Oculus Rift

[konradl]

Will Autodesk support headtracking VR goggles like the Oculus Rift soon?

Would be a really awesome tool to showcase products using Oculus Rift together with Showcase or maybe even straight in Inventor/Revit etc.

// Konrad

[cikho]

inb4 nobody in autodesk knows what the rift is

[KWKnoll]

I think there is some big opportunity for Autodesk to step-up and make and integration with the Oculus SDK. I would personal love to be able to bring something into Showcase, and author a file I could view with my Oculus Rift.

Autodesk just so you know the numbers. 60,000 SDK1 HMD’s were purchased world-wide, and another 25,000 orders (as of 4/1/14) for the newer SDK2. I don’t think this is a fade. I wonder how many Oculus rifts are in the halls of Autodesk. Jump into the game you have many owners of the Autodesk Building Design suite that would appreciate it.

[cikho]

the problem with showcase is that they should actually write a more complex camera management system.. it should not be very difficult, expecially starting from the AR tool we tested last year... it would be really good to test!

[tincupp]

At Au2013, in the exhibit hall there was an automobile setup in Showcase that made use of the Rift.  So it may already be done.  The gentelman running it would/could not divulge on what was going on behind the scenes.  It seemed to be native to showcase but possibly they were using some sort of control porting + stereoscopic like vorpx...either way it was very convincing.

[mOculus]

hey there 🙂

check out our Oculus Rift for Autodesk Maya Plugin

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www.moculus.io

[cikho]

unfortunately i don't use maya, and even more unfortunately, i don't have the rift 😛

but i like the TRIVIA page 😛

in any case, i don't even think the code can be rearranged for showcase if you ever thought about that.. it doesn't have any camera rotation control afaik, so it needs to have a part of code that somehow translate rotation information from the rift into camera and pivot coordinates..

meh..