{"id":377646,"date":"2025-11-14T05:51:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377646\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T05:51:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T05:51:33","slug":"create-voxel-worlds-with-your-hands-in-vr-with-this-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377646\/","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":3,"featured_media":377647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[36501,50,242,158,67,132,68,729,730],"class_list":{"0":"post-377646","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-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-virtual-reality","16":"tag-vr"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115546494245113633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}