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My Neighbor Totoro In Virtual Reality
An anonymous reader writes "Nick Pitton, the developer behind the Spirited Away Boiler Room VR experience, has released his second project: the bus stop scene from Studio Ghibli's famous movie My Neighbor Totoro, once again in virtual reality for the Oculus Rift. Pittom 'hand-painted' the textures in Photoshop to recreated the painted-background feel of the movie. For the characters (Totoro and the Catbus) he used a cel-shaded approached to approximate the animated look from the movie. For his next project, he plans to recreate the ship and characters from the acclaimed anime Cowboy Bebop."
I don't have a OR, I don't think he's put the files out for you to play it on your OR.
And facebook owns OR now, so that sort of puts a damper on potential buying.
Still, stuff like this seems pretty damn cool.
Be seeing you...
One year after gun-owners were forced to surrender 640,381 personal firearms to be destroyed, including semi-automatic .22 rifles and shotguns, a program costing the government over 500 million dollars, the results are in
A dramatic increase in criminal activity has been experienced. Gun control advocates respond "Just wait... we'll be safer... you'll see".
OBSERVABLE FACTS, AFTER 12 MONTHS OF DATA:
Australia-wide, homicides are up 3.2%
Australia-wide, assaults are up 8.6%
Australia-wide, armed-robberies are up 44% (yes, FORTY-FOUR PERCENT)
In the state of Victoria, homicides-with-firearms are up 300%
Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in homicides-with- firearms
(changed dramatically in the past 12 months)
Figures over the previous 25 years show a steady decrease in armed-robbery- with-firearms
(changed dramatically in the past 12
months)
There has been a dramatic increase in breakins-and-assaults-of-the-elderly
At the time of the ban, the Prime Minister said "self-defense is not a reason for owning a firearm"
From 1910 to present, homicides in Australia had averaged about 1.8-per-100,000 or lower, a safe
society by any standard.
The ban has destroyed Australia's standings in some international sport shooting competitions
The membership of the Australian Sports Shooting Association has risen to 112,000, a 200% increase,
in response to the ban and as an attempt to organize against further controls, which are expected.
Australian politicians are on the spot and at a loss to explain how no improvement in "safety" has been observed after such monumental effort and expense was successfully expended in "ridding society of guns". Their response has been to "wait longer".
I couldn't help but notice:
- Input delay for head tracking (most probably due to Unity)
- Head tracking doesnt seem to match where he wants to look
- He's having to "flick" his head many times to "fix" the headtracking.
Back to basics and coding is whats needed here.
OR IP is more than likely being stripped apart by patent lawyers to ensure that none of the other up and coming VR competitors make it off of the starting block, Its a damn shame but that sort of thing could ultimately be the end of VR or at least set it back by years (we have already waited far too long). I really hope Facebook don't get in the way of what could be a long sought after technology in favour of a fast lame advertising return on a half baked product but I wont hold my breath.
So he just copies other peoples work and never thinks up anything himself?
Kind of like the doofuses who dress up in plastic star wars costumes.
The article's video had commentary which, whilst it may add flavour, doesn't exactly communicate the experience's idea. So here's a 4.5min video I found on youtube that has only the 'game' sounds: here
So it seems the Rift movies are in phase one still, where they experiment with replicating 2D movies in a 3D environment, and the result is about as boring as you'd expect. A bit like movie -> game (or vice-versa) conversions, you've really got to transform the work to fit the medium copying the scene verbatim with directionless self-insertion into the scene is pretty dull.
Based on my few minutes of thinking about it, I'm inclined to believe that the only way Rift "movies" will work is either as games or as replications of a play, where the user is stationary but can look around a scene in front of them from their vantage point. If you can't control at least part of the user's vision you're going to have a difficult time making a good movie – they could be looking in completely the wrong direction when something interesting happens, even with audio cues indicating where to look. A play allows the audience member to look around, but only in one major direction, which seems like it would fit the Rift pretty well. I guess this could include virtual concerts too; might even be able to do them in real-time with a good camera setup.
For all those teeming millions at the intersection of Oculus Rift owners and Spirited Away fans. The Internet is finally delivering on its promise of enhancing human knowledge, social interaction, and the wisdom of an engaged populace.
It looked like crap.
And his "election" is what happens when your populace feeds at the trough. All the more reason to bring back competency/literacy tests for voting.
I'm not getting into this new VR craze until they make Dragon Pink.
These scenes are pretty awesome, especially for anime fans. My girlfriend was a little apprehensive about trying out the rift, til I showed her the Boiler Room scene. I intend to let her see this one too, but I may wait for my dk2 to come in. The drift from the dk1 caused a fair bit of motion sickness for her after only a few minutes, and I don’t want to turn her off from VR completely. I know she’s a huge fan of Cowboy Bebop, so I suspect she’ll enjoy seeing that too.
A VR Faye Valentine, looks like there's an OR purchase in my future!
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The point was not to make society safer. The criminals never hand their guns in willingly. The point was to stop a 'downhill slide' of gun ownership to match america. The public can not longer easily defend themselves if the government decides to control the population with force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxI4GxamTqE