PLAYING WTIH 4D SHAPES HOW TO
PLAYING WTIH 4D SHAPES FULL

The first experience I tried, I just grabbed objects and threw one against the other, or threw them in the air. In this cube, there are your 4D toys and you can play with them. (Image by Marc ten Bosh)Īll the experiences happen in a gray environment where you can move inside a cube-shaped area. Part of the menu showing you all the toys you can play with. Moving that slider using your thumbstick is a trippy experience because makes you move in the 4th dimension… and other mind blowing things happen. Because yes, this is the ingenious way the author has found to make you move in 4D: you have a slider on your controller that makes you see the 4th coordinate you’re in beside the one of the other objects in the scene (you see a coloured tag on the slider showing you where in 4D is every object in the scene).

PLAYING WTIH 4D SHAPES HOW TO

The fourth dimension, as perceived by my brain (Image from Reaction Gifs)Īfter this intro, an automatic little tutorial starts and it teaches you how to interact with the experience: basically you can grab objects with your controller trigger (the index trigger on Touch) and then do with them whatever you want (like throwing them in the air, etc…) you can move in 3 dimensions with room scale and move in the 4th dimension using the thumbstick on your controllers. So while the above behavior has perfectly sense in 4D, for us humble 3D beings it’s just a mind-blowing experience.

As 3-dimensional beings we can’t understand a 4D space… it would like trying to explain Super Mario what is a cube… he lives in a 2D world, can’t understand it. If you’re asking yourself “what the hell is happening”, well, welcome to the fourth dimension. Because yes, seeing 4D cubes falling one over the other produces a really WTF result. When 4D Toys starts, you are immediately presented with some 4D hypercubes falling from the ceiling and having some weird results. I’ve downloaded it on Steam and launched it with a lot of curiosity. I discovered this game because I read an article about it on Road To VR: as soon as I read about a 4D game for VR, I made everything possible to try it. (OMG, I think that my mind would melt while developing a physics system in 4D!) At first it was going to a simple dice simulation but I kept adding new shapes… and it got out of hand.

PLAYING WTIH 4D SHAPES FULL

I was only planning to use 4D physics a little bit for Miegakure as a purely aesthetic component, but I started thinking about making a stand-alone toy to play with 4D objects, to take full advantage of the physics. I had a ton of fun inventing the math for it. So I made one for fun, and kept working on it on the side. Then a few years ago I had gathered enough knowledge that it was a possibility. Near the beginning of Miegakure’s development, someone joked I should make a 4D physics engine.

4D Toys is a little toybox that Marc Ten Bosh has made in preparation for its upcoming 4D game Miegakure.

Playing wtih 4d shapes