A quick note about the strength of the sphere.

The edge of the sphere will be reinforced with two overlapping pieces of aluminium extrusion, but will the rest of the sphere be strong enough? Well the sphere will be primarily supported by 8 castor wheels and the omni chains will also spread some of the weight onto...

Animated Chain

In order to make a really compelling demonstration video we need to show the chains moving the sphere but despite watching several videos this has eluded me. So I sat down, broke it down to just what I need to figure out and made this: So near!! It messes up about...

Update #3 – We passed the first HAXLR8R selection test!

Feel Three is still in the running for HAXLR8R… Our pitch went well but the competition is fierce Two of the founders spent an hour yesterday morning pitching to one of the HAXLR8R partners via Skype. It went well, but they have a hard job picking just 15...

My Twitter ‘hacking’ worked!!

I wrote about moving our Twitter profile from 150 to 21 when people search for ‘oculus rift’ and then theorising that I could get it higher if the first words of the description were also ‘oculus rift’. Well I was right, we’re now on...

Oh no, what have I done?!?

I turned on ray tracing…. big mistake! Even though it took 6 minutes I now think the normal renders look terrible!! 🙂 Mmmm, reflected shadows!!! 🙂