Squarepusher virtual reality music video – WASD to look around

We're waiting on oculus at the moment to approve the gear VR build, They've been great but we've been having a few last minute problems with it. Hopefully if all goes it'll be on the store soon.

In the meantime the android and iphone apps have a cardboard mode so you if you've got a cardboard you can have a budget vr experience.

If you've got a DK2- hopefully we'll put out a build on that next week. Although I'm not sure how we'll release that.

Thanks

Thanks man!

A webgl version would have been great but as we were already targeting 360 youtube, android, google cardboard, iphone and gear VR I think another platform would have broken our dev! I would personally love to do more unity based webgl stuff- there's so much potential there for interactive animation. Like most things, In the end it just came down to money and time.

I agree though, It isn't really ideal that people are forced to use chrome and I think some people will see the undistorted version, not realise what it's meant to be and write it off. Which is a shame. It's early days for 360 video and I hope in a few months time I hope it's easier to see.

This is the first project I've done where viewing it on a phone is arguably the best experience (sorry Mr Lynch), you look silly waving your phone around but it's a bit of fun in the end of the day!

Our dev wrote a script that exported cube maps out of unity 30 frames a second. I then stitched those together in using the spherical projection node in nuke. We have the resolution up to 12k (6x 2k maps). Ideally in the future we'll have ~8k 360 so that you have a HD image wherever you look but 4k is the max for youtube and is really pushing what an average machine can decode without stutter. Thanks!

Our illustrator Pybus's work- http://pybism.com/ is a sort of blend of Pushwagner and Moebius through his own acid absurdist style. I'm sure Rob draws on all sorts of inspiration in his work- I can't say for sure if it was a conscious inspiration.

As for myself, I was drawing inspiration from (other than pybus) PS1 era games and artists like David O'Reilly, John Karel, Eran Hilleli and brianbrianbrianbrian.com basically everyone who embraces the low poly (we had a strict budget for how many triangles the gear VR's Note 4 could handle) Thanks!

From the description: "Best Viewed in Chrome Browser"

Using Chrome, it works as intended for me.

Oh dude, what a nice comment! I don't think it'll make any sorta dent like that in the world but thanks.

About money for nothing- isn't it funny how the cg looked so naff about 10 years after it came out? Yet now when I watch it- it looks kinda cool! I hope we look back on this sorta low fi era cg as fondly as 8 bit. Those guys back then just made the best they could with those tools.

Thanks Unfortunately I did not. The creative director Robin and Pybus met with him a couple of times. They relayed what everyone knows of him really, in that he's a very subversive and intelligent guy. He decried our era electronic music- and I think that's what he wanted to challenge with his album. This guy is a serious avant garde electronic pioneer- his new album was built entirely using his own software, which is pretty unique and crazy thing when you think about it.

By the screenshot, I would say it is a cylindrical projection of a sphere - the top row and bottom row represent just a single point of the sphere

I think I read that it needs to be a recent chrome. I can only confirm that it works as expected on ubuntu chrome `Version 42.0.2311.135 (64-bit)`