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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.13): Lynx now aims at the consumer market, App Lab to enable DLCs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games). Notice that Apple talks about “future VR features” that it is going to implement.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.11.15): Vive Focus 3 aims at LBEVR market, Niantic and Qualcomm launch AR SDKs, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m still here in the US for some days after having attended AWE, planning to meet some interesting people before heading back to Italy. Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Unity has just bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g.

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bHaptics review: feel your body in VR with this haptic suit!

The Ghost Howls

A final mention goes to the fact that now it is summer and here in Italy it is quite hot. bHaptics made it very easy for the developers to implement it thanks to a Unity prefab that must just be dragged into your project. Once you are inside Unity, you can import these patterns and play them to play the haptics effect.

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Gianluigi Perrone: “To make a VR film you need to know the DNA of VR”

The Ghost Howls

Someway, Dino Audino , which is basically the Bruce Springsteen of film teaching books publishing in Italy (they released fundamental books from academics like Vogel, Katz as well as popular directors such as Maurizio Nichetti), knew about me and we met in Rome. It will be available on Amazon soon. It depends on who am I working with.

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