ha, it reminds me of the Croquet Project
Linux in a Pixel Shader – A RISC-V Emulator for VRChat
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are the majority of avatars small children or furry-things? I'm really not one of those people who bashes nerdy or alternative culture but I can't deny that it weirds me out a bit. It's a clear barrier of entry for me.
I bought an Oculus Quest 2 earlier this year to check out the whole VR situation. It was basically a ghost town with pockets of children and, IMHO, sketchy folks having childlike conversation. I don't really know what I expected but it wasn't that. Aside from some focus issues the goggle hardware was pretty great but the VR world was not a good experience at all. :/
It's worth noting for anyone curious: the Quest 2 can't actually interact with or enter the majority of worlds because of technical constraints (they aren't even offered to Quest 2 users unless the author of the world explicitly opts into it and designs their world for it). Most adults are on private, PC-focused servers.
The application is not a stunning technical achievement, but it's unfair to judge the program by jcim's summary, because he seemingly went into it without knowledge of how it worked and wasn't able to access any of the interesting places. It would be like judging Skyrim by an SNES backport.
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#23Definitely watch the presentation by the developer in VR Chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2u7NOpzcBQ I haven't played VR Chat in a few years, and holy cow this makes me want to jump back in. Seeing fully captured motion avatars of people is SO immersive. It's absolutely insane how the experience of interacting with people can feel so natural even when they're on the other side of the planet. I just love watchin…
You got a timestamp? You linked to an almost 3 hour long video. Edit: Presentation starts around 1:24:00
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#24Definitely watch the presentation by the developer in VR Chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2u7NOpzcBQ I haven't played VR Chat in a few years, and holy cow this makes me want to jump back in. Seeing fully captured motion avatars of people is SO immersive. It's absolutely insane how the experience of interacting with people can feel so natural even when they're on the other side of the planet. I just love watchin…
Why are the majority of avatars small children or furry-things? I'm really not one of those people who bashes nerdy or alternative culture but I can't deny that it weirds me out a bit. It's a clear barrier of entry for me.
It seems representative of VR's demographics ime. Weird fantasy and wish fulfillment. It's kept me from the platform as well.
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#25reminds me of this https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/
Interesting. If I would want to solve that problem, first thing I would have tried is bypassing text representation of these shaders. For a few things in the past I have generated, and dynamically patched, D3D11 shaders directly in DXBC byte code, without HLSL anywhere. The byte code format is even documented by Microsoft. Not the complete DXBC files though, but some people on the internets have reverse engineered th…
Now you have a new set of problems: getting the compiler that consumes the bytecode not to crash. :)
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#26Definitely watch the presentation by the developer in VR Chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2u7NOpzcBQ I haven't played VR Chat in a few years, and holy cow this makes me want to jump back in. Seeing fully captured motion avatars of people is SO immersive. It's absolutely insane how the experience of interacting with people can feel so natural even when they're on the other side of the planet. I just love watchin…
Why are the majority of avatars small children or furry-things? I'm really not one of those people who bashes nerdy or alternative culture but I can't deny that it weirds me out a bit. It's a clear barrier of entry for me.
Should it be surprising that in a world where you can look however you want, lots of people would not choose to look how the real world forces them to?
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#27Interesting. Also, I would like to test VR walks such as the one from Albarracín, but my GPU only supports GL 2.1.
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#28good
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are the majority of avatars small children or furry-things? I'm really not one of those people who bashes nerdy or alternative culture but I can't deny that it weirds me out a bit. It's a clear barrier of entry for me.
Should it be surprising that in a world where you can look however you want, lots of people would not choose to look how the real world forces them to?
It's just surprising that everyone wants to look like a mix of a 16yo anime schoolgirl and a fox.
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#30Can I have it in WebGL now too? I wonder if the slow speed can be partially redeemed by having many emulated cores.
I can totally see a “show HN: webapp that turns your GPU into a discount xeon phi” appearing…