Neat. Dreams by Media Molecule on PS4 looks like a similar thing. (3D painting with motion controls, supposedly coming to VR too.)
TiltBrush by Google
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have this idea in my head that one of the niche communities in fifty years will be people who trawl through discarded mass storage devices: cobbling together hardware fixes, undeleting files, and scanning them to see whether they contain anything interesting, like cached pages of lost websites, photos containing the faces of celebrities but from decades before they were famous, troves of old corporate emails, and s…
Like historians? I also think they will exist in fifty years.
I think more like Verner Vinge's Programmer Archeologists[1], rather than Historians.
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#63I think it would be more accurate if they wrote "acquired by Google" instead of just "by Google". Also, why is this not under the Alphabet umbrella given that this product has nothing to do with search?
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#64I studied architecture. I can't wait to get my hands on this, it feels very much like the killer app for that niche. What separates the students from the men and women who have developed their "vision" is the ability to go back and forth between how you imagine a space will feel to walk through and the lines on the paper. This shortcuts that completely. With some snap to line and plane functions, mirroring, copy-past…
You just made me imagine how it would be to play a Sim City type of game in VR. I could create a city and then walk in it or drive through it or fly over it. So many different possibilities. I can't wait.
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#65This + a video of people playing 'Job Simulator' have me wanting to cancel my Oculus Rift preorder and get a Vive instead.
Having played both, I would strongly recommend you do. When I took off the vive my first thought was "no way I'm getting an oculus".
I see this sentiment a lot, but I've yet to see anything more. Could you elaborate on how you find the vive is better than the dk2?
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#66I would really love to do this with a bunch of friends in the same virtual room, physically present or not. Just painting together, walking through or around each other's creations and working together. I really hope they add a multiplayer aspect to this someday!
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#67We've got a Vive Pre so I've had the pleasure of being able to use this a bit. It's as fun and amazing as it looks in the promo video there. I'm not an artist so I can hardly put the features to any real use, but I'm always amazed to see what people are capable of creating. I think this is truly a new form of artistic expression - and I think it has the potential to become very popular in the future. I'm imagining ha…
> being able to walk around them and see them from different perspectives
Reminds me of something I believe I saw in an art documentary. It was said that sculptures, like Michelangelo's David, were meant to be seen at night by candlelight. Being able to do so allows for a change of perspective while walking around it, in addition to the flickering of the flame making it 'come alive'.
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#68Imagine the kind of fun one could have with this and a bit of THC.
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#69The announcement that TiltBrush will be available on the Vive's launch is what moved me from "Hmm, maybe" to "Shut up and take my money".
I just hope there's a way to export the ensuing paintings in some kind of 3D format. Self-expression in static form is all very well, but I want to take them into Maya, fire up the mocap suits, and make movies with them!
On a related note and without Google's marketing budget, there's also a guy working on early-stages animation software for VR including the Vive:
https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/489o5y/virtuanimato...
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#70Can you walk around, walk away and come back? How much movement is allowed before experience breaks down? This is the major difference between VR devices like Occulus/Cardboard vs Hololens.
It's on an HTC Vive so you're tethered to a PC with USB cables, but you have about a 15ft by 15ft square to move around in.