Senza Peso: New Virtual Reality Experience + Short Film
DOWNLOAD THE VR EXPERIENCE: Windows
VR YOUTUBE PLAYBACK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrq0KRbRk1U
WATCH THE MOVIE: senzapeso.com
This is our most visually-rich experience to date — a high-end PC is required.
We’re excited to present our latest cinematic Virtual Reality experience, Senza Peso, along with its short film counterpart.
The idea: Watch the visually and musically-rich short film, then descend into the beautiful realms depicted therein and experience the afterlife for yourself without having to die first!
Senza Peso Open Source Screenshot
Some highlights & interesting facts:
– We switched from Unity to Unreal Engine 4 for this one (After Ikrima’s lifelong dream came true and UE became affordable, including the source code!).
– The short film was a passion project of my friend Alain Vasquez and myself. It took 5 years to make, and was finally finished 2 months ago.
– Because I wasn’t completely sick of working on it after 5 years (sarcasm), Ikrima and I decided to spend another 8 weeks building this awesome VR experience with all the film’s assets, music, etc…
– Senza Peso the short film was based upon and inspired by an amazing song some friends of ours made. You can find out more about the music and short film here: senzapeso.com
– Early in the Senza Peso VR project, we were joined by John Dewar, a rad fx generalist and programmer.
– More blog posts to come on this project, as well as on using UE4 vs Unity.
– For the UE4 community, we’re planning to release a realm or two into the marketplace.
Feel free to share and redistribute, just give us credit.
Senza Peso by Kite & Lightning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
William
I don’t have my Oculus Rift with me, but if you want to gain some additional exposure then I’d suggest sharing your VR experience on the Oculus Rift forums:
https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=42&sid=f176cd2b0845e4329498826b9d1c5486
The guys under Reddit seem to approve of it, so good work!
Robert Johns
I just wanted to say. This is unequivocally the best thing iv ever seen on Oculus Rift.
This was brilliant, frightening…just wonderful. Well done, just absolutely great.
Cory Strassburger
Thanks a lot man, much appreciated!
Kelvin
Seems to cause a application was unable to start error 0xc000007b. Any ideas? I have installed required software as noted in the included Txt file.
Cory Strassburger
Did you ever get it working?
Andrés
This seems to be amazing, Can I try it just in 3D, without VR?
ikrima
Sadly not just yet. The UE4 integration won’t let you play if the rift isn’t plugged in
Patrick
Looks great. Love it!
ikrima
Thanks dude!
Bob
does it run without OR, too?
Just interested if my computer is able to handle this…
Cory Strassburger
I don’t think it will play without the rift, something in UE4 we have to look at.
Eddie H
You guys are making headlines all over the web! Congrats!
Ben
Any possibility for a prerendered 3d spherical video for those of us without meaty enough machines? It should be possible to convey the full experience with the graphics turned up all the way to everyone.
ikrima
Good idea; we’ll add it to the queue for our next release. I think other people already did that for Senza Peso
justin
Cant seem to get the Windows VR demo to run in 1920×1200? I set it to that, but alas, it reverts back to 1280×800 on my rift?
ikrima
I’ve heard of that from a couple of people; might be a UE4/Oculus bug for us to look into.
Zachery
The Oculus rift’s max resolution is 1280×800 it is impossible for you to go any higher on The first Oculus Rift Development Kit.
Jacob Pederson
I was sold on VR from day one, but this is some next level stuff. I had no idea Unreal 4 could even do that . . .
Neruvous
Excellent , very bealtiful
Peter
Very cool guys. Well done!
Arboladelante
Hi! This is absolutely amazing.
How did you manage to put video inside the engine?.
Congratulations!
Cory Strassburger
Thanks! the video is: a Stereoscopic shoot mapped on billboards + some Ikrima coding magic cast on the UE4 source code.
Uncas
Very, very cool! Bravo!
Jack Elliot
Hello! Mac release?
Ben
Any chance of a mac version??
ikrima
Sadly not for Senza; UE4 doesn’t have Mac support for the Oculus
8BitLion
I think the recently-released UE4.2 has rift support for OSX.
8BitLion
Any chance of this being ported to Mac? I can’t wait to try it.
steve
When DK2 drops in July, I was expecting life to change, but this is so amazing it really makes ya wanna weep. VR > R.
-and it certainly saves everybody the trouble of showing people more than one demo…
Serge
Hi,
can you help with this demo?
Can’t run it, already downloaded and installed MS library and DirectX.
I can sent a dmp. file if it will help.
Thank you
ikrima
Sure; email me the dump file and I’ll take a look at it
yag
Beautiful, it’s like a demo but in VR 🙂
http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?type%5B0%5D=demo&platform%5B0%5D=Windows&page=1&order=views
Ben
Just watched this on an LG G2 – YouTube App and a Durovis Dive. Amazing.
I cannot wait for the DK2 so I can try out the VR app! Congrats guys, this is absolutely beautiful.
Rich
Hi
Looks amazing, will it be compatible with dk2?
Thanks
Remy
this made me buy oculus.. getting my glasses next sunday 😉
Cory Strassburger
Awesome
Marc
This is absolutly beautiful and a real piece of art. The VR experience is amazing. I specially loved the perfectly integrated film sequences. Never saw anything in this quality in VR before. And the particle effects are great, too. Together with the beautiful music, I could watch this the whole day.
Have you seen the reactions on Youtube? Many reviewers are just blown away.
Looking forward to see this on DK2 and CV1 !!!!!
Please do something like this again!
Cory Strassburger
Thanks Marc, super stoked you enjoyed it on that level!! Much more to come!
Chris
This was working fine for me a couple weeks ago, but the other night I tried launching it again and am running into problems. It works fine up until I click to start the VR experience. The window starts to display, then immediately minimizes to the taskbar. I can click to restore it, and might see a split second of the title screen, but then it immediately minimizes again. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I can’t think of anything at all significant that may have changed on my machine, and tried removing all applications from startup, but still won’t work. No problems with any other Oculus apps.
Charlie
I have the exact same problem where after selecting “Experience the VR” the window flashes for a split-second and minimizes for all Unreal demos except UE4 coaster.
Li
A wonderful experience, thank you!
Andrew
Guys please add support for Mac-would really love to try this out! Thank you – keep up the great work!
Chris
Hey guys,
This looks amazing! Any chance we’ll see a dk-2 compatible version? Right now I’m unable to get the window to display at the correct size in the Rift and all head tracking is broken. Can’t wait to see it!
Conor
Any update on when the DK2 version will be released? Can’t wait to try it! Got my rift last week and this is one of the main things I’ve been looking forward to.
Cory Strassburger
If all goes well we should be posting a DK2 version tomorrow!
Justin Strunk
Cannot wait! please please please 🙂
Tyrone
Is there a version out/due for the DK2?
Cheers!
ikrima
It’s out today!
TheZon3r
“Failled to initialize mongo connection” FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
Sam
2nd time trying to download, it just sits in “extracting” post-download. Anyone else have this issue? Any suggestions?
igor
OMG. I tested your senza peso. it is masterpeice of demos for DK 2 . I can t believe it. Please would you create second version? I am ready to pay amazing experiences :P. Thank you very very much….
Henrique
Will be a samsung GearVR version?
a larger number of people need to see this…
Cory Strassburger
That would be awesome! but this experience is a bit too power hungry to run on mobile.
obijohn
Guys man this is awesome, almost bought a tear to my eye i was that immersed lol. Great work i hope u guys get rich one day
Cory Strassburger
haha, Thanks Obijohn!
obijohn
i want more so bad now guys, can you just stop sleeping and eating wasting time hahahahah. really impressed
Cory Strassburger
lol, we already stopped sleeping and we eat while still working, just need to figure out the bathroom situation and wasted time will be a thing of the past! Glad you liked it!
martyn
Cant get this to work. Have oculus set to direct mode and when the app launches, it tracks on my computer monitor in stereo display so I know the tracking is working but the oculus screen doesn’t come on, it just stays dark. Running Win7 64bit, Nvidia 750ti with driver 344.11. Any ideas?
Cory Strassburger
Did you have any luck getting it working? Did you try extended desktop?
martyn
No luck, updated the firmware of the oculus and gfx drivers up to date. Direct mode definitely does not work. Oculus stays black even though I can see it running on my desktop monitor. Have tried both resolutions in the application and both the better and faster settings. Have an issue with extended mode flipping the right and left screens so nothing in extended mode works. Shame but I guess its early days and it seems to be an issue with the newer Maxwell based nVidia cards.
martyn
Finally got this working with 0.4.3 runtime, looks awesome guys!
Mint
Really fantastic, I was dreaming during a few minutes, the VR experience was really amazing ! Keep up the good work guys !
Cory Strassburger
Thanks Mint!
Luca
Jawdropping awesomeness awaits you. All that was missing was a better resolution as the one of the DK2 because I didn’t want to miss a single detail.
Greatest experience on the rift so far, thatnk you so much !
EricFelix
Any help with this error: Fatal error!
Address=0xee24c1f0(filename not found) [in c:\Windows\system32\OVRDisplayRT64.dll]
But the file is at that location.
There are others that say path unknown. If i change the mode from direct mode I no longer get the error, but it doesn’t work that way because the video is off.
I am getting this for any game that uses URE4 and can’t seem to find an answer.
Thanks
bluepower
pls give me try it！
bflores
any chance ever for dk1 mac version. There are a lot of us mac developers/VR enthusiasts out there as apple has become more mainstream than ever. Any chance you could throw us a beta or some thing id love to see this thing looks amazing. Unreal 4.3 now has mac support
alfonso
Hello, when I open the application, during the tour, specifically when the blue portals open my PC including audio pauses for one or two seconds, could you help me solve my pc has the following:
-Mother Board: Asus B-85m
– Hard disk Solido
Processor: Intel Core I7 the 4th generation
graphics card: Asus GTX 980 4GB DDR5
Please if anyone can help it agraeceria.
Cory Strassburger
Hey Alfonso, I know the portal sections are typically where the new levels are loading which is probably causing the hiccups. There are a few windows settings that really help Oculus experiences run more smoothing and the big one to try is turning off the AERO theme in Windows. I’ve found this makes a big difference.
Ben
“The program can’t start because XINPUT1_3.dll is missing.” What does this mean? I am running DirectX 11 on a brand new, fairly top of the line gaming PC laptop. Thanks.
Latok
I have the same problem. Don’t know what to do…..
Zack
Is there any chance that you could release a unity version on Google Play for people who experience VR with Google Cardboard? They have apparently sold 500k units, so it would be fantastic exposure! =) Ok, full disclosure. I saw Jack Septic Eye experience Senza Peso on his YouTube video, and I just ordered a Google Cardboard unit. =P
Cory Strassburger
There is a good chance a 3D 360 version of Senza Peso will end up on Milk VR for peeps with gearVR. Not sure about google cardboard, we’ll have to see what it looks like.
T
When do you estimate for the gear VR version release date?
Saxon
Is there any update on the 3D 360 version of this? I enjoyed it on my DK2, and would love to share it with others on the GearVR.
Cory Strassburger
Thanks Saxon. We’ll figure out a plan for the 360 version happening soon than later, I too would love to see Senza viewable via Gear VR.
Dave Smith
Yes, please let’s see this in the Gear VR store!
Stanislav
I can’t pun Demo. I meen: demo playing – my rift sreen is black (0.8.0.0 SDK)
Lorfarius
Will this work with the CV1 on launch?
Cory Strassburger
Not on launch but stay tuned!
Charles Southard
any update on Google cardboard?
Cory Strassburger
Sorry man, we don’t have plans for a Cardboard version but if we end up doing a 360 video, that will work on cardboard.
Edward Rothman
Too wonderful for words. You have created a new artform. I cannot wait to see what you can create in the future. Perhaps something like this but without rails where the music morphs as you move about?
Cory Strassburger
Thanks Edward! love the idea of immersive morphing music!