<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Taiwan on Merlijn Van Holder</title><link>https://merlijnvanholder.com/tags/taiwan/</link><description>Recent content in Taiwan on Merlijn Van Holder</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.152.2</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://merlijnvanholder.com/tags/taiwan/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Pneumo Hacker VR Game Taiwan</title><link>https://merlijnvanholder.com/posts/2018/pneumo-hacker-vr-game-taiwan/</link><pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://merlijnvanholder.com/posts/2018/pneumo-hacker-vr-game-taiwan/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;rsquo;ve been active in the VR community for a while, being one of the original kickstarters for the Oculus DK1 VR headset. I was totally sold on the tech since E3 2012, thanks to &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVDXXfbz3QE"&gt;John Carmack&amp;rsquo;s DOOM 3 ski goggles tech demo&lt;/a&gt;. I&amp;rsquo;ve owned about every Oculus headset and dev kit since then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This eventually led to a contract with HTC, the Taiwanese electronics giant behind the popular VR headset HTC Vive. In collaboration with a Taiwanese filmmaker, we built a small VR game to raise awareness of the Air Quality Index (AQI) and Taiwan&amp;rsquo;s pollution problem, an issue ironically tied to the country&amp;rsquo;s massive electronics manufacturing.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>