[RELEASED] VRSI VIRTUAL REALITY STEREO IMPOSTERS for VR Achieve Infinite Detail & Complexity

We are extremely happy and proud to announce VRSI: Virtual Reality Stereo Imposters is released and now Available on the
Unity Asset Store!

VRSI UNITY ASSET STORE
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/206167

Achieving Infinite Detail and Dense Complexity with True Stereoscopic 3D Imposters at almost Zero Performance Impact in VR is now Possible with VRSI !

NEW Unity Editor Tool for Standard / HDRP and URP Pipelines


Introducing

VRSI
VIRTUAL REALITY STEREO 3D IMPOSTERS

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VRSI is a Game Changer for Unity VR! Achieve Impossibly Complex and Dense Scenes even on very limited standalone VR headsets such as the Oculus Quest 1/2. The generated VRSI's look indistinguishable from their real 3D mesh counterparts. They can be dynamically lit by any light source, cast and receive shadows, animate (such as wind animation on trees and other vegetation) just like the real object after a very simple and rapid creation process in VRSI Creation Studio.

To truly appreciate the Power and versatility of VRSI it must be experienced inside Virtual Reality.

VRSI PC VR DEMO DOWNLOAD LINK

VRSI Discord Channel Now Active!
Go to Discord now for all general Enquiries and Support

The Demo is compatible With Oculus and Oculus Quest via Oculus link and HTC Vive. Steam VR is required for all VIVE HMD's (Native Oculus Quest APP Demo Coming soon)

Left Joystick to Teleport, Right to turn arround, A or X to togle main menu. The demo comprises of full day/night cycle including sun postion change. In the world's section the global Wind ammount can also be changed.

What is VRSI?

Traditional 2D Billboards or Standard Stereo Pair Images in Virtual reality cannot be effectively used as an Imposter to show a realistic representation. It either looks flat or suffers from the known stereo image pop-out effect as viewing distance changes. VRSI provides True 3D Stereo Billboards and look almost identical to the real object, even better most of the time. It is important to understand, VRSI is the only method to generate and display 3D Imposter Billboards in VR. Standard Side-By-Side stereo pair texture billboards cannot be used in VR due to locked image seperation, they will exhibit extreme Pop-Out when the viewer is far away and it will not fit in with any other existing object.



VRSI solves all of these issues by taking advantage of a feature only available in Virtual Reality. VRSI allows for an ultra-realistic representation that can be used as a true 3D Imposter, use multiple or even thousands or millions of instances as there is almost zero performance impact! Please keep in mind the generated VRSI billboards are best seen inside VR as the user will see the complete depth parallax.

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• Achieving Infinite Detail and Complexity in VR with True Stereoscopic 3D Imposters at almost Zero Performance Impact is now Possible. They look great at 'Any' Distance, even at extreme close-ups.​

• Exclusively developed to work with VR, VRSI will allow everyone to populate their VR worlds/scenes to look incredibly dense, a 5000000 Polygon Tree can be represented with a single polygon with full depth stereo paralax inside VR! This is Indispensable for any VR project when performance matters.​

• When you want to achieve the highest level of detail, density and Complexity at the Highest Performance, VRSI is the ideal tool for in your arsenal.​

What is included and how does VRSI work?

VRSI is a Unity tool and there are no other dependencies, once a VRSI is created in VRSI Studio scene, multiple prefabs are created with the correct shaders attached ready to be used. The generated prefabs range from;​

• Unlit stationary (Manual placement for Rocks, houses, etc..)​
• Y-locked unlit (Camera facing corrected for VR)​
• Lighttable stationary​
• Y-locked Lighttable (Camera facing corrected for VR)​

Lighttable shaders wil will be Lit by all the lights in the scene including casting and receiving shadows.

All the shaders have the option for Wind Animation toggle which can be used for most foliage. When MSAA is enabled, Alpha-to-coverage is also enabled on all the VRSI billboards for anti-aliased edges in VR. All shaders also include Color variation toggle to provide minor color changes, which is suitable for Trees and other foliage where they can all look different.

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We are extremely happy and proud to announce VRSI: Virtual Reality Stereo Imposters is released and now Available on the
Unity Asset Store!

VRSI UNITY ASSET STORE
https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/206167

This Thread is Only for the upcoming VRSI Plugin and we would appreciate all comments be related to it, thank you!​

 

Executable Demos and more in depth information will be posted soon, we appreciate everyone who reached out so far! we are very excited to provide this to the Unity community and VRSI we think is a game changer for VR in many scenarios and the possibilities are endless.

 

VRSI VIRTUAL REALITY STEREO IMPOSTERS COMING VERY SOON, THIS IS A GAME CHANGER FOR ALL UNITY VIRTUAL REALITY APPLICATIONS AND GAMES STAY TUNED!

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This sounds very interesting! when is it coming out and where can we download the demos?

 

We should have multiple executable Demos for both PC and Oculus via sidequest availble to test in the next day or so. VRSI is best apprecitated inside VR as it is impossible to portray the effectiveness just from a video. Without VRSI, Normaly, it is not possible to do Stereoscopic 3D billboards as it will be unusable due to The Pop-Out Effect, so when the camera is further away the paralax continues to get bigger and bigger and looks very strange and weird adn out of place. VRSI solves this issue and automates everything.

 

PC Demo coming tomorrow! For the first time you will experience the power and potential of VRSI

 

Looks like Nanite, in UE ?

 

Yes VRSI can be considered as Nanite for VR, VRSI provides True 3D Stereo Billboards and look almost identical to the real object, even better most of the time. It is important to understand, VRSI is the only method to generate and display 3D Imposter Billboards in VR. Standard Side-By-Side stereo pair texture billboards cannot be used in VR due to locked image seperation, they will exhibit extreme Pop-Out when the viewer is far away and it will not fit in with any other existing object.

 

Executable Demos for PC will be available later Today!

 

Sounds like magic. Can’t wait to try it.

James.

 

Where are the Demos? Cannot wait to see this in action...

 

...coming soon....

 

VRSI: VIRTUAL REALITY STEREO IMPOSTERS UNITY VR TECHNOLOGY DEMO VIDEO, Downloadable executables for both PC and Oculus Quest coming very soon.
Running on 1st Gen Oculus Quest at 90Hz ! Every Tree, Foliage and Rock are VRSI Imposters and inside VR they look indistinguishable from their real mesh counterparts. VRSI provides True and correct 3D depth paralax in VR.

To truly appreciate the Power and versatility of VRSI it must be experienced inside Virtual Reality

 

Executable PC VR Demo will be posted later today

 

VRSI: VIRTUAL REALITY STEREO IMPOSTERS UNITY VR TECHNOLOGY DEMO VIDEO 2, Downloadable executables for both PC and Oculus Quest coming very soon.​

Running on 1st Gen Oculus Quest. 3D Mesh comparison with VRSI, inside VR they look indistinguishable from their real mesh counterparts. VRSI provides True and correct 3D depth paralax in VR.

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To truly appreciate the Power and versatility of VRSI it must be experienced inside Virtual Reality​

 

I appreciate the effort gone into make the video's but they don't tell me anything of value. The camera doesn't even move. Pretty sure people will need to see an VR enabled EXE / APK to experience if this works or not.

Looking forward to that.

 

Yes VRSI is unique and VR only and it's hard to portray how good it is just from a video, you really need to see it in VR, were just about to upload the executable demo soon so everyone can experience it them selves. In VR, they look indistinguable from the real 3D mesh at any distance! Actually that scene in the video is impossible to run the oculus quest without VRSI, even 2nd gen Quest.

 

Excellent, looking forward to trying it in VR.

 

We're extremely excited to release the first PC VR Evaluation Demo for VRSI

VRSI PC VR DEMO DOWNLOAD LINK
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The Demo is compatible With Oculus and Oculus Quest via Oculus link and HTC Vive. Steam VR is required for all VIVE HMD's (Native Oculus Quest APP Demo Coming soon)

Left Joystick to Teleport, Right to turn arround, A or X to togle main menu.

The demo comprises of full day/night cycle including sun postion change. In the world's section the global Wind ammount can also be changed.​

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native Oculus quest app executable evaluation demo via sidequest coming very soon

 

VRSI will be available on the ASSET STORE VERY SOON!​

 

Huge congratulations, that’s very impressive. From a static position or teleporting around, the effect is quite realistic, even close up. I found it quite difficult to even tell what’s real mesh vs what a VRSI. Seriously, well done. This is very impressive.

Minor side note, I think there’s something funky with the mapping of your controllers for Quest over Oculus Link. I had to point with one hand and click with the other to select items on the menu. Also tested it with SteamVR and a Pico Neo 3headset. No issues there.

 

Thank you! we strongly like to invite everyone to try the VRSI PC Demo! and see the potential of VRSI in VR. The Controller mapping is a bug of the VR interaction framework we were using, we will fix this soon. VRSI is already being used in multiple upcoming VR titles which we will post videos of. Here is another VRSI of wall covering Vines, the original 3d mesh is over 3.4 million polygons, VRSI version 1 polygon! and looks identical in VR


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VRSI PC VR DEMO DOWNLOAD LINK
The Demo is compatible With Oculus and Oculus Quest via Oculus link and HTC Vive. Steam VR is required for all VIVE HMD's (Native Oculus Quest APP Demo Coming soon)

Left Joystick to Teleport, Right to turn arround, A or X to togle main menu.

The demo comprises of full day/night cycle including sun postion change. In the world's section the global Wind ammount can also be changed.

 

Do you have an estimated date on when you think this will be on the Asset Store, and pricing?

 

We are extremely happy and proud to announce VRSI: Virtual Reality Stereo Imposters is now Available on the Unity Asset Store!

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/206167

VRSI will be the most important additional arsenal in youre VR project in Unity. Achieve Impossibly Complex and Dense Scenes even on very limited standalone VR headset hardware.VRSI provides 50 to 100x performance increase to visuals.

 

VRSI Discord Channel Now Active!
Go to Discord now for all general Enquiries and Support
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We are extremely happy and proud to announce VRSI: Virtual Reality Stereo Imposters is now Available on the Unity Asset Store!

VRSI ASSET STORE LINK
VRSI PC VR DEMO DOWNLOAD

 

Hello,

can you really not use the demo at all without VR hardware? I cannot even confirm the first dialog box on Win 10 Pc.

 

VRSI is made for VR and it is also a very powerful Billboard engine, we will in the future make a non vr based demo.

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VRSI Discord Channel Now Active!
Go to Discord now for all general Enquiries and Support
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We are extremely happy and proud to announce VRSI: Virtual Reality Stereo Imposters is now Available on the Unity Asset Store!

VRSI ASSET STORE LINK
VRSI PC VR DEMO DOWNLOAD

 

Can you please advise me on an issue I’m having. When I generate a VRSI and drag it’s prefab into a new scene, the objects floats way off the round as the added transform points are way below the VRSI generated. . If I attempt to drag the VRSI down to ground level, the shadows get cut off.

 

Update:
It seems the issue is related to having VR enabled and a VR headset connected. If a VR headset is connected to the PC the FOV of the camera in the VRSI Creator scene is changed from 60 to 97.48452 automatically when I press Play. This change seems to be the root cause of the VRSI to generate incorrectly.

If I go into the XR Plug-in Management and disabled VR support, I can now generate VRSI’s correctly without any issues. Once done generating my VRSI’s, I can then enable VR support again and view the VRSI’s I generated.

Simply put, the solution for me right now is to turn simply turn off VR support while generating the VRSI’s and then turn it back on when I’m done.

 

We are happy to announce VRSI V1.1 update is now available to Download!

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VRSI 1.1

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1) Added two new demos


** MultiView_VRSI_Demo_Experimental **


This is a basic demo of Upcoming feature called Multi-View VRSI or MV-VRSI. The demo shows a Teddy bear with 16 VRSI packed into a single Texture Array. This allows

the VRSI to have multiple view points, you can essentially walk around it. We will include a new Tool in the next release of VRSI to make it simple to create Multi-View VRSI's.



** VRSI_LOD_Demo **


This demo show how you can easly replace the traditional billboards in LOD groups with VRSI alternative!. There are over 7000 Trees in the scene, that are GPU instanced.


2) Clean-up of VRSI Shaders and new Specular VRSI shaders added.


3) Two new VRSI's have been added to the VRSI_Examples


Teddy


PineTree (The original 3D version has over 700K triangles)


4) Added vrsiCamFacing_MSAA_DIRECTIONAL_BARE shader


This shader had no Wind or Color Variation support, so it's bare minimum. More Variants of Bare shaders will be released in the next update


5) Import Assist Has Been Updated

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VRSI Discord Channel Now Active!
Go to Discord now for all general Enquiries and Support

We are extremely happy and proud to announce VRSI: Virtual Reality Stereo Imposters is now Available on the Unity Asset Store!

VRSI ASSET STORE LINK
VRSI PC VR DEMO DOWNLOAD​

 

VRSI V1.2 Update coming very soon! with more new features and enhancements!

 

Hi I bought VRSI and it awesome ! I have juste one question when you release the render tool for generate multiview imposter ? I can't wait !

 

We are hoping to include multi-view feature in the next V1.2 update, if all goes well.

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VRSI Discord Channel Now Active!
Go to Discord now for all general Enquiries and Support
VRSI: Virtual Reality Stereo Imposters is now Available on the Unity Asset Store!
VRSI ASSET STORE LINK
VRSI PC VR DEMO DOWNLOAD

 

Discord invite link expired
Also waiting for apk to test with Quest 1 (can't use Oculus Link because of non-compatible video card)

 

Hi,
Does the demo download include a version that can be sideloaded into the Quest 2?

(I'm on osx.)

 

I want to see how it performs in a standalone headset like the Quest 2, without being tethered or wirelessly connected to a pc.
tx.

 

Fixed, thank you!

Yes , we will have a native Quest App via sidequest available very soon for evaluation of the Power of VRSI

 

NEW VRSI: VIRTUAL REALITY STEREO IMPOSTERS V1.2 Update is coming very soon with new features such as multi-view imposters, fixes & enhancements. Achieve Infinite Detail & Complexity in VR with almost zero performance impact! VRSI is a game changing new technology for Unity VR, Available now on the Unity Asset Store https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/slug/206167

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JOIN THE VRSI Discord Channel Now!
Go to Discord now for all general Enquiries and Support
VRSI ASSET STORE LINK
VRSI PC VR DEMO DOWNLOAD

 

Great, re native Quest app coming!
Will it be available for download before the price goes up?
i see price is now $84. and going up to $120 tomorrow. not sure what time it goes up. I'm in Canada. EST time.

I'd really like to see this on my Quest before i buy VRSI.

If the demo won't be ready today, would you please consider extending the 'new release' price period by a few days?

cheers.

 

Just bought VRSI.

Looking forward to trying the Quest demo.

 

This looks fantastic! Am I correct in understanding that it does not support URP?

 

Thank you! URP support will be coming very soon. The next update V1.2 will be available today and it includes 2 important requested features, Multi-View VRSI's and PC/Mobile support so VRSI can be used for Non-VR applications!

 

Great news! Because all of our VR projects are URP and this could be a game changer!

 

Hi,
I think you wrote the Quest standalone would be ready a few days ago.
Is there a download link?
If it's not available for download yet, what's the eta?
Thanks.

 

Should not be much longer, we are just completing multile Quest Demos and and more PC Demos!

 

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VRSI V1.2 UPDATE RELEASED! VIRTUAL REALITY STEREO IMPOSTERS

Multiple New Enhancements & Requested Features Added, Such as MULTI-VIEW VRSI, PC / MOBILE Compatibility For NON-VR PROJECTS and MORE! Achieve Infinite Detail and Extreme Complexity in Unity VR with almost zero performance impact. This is a true game changing technology! Purchase or Download the free Demo now to see VRSI in action now.

VRSI UNITY ASSET STORE

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VRSI 1.2
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1) Added Support to VRSI Creation Studio To Render High-Quality PC & MOBILE Ready Billboards. You can now toggle this option as a new Variant. There are also numerous new shader choices available for PC & MOBILE variants. More PC & MOBILE features and shaders are planned for next release.

2) We are introducing the all new VRSI_CREATOR_MULTIVIEW option in this release (Located In VRSI_CREATOR_START_HERE folder). VRSI_CREATOR_MULTIVIEW simplifies the process of creating VRSI's that have distinct number of views (Multi-View).

Multi-View Creation Process is essentially the same as a regular VRSI with the added option of view Count. This is the number of distict views in 360 Degrees around the object. There are also, accompanying shader options available in the Resources library.

TeddyBear Asset is now included in the resources folder, also used in VRSI_CREATOR_MULTIVIEW

3) All VRSI shaders have been updated to correctly support Single-Pass Stereo Rendering Mode in all VR modes including SteamVR.

4) Various Code Fixes and new supporting assets included

5) NEW Specular shader added to STATIC VRSI's, great for assets requiring Specular highlight such as props and rocks (complete PBR solution is coming soon)

6) Documentation update for Multi-View Creation process and PC & Mobile Use.

 

VRSI V1.3 UPDATE COMING SOON!

 

Hi. Will this work with distant mesh terrains?

 

VRSI is perfect for this! inside VR all distant mountains will look 3D and indistinguishable from the real mesh.