Overview / Usage

Space Dock: An Untethered VR Experience
The big attraction this year is Space Dock, a truly immersive VR game in which you battle giant hornets while freely roaming a spaceship. Walk into our Space Dock chamber, put on a VR head mounted display (HMD) powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 mobile platform, and start your game. Immersive audio, visual, and interactive experiences are brought to life thanks to mobile VR technologies including 6DoF inside-out tracking using dual cameras built into the HMD, the Qualcomm 3D Audio Plugin, and Ximmerse 3DoF controllers.

Methodology / Approach

I was the Audio Director for this release! I was in charge of all aspects of sound creation and I used Unreal Engine and my audio software running on my Intel VR workstation to create the audio, sound effects, music and implementation of uassets and blueprints.

Technologies Used

Space Dock is also the first demonstration using Vulkan Graphics for a VR experience on a standalone mobile VR headset. It uses a modified version of Unreal Engine 4.17 with the Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile VR SDK utilizing the Unreal Engine 4 Vulkan renderer with physically based materials. It runs at 60fps at 1440 x 2560 with an eye buffer of 1024 x 1152 per eye.

Other links

• https://developer.qualcomm.com/blog/experience-freedom-game-virtually-anywhere-gdc-2018