A collection of news highlights from GDC and VRDC
Journal entry from Micah Blumberg
Oculus announced Oculus Start a new program for VR developers, you can join for free and you get a year of Unity Plus for free for joining visit developer.oculus.com for details.
Oculus also announced the release of Platform Level Stats Reports, its a 28 day rolling report on Oculus hardware statistics for developers to look at, it includes Oculus Hardware Phone Model Statistics to help developers make informed decisions.
Watch this new Nvidia RTX Ray Tracing Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhBlmKtEAk
Read this Nvidia blog post about this new technology https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2018/03/19/whats-difference-between-ray-tracing-rasterization/
Atari revealed more information about it’s new game console intended for your television.
“Atari Unveils the Atari VCS “Video Computer System” and its Controllers
Atari unveils the official name, logo, and controller peripherals of what was previously called the Ataribox, and is now the Atari VCS.” https://www.dualshockers.com/atari-vcs-video-computer-system-unveiled/
Budget Cuts a Virtual Reality Game Application receives a release date: May 16th 2018 for SteamVR and Oculus Rift. http://neatcorporation.com/
Unity and Magic Leap are partnering to make it easier for developers to create apps for the Augmented Reality glasses. https://blogs.unity3d.com/2018/03/19/take-the-next-leap-unity-and-magic-leap-partner-to-deliver-technical-preview/
Magic Leap opened it’s creator portal yesterday for developers
Incase you missed the news the HTC Vive with controllers and base stations dropped in price you can now get it for $499 https://www.vive.com/us/ The Vive Pro price for the headset alone without a base station or controllers was announced to be $799. It remains to be seen how well the Vive Pro will sell but it’s price is higher than many people expected and a lot of folks online in Virtual Reality groups seem to be upset by the high price which is greater than expected.
“Disney’s Latest Research Project Can Turn Scripts Into Virtual Reality” http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/disney-research-cardinal-previz-vr-1202730650/
At GDC we saw Mixcast demo Mixed Reality without a Greenscreen using the Intel Realsense Camera
