Physically Based Rendering in High Fidelity for Maya

Howdy folks!

Caitlyn Meeks here with the High Fidelity Content Team. This week, I’d like to talk about Physically Based Rendering and a straightforward pipeline into High Fidelity.

VNC in VR: Synchronized Virtual Desktops

WHAT: We load an HTML5-based VNC viewer into a web entity in the virtual world. It communicates over a websockets proxy layer with a VNC server running on my machine. Anyone with the IP address and the password can view or, with permission, interact.

Hosting your content for VR

Howdy folks!

Caitlyn here with the High Fidelity Content Team. As a world builder, your domain will likely consist of many pieces of content, served up as 3d models, textures, audio and script files. But where does all this stuff go and how does it get…

3D Audio for Shared VR

Audio is a critical, though often overlooked, part of the VR experience. Quality audio is essential for easy communication between real people. But it also has a meaningful impact on a user’s sense of immersion and presence in the world. This post covers some of the recent, and we think…

Dang Those Darn Draw Calls!

What’s up, metaverse? Caitlyn here with the High Fidelity content team.

Today, let’s talk about increasing your rendering performance by managing your draw calls.

High Fidelity now supports Oculus DK2 on Mac OSX

Taking advantage of recent improvements in our cross-platform rendering techniques, and our plug-in architecture, we were able to implement support for Oculus Rift on Mac OS X. This is now available for Mac users with an advanced GPU. Some…

Cross Platform VR, and Porting Timewarp to the Vive

Many developers working in VR right now use Unity or Unreal. For them, producing good VR content boils down to optimizing assets and non-rendering behaviors to allow enough rendering headroom to be comfortable on their target platform…

A missive about all things emissive!

What’s up, High Fidelity users!

Caitlyn Meeks here with another Content Team update. Today I’m just beaming, because I can’t wait to shed some light on how we’ve been using emissive maps in our Playa domain. The recent addition of emissive…

Let’s make a punchin’ clown

The inflatable punching bag clown is a classic American toy dating back to the 1950s, first made popular by the TV show character, Bozo the Clown. Marketed as the Bozo Bop Bag, this toy is basically an inflatable plastic sack with a weighted, rounded base. A simple punch sends…