive (Steam VR) and the Gear VR (OculusSamsung Galaxy). In this post, we will present both headsets, the challenge they represent from a game design point of view, and also some developer feedbacks!
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Attending Reasons to in Brighton!

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What an exciting time to be in Brighton those days! With Tamsen, it’s the first time we’re attending Reasons to previously known as Flash on the Beach!

On the menu: Carlos Ulloa, Mario Klingemann, Rob Bateman, Joshua Davis, Jared Tarbell, Stacey Mulcahy… yeah we mostly got there for code and we’re not disappointed at all! Continue reading Attending Reasons to in Brighton!

Playing with VR and Unity

Today, Virtual Reality (VR) may be the hottest topic for interactive developers (Augmented Reality will be the next within few years for sure). Many constructors propose their own Head Mounted Device (HMD) : HTC & Valve with the Vive, Oculus, with their Oculus Rift and Gear VR for Samsung mobiles, Google and the very cheap DIY Google Cardboard, and many other ones. Naturally, Unity, which is the leading global game industry software (45% market share, 47% of developers), rapidly proposed built-in functionnalities to handle some of the VR devices.

In the end of the last year, we have been asked to create Unity tools to quickly prototype virtual visits with the Google Cardboard. It was the perfect project to dive deeper in the world of VR. Here, virtual visits were a set of photo-spheres and video-spheres, which are respectively photos and videos projected inside spheres, giving you the impression you are surrounded by the scenery (think about Google Street View). Furthemore, some parts of the photo-spheres had to be interactive and display some additional content like photos, videos, text, …

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