At YouTube Space New York, there's the Mixed Reality lab: a virtual reality setup using an HTC Vive, a third controller, and some fancy compositing equipment. It's brilliant, and I got to visit and look behind the scenes. Thanks to the YouTube Space team - you can find out more about them here: https://www.youtube.com/yt/space/en-GB/new-york.html The games are: The Lab by Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/450390/ Space Pirate Trainer: http://store.steampowered.com/app/418650/ Tilt Brush: http://store.steampowered.com/app/327140/ Edited by Michelle Martin (@mrsmmartin) I'm at http://tomscott.com on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tomscott on Facebook at http://facebook.com/tomscott and on Snapchat and Instagram as tomscottgo

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1. And to forestall the inevitable comments: yes, I know, I am not good at video games.
2. wonder how vr works on steram how did you get the game on steam in to the vr glassese
3. Hold my beer.......
4. nice topic, love it.
5. I've always wanted to paint my walls green.
6. So basically you need about 5 grand to set one of these up, not bad.
7. OMG that's so AWESOME!!!
8. ahem the highest one now is 1080ti
9. "If you want to do this at home, you're going to need a special effects studio"
10. throw that stick off the cliff and see what happens
11. Your video is fantastic, I noticed in the clip your externalcamera cfg file, a few if the values were set to 0 and there was a couple of lines at the bottom that I don't have on my cfg file.
    All of the values in mine have numbers next to them, I'm curious how you set yours up with zeros in there? Whenever I use the align tool it always inputs numbers in all fields
    Thankyou
12. Exactly what my software is all about, I'd gladly invite anyone interested in mixed reality to see my latest video!
13. Enter your INITIALS!!! ffs TS
14. An i7 (probably one of the broadwell E cpus) an gtx 1080 isn't that impressive.
15. Thumbs up for the knightmare mention, I used to love that programme, got them all on my PLEX server now ;^>
16. I just saw Barnacules do this!
17. As a videographer and editor who started working on tapedecks and a casablanca, this gives me purified anxiety.
18. Make the headset green
    
    So Google Youtube are using Unity but Google Chrome won't allow me to.
19. The future of Twitch VR streams?! Well done Youtube Space NY!
20. 1:20 ATEM Production Studio, holyfuck.. You know a company has too much funding when they use this as nothing more than a 2-way capture card.
    
    3:20 The BBCs setup wouldn't be much different to YouTubes (due to the use of the ATEM solution), just on a larger scale (ie more camera inputs). Other than that, yep, just lots of rehearsal. Even small things like ensuring camera angles are exact can matter with such things.