World Builder (high quality)
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as a sci-fi vision of editing a world in VR, and a reference point for how VR and world-building tools have caught up.
What it is
World Builder is a short film by Bruce Branit in which a man uses holographic tools to build a world for the woman he loves.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2014 to 2016.
What Hacker News said
Cites wildpeaks · 2014-10 · on “Live Coding in VR with Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript, Three.js [video]”
Reminds me of Worldbuilder [1], a scifi short about a VR interface for editing the world around you. I kinda like the "grab object & kiss to save" gesture: it wouldn't make sense in 2D but feels natural in VR, although "grab & push object in your brain" might be easier implement to represent a save function. [this video]
Cites rayalez · 2014-12 · on “The Humane Representation of Thought [video]”
The interesting part is that a lot of what he is talking about is already possible. - You can use augmented reality or VR with something like Oculus to display things in 3D space. - You can use Motion Capture technologies, plus maybe some convenient remote-control/keyboard-like devices to put a human in that virtual space and manipulate things. Only 2 technologies(Oculus + Mocap) would be enough to accomplish something like this: [this video] Give a bunch of people oculus rifts and put them in the same virtual reality - and we have the dynamic stage he is talking about. They don't even have to be in the same room of course, we have 3D realtime MMORPGs and second-life that already solved that prob
Cites rawnlq · 2016-06 · on “Unreal Engine 4.12 released”
Unity has something similar: [LINK] Man, just 7 years ago this level of world building was science fiction: [this video]