NeosVR Can Now Import Minecraft Worlds (Though I'm Not Sure How)

Hopefully I'll hear back soon from Frooxius, lead developer of the crowd-funded social VR project NeosVR, but apparently, he's figured out how to reverse engineer a version of Minecraft and import it into his world. (And apparently did so as a three day project.) My go-to VR expert Adeon speculates that Frooxius may be parsing a Minecraft save file and making a voxel renderer to interpret it internally, separate from Minecraft. (Or something like that!)

While it only has a few hundred daily users (at least on Steam), this is yet another example of how NeosVR seems to be on the vanguard of innovation in social VR. More example below:

• Watch: NEOS Social VR Adds Highly Detailed Mouth Tracking With Reported Latency Under 100 Milliseconds
• Neos VR May Have The Best UI & Feature Set In All Social VR
• NeosVR Makes User-To-User File Sharing An Immersive Social VR Experience

Comments

[MattyK]

It's using Mineways;
https://www.realtimerendering.com/erich/minecraft/public/mineways/

Which isn't really voxel rendering, it's just compositing the voxel terrain data into a common 3D Model format chunk by chunk. The meshes cannot be modified live in Neos in the same way you would in Minecraft.