{"id":136393,"date":"2022-03-03T19:23:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/townscaper-developer-is-looking-into-vr-reveals-early-prototype"},"modified":"2022-03-03T19:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T03:23:10","slug":"townscaper-developer-is-looking-into-vr-reveals-early-prototype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/townscaper-developer-is-looking-into-vr-reveals-early-prototype","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Townscaper\u2019 Developer is Looking into VR, Reveals Early Prototype"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/townscaper-developer-is-looking-into-vr-reveals-early-prototype2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Townscaper<\/em> is a clever little town-building experience that gained notoriety back when it first launched on Steam Early Access in 2020. Now developer Oskar St\u00e5lberg has taken interest in VR design, showing a prototype of the pint-sized town creator running in VR.<\/p>\n<p>St\u00e5lberg took to Twitter today to ask some design advice from the VR developer community, offering a glimpse at <em>Townscaper\u2019s<\/em> quaint little models being plopped down and manipulated in VR.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p> Looking at basic VR design. Current idea is to use a point on a stick for interaction (rather than a raycast) so that you can build in the air. Those points also serve as grabbig points for grab-navigation. Feels tactile. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OskSta\/status\/1499321815063224330\/video\/1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pic.twitter.com\/QvqoJzkn9y\">pic.twitter.com\/QvqoJzkn9y<\/a><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townscaper is a clever little town-building experience that gained notoriety back when it first launched on Steam Early Access in 2020. Now developer Oskar St\u00e5lberg has taken interest in VR design, showing a prototype of the pint-sized town creator running in VR. St\u00e5lberg took to Twitter today to ask some design advice from the VR [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}