GregOS

Game audio composer. Working on gesturally reactive music in VR. Starting a new genre of media is hard.

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

I had so much fun singing this! Looked up a tutorial on vampire accents and everything.

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

A shoutout to some of my favorite #VR #music #applications

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

No #art is made in #isolation. Here are some of the #interactive #music #apps that inspired #ravegazebo!

@gentlemanhands
@ElectronautsVR
@hifiRush
@soundscape_vr
@okgo

#inspiration #shoutout #gamedev

[Casey Armstrong, Technical PM, XR 🥽 @CrowdsourcingKC]

@mitrealityhack @XrTerra XR Terra rules! & Gregory (@Greg_0S ) was a super-mentor at the hack: https://t.co/SqklNDE54S Great place to learn XR dev and design skills.

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

Optimizing #ravegazebo took me a year and a half. Very much a baptism by fire.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

#Tragic #sacrifices had to made. I had to #optimize scenes where all objects were moving to run at 72 #FPS on the #Quest1, a phone strapped to your head that #renders everything twice. Take a look at some of the things that didn't make it in!

#rip #gamedev #indiedev #MetaQuest3

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

@StarheartVR So dang funky.

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

So cool to see the DAW footage. It really was a LOT of music to write!

[Starheart✨ | VR Musician @StarheartVR]

I made music for a VR game!!

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

I love this art. Go check out the linear mix of Moonglade Express on bandcamp!

[Starheart✨ | VR Musician @StarheartVR]

Moonglade Express is out on bandcamp now!! This stunning artwork was made by the very talented @MisterCarnival

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

Pow! Bang!

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

#ravegazebo is all about #immediate musical interactions for non-musicians. Switching the music is as simple as #flailing your arms around!

#virtualreality #Dance #musicvideo #Quest3 #VR #gamedevelopment #indiedev #indiegame
#berklee

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

I learned a lot about how to make a musical interaction feel powerful!

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

Playtesting #ravegazebo on non-musicians taught us that the primary #interaction needed to have a clear #visual #effect on the #environment, to encourage #movement and #reward the #user for #interacting with the #system.

#physics #vr #impact #glitchart #musicvideo #playtest #VR

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

I learned a lot about optimization over the course of Rave Gazebo, and this song is the best example to show for it.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

The last #song on the #ravegazebo album Xylitol Isomalt had a chance to implement all the lessons we learned developing the #album. @xxxjjj999 produced incredibly #highenergy #music, and we matched that by letting the user knock #furniture around a #disco bar in #zerogravity

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

A good friend of mine told me I didn't have enough videos explaining what Rave Gazebo is, so expect a couple more of these sprinkled into the schedule.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

What even is #ravegazebo? It's a #dance-#interactive #album that uses your controller as an input to #remix #songs in real time! You don't even need to see anything to control the #music.

#berklee #Oculus #VR #musicvideo #dj

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

I like trains! I learned from trying to optimize previous songs that instead of having a variety of different objects I would instead try copying and pasting the same object over and over and then use portals to make the scene look more dynamic.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

Moonglade Express pushed the boundaries of #glitch effects in #VR, in particular we finally discovered how to keep things #optimized by using #UV mapped #models.

#indiedev #BehindTheScenes #unity #MetaQuest3 #Trains #Space #gamedev #Berklee

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

Everything in the world bounces to the music and your dancing!

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

For Rave Gazebo's #audioreactive #Visuals , we separated out the Kick and Snare from every #music layer to drive a two-part visual conversation in our scenes.

Massive thank you to @_kzr for creating the powerful #reaktion #unity3d package!

#Vjs #animation #indiedev #VR

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

Ragdoll physics is the pinnacle of humor in virtual reality.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

Crashing cars into digital people has never been so much fun! Stand at the center of an intersection directing traffic into pedestrians in Quadra Section.

#CarCrash #gamedev #vr #BehindTheScenes #ravegazebo #ragdoll #simulation #unity3d #physics #traffic #interactive

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

This #technique is one of my favorite #innovations as a #technicalartist

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

#stencil #shaders let you #paint #portals onto any #shape, even on moving objects! We use this for #glitch effects.

#portals #3dart #VFX #psychedelicart #glitchart #tech #VR #indiedev #berklee #unity3d

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

I'm so glad @RatfaceOfficia1 made such good music for this song, because designing the visuals was like a baptism by fire from an optimization perspective. The end result is my wife's favorite song, so I'm really proud of where it ended up. Flinging bouncy lobsters around is fun!

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

#Optimization concerns dramatically shaped #ravegazebo's third song Antiparticle Lobster. Multiple revisions forged a gorgeous end result!
#Revisions #vr #behindthescenes #Lobster #psychedelicart #designer #VFX #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #profiler

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

The audible effect of a user's interactions must be immediate. A lot of the transition is covered by a quick stinger that plays when the input is detected, but we did some extra work #BehindTheScenes to add drum fills to help the transition.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

The first #musical problem Rave Gazebo had to solve was how to smoothly #transition between arrangements.

#vr #gameaudio #wwise #implementation #behindthescenes #interactivemusic #ravegazebo #unity3d #music #DJ #BehindtheScenes

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

I wrote all the music for Condiment Tie Dye! Was fun to do an electronic waltz.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

To #breakaway from #cubes and straight lines, we #painted the environment of #Condiment Tie Dye in #Tiltbrush freehand! We also started #experimenting with #portals using #stencil #shaders.

#VFX #BehindtheScenes #indiedev #painting #glitch #painter #VR #Quest3 #unity3d #gamedev

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

I really love the #music @RatfaceOfficia1 and I made for this #track, which made it much easier for me to develop the #visuals for #songs I hadn't gotten the stems for yet. You always remember your first.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

A look #BehindtheScenes of our first and titular song Rave Gazebo!

#ravegazebo #vr #unity3d #gamedev #indiedev #VirtualReality #Colors #particlesystem #VFX #berklee #musicians #InteractiveFun

[GregOS @Greg_0S]

The diagram of the music system became more necessary as our environments moved away from the abstract cube shape to more complex environments that didn't translate as cleanly.

[Rave Gazebo @RaveGazebo]

We #replaced your #controllers with a #diagram of the #music #system

#VR #UserExperience #UI #design #music #InteractiveFun #berklee #gamedev #display