So, a few of us gathered at Compsoft for another random GameJam, there was a theme but I don’t think anyone could remember what it was.  It was more of a hack some stuff together using Unity.  Now I am not the biggest fan of Unity, I love doing things the hard way, Unity seems to do too much for you, like Magic.

This time I focused on trying to get a simple example working for my Oculus Rift DK1 on a Mac, I thought this was going to be very hard.  I googled and saw Oculus’s new SDKs does not support OSX, I also saw very little mention of DK1.  I read about people hacking stuff together etc, things where not looking good.

However, the people at Unity rock, there was a simple tick box on the build settings for my project, that just made magic happen!  I had a simple 3D First person demo from the store, I ticked this box and BOOM, VR baby!.  I was actually blown away, to the point where I actually want to learn Unity!  I had a beautiful 3D Forest in VR without coding a single thing! (The demo of course had code but I had done nothing)

I couldn’t of made this by hand in a million years!  I then proceeded to add snow, a snowman and a elf!

Everyone has been telling me to use Unity, I think their right.  I just need to give in and learn it!