Virtual Reality Presentations

In this video, we take you through the recommended optimizations that enable you to get the most out of your game on mobile VR. 

This talk will outline how to improve the rendering quality of your VR content, describing the most common pitfalls and bad practices, before providing clear examples and mitigation solutions of how to best overcome them.

This session covers the experience in porting Unity applications to VR for the Gear VR and Daydream platforms. It includes some of the best practices to improve the performance and quality of mobile VR applications: MSAA, ASTC texture compression and highly-optimized rendering techniques based on local cubemaps. This presentation also includes the most relevant benefits expected from Vulkan in VR.

With the success of Samsung GearVR and recent launch of Google Daydream, mobile virtual reality has taken the consumer center stage. This talk will discuss the mobile VR technology available today, the challenges that mobile VR faces and the technological advances and optimizations available to overcome these challenges. In addition, we’ll cover both the current benefits of the Vulkan API and its potential for future applications. Finally, the speakers will consider how mobile VR technology is evolving and what the future of mobile VR holds for you.

High resolution and low latency graphics are key to providing VR users with a truly immersive experience. This talk will share tips and best practices for mobile VR on UE4, as well as the latest rendering techniques from UE4.14 onwards and how the graphics pipeline gets the most from the mobile form factor. Finally, the speakers will consider how mobile VR technology is evolving and what we can look forward to in the future of the field.

Watch the video on the GDC Vault site.

An overview of Mobile VR today, followed by a deeper look at Mobile VR latency, implementing Multiple Views and performance tuning.

Virtual Reality rendering pushes the hardware to the limits and rendering shadows and reflections in VR is challenging. The talk presents highly optimized rendering techniques for shadows and reflections in mobile VR and considers the importance of rendering stereo reflections in VR.

A look at how VR on a mobile device is achieved, what you can do to improve your VR experience, and what we might expect to see in the future.

Learn how to implement high-quality and efficient stereo reflections on mobile devices by using Unity’s native VR support. See the stunning results in the Ice Cave VR demo.

How high-quality VR graphics can be achieved on mobile devices by using Unity’s native VR support. Identify many of the challenges surrounding developing for mobile platforms and how best to overcome them.

Featuring a case study from nDreams showcasing the issues they faced when developing Unity-based mobile VR titles including their top rated “Perfect Beach” experience on Samsung Gear VR. It also outlines how they identified the causes of their issues and addressed them.

Finally, there is a look at what we might expect to see in the future of Mobile VR.

It seems like every virtual reality talk or article recently has a dos and don’ts section. These can be useful to get by, but to overcome many of the platform’s challenges, you need an understanding of what is actually happening under the surface. From movement to frame rates, to draw calls and UI, this talk outlines the actual causes of these issues, how you could overcome them, and why some well-meaning recommendations aren’t always based on fact…

2016 is the year high-end VR finally arrives, but it will be mobile VR that drives the technology’s growth over the next twelve months. nDreams’ CEO Patrick O’Luanaigh discusses many of the design and technical issues around supporting the multiple mobile VR headsets on the market and presents possible tactics to effectively overcome them.

Vendetta Online is a long-running 3D MMORPG available for mobile and PC platforms. In this presentation, lead developer John Bergman will cover some of the major challenges of adapting a complex, pre-existing title to a “VR-first” mobile experience and how these challenges were resolved. This includes everything from rendering optimization, to user interface and user experience issues.