{"id":56,"date":"2019-02-27T13:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T13:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2019-02-27T17:01:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T17:01:29","slug":"virtuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/everything-else\/virtuality\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adding to my &#8220;whats in my office&#8221; blog, I picked up an Occulus Go 64GB in the last couple of weeks!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20190227_132628.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-57\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20190227_132628-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"Oculus Go\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20190227_132628-300x272.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20190227_132628-768x698.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20190227_132628-1024x930.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20190227_132628-503x457.jpg 503w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oculus Go<\/p>\n<p>This is such a cool device, and at a very reasonable price point (\u00a3250 is standard) opens up the world of VR completely!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing with Google Cardboard for a number of years and whilst impressive it was always limited by it &#8216;consuming&#8217; my Samsung Galaxy S5 (and latterly S9) and having very restrictive interaction capabilities &#8211; an ebay bluetooth controller just didn&#8217;t quite do it.<\/p>\n<p>Best stuff I&#8217;ve seen so far:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Face Your Fears &#8211; proper horrific scarey stuff\n<ul>\n<li>Childrens bedroom scenes will have you breaking out in a sweat<\/li>\n<li>Do pay for the Airplane experience, whether you&#8217;ll ever fly again is another matter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Overflight\n<ul>\n<li>A great little combat flight sim<\/li>\n<li>Campaign mode &#8211; first scene is soooo immersive, took me a while to crack it &#8211; in best pantomime style &#8220;he&#8217;s behind you!!!!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I thoroughly recommend cracking open the Go for sideloading apps and other tinkering stuff<\/p>\n<p>Ty Hurd has a great YouTube video on this subject at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iuG1PGUfSbM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iuG1PGUfSbM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ty (Tyco Tech) and Ramarcus seem to be the main men when it comes to Oculus Go Hacks, Apps and Accessories<\/p>\n<p>See their YouTube channels at:-<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tyco Tech &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1z5BGgIKk0d5vJ-Jhp9X9A\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC1z5BGgIKk0d5vJ-Jhp9X9A<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RaMarcus &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RaMarcus\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/RaMarcus<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding to my &#8220;whats in my office&#8221; blog, I picked up an Occulus Go 64GB in the last couple of weeks! Oculus Go This is such a cool device, and at a very reasonable price point (\u00a3250 is standard) opens up the world of VR completely! I&#8217;ve been playing with Google Cardboard for a number [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[14,13,16,15],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevenicklin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}