Playing Chess in Quest 2 Mixed Reality - Awesome Unity Slices Demo!

[@choppaa4204]

The coolest part about this, is that passthrough tech/software will ONLY get better

[@Donevigor]

It funny that when Greg speaks, Norms mouth is also animated. I guess its based on headset microphone interpretation? I wonder how they going to fix that?

[@its_zakd]

Great job showing the multiple views Norm. Made sense all the way through. Very exciting possibilities for so many table top games and ar glasses that may be able to take advantage of this to some degree.

[@TheAtromix97]

Man, dungeon's and dragons on this would be actual heaven

[@cognitionignition]

It would be fantastic, either DMing or playing as a member of the party. User/player avatar designs could precisely match their minis on the table. Player gestures might be copied in real-time by their tabletop minis! The DM could make the "volume" space match the map setting on the tabletop. Sound effects could be localized precisely in the game space. Monsters could fly in from the volume and down onto the board. And I don't know if this particular setup allows for it, but if the users/players could opt to play via their own minis' viewpoints on the tabletop... The potential for fun here is absolutely wild. Can't wait to try it!

[@AfonsodelCB]

this looks pretty great, it was however a bit weird seeing the guy in front of norm speak and see norm's VR avatar mouth move as if he was speaking, was the only thing I saw that made it clear this was a demo

[@phunkaeg]

all that is happening there is that Gregs voice is being picked up on Norms microphone, and that's being translated into mouth movements. It's just an audio trigger because they're sitting next to each other in the same physical space, nothing to do with it being a demo.

[@MaraldBes]

yeah noticed that avatar mouth too. Maybe an audio gate on audio detect in the lipsync code would do the trick. With a slow-release or something. Should be straightforward for the Unity team or Oculus/meta to implement in the SDK. But the rest is just excellent stuff, can't wait to try or implement it in my own projects. The seamless switching of controllers and hands looks awesome.

[@deltaangelfire]

I've been waiting to see something like this (with warhammer instead of chess) for years

[@choppaa4204]

Same but yugioh

[@gillspee]

Or battle chess

[@MrHellmeowmix]

Holy shit the warhammer application would be incredible

[@DPedroBoh]

Will be cool to have some battle chess or wizard's chess. Of course, aside from like everything else you can do with this technology. This is amazing.

[@WEEBLE_FORCE]

I'm thinking about trying to make it myself, can't find wizard chess anywhere

[@ryancappo]

The piano AR looks really cool.

[@Bassquake76]

Cool! Just got a quest on black friday so looking forward to giving this a try.

[@jameskenney5623]

I would love to see a game someday based off of Stargate. You would start out by dialing the location to a world and then physically go through the Stargate portal and then you have a mission to complete wherever you end up. Whether it be eliminating threats or helping locals or finding resources. Just being able to walk through the Stargate and then appear in infinite other worlds based on what you dial would be amazing, once you complete that task maybe you gain a technology or ability and are giving a hint as to what coordinates to dial up next..... Hopefully someday.

[@AntonyScerri]

very cool demo, looked very natural movements and nice blending the different reality mixes.

[@radpugguy]

I wonder if we could run an upscale and colorization algorithm on the pass through video to at least approximate the actual appearance of the room? At the very least it would be trippy.

[@epsilon1670]

What I could see being absolutely amazing would be to do like tabletop gaming so dnd, Warhammer and stuff like that all in vr/ar

[@MichaelHughes124]

This is amazing. MR is absolutely the future of headsets. A system designed specifically for this with simultaneous hand and controller tracking will be a gamechanger. The inverse kinematics have great fidelity now as well. Super impressive.

[@chris-hayes]

I was not convinced coming into this video considering how crappy pass through looks. But, the mixed reality is impressively seamless, makes pass-through quality not matter as much. I continue to be impressed by how good the hand tracking is too.

[@thed4rknss673]

Imagine how cool would be play a TCG like Yugioh, Vanguard or Magic in a table like this

[@RDsToys_Games]

VR D&D would be awesome

[@bobhawkey3783]

Oculus already has the ability pull your couch and your desk into your room setup. Even that is pretty impressive. This is very cool, thank you for covering these innovations in what has been a slightly moribund technology for a few years.

[@chris-hayes]

Greg and Norm talking causes both characters to move their mouth 🤣

[@danielericcardo9180]

does it possible to share the passthrough camera vision with the other partecipants?

[@LucasVieira-fr9cu]

man playing dnd in 10 years is going to be something else huh

[@DaanWassen]

Wow, loved watching this! Thanks for the demo guys. Can’t wait to try :)

[@Zeieraoh]

wow that looks really good though o.o very very fluid

[@Artak091]

Looks so cool I'd 100 percent buy one if it didn't require a Facebook account. The quest 2 looks awesome but I don't use Facebook.

[@JD2jr.]

can't wait for an open source hack of the Q2

[@namegoeshere197]

quest headsets will not require a facebook account from 2022

[@DriveCancelDC]

@@JD2jr. It's not going to happen while retaining use of the store, which makes the Quest completely gimped.

[@DriveCancelDC]

@@namegoeshere197 But you will not be able to use the store without one, so it's only useful for sideloading and Oculus Link.

[@JD2jr.]

@@DriveCancelDC there are plenty of openvr programs. Not giving any more money to Facebook.

[@alastaircatto4989]

Great video! How did you get a rectangular output image from the passthrough, rather than just one eye?

[@GirlGeekLovesStampin]

Can anyone start playing around with the Unity files? I'd love to test this out too! Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@NickNeutron]

D&D dream right there !! with friends arround the world

[@k3nzngtn]

Would be nice if you do the same thing with the quest pro for comparison. 💛

[@EhlistarsWrath]

*looks at thumbnail* Oh hey Vsauce, Adam here

[@DeluxeFlame]

Really wanted something like this for deck builders, easy shuffle at a press of a button would speed up the game tremendously. Then we would just play table top simulator at that point. But the feel of the cards and slapping down adds to the experience. Biggest thing is my friends love to see my face contort and react to the situation. We'd have to have a hologram projector over face covered VR.

[@bitbrain3468]

I'm not sure if this is what you mean but there are lots of programs doing face -> avatar and I can only see them getting better. People will be able to see exactly how your face contorts :D

[@Cooe.]

Quest Pro ("Project Cambria") will have full eye & face tracking.

[@ronch182]

If they want to do AR chess can't they just use trackers on real pieces and their 3D models of those pieces?

[@GamerForLife514]

The Future looks bright, I hope someone gets the permission to make a Terminator and The Matrix Games. Eve Online VR would be awesome also.

[@Ou_dembele]

Keep making videos on Mixed reality XR

[@dergerat_4542]

Could you make a playlist with the tested VR content, would be nice for revisting the videos

[@JimPAnimation]

Why didn't Oculus put better color/def cameras in their Quest2? They released Q2 just last year and they HAD to have a plan.. I guess 'the plan' was they want to force us to buy a NEW model for ANY AR apps.

[@Cooe.]

No... It's called price dipshit. They're already selling the Quest 2 at a loss (even WITH the new +$100 price), and that's with the CURRENT cameras. High-res, high fps, ultra-wide RGB cameras are NOT cheap!

[@kriptogaming123]

when is this coming out

[@zavierwiley]

Hope the quest 3 gets a game like this!

[@mylonov]

What is the strap that Greg uses?

[@holorn1280]

They have to do the Star Wars game now

[@rtkiiiprod]

this is soo cool

[@therubyredgamer8936]

Can I play this program, it looks pretty cool

[@Danman350]

"up to 4 people around a table" Mahjong?

[@ako_261]

Future kids will watch this and laugh. “Wow look how bad the quality is” I can hear it now.🤣

[@beeza]

“Black and white cameras? JEEZ CAVEMEN”

[@lighteningnewspodcast]

this is so accurate

[@billsargent3407]

I was so afraid that you had Will back as a guest! Thank god t was another guest

[@intent2modulate]

It's so scary, because you definitely couldn't just turn off a video you don't like.

[@kamillatocha]

i would undersrand it on like AR glasses but why quest ehere the passtrough is not something u wanna watch for long time asp that its very grainy and b/w

[@chris-hayes]

Yeah it doesn't look that great. It looks like that because it uses infrared cameras, infrared is used to tell the proximity of objects. Maybe Quest 3 will have color and higher res, but def more expensive.

[@Ad3tr]

The index has higher res and color passthrough, Lynx is better still. The fact that norm doesn’t talk much about that is pretty telling.

[@Cooe.]

@@Ad3tr But Valve & developers don't do SHIT with Index's passthrough, making it effectively WORTHLESS! THAT'S why Norm doesn't talk about it. THERE'S NOTHING TO FUCKING TALK ABOUT! Meta's putting it all that hard, HARD software work to build a foundation for AR. Valve otoh isn't doing jack shit but being off playing with Steam Deck & OS.

[@Veptis]

I am surprised that Oculus manages to get this level of hand tracking in real time. There is still Leap Motion and the other Ultra Leap products, and I do feel like they are the best and most robust option out yet. Still waiting on a Tested video on Project Northstar Perhaps having a mounted camera that is also part of the scene and giving you MR and AR, as sort of s fourth participant. Essentially for participants with a flat screen or video production.

[@chris-hayes]

Yeah the hand tracking is surprisingly good. It uses AI so more unusual hand movements or touching your hands together will make it break . I've played with it on my Quest 2, but no games seem to support it.

[@Ad3tr]

Quest hand tracking is much worse than Leap tracking.

[@abcdefhgty]

the flat chess pieces are a deal breaker for playing chess

[@cparoli1111]

Uau! That's a game changer!

[@Fogmeister]

I wish this wasn't anything to do with Facebook. That company needs to die in a fire.

[@Cooe.]

Yeah.... No thanks. I for one like VR not going back to being COMPLETELY dead industry just like it was after the 90's, thank you very much. (Modern VR would NOT have survived without Facebook buying Oculus and throwing away like 100 billion dollars into VR since. Them's just the cold hard facts. 🤷‍♂️)

[@Fogmeister]

@@Cooe. great, they kept VR alive. At what cost? Is VR so important to you that you would allow it's creator to undermine democracy across the world? That you would allow them to see and hear and track almost everything you do? Keeping VR alive doesn't make it any less of a scumbag evil corporation.

[@DaveHiggoHiggins]

mind... blown

[@oldcowbb]

i would love this if the oculus is not own by Facebook

[@divineglitch9550]

star wars chess

[@kingjellofish]

Someone will need to build an AR table that people can buy so peoples positions become uniform

[@jamesoloughlin]

Eager to make a 3 dimensional chess set. I mean of course the Star Trek 3 dimensional set not that it won't be also 3 dimensional I just mean…

[@Shuaiguy13]

All i can see are amazing DND adventures with me DM for my friends!

[@kx4532]

Cute can I install this?

[@kx4532]

@@angelina67 Leave me alone

[@chris-hayes]

This is a private demo, so not available yet. They need some time to refine the experience and then have devs build apps with it.

[@alaskankare]

great...just program that life away.

[@roadczar]

Meta - the beginning...

[@TomSoyer4]

The bridge image on your hoodie makes it look like you're wearing an orange bikini top.

[@whoowhaaat5666]

Yughi oh

[@AlexFoster2291]

about to be board games that have physics outside of reality. Impossible board games

[@SW0000A]

I personally won't do oculus stuff anymore. With the new Facebook "meta" and their overwhelming dystopian levels of spying and censorship. Cool tech but not worth giving money to Facebook or letting them in to my life any deeper. Hopefully a competitor comes in and makes similar or better stand alone VR in the future. I'm all in with vr at least on PC but once FB bought Oculus they became not worth it.

[@Cooe.]

Keep waiting. 🤷‍♂️ Meta's lost SOOOOO many billions on VR at this point they basically had no choice but to raise the Quest 2 price by +$100 and they're STILL selling it at a loss! Literally NOBODY else can or will be able to financially compete with them at any time in the near or moderate future. 🤷‍♂️

[@Vr6_Jason]

yea that's a big no for me, I'm good with real life!

[@Woodkin007]

Do not buy Chess Club VR. As of July 2023 it is continuously locking up or crashing.

[@MyLostToys]

Unless your head breaks off from this huge headset.

[@DriveCancelDC]

Oh no, a whole 500 grams! How will we cope?

[@MajorHavoc214]

Darn, exaggerated head movements means there is no active eye tracking yet.

[@DarkLink1996.]

Quest 2 is still the same Quest 2. Without an internal camera for eye tracking, it's not really possible to put that into a game. I think the new Pimax 12K has eye tracking, but it's also overpromising on features

[@DriveCancelDC]

@@DarkLink1996. Pimax also won't pay you for the amount of time you need to spend fucking around with their headset to get it to work properly in different games.

[@DarkLink1996.]

@@DriveCancelDC That goes for trying to use any headset on games not designed for it

[@Ad3tr]

He’s still calling them oculus? That’s just cringe, be a journalist. Oculus is dead for a year now, and it’s literally called the Meta Quest now.

[@sebastiannielsen9740]

Hi

[@TimoNoko]

Strangely Trivial and Boring. Dev Null and Soledad O'Brien was 30 years ago. Before Norm was even born.