Tactile Mix is a VR program designed in Unity and written primarily in C# for mixing multichannel sound sources in a virtual environment, using either the Leap Motion Orion tracking software/hardware or the stock HTC Vive controllers.
Major change notes for Tactile Mix will be available through Somewhere Systems.
Required Software
Unity v2018.2 was used for the development of this project. Later versions of Unity are untested.
You can download Unity here.
Recommended Hardware
The HTC VIVE VR Headset is currently the only tested headset. Other hardware may require you to change the input settings. You can learn more about how to do that here.
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or better
- CPU: Intel i5-4590, AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better
- RAM: 4 GB or more
- Video Output: HDMI 1.4, DisplayPort 1.2 or newer
- USB Port: 1x USB 2.0 or better port
- Operating System: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 or later, Windows 10
- OSX & Linux builds are possible but not tested.
- Unity - The game engine used to create the project
- Leap Motion - Hand-tracking controls
- Justin Bennington - Creator - justinbennington
See also the list of contributors who participated in this project.
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details
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HTC VIVE © 2011-2018 HTC Corporation
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Leap Motion © 2018, LEAP MOTION, INC.
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