Daydream VR News Week 14 - 2017: Toy Clash, Twilight Pioneers and if we are lucky: SoundStage!
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Here are the Daydream VR News for week 14 of 2017!
SoundStage is one of the coolest apps for the HTC Vive. It allows you to create your own custom music studio in VR and produce professional tracks. Now what does that have to do with Daydream VR? Well, great news, Logan Olson, the developer of SoundStage has just joined the Google VR team! A Google spokesperson familiar to the matter said: "We’re excited to welcome Logan to the Google VR team. As a leader in thinking about creating in VR with his app SoundStage, we’re really inspired by what he’s built and for the potential for VR and creativity.“. Well, the Daydream Community is extremely looking forward what Logan will bring to the platform!
Great news for owners of the Huawei Mate 9 Pro! Huawei's successful flagship device is finally compatible with Daydream! Support had already been announced back in January, but only now with the latest OTA upgrate users will be able to enjoy high quality Mobile VR made by Google on their devices. If you own a Huawei Mate 9 Pro and have not received the upgrade notification, you can check manually by going to the settings menu to see if the upgrade is waiting for you.
And finally great news for Daydream developers. or those of you who want to become Daydream developers in the near future: Unity Technologies lhas aunched Unity 5.6, which brings lots of new features, for virtual reality (VR) and most importantly, there’s now native support for Google VR.
With the 5.6 version it will be easier for developers to publish to Cardboard and Daydream. In the unity announcement it says: “To get optimal performance and latency from the Daydream platform, we integrated with the Google VR NDK to leverage the platform’s asynchronous reprojection and VR performance modes.
“Compared to the Daydream support in the Google VR SDK for Unity released at Google I/O, we now provide a more streamlined workflow, significant optimizations and reduced latency. No prefabs, scripts or manual manifest modifications are required to get started–simply enable VR and add Daydream as a targeted platform to begin making your own virtual worlds.
So developing for Daydream will get easier than ever which should mean there is absolutely no reason for you not to start learning how to make an incredible Daydream app!
That's it for the news and now we will be looking at the latest notable launches on Daydream VR!
Toy Clash has just hit the Daydream Play store.
Toy Clash is a Tower Offense game where your objective is to destroy the enemy's tower. Now you do so with your army of toy soldiers that you deploy on your table top battlefield!
You can upgrade your toys and need to develop your own strategies to with the battle and destroy the enemy's main tower. Toy Clash offers 32 challenging levels, 6 unique toy units, and 6 powerful special skills so there are plenty of things to do here. You can get Toy Clash for $4.99 from the Daydream Play Store.
The first downloadable content pack for the action RPG Twilight Pioneers is now available free of charge! Twilight Pioneers was one of the first games for Daydream VR and also one of the best looking. Chapter 2 is called The Evilgate and introduces an expanded storyline and increased gameplay. For the first time, characters from Tian Xia will play a central role in the story as the evil forces from the North Devil Sea invade the world. Team up with several new travel companions including Yunching of Yunlu and Longshar, to take on the Darklord’s most powerful minions and the Ox Tyrant, who has been sent to stop you on your journey.
If you like action and immersive VR experiences you should devinitely be checking out Twilight Pioneers !
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