{"id":586,"date":"2021-12-04T18:21:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T18:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/?p=586"},"modified":"2023-07-01T15:30:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T15:30:21","slug":"spacerocks-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/2021\/12\/04\/spacerocks-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceRocks lives"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I have been working to bring SpaceRocks back to life. My latest version (Dec 2021), for the Oculus Quest 2 and built with Unity,  can be found here:<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/files\/SpaceRocksVR.apk\">https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/files\/SpaceRocksVR.apk<\/a> (42MB)<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/SpaceRocks_logo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-589\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne_old\/rocks.htm\">link<\/a> to my original SpaceRocks demo built back in 1997 when I was working for Sense8. It was meant to be a demo for our WorldToolkit VR library. The idea was to be a tribute to the classic Asteroids game built in 3D and using photos from the Hubble Space Telescope as textures for the background and asteroids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructions for &#8220;sideloading&#8221; a APK file to your Quest can be found with a quick internet search, but here is one option:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/sideloading-quest-how-to\/\">https:\/\/uploadvr.com\/sideloading-quest-how-to\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some screenshots:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0947.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-596\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0947.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0947-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0947-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0947-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Lots of Space Rocks!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0945.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-597\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0945.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0945-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0945-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0945-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nebulae <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0942.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0942.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0942-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0942-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/img_0942-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Annoying Alien<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been working to bring SpaceRocks back to life. My latest version (Dec 2021), for the Oculus Quest 2 and built with Unity, can be found here: https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/files\/SpaceRocksVR.apk (42MB) Here is a link to my original SpaceRocks demo built back in 1997 when I was working for Sense8. It was meant to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paynecentral.com\/tompayne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}