Saber Thing VR Tech Demo

Devlog

• saberThing for Oculus Quest update
  February 10, 2020 by Dan Shimmyo

  I've spent the past 6 weeks on and off working on getting the post processing effects to work in saberThing for the Oculus Quest. The visuals in my opinion are 1000X better now. The frame rate suffer... Continue reading
• Oculus Quest version
  December 24, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  There's a new and very rough version of Saber Thing running on the Oculus Quest available now via download and Side Quest The Side Quest link is : https://xpan.cc/a-407 It's my first time using or pu... Continue reading
• Summer 2019 updates
  October 17, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  This past summer from around Aug 19 through Sept 20 I worked steadily on Saber Thing focusing on reducing frame rate drops and the user experience. I was also experimenting with a way to build charac... Continue reading
• Improved Valve Index support...
  August 18, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  The biggest update is accurately detecting an "index" or "knuckles" controller whether it is on a Vive or an Index. This way I can adjust the angle of the saber so it lines up with the weirdly lined u... Continue reading
• better audio spatialization and simple optimization
  August 09, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  I stumbled across a setting that makes the procedural audio sound a lot better, simply by switching on "spatialize post effects" on that audio source. I also realized, for some reason while I was in t... Continue reading
• LIV is back and 64Bit
  August 07, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  version 0.0.21 is now compiled for 64Bit to support the LIV sdk. If anyone still requires a 32-Bit version please let me know and I'll post both with every update. I'm avoiding that now because i thi... Continue reading

  
• Performance tweaks
  August 03, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  Discovered why there's a major framerate hiccup when you first cut or burn something, it's because I had the Burst Compiler jobs set to compile the first time they were used. I fixed all of those. I a... Continue reading
• performance updates 7/31/2019
  July 31, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  This is mainly a maintenance release which fixes a lot of small issues and reengineers some of the inner workings of the multiple systems to get them to play nicely with each other, hoping to reduce f... Continue reading
• improved toss mechanic
  July 12, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  improved the saber tossing mechanic by waiting until the saber is at rest before it switches off this was suggested by a kind commentor on reddit. Thanks for all your support!... Continue reading
• Unity patches and updated packages
  July 03, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  Updated from Unity version 2019.1.1 to 2019.1.8 which picks up a number of fixes and improvements including: 2019.1.1 - fixed any hit recast instead of first hit 2019.1.2 - XR: Fixed app memory leak w... Continue reading
• re-installed LIV sdk
  June 30, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  I'm still not confident with LIV integration so I've stripped it out and reinstalled it just in case I missed something in the previous install. I get different results every time. When I test it now... Continue reading
• LIV integration installed
  June 30, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  LIV sdk installed but not thoroughly tested... Continue reading
• knuckles grips support
  June 28, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  Got knuckles controllers grips to work for the grab toss mechanic... Continue reading
• adjusted grip button sensitivity
  June 26, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  fixes wonky toss mechanic when using the grip buttons on oculus rift... Continue reading
• Added optional HUD info for button/axis
  June 22, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  added optional HUD info for button presses and joystick axis changes to help improve support for new input devices (knuckles) - press "B" to enable/disable the button display... Continue reading
• saberThingDemo.0.0.5 updates
  June 21, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  added XR Device Name to the HUD to help support more devices added more device names to the startup scripts to try to support wmr devices more accurately... Continue reading
• saberThingDemo.0.0.4 update
  June 21, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  Fixed the missing WMR control scheme page which was completely blank (it should have at least showed the vive controls) I also drew up a schematic for the WMR control mapping. I still have other artw... Continue reading
• grip trigger added for saber grab mechanic
  June 20, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  A very small update to add the use of the right grip trigger to pull/grab the saber... Continue reading
• Updated move/rotate instructions in lobby
  June 18, 2019 by Dan Shimmyo

  Hey, it's my first dev log. I just updated the instruction billboards in the "lobby" area to include more detailed move/rotate instructions... Continue reading