Virtual Reality

Development approaches

Open source development for an Unity application

• Licensing problems:
  1. 3rd party assets are already covered by a licence
  2. 3rd party assets are a core piece of the Unity way
  3. 3rd party assets have to be part of the game repository
  4. All of my own work should be published under a GPL (code) or CC (binary) licence

Virtual-reality under Linux

• Push for professional applications
• Not necessarily with Unity but lowlevel OpenVR compatibility
• The HTC Vive preorder promised Linux support from day 1
• Oculus dropped Linux (and macOS) completely
• VR on Linux
• Steam can't filter for VR on Linux applications
• SteamVR is kinda working, but freezes

Development ideas

Cross platform video player for virtual-reality and 360 videos

• Whirligig Media Player is built using Unity:
  1. Using AVpro pluging for video playback which doesn't support Linux
  2. Support libVLC render path (next to DiretShow, Media Foundation)

Play Android cardboard or Gear VR applications on desktop

• Android virtual machine or emulator
• Get headset movement and orientation, inject to VM
• Capture image from VM and play back as native side-by-side video in the desktop headset
• Correct the distortion