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""" Andrew Fox @afoxdesign Seriously, Minecraft VR should’ve been a thing years ago. Building stuff with a buddy in fully immersive 3D. How is that not a hit J

by wslh 2y ago

""" Andrew Fox @afoxdesign Seriously, Minecraft VR should’ve been a thing years ago. Building stuff with a buddy in fully immersive 3D. How is that not a hit John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack We had it on Oculus Go — I did the initial port, then the Microsoft team did a full integration. I had it working in 6DOF on Quest, but other parts of Meta were negotiating with Microsoft to get some Xbox titles instead, and in the end we got neither. It was a damn shame. """ 6DOF [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_freedom

tosh 2y ago
Boz (CTO at Meta) in a reply: > We have tried to make our case to our friends many times! Tell any friends you have at Microsoft!
muststopmyths 2y ago
When they came out with HoloLens, Minecraft was the obvious killer app for it. But my mind has long ago stopped boggling at the number of ways Microsoft can find to not do the smart thing. Especially in gaming.
hackernewds 2y ago
> We have tried to make our case to our friends many times! Tell any friends you have at Microsoft! - boz
- bartonfink 2y ago
  Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41340180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41340180
bee_rider 2y ago
I remember playing Minecraft VR ages ago, 2018 maybe? Maybe it was a mod or something, I guess. It wasn’t very good, the game is all about hopping around very fast on waist-high blocks. I don’t normally get any sort of VR sickness but Minecraft was too much for me. Plus the cubes feel awkwardly sized to interact with.
- BlueTemplar 2y ago
  Yeah, I have tried shortly a Minecraft VR mod on Oculus Rift. (Shortly because I don't care about Minecraft, in fact I think that might have been the first time I even tried it ?) I thought that the official Minecraft VR/AR version had been released years ago ?!?

by wslh 2y ago

tosh 2y ago

Boz (CTO at Meta) in a reply: > We have tried to make our case to our friends many times! Tell any friends you have at Microsoft!

muststopmyths 2y ago

When they came out with HoloLens, Minecraft was the obvious killer app for it. But my mind has long ago stopped boggling at the number of ways Microsoft can find to not do the smart thing. Especially in gaming.

hackernewds 2y ago

> We have tried to make our case to our friends many times! Tell any friends you have at Microsoft! - boz

bartonfink 2y ago
Dupe. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41340180 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41340180

bee_rider 2y ago

I remember playing Minecraft VR ages ago, 2018 maybe? Maybe it was a mod or something, I guess. It wasn’t very good, the game is all about hopping around very fast on waist-high blocks. I don’t normally get any sort of VR sickness but Minecraft was too much for me. Plus the cubes feel awkwardly sized to interact with.

BlueTemplar 2y ago
Yeah, I have tried shortly a Minecraft VR mod on Oculus Rift. (Shortly because I don't care about Minecraft, in fact I think that might have been the first time I even tried it ?) I thought that the official Minecraft VR/AR version had been released years ago ?!?