The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Now, thanks to this move, you don’t have to care about anything at all: you can find on AWS a machine already configured with Cloud XR , already with the right specs of GPU, drivers, CPU, etc… It will be available on Amazon EC2 P3 and G4 instances which already support NVIDIA V100 and T4 GPUs. Anyway, let’s see.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Ah, and last but not least: there is a mega-sale on the Epic Store now, and also GTA V is free to download. SideQuest reaches 1M downloads. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon.

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

In celebration of the upcoming “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth), the game is now available for download on the Gear VR website and App, and will be available at a limited-time discounted price of $2.99 Built in Unity , the title has added a new single-player AI mode and supports multiplayer matches. USD (regularly $4.99

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image by Google). Google completely opensources Cardboard. With a surprise move, Google has announced with a blog post that it ha opensourced completely Cardboard. Google affirms that Cardboard has been a huge success to introduce people into VR, and more than 15 million headsets have been distributed. Image from Amazon).

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

We are all ready to play it, and if you are not, you are still in time to pre-download the game , so that at the X time, you can immediately hit the “Play” button. I’ve used Google search to find all the pages with references to Del Mar in the Oculus website, and all the docs are identical to the previous versions.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. Virtual humans are getting more and more real.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

This was a bit the philosophy of Google Daydream View, that was the first headset employing this kind of materials. The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. The Quest can be acquired in China from Amazon US , or from various resellers on Taobao.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2020

If you don’t have enough of this stuff, Amazon is your friend. to upload my videos about Half-Life: Alyx environments), I in fact use tethering from my phone and it uploads and downloads super-fast. In my case, I also exploit it to download/upload files fast since the connection in my office is very good.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

And this time, you will finally be able to download one of them. Blogger Tom Ffiske, that writes on Virtual Perceptions, has decided to write a very good book about AR and VR technologies and it is becoming pretty popular on Amazon. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. My favorite from this week?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever. Alan: And then they ask their tech teams and they're like, "does anybody know Unity?"

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

More info (Sebastian’s Tweet) More info (Sebastian’s Tweet with answer by GermanRifter) More info (Google Cache for Bestware shop page for Cosmos). It is highly probable that an HLVR game will be developed in the Source game engine, so a Unity game is not a possibility. More info (Download the full report for free).

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we Composability is at work when you download and install a Minecraft mod to power your own unique creation, mod a game, or design your own level. essentially a “Unity Asset Store” for the metaverse?—?designed

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And this is actually the most robust glTF converter on the market, which means that anyone who needs a glTF from any of those 50 formats we support can very easily get it by just uploading and downloading from Sketchfab. And so we already have a set of integrations with proprietary tools like Unity and Real Render and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

The device also mounts a Wi-fi 6 modem (Qualcomm FastConnect 6800), meaning that your headset can download games faster and that local streaming of your games from PC to the Quest via Virtual Desktop / Riftcat can become much better (provided you have a compatible modem). It is not a very safe mechanism, IMHO. RAM is improved to 6GB.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And this is actually the most robust glTF converter on the market, which means that anyone who needs a glTF from any of those 50 formats we support can very easily get it by just uploading and downloading from Sketchfab. You've basically created a platform that makes it easy to upload, share, download, and view 3D models across any device.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And this is actually the most robust glTF converter on the market, which means that anyone who needs a glTF from any of those 50 formats we support can very easily get it by just uploading and downloading from Sketchfab. And so we already have a set of integrations with proprietary tools like Unity and Real Render and so on.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed. Matt: Just on Medium.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed. Matt: Just on Medium.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

So things like Uber or Google Maps and directions were native to the phone, that were kind of useless on the PC. So that was a problem that, in the past, could only be solved with expensive depth cameras or Google Street View-style cars, or take a thousand photos and wait a day for it all to be processed. Matt: Just on Medium.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

A big company like Apple, Google, really pushing the thing out and saying, “this is what it’s going to be,” and then making it part of everyday life. But although, at the moment, in Google — if you type in the words — you start to get those WebAR things. XR, at the moment, is a breakout technology for BYO.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

A big company like Apple, Google, really pushing the thing out and saying, “this is what it’s going to be,” and then making it part of everyday life. But although, at the moment, in Google — if you type in the words — you start to get those WebAR things. XR, at the moment, is a breakout technology for BYO.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.” That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. ” They say, “OK, that’s great.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.” That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. ” They say, “OK, that’s great.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you show up to a-- pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, "listen, we can go build anything." That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. We know a little bit about how Google thinks about this.

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