When it comes to VR game development, we usually think of the visual element first. And it’s obviously super important! But sound is just as important to building a convincing virtual world. In fact, the wrong audio can completely ruin even the most immersive visuals. Sounds plays such an important part of our everyday experience that we just tune it out – the sigh of air vents, the whine of computer monitors, the clacking of keyboards (can you tell I am in an office right no

This article reveals some important LOD techniques used to hit framerate when working with dense foliage in VR. Difficult even under normal circumstances, creating forests or jungles in VR means we really have to step up our game! Sadly there isn’t a single easy answer to hit that magic 60 or 90 fps. In fact, it requires a combination of techniques, and these techniques tend to change based on what the scene requires. Where should we start? In our previous section, we covered

As VR grows in popularity, new techniques for optimizing environments are rolling in all the time.  Since I just wrapped on a VR project, I thought I’d share some tricks I use to create dense foliage in scenes while keeping them running at a high framerate. But first, something to always keep in mind: Every polygon counts VR requires a high FPS to run well and maintain player comfort. If your FPS is too low, your game may stutter and even cause your players to become sick. So

VR is a resource-hungry beast. So are characters. Doing them both on mobile means that you have to start planning right away for optimizing your mobile VR character art. You can’t get away with waiting until the last minute. Your assets need to be created with optimizations built-in ahead of time! A big challenge we faced on our most recent mobile VR title, VRSE Batman, was creating multiple enemies for Batman to fight. We all know characters are expensive to begin with: they

Mobile gaming is a huge market – and mobile VR is possibly the VR killer app waiting to happen. There’s obvious potential for the developer that can nail down mobile VR design! But what does it take to make a mobile VR game? Making a VR game is hard enough, and mobile adds even more constraints. Fortunately Phosphor Studios has made a lot of VR titles, including mobile VR games, and over time we’ve assembled a list of best practices to help develop for mobile VR. Mobile VR st