I can actually play alyx now, still some minor issues to work out like how easily the system is brought up but it does seem legitimately playable hah. Also swapped it to emulating index controllers so the position/rotation is easier to make sense of. Some cursed control issues...

I found my old Leap IR 170 hand tracking module and slapped it on the front of my steam frame- after some driver hassle it seems to actually work!

70 degree fov on the latest meta glasses seem dogshit btw, I don't understand how anyone can accept less than 110 in VR these days. Awful move. Not including controllers I can sorta forgive because their hand tracking is really solid, but that fov... Unforgivable... At $1300 too!

Honestly the video here doesn't do justice how terrible it feels to have so much of your fov taken away since it records at 16:9 but you should try it yourself in any VR game to see- it's a percentage of your total FOV so you'll have to do some math to match it to 70Hx66V.

I participated in this jam with a team! I was acting as an artist/programmer bridge and did a whole bunch of creature models/animations for our entry "Critter Crawl"! Play it here: sbox.game/apetavern/critter_… #gamedev #sbox

I also did these two little fellas, there were other creature/player models I haven't shown here but they were made by another artist on the team ( @eriksaend )