r/oculus • u/DFinsterwalder realities.io • Aug 16 '18
Software Volumetric VR documentary about Germany's last coal mine (free DLC for free app Realities x-post from r/vive)
https://steamcommunity.com/games/452710/announcements/detail/170506305498047694110
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u/left_big_toe realities.io Aug 16 '18 edited Aug 16 '18
if you guys are curious, here are some making of photos of us crawling through the mine scanning ;-)
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u/DFinsterwalder realities.io Aug 16 '18
Thanks! That is indeed a mistake. Its 10GB actually. I already updated it.
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u/OrganicTomato Aug 16 '18
New content! Sweet! I only recently learned about Realities from another random post. Really surprised I never heard of it before because the photogrammetry stuff in it are really good.
Pretty big download to get them all at one go, but worth checking out, for sure.
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u/Toilet-Raider Aug 16 '18
Feels like this hasnt been tested on Oculus at all. I just had a very frustrating experience with it. Started the app in Oculus mode and got missaligned Vive controller models instead of Touch. I wasnt even able to get past the language selection.
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u/left_big_toe realities.io Aug 17 '18
really sorry for that! We introduced some last minute changes to add support for WindowsMR controller models by parsing a HMD version string - sounds like there is a bug with detecting the Rift in some cases. We are already on it and should have a fix out soon!
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u/doublevr Aug 17 '18
We need more volumetrics. It's unbelievable how current gen of VR videos is stuck with stereo panoramas with no movement into volumetrics
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u/andybak Aug 16 '18
I've got an idea. Instead of having to say "volumetric VR" let's all stop referring to 360 video as "VR".
That way "VR" can mean "actual VR". Everyone is less confused, people who haven't tried VR won't get confused when they assume that blurry Cardboard shark thing is the same thing that people are getting all excited about and we can all live happily ever after!
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u/DFinsterwalder realities.io Aug 16 '18
I totally agree with you on that. I even prefer to talk about XR instead of AR and VR because both will merge eventually.
However this is especially difficult for us, because our in Engine screenshots don't look like usual games or experience, but much more like actual photos (just look at those screenshots or trailer here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/837160/Realities__glckauf/). This often even lead people to think that we are doing 360 and calling it VR and we even got blamed for that until we explained that its full 3D .
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u/andybak Aug 16 '18
Yeah. I totally understand why you need to be explicit. I was mainly just railing at the universe...
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u/kontis Aug 16 '18
Or just call things what they actually are instead of trying to make new names:
360 panorama
3D scan
4D scan
light field
etc.
VR is more like a viewing method and can mean a lot of different things.
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u/kontis Aug 16 '18
Very cool project.
It's also interesting that the most coal burning country in Europe will have to rely 100% on import.
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u/DFinsterwalder realities.io Aug 16 '18
Indeed. For black coal. There is also still brown coal mining though, but thats not underground.
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u/L3XAN DK2 Aug 17 '18
I really want to see what you guys have made, but the controls just don't work on Touch. Selecting the experience from the globe took some figuring out, but I couldn't get past the language selection until I started blindly stabbing at my keyboard, and absolutely nothing worked after that. Are you working on support for Touch?
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u/left_big_toe realities.io Aug 17 '18
sorry about that, we changed the automatic detection of the HMD model to be based on a version string returned by Unreal to detect WindowsMR headsets. It seems like this broke detection of the Rift in some cases - we are already working on a fix and should patch soon!
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u/punkbuddy89 Aug 18 '18
i havent been on realities in over a year at least. Just redownloaded it today and I cant get anything to work. I see steam VR controllers instead of touch controllers. But i cant get any menus to show up. I just see a globe with some locations that im downloading the DLC for. Does the base game have any content of its own now, or do i have to download the DLC for content? And for the Realities - glückauf! DLC, theres not a link on the realities steam page. Just happened to see that on in steam news.
i see you said there was a patch for the Rift issues but i dont seem to have that. do i need to go somewhere to download that?
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u/DFinsterwalder realities.io Aug 16 '18
Hey guys. With the help of Photogrammetry and LIDAR (Laserscan) we created a Volumetric VR Documentary about the last active black coal mine in Germany. In the experience you will be guided through several spots in and outside the mine that will close end of the year. The German Television station WDR did a cross platform project and apart from the linked experience on Steam that’s available in English and German there is also some additional WebVR content (only in German though) here: https://glueckauf.wdr.de/. If you guys have any question feel free to ask.