Oculus Connect 5 | Developing Bigscreen for PC and Mobile: Lessons on Cross-Platform Social VR

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Channel: Meta VR · 2018 · Gaming

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Bigscreen is a popular social VR app where people hang out and watch videos together on PC and mobile VR headsets. This session will cover technical and design lessons learned when implementing avatars, environments, UI, and networking for Bigscreen, with an emphasis on Unity and cross-platform VR development. We’ll also share pitfalls and surprising discoveries about porting from Rift to mobile VR.

Darshan Shankar, BigScreen

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