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Assembly’s VR museum exhibit brings an interactive humpback whale to life

New Zealand-based Assembly put their budding Unreal Engine skills to test and built a virtual reality museum experience for the Oculus Rift.

If you have an Oculus DK2 kit handy and a Windows PC, you can download the demo from Assembly’s site. (No VR rig? The walkthrough video above will have to suffice.) In the full-blown VR version, the user can control and interact with the whale using keyboard commands.

UI Breakdown

Unreal 4, free for everyone

Unreal recently announced that Unreal Engine 4 is free for development purposes. You only pay a .5% royalty when you start to generate revenue.

Credits

Assembly’s Scott Wilson and Gary Sullivan
Track: “Noveria” Jack Wall

Justin Cone

Together with Carlos El Asmar, Justin co-founded Motionographer, F5 and The Motion Awards. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with is wife, son and fluffball of a dog. Before taking on Motionographer full-time, Justin worked in various capacities at Psyop, NBC-Universal, Apple, Adobe and SCAD.