#BIG SCREEN THREAD

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cursive trail
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@umbral tulip

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Hello, i can really use your help :))

umbral tulip
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oh, i get the topic now

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I.. can't help with anything outside of Unity

cursive trail
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Did you saw the video i shared?

umbral tulip
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yes, very sexy

cursive trail
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Yeep :((

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We got the screens ready amd everything

umbral tulip
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Physical screens?

cursive trail
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Yes

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It covers all 4 walls

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the roof

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The floor

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Making the user submerge in the virtual environment

glass yew
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u have photos ?

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sounds neat

cursive trail
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It should be in the google drive

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I will have to check it

glass yew
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I don't think you can get unity to run in the background if you're doing mobile though

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You can create services though that can

cursive trail
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so i said the people to let me try to make a software

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To which they agreed :))

cursive trail
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I came up with 3 things

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Let me share

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  1. the software interface would be a video and wherever i tap on the touch screen, the menu will pop up
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  1. the software UI will be completely transparent. And wherever i tap the floating UI will be placed there
umbral tulip
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You've chosen to start with something rather fucking harder for a beginner..

cursive trail
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  1. But, what really would be cool is that. The software is completely running in background,hidden And whenever i triple left click on the desktop, the floating UI appears
cursive trail
umbral tulip
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I don't understand why Unity needs to run in the background

cursive trail
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But i just want to know if its possible and if yes, just the framework how to make it

umbral tulip
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What's being used to show whatevers on screen?

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How -> depends on what this is all running on.

cursive trail
cursive trail
umbral tulip
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So you're just looking at using Unity for the UI to change videos..?

cursive trail
cursive trail
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Just like in that video i shared

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She was able to change the Virtual environment

umbral tulip
cursive trail
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Yes

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Need a software that can capture input performed on any window and then act accordingly

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But i guess its impossible for unity to get input while some other window is active

umbral tulip
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That is why the non-Unity s/w would launch/ bring Unity forward..

cursive trail
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Yep

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So you get the idea what i am trying to do right?

glass yew
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star trek

umbral tulip
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Yes, we've understood this for ages..

glass yew
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Holodeck

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😛

cursive trail
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So how can i make this possible?

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This perticular animation was developed by me

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Till now we used to work only in anamorphic

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But its time to expand to AR, VR, MR

glass yew
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reminds me of this

cursive trail
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Current stage is experimental so i am just getting idea about how things are done

glass yew
cursive trail
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Aha yes, that's what we do

umbral tulip
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Don't work for Unit9, do you?

cursive trail
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If you guys have any idea what software/engine etc should be used and what process to be followed. Let me know about it

umbral tulip
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Windows? Linux? Pi? That other Pi like thing?

glass yew
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I think Unity can def do some crazy stuff with AR/VR but it is a game engine and limited to specific usecases .

cursive trail
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Its in Windows

umbral tulip
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So you'll have a windows app running that can capture the taps

cursive trail
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Yess

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After 3 taps, the UI appear

umbral tulip
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There's loads of things to use, no specific idea of which is best for you to go with. I'm a Unity dev on a Unity server 😄

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this bit is outside of the scope of the server

glass yew
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this is gonna be hard without some programming experience too btw if you want to have devices share a library , you could even use unity as a library somewhere else

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this requires good experience coding / working with apis

cursive trail
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I see :((

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I thought it would be easy to count 3 clicks and swpan a dialog box for that🥲

glass yew
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that is the easy part

cursive trail
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Only need to do this much

glass yew
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I'm talking mainly hardware communication

cursive trail
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Hardware communication?

glass yew
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you said you have hardware that reads taps or something ?

cursive trail
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Image the whole screen is a MONITOR

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Its nothing special

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Just a very big monitor

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The OS is windows

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Can play call of duty. Its just a normal monitor

glass yew
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I see, so why can't unity running constantly in foreground * again?

cursive trail
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I need the unity to run in background only

glass yew
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but why

cursive trail
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The foreground will play video/illusions

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Cant disturb that right? It will break the beauty

glass yew
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why not just load those into unity tho

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thats the whole point of using an engine

cursive trail
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Of*

glass yew
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having as much possible to drive the app

cursive trail
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I came up with this 1) the software interface would be a video and wherever i tap on the touch screen, the menu will pop up

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But i know this can easily be done within a few hours

glass yew
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easily done in Unity yes

cursive trail
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And this works

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But i wish

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That the software kept ruining in background

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and wherever i was in the pc, on 3 tap, the menu pops up

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This idea is cool

glass yew
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yes but I still dont see why it needs to run in the background lol

cursive trail
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Just so people can see the desktop wallpaper

glass yew
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so have unity display the wallpaper ?

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"fake it"

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isn't this a deducated machine just for that usecase of streaming this interaction ?

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if you want an engine you have to try to do as much as possible inside of it

cursive trail
cursive trail
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And instead of playing just video

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it might have nested options

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Open image

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Explore files

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Just see the UI of that girl in the video

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The boxes sliding on top of each other

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Everything looks beautiful

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but sadly it was all VFX work and not a real software

glass yew
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a lot of that stuff is done with greenscreen

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its more video production and post fx

cursive trail
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Yes, but it helps to visualize the idea

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Now got to make the idea real

glass yew
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I mean there already is plenty of scifi with this lol

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like i said, a good example of realtime is Holodeck from Star Trek

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you can load an entire landscape and interact inside of it like it was real tangible interactable place

cursive trail
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Yes that's that we look forward to

glass yew
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you would need very specialized projectors

cursive trail
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I see

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I guess for now i will make a software with a VIDEO background

glass yew
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I think unity is kinda dipping toes in this field, you never know where it goes in a few years

cursive trail
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And on 3 clicks a UI box appears

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The unreal VS unity is getting crazier day by day

glass yew
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give the AR uses cases a look

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you would be surpised

cursive trail
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AR is more like

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seeing the world the the mobile camera right?

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And then stuff happens accordingly but in the tiny phone

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Here person are put in virtual environments

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I guess i will try to make a software whose UI is just a video

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and whenever i triple click, the software would spawn a UI

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And that will have a list of video. Clicking one will replace the currently played video

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This is doable right?

glass yew
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I guess XR is probably a betteer term

cursive trail
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AR+VR=XR

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Its same stuff

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I dont feel its applicable here

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Maybe

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A kind of VR

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OR MR

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I really dont know its confusing

glass yew
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yeah this is beyond my knowledge

cursive trail
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AR+MR+VR=XR

glass yew
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I only done mildly some AR with a phone

cursive trail
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That's for sure

cursive trail
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Told ya, its kind of complex :))

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But thank you for your time

glass yew
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ehh not too complex by what you described with playing a video and adding UI over it

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unity has a video player built in

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and UI can be def layer above it and be interactive so

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stuff for you to look into

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if you wanna build a whole custom software with no prior coding knowledge this would be almost not possible , unity will facilitate getting results fast with basic knowledge

cursive trail
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I guess making everything work inside the software would be much easier

glass yew
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thats mostly why engines are built lol

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you don't have to do all the work that thousands of R&D hrs goes into it

cursive trail
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My coding knowledge goes as far as school teaches :((

cursive trail
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Really reduce days of work into hours