Bren Macdonald

Technologist, VR Expert, Comedian

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  • “VR-MRT” – Out in the Open

    Nothing major to report today just– Oh wait! Breaking now! The VR-MRT, after many (many, many) hoops now has an open source repository available! It was a whole lot of work to have this available openly and represents perhaps my largest personal project, I had written over 1.2 million lines of code as one of…

  • So after learning about making new UI blueprints I went off and stared a new project. This time, I loaded up Revit to bring in an existing drawing into Unreal to have a more interactive time seeing the drawing. Good times! It almost goes without saying, quick and easy global illumination feels like a cheat…

  • So unreal A holiday and a few days in and I’m making some good progress. Having the strong existing background in Unity is both a help and a hindrance here. I find myself longing to just write up a character spawner one moment followed by liking the ease of making pretty looking scenes…err…maps. I will…

  • Day 1

    Diving into Unreal Looking into the current state of things, I’m embarking on a developer side quest…I’m gonna load up the Unreal Engine for the first time in years and get to making a game. So, here is Day 1, I’ve got the latest version of Unreal installed and I’m gonna embark on getting a…

  • I’ve got two shows coming up this May with Select Start! First, I’ll be performing at the Happy Valley XL Improv Festival on May 15th! Our slot for the festival is at 8PM, so come on over to the Blue Brick Theater in State College, PA to check us out. The second show I have…

  • Hello world?

    Welcome to my little corner of the internet. In the coming days and weeks I’ll be posting information up here about new projects and performances I have in the docket. Right now though? I’ll be over here placing all these ducks in a row.