It is a C++ interface to allow integration with custom rendering engines or native applications. This v0.4.0 release contains a lot of reliability and stability fixes from the previous private releases which is good news for our existing external content providers. Also included are some quality improvements like fixing up distortion meshes and shaders, exposing view matrices for each eye, and so forth.
What we aimed for with this release is a finalised external interface that anyone can work with and moving forwards from here, our aim will be to have no breaking changes introduced in the client library. While some functions may be deprecated and new ones added, our goal is to handle older versions back to v0.4.0 in the runtime so that a newer runtime release doesn’t require fixing and recompiling your external game/application.
What we’re sure you’re all waiting for is the Unity and Unreal plugins which we are working on already and early versions of those should be available with our next release. New hardware is on its way and we have already added early support based on the engineering samples. The version v0.5.0 will be released by the end of this month (and will include support for the new hardware, Unity and Unreal plugins and full feature support).
Mars’ Opportunity Rover navigates away from a dust devil on Knudsen Ridge in Marathon Valley. The image, a mosaic created by stitching together and colorizing six images from the rover’s navcam taken April 1, 2016, includes an artificial sky and a 10 degree rotation of the original images.
Danke pictbrige. Solch eine tolle Dokumentation. Ein mechanisches Huhn! Welch ein Wundertier, was vermag es bloss noch für weiter Wohltaten unser lieben zu vollbringen. Würfeleier wären doch toll, oder?
The team tries out robot exoskeletons that help people to move and asks where robotics and ethics meet. Plus the launch of some new gear from tech giant Google.
Jury’s still out between awesome and hair-raising creepy. Probably both, which seems to be the intent there. Battlefield 1 trailer with real WWI footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-oot9UC9GM
Edit: somehow forgot to write what it actually was…
Spacecraft drawn to July rendezvous with gas giant. NASA’s Juno spacecraft last week crossed the Sun/Jupiter gravitational boundary and is now firmly in the gas giant’s embrace.
NASA astronaut Jeff Williams will today enter the International Space Station’s (ISS) Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) - the pump-up podule on trial at the orbiting outpost “to investigate the potential challenges and benefits of expandable habitats for deep space exploration and commercial low-Earth orbit applications”.
