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Unity5 free and occulus rift DK2 possible right now ?

Discussion in 'AR/VR (XR) Discussion' started by educa, Apr 1, 2015.

  1. educa

    educa

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    Excuse me if I ask stuff that has been answered elsewhere, but I read a lot of info and some info says it can, some says it can not.

    If I download Unity 5 free version right now (I own Unity3D 3.x PRO license but didn't upgrade afterwards because I am educator and do non profit things). Can I then just buy a Occulus rift SDK 2 and immediately make small minigames which work on the RIFT ?

    In some threads I read that 5.x support for the rift is not yet ready.


    Kind regards,

    Bart
     
  2. jashan

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    Unity "free" actually has been supported for a little while, see blog posting from December 23, 2014: Calling all VR enthusiasts: target the Oculus Rift with Unity Free.

    Furthermore, Unity 5 Personal Edition has all the Pro-Features that Oculus support could need (I guess Image Effects, in particular). So with Unity 5 it would work anyways.

    I did read that some people were having troubles - but for me, so far, things always worked just fine.

    There was a direct Unity VR integration announced, including some details here on the forums: Oculus Rift without plugin details? - that one is indeed not ready, yet (it's in alpha) ... but you can use the Oculus SDK / Unity integration just fine, that's two different things.
     
  3. educa

    educa

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    Thanks for the info Jashan. I suppose you remember me ? The forum seems to have forgotten me since it shows I only joined the forum on march 3 2015 ;) but in reality I am a unity user since it was on mac only and I even was alpha/beta-tester upto U4

    Different other projects led interest away from unity3d but nowI finally have time again to join the 3d fun.
     
  4. jashan

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    Oh, yeah, Bart fka EducaSoft? I believe we're still connected via Skype. I do remember you - welcome back ... but there should be a way to recover your old forum account.