{"id":378,"date":"2023-04-05T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/?p=378"},"modified":"2023-04-05T13:48:23","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:48:23","slug":"spacerocks-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/2023\/04\/05\/spacerocks-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceRocks Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SpaceRocks was my ongoing Sense8 WorldToolKit demo app back in the 90s. While I no longer have access to the WTK libraries, I have been working to bring it back to life. My latest version (Dec 2021), for the Oculus Quest 2 and built with Unity, can be found here:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/files\/SpaceRocksVR.apk\">https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/files\/SpaceRocksVR.apk<\/a>\u00a0(42MB)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SpaceRocks_logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne_old\/rocks.htm\">link<\/a>\u00a0to my original SpaceRocks demo built back in 1997 when I was working for Sense8. The idea was to be a tribute to the classic Asteroids game built in 3D and using photos from the Hubble Space Telescope as textures for the background and asteroids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructions for \u201csideloading\u201d a APK file to your Quest can be found with a quick internet search, but here is one option:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/sideloading-quest-how-to\/embed\/#?secret=vjnmYZNAex#?secret=56HpbZXyk4\">https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/sideloading-quest-how-to\/embed\/#?secret=vjnmYZNAex#?secret=56HpbZXyk4<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some screenshots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0947.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-596\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lots of Space Rocks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-597\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nebulae<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0942.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-598\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Annoying Alien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceRocks was my ongoing Sense8 WorldToolKit demo app back in the 90s. While I no longer have access to the WTK libraries, I have been working to bring it back to life. My latest version (Dec 2021), for the Oculus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/2023\/04\/05\/spacerocks-lives\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cseng.com\/vr90\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}