Former Microsoft Dev demonstrates VR Modeling prototype.

JordanN

Last year, I posted news of a famous Disney animator using VR to draw cartoons. Now here's a new example of a developer trying out 3D modeling in a Virtual Reality environment.



As someone who now owns a VR device, I can imagine the huge wave of creativity inspired it. While modeling is one major use for it, I personally look forward to seeing texture painting. It would be exactly like how Studio Laika paints all their props by hand.

fdfxd2

I can see my self sculpting in the vr
but I can't imagine it being practical in anyway to model in vr

ZacD

Oculus Medium definitely looks more fun and practical. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9XlnW_Megk

Shrike

That looks about as fast and easy as google sketchup (which is very fast and easy) but without the precision and 90% of the features to be honest. Not seeing any advantage, aside of the fun factor. 
For a serious modeling environment this will most likely never be competitive, but in a non serious one, like within a game, it could really be usable and something special. Build a castle in multiplayer then a car to drive around, that could really be something. 

PyrZern

So.... when I'm sculpting female torso, will it look like I'm rubbing her tits ??

low odor

It will be  great  for prototyping scale, and arm reach..it will be  most useful when Unreal and Unity let you do this with BSP or something similar..its not enough to eyeball things(at least it is annoying to adjust)...best to get the feel of the scene in HMD

lotet

Ive said it before and Il say it gain, VR is most likely a really, really bad idea for professional work.

could be cool for kids and schools though.

pablohotsauce

Cool, but prepare for neck RSI to be a thing, all of a sudden.

Also, why does it look like you're modeling inside a maximum-security holding cell?

EarthQuake

The best part of this is the feature where you delete stuff by throw it off the table.

Mant1k0re

pableaux said:

Cool, but prepare for neck RSI to be a thing, all of a sudden.

Also, why does it look like you're modeling inside a maximum-security holding cell?

I guess the idea is to have a background that isn't performance intensive for your system... maybe?

Also, we shouldn't presume to know how precise VR will be be 5 or 10 years from now just judging  from the current rather clumsy input solution such as Oculus Touch or the Vive wands.

If you've watched OC3 M. Abrash keynote, you have an idea of how big of a push there will be for technologies like hand and finger tracking in coming years. I'm not saying my mouse is going the way of the dinosaur any time soon, but it's very possible that 10 years from now we have an input solution precise enough to allow the fine gestures required by polygonal modeling packages, with finger or hand gestures recognition for shortcuts for instance. I think it's something to look forward to with cautious optimism.

musashidan

I'll only use this if I can don primitive-shaped boxing gloves and punch the shit of a boolean mesh......

Mant1k0re

haha, that's a great idea right here

ZacD

musashidan said:

I'll only use this if I can don primitive-shaped boxing gloves and punch the shit of a boolean mesh......

It'd be really cool if we could have multiple layers of meshes, like meat, bone, metal, wood, etc. It'd be taking a hammer to some meshes...