Virtual Reality

Virtual reality is really cool.

VARTISTE

Pronounced VR-tíste (get it?), VARTISTE is a 2D Image editor that doubles as a 3D-surface texture editor as well. Basically like the GIMP or Photoshop in Virtual Reality.

• Launch VARTISTE
• Read the documentation
• View the source code

Trailer:

Feature Feed

VARISTE Demos - Curated tweets by zach_geek

Physics Playground

I put together an A-Frame integration for PhysX, and tested it using a virtual reality playground, complete with one player ping-pong, swords, bugs, and golf.

Check it out at https://fascinated-hip-period.glitch.me/

VR Banjo

Using the aframe-vartiste-toolkit, I put together a VR Banjo simulator. Pickup a pick or a "clawhammer hand" pick, and strum away!

• Source code: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/a-vr-banjo

VR Tranquil Typing

VR Tranquil Typing, for folks who want to write in a relaxing environment without having to see everything they've written. Inspired by the talented writer Evea Raye

• Launch: https://zach-geek.gitlab.io/vrtyping
• Source code: https://gitlab.com/zach-geek/vrtyping

VR Art

I've created a number of little amateur VR art pieces, mostly using VARTISTE + other VR modelling tools, like Gravity Sketch or Adobe Medium. You can see most of these on my Sketchfab Page.

Here's a few right here:

Original Bug Fighting Game

Launch the original bug fighting game in your browser!

Bug made in Oculus Medium. Game made with A-Frame

Quill Tools

I really enjoy drawing with Oculus Quill. I've put together a bunch of tools to make working with it easier. Including:

• A ruby library / jupyter notebook to make exporting all or part of a scene really easy and repeatable.
• Materials to bring Quill illustrations into UE4
• A UE4 blueprint to animate Quill models without the performance issues or headaches or the typical Skeleton mesh or Geometry cache methods

VR + AI

AI Dream Creations

I've been using BigGAN to generate some pretty bizarre creatures / objects, and then using Oculus Quill to turn them into 3D drawings & animations.

This guy looks like a mashup of an astronaut and a banjo player, with some elk thrown in..

Here's a butter-cycle:

AI Style Transfer

I've been playing around with using AI style transfer to fill in details of the unwrapped UVs from #Quillustrations

It seems to produce some pretty artsy looking results without much effort, though there's a lot more that can be done here.