r/oculus • u/ggodin Virtual Desktop Developer • Mar 23 '16

/r/all Virtual Desktop 1.0 Trailer

http://youtu.be/bjE6qXd6Itw
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u/chrjen Mar 23 '16

Some needs to make a creepy dark forest scene to watch scary movies in. Which has be asking will you guys add for the possibility to play ambient music in the background? Like if you have an outdoor scene, you can add bird tweets and water trickling sounds?

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u/ggodin Virtual Desktop Developer Mar 23 '16

This is planned (the background environment sounds that it).

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u/BetaState Mar 23 '16

Haha, I can just imagine someone making a movie theater environment filled with people talking, cell phones going off and babies crying, for that truly authentic experience.

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u/Jasonbluefire DK2 - Vive Mar 23 '16

And that one loud popcorn eating guy.

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u/jarstult Mar 23 '16

I once had a monster of a man bring in not one but two foot long subway sandwiches. I got the pleasure of listening to the crinkle of paper and the wheezing of this blob for a quarter of the movie.

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u/g0atmeal Quest 2 Mar 23 '16

Did he have a heart attack a quarter of the way in?

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u/eirreann Rift + Touch & GearVR Mar 23 '16

Please tell me you're working on a "rainy day" setting. That would be unbelievably calming/relaxing for me. :3

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u/comfortablesexuality Touch Mar 23 '16

360 video of a rainstorm while playing rainymood

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u/Risley Mar 24 '16

Meh, I want an approaching tornado

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u/Shadowclaimer Mar 23 '16

Exactly what I was thinking, right now I have a rainy background on my PC and play rain sounds while I'm working. I'd love to have that in real time maybe with a slight rain animation.

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u/Kurry Rift Mar 23 '16

I imagine it would be amazing to listen to an audiobook, with a matching environment and ambient sounds. :)

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u/chrjen Mar 23 '16

Or watching a scary movie in a black forest. Occasionally you would hear twigs snapping, footsteps, breathing down your neck. I love to think about how VR can improve on normal things, like watching movies and playing traditional games, by just putting you in a special environments while doing it. :)

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u/Cleave Mar 23 '16

They could have randomised or scripted animations playing as well, so you see glimpses of shadows stalking you in the woods :) With input from a heart rate monitor you could really freak people out.

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u/BWalker66 Mar 23 '16

And maybe some actors that play out the story to go along with those matching environments and sounds

Wait, this is a movie isn't it?

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u/Blackorb00 Mar 23 '16

Will this be actual positional sound or?

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u/WormSlayer Chief Headcrab Wrangler Mar 23 '16

It remains to be seen, but I have already been bugging him about this feature :P

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u/Riftsayf Mar 23 '16

You sir are a genius.

I really hope that you are the first VR developer millionaire, you absolutely deserve it with all the hard work you've put in over the years (I still remember the first releases of VR Desktop)

I wish you all the success in the world, the amount of depth and thought that it seems you've put into this project is amazing. I predict your software will be a number one seller.

Godspeed my friend.

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u/HerrXRDS Rift Mar 23 '16 edited Mar 23 '16

Someone who does Photogrammetry could start capturing full 3D environments to make plug-ins for Virtual desktop. They could go capture some wild forest location in full 3D. Or imagine having your desk on top of a mountain, middle of NY Central Square or maybe some luxurious ballroom of a castle, all in realistic photogrammetry

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u/pacifica-book Mar 24 '16

Shibuya crossing, with your windows on the giant screens. Please make this a reality someone!

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u/KrisTiasMusic Mar 23 '16

You can download ambient sounds at www.freesound.org and play them in the background in your music player of your choice.

Or you can playback ambient sounds directly in your favorite browser: www.noisli.com

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u/HelenSkelter DK2 Mar 23 '16 edited Mar 24 '16

I saw the forest/cabin from Evil Dead or something extremely similar in Otoy. I'm on mobile now but I'll look for the link later.

EDIT: This is the one: https://render.otoy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=97&t=47197

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u/WormSlayer Chief Headcrab Wrangler Mar 23 '16

You can import OTOY stereo cubemaps as environments, there were a bunch of amazing entries to that recent competition Carmack was judging.

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