Jul Frukost

I made this before the holiday for a website and mailer for my company's tech breakfast series before the holidays; then promtly forgot about it. But it's back!

Jul Frukost/Connected Christmas by Matt Connors on Sketchfab

Google poly api for Unity

I had tried the download from the web and import option for Blocks before to Modo and Unity, and it seemed pretty clunky, not offense to the Google VR team, I just saw this as part of the workflow that would sit on the backlog. I have been doing 3d long enough that I just assumed that due to how new the Google Blocks and Poly tools are, that we'd have to wait a while to really see the next stage in the evolution - where we could create and edit in VR, then drop directly into an engine to move the ball forward. But here it is, nested right inside Unity! Granted, there is no scaling to speak of, and the meshes are combined into odd groupings, but the colors are there, and it's a good representation of the models. 

Google Blocks democratizing VR creation

Nov 5th, 'Cross Platform Blues'

Oct 25th, 'Blocksoween' model kit for Google VR

Google Blocks for the Oculus Touch has captured my imagination in a way that no other content-creation tool has in Virtual Reality thus far, in large part due to the fact that nearly anyone can make 3d content in seconds. The robot above is one of a handful of creations that I have made over the last few weeks since Google Blocks was released. While the 3d technician in me wished that the tools in the app were more robust, that detail would come at the cost of complexity, and the low bar to entry is the most appealling part of this app. That makes the UX designer part of me smile, though the interface and use of tool are still a little rough, even compared to other Google VR tools like TiltBrush.

There's only  a certain level of complexity that's possible; even the scale has a upper and lower limit, but I've already found that elements that you've made and saved as a file can be imported as groups. The app is a little finicky about how those groups can be edited; you can change colors and parts of polygons, but you cannot edit the groups or delete elements of a group.