Building A Mixed Reality Tabletop Game FAST - Quest 3 & Presence Platform!

[@dilmerv]

💡To Get Started With The Presence Platform & Building Blocks check out the docs at: ocul.us/3Vadlsx 📌 Unity project and video resources shown today are NOW Available on GitHub: 👉 Resources ONLY: github.com/dilmerv/MetaXRTableTopGames_Resources 👉 Full Unity Project: github.com/dilmerv/MetaXRTableTopGames

[@jeffg4686]

Dilmer, I just wanted to suggest a video which is all comparisons between unity, godot, unreal for VR. Unity is definitely the most user friendly and has the most features. I've actually been testing out godot recently though and think it has everything I need for my project, and is MIT, but I also don't want to hold my brain around several game engines, and I've already got my head around Bevy, which doesn't really have VR yet. What are all the considerations for each deployment method? We have webXR, app store, direct on device (side load). Side loading will be more common in the future, so it's an important consideration. For each of those, and for all 3 engines, doing a breakdown. Because for one deployment, one might be a better answer. Is Unity free basically if you're making less than 200k from it? What about the entity you're delivering a solution to if you're a consultant - do they need a yearly license? Licensing is the big question with Unity - would love a deep dive on their latest pricing options.

[@discovr3D]

Your mixed reality (Quest 3) tutorials are extremely helpful! However, there were parts in the video during the creation and coding process that I wish had been slowed down to a normal pace without all the fast time-lapse edits. It made it hard to follow along in areas that I had never done before. As a beginner, it would greatly benefit us to see you work through each step in Unity and coding without a time-lapse so we can pick up on the little details and techniques you're using along the way. Aside from that, please keep up the great work!

[@dilmerv]

Thanks a lot for such great and detailed feedback. I did a poll about this specific topic in Twitter / X and just like you said, most people find that fast forwarding coding sessions on my videos is not as useful, which I why I will be changing this on new videos even if they get to be a lot longer. Thanks again and I appreciate your time!

[@discovr3D]

@@dilmerv That's great to hear! Thank you!!

[@AndrewTSq]

also.. your unity does not look like my Unity really.. so I have to try to understand why things are missing or if its in another place + it would be great if you zoomed in a bit, cause if I worked on a14" monitor, I cold not read what options you clicked on :)

[@jazinvr]

We need more tutorials like this!...however, I wish the coding section was not sped up sooo fast...Is there an extended version that allows us to follow along with you line-by-line from beginning to end?

[@dilmerv]

Thanks for your feedback! I will do another video where I can go through the code at normal speed and also add additional features. Expect it very soon !

[@jazinvr]

@@dilmerv Great!! Yes, a full tutorial at normal speed will be very helpful, especially for beginners (like myself) who are trying to follow and understand the logic and thought process behind each line of code in the script, etc...I'm looking forward to the extended version of the video soon. Thx again!

[@mosecolangelo8141]

awesome!, could you do a game in co-location multiplayer mode in XR for quest 3 ?

[@dilmerv]

Hey thanks for your comment, I have 2 videos in progress going over co-location and co-presence, they should be out within the next month or so. Thank you !

[@HeribertoReynoso]

You rocked this one out the ball park! I'm excited to implement these features this week. Great job Dilmer! Would love more content with MR and Quest 3 and what about multiplayer support via photon or can it be done via local LAN? I'm guessing a laptop is needed to host a Unity instance to relay packages to any headsets, perhaps? Would love to hear your thoughts on this!

[@dilmerv]

Hey Heriberto thanks a lot for your feedback man, this is very good info. As far as multiplayer, yes I am working on 2 new videos specifically with multiplayer, both videos will be available next month. Photon and NGO both support LAN networking, you could even test it all within one computer with multiple instances of Unity running.

[@HeribertoReynoso]

@@dilmerv I'll keep an eye out for that multilayer video. I have 10 headsets I use in schools hence my interest. I think we can all agree that multi is the way to go for MR in education.

[@JeanVeraSoto]

I would love to see those videos too. I was doing some testing with Fusion 2, but I don't like it it is too restrictive and also has some bugs with Interaction SDK v60. By far, I prefer Netcode for GameObjects

[@lairanderson4251]

Nice video. Very helpful! Thanks as always, Dilmer.

[@dilmerv]

Hey thanks again for your feedback Lair !

[@ar.manimaran]

awesome, would like to see more videos like this

[@dilmerv]

Thank you for your feedback, I have 3 more like this with different use cases!

[@gunterstunter]

​@@dilmervawesome!

[@JeffreyHopkinsGoogle]

Wonderful tutorial, very grateful to have it! Around 5:03 it appears you have linked the model of the Meta Quest 3 headset with your actual headset. How did that work? Thank you!

[@dilmerv]

Hey Jeffrey thanks for your time. It may look like the model is linked to my physical Meta Quest 3 but in reality is just the MetaQuest3 in front of the CameraRig with an offset on the Z axis. That part of the tutorial is mainly to show you that we can render by dragging the most fundamental Building Block which is the "Camera Rig".

[@eatergames3082]

You are amazing!! I really love your videos.

[@dilmerv]

Thanks a lot for your comment ! I appreciate your support and more videos coming soon!

[@biccsdev]

omg, this is just what i needed. Thanks for creating this.

[@dilmerv]

Thanks a lot for your feedback and if you have any questions let me know !

[@hectorramirez9442]

Great tutorial, I like these tutorials. It was like your other tutorials of ARFoundation with a lot of useful information.

[@dilmerv]

Thank you Hector I am glad you enjoyed this one! I want to make a new AR Foundation video series as well with phones and headsets, could you tell me which use case sounds more appealing to you? Games ? Utilities / Productivity Apps? Thank you !

[@hectorramirez9442]

@@dilmerv well for me is utilities/productivity mostly because I develop apps for manufacturing industry and medical

[@irinakirsanova3262]

Hey Dilmer, thank you for the amazing content. Just one feedback: the text in red that you write at the bottom of the video is always occluded by the controls of youtube both max and window view, and are very difficult to read. Otherwise very grateful for the work you are doing!

[@dilmerv]

Oh no! thank you for your feedback, this is something I don't see since I am used to doing the same over and over. I appreciate it and once again thank you!

[@JeanVeraSoto]

Great video! I love your content!

[@dilmerv]

Thanks for your feedback Jean, I appreciate your support !

[@beardordie5308]

How did you initialize a room scan with MRUK? Or did it just rely on you doing that independently before launching your app?

[@dilmerv]

Is so easy nowadays with these components, all you do is add the “Find Spawn Positions” building block which has a dependency on Room Mesh. That will make it work out of the box, also the room mesh component in the hierarchy has a “Mesh Volume” just make sure the mesh renderer on it is turned on. Great question !

[@glennjones9576]

I think you skipped over two things in your video. In the BasicCameraRigBB, scene how is the model linked to the headset? Also you need to delete the default camera?

[@dilmerv]

Hey great questions. When you drag and drop a Camera Rig building block then the system automatically disables the main camera. You could leave it there or delete it. For the model, it is not linked to the headset, instead it was just placed in front of the camera and offset a bit on the Z-Axis. Thanks and let me know if you have further questions.

[@glennjones9576]

@@dilmerv Hi thanks for the note about disabling the camera. Re: Model being linked to the camera, your video shows the headset moving when you moved your head? kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3mwpYl7jZ6CZrs - Maybe that is you just viewing it ... yea I got confused.

[@CagBurns]

Thanks for the tutorial, but i would have really appreciated it if you didn't zoom through loads of parts. It makes it really hard to follow for a beginner, especially as someone unfamiliar with C# coding in Unity. Could you please do a further breakdown of the code here or perhaps link to some resources?

[@dilmerv]

Hey thanks for your feedback, normally I put the code and resources in the description of each video. I am going to leave them here as well just in case, you can look at the entire project as well by cloning the repos. 📌 Unity project and video resources shown today are available on GitHub: 👉 Resources ONLY: github.com/dilmerv/MetaXRTableTopGames_Resources 👉 Full Unity Project: github.com/dilmerv/MetaXRTableTopGames

[@SD-ld7ce]

having a problem setting up the controller-driven hands, I would appreciate it if you upload a small video or reel showcasing that. Another problem, I'm having is not being able to run directly over the live link when I'm on my laptop(unity crashes) and if I run the same scene on PC it runs completely fine

[@dilmerv]

Hey I haven’t done controller-driven hands yet but I will look at their example, perhaps that’s a good way to get started unless you already looked at it and still have issues, let me know. As far as Link, I would suggest removing and reinstalling the Meta Link app from your laptop, also what are your laptop specs?

[@SD-ld7ce]

​@@dilmerv Tried the Oculus "Controller Driven Hands Pose Scene" example, but that was not working. Thanks for the suggestion, I will try reinstalling the Meta link app, but here are my specs - i7-12th Gen, 16GB RAM, RTX 3060 6GB Lenovo Ideapad

[@rajgohil8137]

Hey dilmer I can see your building blocks do not contain the new multiplayer features. Very excited about those

[@dilmerv]

Hey there, yes this video didn’t use v65 which is what comes with the multilayer buildings blocks, I will update the project and also 2 new videos coming covering those blocks :) thanks for your feedback!

[@wisdomkhan]

How can i occlude the 3d objects behind my real world scene objects such as furniture?

[@dilmerv]

Great question, take a look at this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5yZhoyDlq2NhdE thanks!

[@wisdomkhan]

Thanks. I implemented it using the repo of oculus samples

[@shadowcode6461]

i followed every step you mentioned....how is it when i press build and run nothing happens. Im using the same Unity Editor version, and downloaded your attachmentS, yet when i press build and run it does NOTHING.....Unity is so frustrating....I have yet to find a youtube video i can follow where the project runs at the end. I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING! ...I specifically sorted youtube results to "This Month" because unity is changing ever other week it seems like so alllllll the videos posted do NOT work! This one is 8 days old at the time of viewing and it STILL doesnt work...WTH!

[@dilmerv]

Welcome to development my friend 😉 honestly nothing will work the first, second, or third time, that’s just unfortunately how it is and it goes beyond just Unity. This happens to me frequently, don’t give up! my recommendation is to add logging to troubleshoot and learn by going through the process. I would also suggest to clone the complete project from github.com/dilmerv/MetaXRTableTopGames and do a comparison. Thanks for your time and if you still have problems you can also visit my discord at discord.gg/PfKycAPv where I am sure people there can help you out (including myself) and you can ask questions.

[@wisdomkhan]

The meta sim never works on my laptop. It just shows that synthetic env but no controller or anything.

[@dilmerv]

I had a similar problem and the fix was to switch the platform back to standalone (PC MAC & Linux) looks like it requires it. Let me know if that helps.

[@wisdomkhan]

@@dilmerv sure thanks.

[@zibitappert]

I was following the tutorial with great enthusiasm until the coding part and timelapse, it demotivated me and now I think I would never be able to do it all by myself :) Nevertheless I will keep trying new game devs you may post. Cheers!

[@dilmerv]

Thanks for your feedback man, I am posting a new MR video with a step by step, it is coming out Tuesday. Do you think fast forwarding broke your flow? Would you rather see line by line explanations?

[@zibitappert]

@@dilmerv hi! Great to hear from you. And yes, my flow was broken for 2 reasons, one was the fast forward in coding and then fast forward in adjusting properties of the elements in the project. Mind you, I am not a super experienced developer, I am ok with Unity, but unfortunately have 0 coding experience. So the video kinda made me feel that I would never learn proper app development if I have zero idea about coding. I envy those who can do that, big respect. Yes, I love developing (or trying to) for Quest 3 and explanation of a proper usage of the Meta blocks/tools would be sooo good to have on KZbin (instead of copy pasting the samples, but rather explanation of each tool). Maybe even a really short video for each tool if this makes sense. I think these are super powerful yet I feel super stupid not being able to properly understand all their settings 😀 I'm tired of copy pasting screenshots into chatGPT and asking to tell me what I'm supposed to know, lol 😀 Looking forward to your next video. You're doing a great job!

[@glennjones9576]

Loaded my Quest 2 with the Data forwarding server apk sucessfully but unable to connect from the simulator. Device list empty in device dropdown under the Data forwarding section. Suggestions on what to check?

[@dilmerv]

Yes I know exactly why, I had the same issues. Normally Unity installs Android NDK modules / platform tools within the Unity install location, well the sim can’t find it. The command that it runs behind the scenes to communicate with your device is: .\adb which is part of the Android dev tools. What I did was to install the Android Dev tools which includes that command at a global path in my windows machine, then just make sure the command is added to your path within system variables. I am sure there are other ways to fix this but that worked well.

[@rahafrafdan3034]

I’ve been trying to hit the ball, but when I let go of ‘U,’ it doesn’t go as far as yours. Is there something else I should press on the keyboard besides just releasing ‘U’?

[@dilmerv]

Hey thanks for your comment, is this happening with the GitHub repo I shared? Or did you re-create everything?

[@jazinvr]

My Quest 3 shows that its 'Active' in MQDH. I installed the Oculus ADB drivers and followed all your steps in the video to load the 'Data Forwarding Server' APK file, but the headset still does not seem to connect to the Meta XR simulator...There is no device listed in the 'Data Forwarding' section....Any idea how to get this to work properly?

[@dilmerv]

I got the exact same issue. Make sure you have adb command in your path (under system variables) basically try to run adb.exe from your command line and make sure it can be executed from anywhere, if so then restart the sim and try again.

[@jazinvr]

@@dilmerv It worked!! I was stuck on that for 2 days, thank you for the help and quick response!

[@gunterstunter]

Could uou show us how to do this in unreal?

[@dilmerv]

That would be a challenge ! I am not as familiar with unreal but thanks for the feedback!

[@gunterstunter]

@@dilmerv that's understandable! I haven't found many tutorials at all for unreal, relating to what you showcase for unity I know a lot of people in the community here would be very keen to follow along if you ever get the chance to give it a try :)

[@dilmerv]

Great to know, I agree, there's very little documentation about it. I will consider it for sure!

[@fireflyone-z9p]

hi can u post link for code so us learners can catch up please

[@dilmerv]

Yes the full project is available here: github.com/dilmerv/MetaXRTableTopGames Thanks for your time!