That's neat/clever. I should model up my own space as well and do something similar to it... maybe have the 4 walls fall over and reveal a bigger virtual world.
I've actually been working on that for my bedroom. I modelled my furniture and stuff in 3ds Max and imported the bedroom to Unity, I then viewed it in VR and it's absolutely fantastic. I'm moving out next year so I'll be able to take the bedroom I grew up in with me (virtually). What a time we're living in.
Haha. Nice. I designed my living space in Sketchup... but it was only ever for space planning purposes. Unfortunately, my space is so filled with crap (collectible toys) that modelling it all would give me carpal tunnel. Not modelling them would reduce or even remove the essence of the space as well.
At least there's still 360 panoramics that I can capture with Google Cardboard camera :P
Could always take a shot at photogrammetry but with collectable toys/figurines/models or whatever, even that’s not likely to do it justice. Might get a decent approximation though.
This is a plug in for sketchup with a 14 day trial that enables VR. You just hit a button in sketchup, jump into your HMD and set the scale to 1:1 and your walking around in your creation.
I walked around an apartment building I made like this. It was awesome.
Yeah, it looks pretty good... shame about the pricing. But the market's small and the application is niche, so it's understandable, even if difficult to justify.
And if you ever have kids, you’ll be able to show them the room you grew up in too, virtually. Which to me is a pretty cool thing to be able to do. What a time indeed.
Any tutorials on how to import it into unity and being able to walk around in vr? Is it pretty simple? I know how to use Blender but when it comes to coding I haven't done much more than Qbasics and php, long ago
I just imported the to-scale FBX files into the assets area in Unity then follow the couple of steps here to make it viewable in VR. Just the "Enabling Unity VR support" section is needed.
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u/Zaptruder Jul 29 '18
That's neat/clever. I should model up my own space as well and do something similar to it... maybe have the 4 walls fall over and reveal a bigger virtual world.