Cross Platform Multiplayer Solution?

Is there a multiplayer solution (Unity Networking, Photon, Forge...) That allows cross Platform play between PC, Android, PS4?

Or to be more specific, Gear VR, Oculus, Vive, and PSVR?

I haven't been able to find any information on the cross platform aspect. A lot of solutions talk about supporting each platform but which one is best and communicating between them?

Anyone with some experience that can shed some light here?

 

Well, the VR technology has to do with rendering and not much with the network side of things.
If Unity supports those VR technologies (which is in the roadmap) then you will be able to integrate their networking API in your VR games just like you can do now with non-VR games.

This is true also for any other third party networking solutions such as those you have cited.

cheers

 

Alternatively you can use a solution such as SmartFoxServer which is essentially platform agnostic and provides client API for almost any existing dev environment.

 

All of that should be supported by Photon Unity Networking. It's been used by several VR showcases at GDC

 

I just saw you guys also released Photon Voice as well, that was going to be another question for later...
So with Photon I could get PS4, Android, and PC all playing together and all with voice chat?

I might have to look more into this, I had tried Photon a year ago but wasn't seriously looking at multiplayer until now.

The one time fee for $95 and 100CCU that includes Voice chat as well?

 

So far, we didn't run Photon Voice on PS4. It's using a native library, which we would have to compile (and test) accordingly. It shouldn't be a problem and if you let us know ahead of time, we can put this on the pipeline early enough.

You need individual subscriptions for Photon Realtime and Photon Voice. It's quite a bit of extra traffic, aside from the gameplay. It might seem cumbersome to have two subscriptions, but this way it's easier to use Photon Voice independently.
The one time fee only includes 100 CCU for one subscription for Photon Cloud, so Voice is not in that package.

 

Forgot to mention: The Photon Voice package includes the latest PUN version, so even if you'd buy PUN+ for the subscription, don't import the asset. Just use the invoice ID as coupon in our Dashboard.

 

Ahh ok good to know thanks for your help

How much of a performance overhead is running Photon? For a Gear VR game that is already getting close to the limits of what a S6 can pull off, is adding Photon going to have a big impact?

Example scene, being 4 players all moving and shooting out rigidbodies every second or 2.

 

That's really hard to tell.
In doubt, implement some dummy activity for the networking to see who performance is for your case.
We recently updated PUN performance-wise but there's always room to improve. Let us know if you find bottlenecks. Sometimes we have workarounds or can do something about it.

 

Sorry to revive a dead thread, but are there any updates on Photon Voice PS4 support?

 

Photon Voice 2 supports consoles, yes.
It does not have WebGL support though (in case that matters).