SharePoint spaces–Mixed Reality for the Enterprise

On Monday, Microsoft had the SharePoint Conference and in the keynote they introduced SharePoint spaces.

SharePoint spaces brings Mixed Reality to the enterprise. The reason why I’m talking about this is because it shows that Microsoft is planning on utilizing the immersive headsets in the enterprise and not just in the consumer market.

SharePoint spaces will be utilizing WebVR and BabylonJS, which makes sense, because SharePoint is a website building tool. Many enterprises utilize SharePoint for their company intranet’s.

If you are on the fence about digging into Mixed Reality and HoloLens development, this should tip you on over to the side of actually doing something to start learning this new way of development.

Head over to LearnHoloLens.com and sign up to learn what you need to develop mixed reality games, apps, and experiences for the HoloLens. This information is the very similar to what you need for the immersive headsets as well.

To see part of the SharePoint Conference keynote, you can watch my video here:

Awesome Five Star Unity Assets

Unity is having a crazy sell right now with many of the popular assets being 50% off. It is the May Madness Sale.

There are 1,386 5 star assets on sale right now. Here is my curated list of 57 unique assets that are on sale. From scripting frameworks, to toolkits, to 3d models, to effects, to VR and AR, there is bound to be an asset you’ll love. Check them out…

 

VR

Space for Unity

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Spaceship Cockpit

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Curved UI – VR Ready Solution

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VR Hands and FP Arms Pack

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Racing

Realistic Car Controller

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NWH Vehicle Physics

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Edy’s Vehicle Physics

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Realistic Car HD 02

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IK Driver Vehicle Controller

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Motorbikes Package animated

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AR

Dlib FaceLandMark Detector (Requires OpenCV for Unity)

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OpenCV for Unity

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Curved UI

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Mesh Tools

Mesh Effects

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UVPaint (skinned mesh Decal System)

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Mesh Materializer

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Colorify

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Tools and Frameworks

Bolt

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Playmaker

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Adventure Creator

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UFPS

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I2 Localization

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uMMORPG

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Dialouge System for Unity

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Love/Hate

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U Chroma Key

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Environment

CTS – Complete Terrain Shader

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GeNa

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Aquas

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Enviro – Sky and Weather

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Vegetation Studio

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Exteriors

Village Exteriors Kit

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Victorian Alleys

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The Wasteland

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Interiors

HQ Abandoned School

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Village Interior Kit

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House Furniture Pack

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HQ Residential House

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ArchVizPRO Interior Vol.1

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ArchVizPRO Interior Vol.2

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ArchVizPRO Interior Vol.3

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ArchVizPRO Interior Vol.4

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ArchVizPRO Interior Vol.5

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PBR Stage Equipment

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Easily Interiors

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Bachelor Pad Pack

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Animals

Unka the Dragon

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Low Poly Animated Animals

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Animals Full Pack

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Audio

Radio

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Animations

UMotion Pro – Animation Editor

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PuppetMaster

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Final IK

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Moveen

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Movement Animset Pro

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IK Driver Vehicle Controller

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Motorbikes Package animated

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Effects

Realistic Effects Pack 3

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Realistic Effects Pack 4

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Camera Filter Pack

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Magic Effects Pack 1

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CharacterFX Shader Pack

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These are affiliate links, but you can open them in an incognito window should you not want to support me. I did spend about 7 hours today curating this list, so I do hope you found it beneficial!

Hill Valley VR – Windows Mixed Reality via Edge – Back to the Future

Last week, I mentioned the Universal GameDev Challenge presented from Microsoft, Unity, Intel and Universal Studios. Like I mentioned last week, the Back to the Future intellectual property that can be used in the contest really got my attention.

It reminded me about a 3D experience I was able to have a peek into Hill Valley through a web browser. I saw it about the time that WebGL was coming out.

Well, I started digging into WebGL and WebVR a little bit and came across the demo on the Babylon.js site.

You can watch this week’s video where I show Hill Valley VR running through Edge on the Windows Mixed Reality device.

I mention it in the video, but I’ll say it here as well… The contest is for Windows 10 Universal games, not for WebVR. I just didn’t want there to be any confusion. It is the Universal GameDev challenge because it is running as a Universal Windows app and you get to utilize Universal Studio’s IP… see what they did there?

Enjoy the video!

ProBuilder for Unity is now Free

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The title says it all. It is pretty exciting news and if you are working on a VR title, then you definitely need to check it out because it makes creating rooms really simple.

You can watch me create two rooms and a hallway in just a couple of minutes in this week’s video: