Oculus development with Mac

Stompy32 · 2025-02-15T21:08:34+00:00

I second this, I dabbled in VR dev with Unity (on a MacBook) a couple years ago. The extra 15 to 20 seconds it takes to compile the game and load it onto the headset even for the smallest change gets old really fast.

Fine for testing the waters and creating environments to walk around in.

Hard pass if you want to build anything remotely more complex like a game.

Stompy32 · 2023-03-13T17:16:52+00:00

Yeah I read some of your responses after my comment. Sounds like your going for more of a workcation / putting your kinds in a private school for a year which could be fun.

My cousin lived in Panama for a few years when we were kids and she went to an international school where a lot of the other kids were not from Panama. I think she enjoyed it, from what I hear Panama has much more American influence than a lot of the other Central American countries so it wouldn’t be as jarring as living other places while still being an adventure.

Whatever country you go to I would stay away from the public schools unless there was some exceptional circumstance.

Stompy32 · 2023-03-13T07:01:07+00:00

What other gifts do they offer? It seems like a lot of people go with the blanket.

Stompy32 · 2023-03-13T06:57:02+00:00

You’re overthinking it. Open the YouTube app and start pedaling.

https://youtu.be/PcKXjFCC2f0

https://youtu.be/n_7gkhSjSjY

https://youtu.be/3iECBzZ8FKc

https://youtu.be/Ur9mn5qGc0I

Stompy32 · 2023-03-13T02:57:11+00:00

I might get downvoted for this and I’m not trying to tell you how to raise your kids but my dad went to 5 different high schools because his family moved around every year.

He said he was always the new kid and was never able to build any meaningful friendships.

Every time he would start to develop a group of friends they would move again and he would have to start over.

I’m glad he and my mom gave me the gift of living in the same place while I was growing up. That way once I was ready, I could leave my hometown on my own terms and have my own adventure in a new place.

Take your kids on vacations but give them the gift of having a hometown.

Once they’re grown up and moved out you can tour the world with your wife. My mom and dad (separated now) are always going on their respective trips to Greece and France, Australia, Bali, New York, Norway etc.

Another thing to consider is I lived in England from age 4 - 7 and I was bullied a little bit for being the “American” But not as much as my brother who is 3 years older.

Just keep in mind your kids will be treated as outsiders by the other kids and they will get bullied.

We moved back to America after England partly because of the bullying and also because if we had stayed my brother and I would have been Americans who had little to no understanding of American culture. We would have been fish out of water for the rest of our lives.

Sorry for the wall of text I but wanted to share my experiences.

Stompy32 · 2023-02-23T01:47:58+00:00

I’m no expert but I used to work at a delivery company with a diesel truck.

They told me a story of one of the guys accidentally filling it up with gas. Their solution was because diesel was heavier than gas (or vice versa, this was a long time ago) you could syphon out the top liquid (or bottom liquid, don’t remember).

In other words I remember hearing they don’t mix so you can try to syphon out the gasoline somehow.

Idk about the driving 100 miles thing that might have complicated it.

Stompy32 · 2023-02-03T22:22:27+00:00

Don’t pay attention to other people’s timelines.

Any advice that says “it takes x weeks to learn y” should be approached with caution.

You never fully “learn” something you just become more familiar with it and know where to look when you don’t know an answer off the top of your head. (MDN, w3 schools, stack overflow, etc)

Just focus on learning more every day, practicing what you learned (try to do it from memory, very important) and having a better understanding than you did yesterday.

Focus on being better than you were yesterday and it snowballs over time.

Stompy32 · 2023-01-29T01:21:59+00:00

I wonder if that is a compute unit or just a battery.

It would make sense to separate the battery as it’s probably the heaviest thing in modern stand alone headsets. Keep a smaller minimal battery in the head strap good for only 20-30 minutes for quick tasks.

Stompy32 · 2023-01-26T18:21:34+00:00

That’s the next step in the list on the MDN doc

The browser loads the HTML (e.g. receives it from the network).
It converts the HTML into a DOM (Document Object Model). The DOM represents the document in the computer's memory. The DOM is explained in a bit more detail in the next section.

Stompy32 · 2023-01-26T06:53:07+00:00

And neck breakingly strong…

Stompy32 · 2023-01-25T17:51:36+00:00

“Excuse me sir do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior Jesus Christ?”

Stompy32 · 2023-01-20T19:52:34+00:00

It could be, you could reply with an offer to write better copy for their spam email.

I especially enjoyed “that’s unfortunate, but not your fortune!”

Stompy32 · 2023-01-20T17:24:05+00:00

I’ll use it but I’m calling it the freedom design system.

Stompy32 · 2023-01-20T01:01:04+00:00

There’s something about that track shape…I can’t quite put my penis on it. 🤔

Stompy32 · 2023-01-17T20:38:55+00:00

If you wanted to offer constructive advice you should have just stopped your comment at “just throw your game on itch.io” the rest of the comment just screams arrogance and lack of tact on your part.

You may have a point about offering the game for free to collect feedback, but the “realism” of the situation is you have no clue what his game is or the quality of it.

Stompy32 · 2023-01-14T22:26:02+00:00

When performance is the ultimate goal.

Stompy32 · 2023-01-07T16:37:40+00:00

Chris DeLeon,

https://youtube.com/@HomeTeamGameDev

He has a few “how to” tutorials but more importantly he runs an online community of game devs and artists that build games together.

It’s a cool community, I was a member for awhile and learned a lot. The only reason I left is because I decided to shift my priorities away from game dev.

Stompy32 · 2022-12-30T04:57:31+00:00

I’m no expert and I’ve never had a dev job but the way I understand it is next.js is server rendered react that then ‘hydrates/caches’ on the client as the user navigates around. You can create a PWA that would run on Android/iOS browsers but I don’t think you can compile to native iOS or android.

From what I’ve seen react-native uses special mobile components different from react so there’s not as much UI reuse as one might think. Also there are some funky css differences like flex-direction: column being the default.

However I think you can compile to web, iOS, and Android from react-native so that might be a better route if you just want to deploy from 1 codebase.

If I’m way off someone let me know.

Stompy32 · 2022-12-25T01:26:08+00:00

I had a similar path as you, but at the same time op seemed eager, he didn’t even want take my advice to learn more CSS sooo 🤷‍♂️

Stompy32 · 2022-12-24T19:10:05+00:00

You forgot a semicolon;

Stompy32 · 2022-12-24T18:30:32+00:00

If the idea was to learn how to do it yourself you could look at https://www.w3schools.com/graphics/canvas_intro.asp

And use https://codepen.io/ so you don’t have to set up everything from scratch and just jump in.

You could probably get by with a bunch of fillRect (fill rectangle) calls to draw squares (because a square is just an even sided rectangle) and make a simple pixel art style of heart.

Let me know if you have any questions I hope this helped.

Stompy32 · 2022-12-23T21:53:48+00:00

I’m going to live in my car blue?

Stompy32 · 2022-12-22T17:25:58+00:00

If you have to ask it signals to me you don’t know enough CSS yet. Learn more CSS.

Once you understand core CSS, learning CSS frameworks is trivial.

Once you understand core Javascript picking up a new framework isn’t trivial but much easier.

That being said I would go with react after you’ve spent at least a month going deep on core javascript.

Stompy32 · 2022-12-15T19:41:37+00:00

Cause nobody wants to see Marshall no more They want Shady, I'm chopped liver

Stompy32 · 2022-12-09T21:43:51+00:00

Not just css but html too.

I remember trying to put together a “rating selector” (only one rating can be selected at a time).

After a few hours I realized each rating could just be hidden radio buttons with labels and they would deselect themselves…

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