Oculus VR Jam 2015 Test Thread

[Katerpilet]

Hey guys,

I figured I would start up a thread where people can link to their projects for testing for the Oculus VR Jam.

Here is my project, an ebook reader for the Oculus:

http://vrjam.challengepost.com/submi...chimera-reader

And here is the latest apk: https://vrjam-submissions.s3.amazona...-armv7-es2.apk

[aussieburger]

Very interested to see the other UE4 creations, so post away guys!

Here's my teams entry:

We Come In Peace ...
http://challengepost.com/software/we-come-in-peace
apk: https://vrjam-submissions.s3.amazona...-armv7-es2.apk

Note: I'm guessing it only works with the following combinations since it's using the MSAA hack:

Snapdragon with Kitkat 4.4.4
or
Exynos with Lollipop 5.0.1

[sinoth]

Here is my project, an ebook reader for the Oculus:

Black screen for me. I can hear some sound. I have a Snapdragon on 5.0.1.

We Come In Peace ...

Black screen for me. I can hear some sound. I have a Snapdragon on 5.0.1.

Would love to know if anyone can run mine!

MasterStroke:
Submission page
Latest APK

[aussieburger]

Black screen for me. I can hear some sound. I have a Snapdragon on 5.0.1.


Black screen for me. I can hear some sound. I have a Snapdragon on 5.0.1.

Would love to know if anyone can run mine!

MasterStroke:
Submission page
Latest APK

Yep like I guessed only the combinations I mentioned work:

Snapdragon with Kitkat 4.4.4
or
Exynos with Lollipop 5.0.1

EDIT: tested both and both working

[reality-01]

Thought I'd post my APK for The Curator's Mini-Museum of Natural History:

Link to shipping APK

It's called mm_03 when installed. Pretty sure it'll black screen too for some as I've also applied JJ's MSAA patch.

So who's gonna be my first tester then :-)

Let me know what you guys think!

[aussieburger]

robeastham - tested and working

Sinoth I found Masterstroke fun to play but it showed how good the MSAA patch is - imagine Masterstroke without all those swimming lines around your meshes (such a pity UE4 couldn't get this to work with snapdragon and lollipop for the jam )

[sinoth]

Sinoth I found Masterstroke fun to play but it showed how good the MSAA patch is - imagine Masterstroke without all those swimming lines around your meshes (such a pity UE4 couldn't get this to work with snapdragon and lollipop for the jam )

Thanks so much for testing! It makes me feel a lot better knowing it can run on a device other than mine. I totally agree about MSAA -- I decided to opt out due to my phone automatically upgrading on me. I hope the judges understand the state of UE4 at the time of the jam T_T

[NanoMind]

Here is our link:

https://vrjam-submissions.s3.amazona...-armv7-es2.apk

We had some problems with the latest build and like every one else we where pressed for time.
Hope you can get a glimpse of what we are after. We plan to build a much better version of this for release later on more VR platforms. It looked already so much better in the Rift then in the Gear.

Anyway; we had fun........ and we wish you all the best of luck with your entry.

[Bino]

Here's mine. Crazy ride to get this done. Too late to test but for those interested in seeing other peoples work.

http://vrjam.challengepost.com/submi...36548-telegear
https://vrjam-submissions.s3.amazona...-armv7-es2.apk

Controls

The controls for Telegear are designed to be simple as it only utilizes the touch pad.

Single tap

Shoots a visual marker. These will stick to level geometry to help show you the way. http://i.imgur.com/ralNacN.gifv

Tap and hold

Shoots a teleporter marker. These cubes will travel forwards until you let go. Aim at the cube to teleport to that location. Aim away to cancel teleportation. If the marker touches level geometry it will disappear. http://i.imgur.com/DaAWQN9.gifv

[Alexander Mejia]

Crime Watch Challenge Post Page

Download the .APK

It was rough getting this all together, and we never really solved performance issues completely on the GearVR, but Timewarp hides up a lot of the framerate inconsistencies.

Controls
We tested a DualShock 4 connected over Bluetooth. You should sit in a swivel chair where you can turn 360 degrees freely.

Left stick : Move forward/backward Right stick: Turn around manually (only if you’re restricted in turning) L1

[NobleSpoon]

I guess it's a little late for the testing but here's our submission:

TightropeVR Challenge Post Link

APK Download

Controls

This game is completely controller-free. Details are below, in addition to the included tutorial level.

Forward Movement: Look down

Balance: Left/Right head roll

Turn: [TOUCHPAD] + Left/Right head rotation

Duck: Physically duck (utilizes Android sensors)

Launch cannon (Circus): "Yes" head nodding

Reset HMD Orientation (Circus): [BACK]

Tutorial Skip/Exit (Loading/Tutorial): [BACK]

Universal Menu (Circus): [Long-Press BACK]

[aussieburger]

Controls

This game is completely controller-free. Details are below, in addition to the included tutorial level.

Forward Movement: Look down

Balance: Left/Right head roll

Turn: [TOUCHPAD] + Left/Right head rotation

Duck: Physically duck (utilizes Android sensors)

Hi NobleSpoon I had a implementation question for you regarding the controls - the forward movement and duck controls in particular - where they just using the tilt commands in UE4? how did you tell the difference between 'look down' and 'duck' exactly? Really liked these controls and would be interested in knowing for future projects

[NobleSpoon]

Hi NobleSpoon I had a implementation question for you regarding the controls - the forward movement and duck controls in particular - where they just using the tilt commands in UE4? how did you tell the difference between 'look down' and 'duck' exactly? Really liked these controls and would be interested in knowing for future projects

We were originally experimenting with a line trace with an invisible hit box attached in front of the player to trigger forward movement but we later changed it to use the HMD Pitch value from the breaking the HMD position and orientation node. We put some debug text in game to display the raw values to determine the min-max range and simply added a check to see if the HMD pitch was within that range to add forward movement. Fortunately, these translated the same for GearVR and DK2.

Ducking was trickier since the gravity values picked up by the android sensor don't seem to be the most consistent. For this, we piped the raw gravity values to our debug text to determine the optimal value. This had been adjusted multiple times throughout development and it's still far from perfect (will fire if you just look down fast enough). I believe the value we ended up using was 3. We just put the animation and camera movement on a 1 sec timer since returning from duck was too unreliable to detect with the sensor. I'm embarrassed to admit how many times I thought duck was broken when I was testing on the DK2... I'll just blame it on the lack of sleep, lol.

We did this project using Blueprints. If it will help, I'll post a screenshot of the movement and ducking stuff later today.

[aussieburger]

We were originally experimenting with a line trace with an invisible hit box attached in front of the player to trigger forward movement but we later changed it to use the HMD Pitch value from the breaking the HMD position and orientation node. We put some debug text in game to display the raw values to determine the min-max range and simply added a check to see if the HMD pitch was within that range to add forward movement. Fortunately, these translated the same for GearVR and DK2.

Ducking was trickier since the gravity values picked up by the android sensor don't seem to be the most consistent. For this, we piped the raw gravity values to our debug text to determine the optimal value. This had been adjusted multiple times throughout development and it's still far from perfect (will fire if you just look down fast enough). I believe the value we ended up using was 3. We just put the animation and camera movement on a 1 sec timer since returning from duck was too unreliable to detect with the sensor. I'm embarrassed to admit how many times I thought duck was broken when I was testing on the DK2... I'll just blame it on the lack of sleep, lol.

We did this project using Blueprints. If it will help, I'll post a screenshot of the movement and ducking stuff later today.

Great ideas there and it would be great to share that (as i'm also a blueprinter)! I'm sensitive to motion sickness with vr movement + traditional controls and find 'leaning' prevents it - hence this forward movement trick prevented 'sickness' for me I was not aware the gearvr gave hmd pitch values via Blueprints else would have thought about adding some movement as well Oh well for the next project!

[NobleSpoon]

As requested, here's the details from our character BP for the forward movement and ducking used in TightropeVR. Not necessarily the most efficient approach but it got the job done in the time allowed. Let me know if you have any specific questions on either of these and I can provide some additional details to help you along.

Movement


Ducking


-Matt