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.

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…

Let’s Chat!

What’s up, Metaverse? Caitlyn Meeks here with the High Fidelity Content Team.

Today’s blog explains how you can set up and use text chat in High Fidelity.

The great thing about an extensible open-source platform is you can create the features you want. If…

Hackathon Recap!

Greetings VR Aficionados! Caitlyn here with the High Fidelity Content Team.

What better way to explore the possibilities of a new platform than with a good, old-fashioned Hackathon? That’s exactly the rhetorical question we were asking ourselves when we held our first High…

Fun Stuff Showcase — Maracas!

Buenas tardes, metaverse! Caitlyn here with the High Fidelity Content Team.

Nary a day goes by at High Fidelity when I am not surprised by a clever creations cooked up by our community or team members. There’s something inherently playful about an…