I turned my house into a VR Game

You guys need to see this so this is a video from greg madison which blew up on social media and ever since i saw it i was obsessed with it i mean how freaking cool is this you’re inside a game that actually maps your house

So you know what like a lot of us i’m still stuck at home because of that pandemic outbreak so i thought why not try to recreate this but in my own house and i’m taking you on this journey so let’s get started okay so here is how we’re going to make

It so this is the oculus quest headset it has these little cameras on the front that tracks if the player is moving in the real world to move accordingly in the game so to map exactly my house we will need to somehow recreate everything to the centimeters ready and then position it accordingly

So that the virtual model match the real world which will prevent me to bang my toes on all my furnitures does it make sense so to reproduce my house i found out that the easiest way was to measure the dimension of the room using the augmented reality measurement app and if

You haven’t tried already go ahead it’s really impressive okay next based on the measure i took i drew this 2d plan so now my goal is to take this and put it in the computer so if you want to record this for your own house here is a little tip for you

Take a photo of the plan put it on a quad where you want to model your house make sure that the scale of the 2d plan match the scale in your game so in my case 4 square on paper represent 1 meter which is the side of a cube and now you

Just have to reproduce your house exactly on top of these lines Okay there you go the raw shape of the room is in the computer not bad not bad i know next we need to add some furniture that match my room but i got a good news like a lot of people i get most of my stuff from that big swedish store

And most of their furniture are available for free on the internet so let me just download this chair right there and put it in my scene a few moments later now let’s add some additional texture that looks like the floor and wool of my house as always let’s make everything dark so

That nobody will notice my lack of art skill and here you go we succeeded to model exactly my house already you can compare the two i think we did a great job okay so now is the tricky part so bear with me we now have a 3d model of the house that

Has the correct dimension now what we need to do is to position this 3d model so that it will stick where the real house is to do so i’m going to put a marker inside the game at a particular location so in front of the fridge for example

And drop the vr camera at this exact location in the scene this will make the default center of the game where the tracker is now before this in the game i need to be extremely careful and reset the original position of the player at the exact position

Where we put the tracker so i will drop my headset exactly here and reset the position by pressing on the oculus button in the right controller this way the center position of the game will match the center position of the player and everything should match but there is only one way

To find out and it’s to test the game oh my god already this is freaking unbelievable i mean i want to be totally honest with you the moment i started to reach out my art to touch a wall and i felt it at the same position i completely freaked out

But wait if you thought this was the end of the video you are wrong we are not done yet if we look at the original clip we can see that the ends of the player are inside the game too so let’s work on that i was able to quickly implement end tracking using

One of my tutorial link in the description below and now it is time for the real fun i want to implement some features that will let us interact with real object but change the virtual world what some would refer as mixed reality to do so i worked on some advanced and tracking interaction

Like pinch grab double end manipulation user interface and more from the mix ready toolkit by the way if you are interested to make your own vr game with these types of end tracking interactions i will upload an extra tutorial on my patreon which cover how to implement

All of these features and by subscribing to the 10 dollar pledge you will also have access to 10 other exclusive tutorials and to all the source code of my videos more than 30 projects in total with this project included and it also supports the channel so what do you want

More after implementing some end tracking interaction this is the final result it’s over guys I really love how this product turned out especially this 2d plan here that i’ve set at the exact height of my table this way it felt like i was touching a real surface while in vr and this coffee mug was also another test that i wanted to make to see what would happen

When manipulating a moving object in the real world and this was not without spilling some coffee all over the place so i’m curious what do you think of this project what feature would be awesome to see with this mixed reality setup tell me what you think in the comment

Section below for me i’m still getting surprised by the uses of vr i mean as shown by the hype cycle of emerging technology by gartner we know that vr is in a mature state and it’s true we are thinking this technology more and more everywhere

In real use case and not just for gaming but still one thing is for sure there is more potential to this technology that we will see when headset gets smaller and more powerful and i want to end this video by a quote from mark zuckerberg email that was leaked in february

Only thought about vr once you have a good vr ar system you no longer need to buy phones or tvs or many other physical objects they can just be game apps in a digital store is this where we are added with vr maybe but what this project has shown me is

That it was indeed possible and maybe closer than we can think it is anyway that is all for today thank you for watching this video till the end as always make sure to like this video so that youtube will recommend it to other vr lovers just like you

If you are interested by learning more about how to create your own end tracking application with advanced features come check out my patreon the link is in the description below on that matter a big thanks to the new patreon who joined this week you guys are the reason i’m able to do

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