{"id":518,"date":"2015-08-22T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-22T23:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/?p=518"},"modified":"2015-08-23T01:21:07","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T05:21:07","slug":"tango-proto-bfig-unite-and-boston-vr-all-great-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/tango-proto-bfig-unite-and-boston-vr-all-great-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Tango, Proto, BFIG, Unite, and Boston VR: All Great News!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no see! We&#8217;ll get better about that one of these days \ud83d\ude09 This&#8217;ll be a very short post, but just wanted to let any anxious onlookers know: things are going very well, and we have a lot of exciting stuff to share very soon, with a few excellent tidbits right now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VRMT is up and running very nicely on the Project Tango tablet devkit, and we&#8217;ve released that app on the Google Play Store!! <a href=\"http:\/\/googledevelopers.blogspot.fr\/2015\/08\/project-tango-io-apps-now-released-in.html\">Here&#8217;s Google&#8217;s post including VRMT<\/a>, and if you&#8217;re also working with a Tango tablet, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.defectivestudios.vrmtTango\">officially download the build here<\/a>. VRMT on Tango is\u00a0pretty rad if I may say so myself, but we also have some updates in store for it that I think will\u00a0blow minds.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.protoawards.com\/\">The Proto Awards<\/a> selected VRMT\u00a0as an honoree for Best GUI and Most Innovative! That honestly came as a shock, and we&#8217;re very honored to be included among Skyworld, VRChat, Virtual Desktop, World of Comenius, ElemenTerra, Surgeon Simulator, and Keep Talking And Nobody Explodes (seriously I&#8217;ve been obsessed with Keep Talking since it released. #1 couple&#8217;s therapy app ever). Those are all fantastic VR apps from some of the best developers out there, and I still haven&#8217;t internalized that we get to sully their ranks!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonfig.com\/\">Boston Festival of Indie Games<\/a>\u00a0has included\u00a0VRMT in\u00a0the Digital Showcase!\u00a0It&#8217;s on September 12th at MIT, and we&#8217;ll be there in force, showing the latest version, including various surprises. We&#8217;re very happy to have VRMT at FIG this year, since it was exactly a year prior, at FIG 2014, that VRMT made its public debut!<\/li>\n<li>Schoen will be <a href=\"https:\/\/unity3d.com\/unite\/boston\">talking at Unite 2015 about developing and supporting\u00a0UniMerge<\/a>! And the cherry on top: Unite 2015 is in Boston! His talk is titled &#8220;Creating UniMerge: What happens when you fill a feature hole and put it on the Asset Store&#8221;, and is full of great info and experience from\u00a0building, publishing, and supporting UniMerge, which we\u00a0hope other developers will find very helpful. And of course we hope for it to be a nice shot of publicity\u00a0for UniMerge, which we can&#8217;t imagine working\u00a0without!<\/li>\n<li>I (Jono)\u00a0have\u00a0taken the helm with a new sub-group of Boston VR:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bostonvrdevs.com\">Boston VR Devs, a monthly VR development hackathon<\/a>!\u00a0We had our first official hackathon last month, where we had a great time and made some sweet stuff. I jammed on a very exciting new VRMT feature, which we&#8217;ll share next month. If you&#8217;re in Boston and doing any level of hacking with VR stuff, join us! The next hackathon is September 13th.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s more great news that we can&#8217;t wait to share, but that&#8217;s probably enough exclamation points for one day.\u00a0Schoen and I are both away for the next week spending some time with our families, and will hit the ground running in September &#8212; which is poised to be\u00a0Defective&#8217;s most exciting month to date!<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve at least been getting a\u00a0<em>little\u00a0<\/em>better about being alive on Twitter, and most of this news was announced there as it came up &#8212; so if you Tweet, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/defectivegames\">join us!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long time no see! We&#8217;ll get better about that one of these days \ud83d\ude09 This&#8217;ll be a very short post, but just wanted to let any anxious onlookers know: things are going very well, and we have a lot of exciting stuff to share very soon, with a few excellent tidbits right now: VRMT is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,24,22,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.defectivestudios.com\/devblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}