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paintedrealms
Honored Guest
I use blender a lot for 3d animation. I can design wonderful worlds using blender. Could we somehow create a development kit or plugin for blender? how would we go about taking our 3d world in blender and walking through it with our rift? can we create a step by step?
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Conz
Explorer
Blender is GPL, and the Rift SDK is not compatible with GPL 😞
http://robmyers.org/2013/04/26/oculus-rift-free-software/

See this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=487&p=6322

Holo
Explorer
Due to the license incompatibility it can't be distributed with blender itself, but a project like GameKit could very well get support.

yubinhydin
Explorer
Import your models, designs, etc into one of the free 3D engines, most of them come with a quick getting started tutorial, or Youtube.

I say the Free 3D engines as most of them provide you with an SDK or source code where you can add the Oculus Support.

Free Tools are listed here:
https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=554&p=7323&hilit=free#p7323

and check out the https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=35
section for engine support.

Unigine Engine gives a 30 day free trial and the SDK due out soon, will have oculus already integrated to save you some work.

regards,
Mike

Thoth_The3x
Explorer
Alternatively, there are people on these forums who would probably be happy to quickly throw your blender models into udk or unity and make a rift version for you, its not that much work.

Ausinspiration
Honored Guest
Surely we can at least create a node in the rendering pipeline to display an image properly on the Rift?

spleen387
Honored Guest
oooo thad be cool

Klopp
Honored Guest
Hello!
I love Blender and I've just got an Oculus rift, so I couldn't imagine anything else than joining them together! 😄

So I've created a little demo of what I've done : Check my repository here :
https://github.com/gustavklopp/VirtualReality_with_PIANO

By the way, I've connected my piano too to this 😄
Check this out! I would be very glad to see other people working with Blender and the rift!

DrOculus
Adventurer
Would it be possible to have a mutli cam set up like you have with Panocam and then video stitch it together to play in the Vrplayer?
This option would take a fair bit of time with having to render each camera separately?

Klopp, have you got blender running in the rift?

Klopp
Honored Guest
Sorry, I didn't get the notification of new message :oops:

"DrOculus" wrote:
Would it be possible to have a mutli cam set up like you have with Panocam and then video stitch it together to play in the Vrplayer? This option would take a fair bit of time with having to render each camera separately?

I didn't try it yet. I've got by the way a stereo webcam so It could be useful to try it!

"DrOculus" wrote:

Klopp, have you got blender running in the rift?

Yes I have: see here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGIAvD9M8mk
(live MIDI piano control inside Blender)