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Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by chrisan » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 11:07 AM UTC

6x9equals42 wrote: post #70

sytelus wrote: post #32

Can 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.

Do you happen to know the limitation they are getting around requiring cables? I can only imagine in the future it will be wireless. Not that I think I could wait that long to try VR, just curious :)

Bandwidth, power, weight, cost, combination of all?

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by oskrim » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 11:15 AM UTC

Can you share the space with other people wearing VR? Collaborating in something like this would really make it for me.

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by kimar » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 11:16 AM UTC

Looks amazing. Wonder how this would compare to Oculus Quill (although Quill is still an internal tool at the moment).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbhUdKvJfw8

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by mserdarsanli » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 11:28 AM UTC

http://buttersafe.com/2011/12/22/the-greatest-gift/

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by crummy » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 11:37 AM UTC

cooper12 wrote: post #17

Not exactly the same thing but I've actually been sitting on an idea for a mobile app that was inspired by Google: Essentially, you'd be able to look through your phone camera and draw on the world on the screen. Then other people could see your geolocated creations and maybe modify them. (I also considered autodecay for dense areas) I never did figure out the physics of how the projection would work or if the accura…

I saw a beta of this at a recent Berlin meetup that sounds similar to what you're talking about: http://gibbl.xyz/

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by skrowl » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:14 PM UTC

This is the first actual app I've seen that uses "room scale" VR that Valve/HTC talked up so much.

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by timwaagh » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:32 PM UTC

its so easy to miss the l

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by marknutter » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:34 PM UTC

If we nail VR over the next few years, it's going to change everybody's motivations. You think people are locked into their screens today? Just you wait..

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by killa_kyle » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:35 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #65

drewrv wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The Vive's entire ecosystem is set up for moving around, using your hands, and really being 'VR' like we've all imagined. The oculus is your head as a camera in comparison.

Re: TiltBrush by Google

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Post by Bjorkbat » Thu, Mar 03, 2016, 12:35 PM UTC

This is by far probably the biggest motivating factor for me to buy one of these latest gen VR headsets. Everyone else seems largely preoccupied with trying to get into VR filmmaking or slapping VR onto just any old game, but this really unleashes a lot of the potential of VR.

Admittedly I'm a little disappointed to see nothing about the old company's story on the website. The founders must seem truly remarkable, yet the landing page gives no clue as to who they are. We just know that it's by Google, which technically isn't wrong.