{"id":569032,"date":"2025-11-14T03:57:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569032\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T03:57:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T03:57:15","slug":"create-voxel-worlds-with-your-hands-in-vr-with-this-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/569032\/","title":{"rendered":"Create Voxel Worlds with Your Hands in VR with This App"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Manipulate voxels like a magician by simply grabbing them and shaping any models you want with BoxelXR, a voxel editor designed specifically for VR and AR by Oleg Frolov, inspired by MagicaVoxel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s been around for a while, the creator keeps improving the system, this time adding hand-tracking interactions.<\/p>\n<p>The simulation is running on Meta Quest 3, made with Unity and C#. Frolov used XR Interaction Toolkit to connect to the device&#8217;s API and get the hand-tracking data, and, in his words, &#8220;the interactions themselves are pure math.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If this looks interesting to you, try the prototype <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Volorf\/xr-prototypes#voxel-creation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. BoxelXR is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/experiences\/boxelxr\/5815420721867244\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Meta<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Manipulate voxels like a magician by simply grabbing them and shaping any models you want with BoxelXR, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3162],"tags":[44689,12,326,53,16,15,3243,3244],"class_list":{"0":"post-569032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-virtual-reality","8":"tag-ar","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-virtual-reality","15":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115546046029022292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}