The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The company says in a blog post that anyone with the know-how will soon be able to develop new VR experiences for its location-based attractions using its upcoming SDK. Sandbox says however that developers can create using more modest setups such as an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

In addition to a new explorable location, the software has been overhauled to support forward rendering and improved support for Oculus Rift and Touch. The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is a famous example of using the technique in Unreal Engine 3 (see The Astronauts’ blog for a detailed explanation), and Realities.io

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. An iteration of Unreal Engine (Unreal Engine 5) is already being used to develop applications for a range of VR devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Image by Oculus). Other relevant news.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 5, 2016

Along with last week’s Unreal 4.11 Here’s a quick guide to everything from Lighthouse tracking to Unreal development. How can I build with Unreal Engine? UE4 has built-in Vive support, and with the new official plugin release in Unreal Engine 4.11 , it’s easier than ever to get started with Leap Motion + Vive.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. To register for that session and see the future sessions in the series, visit the VIVE blog.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Image by HTC). HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. With a tweet, HTC has just teased the upcoming launch of a new device. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

With the recent release of the Oculus Rift CV1 and 1.3 SDK, you’ll also want to check out Oculus’ migration guide. How about Unreal Engine? Unreal Engine 4.11 doesn’t currently have Oculus 1.3 Blocks , Geometric , Pinch Move , Lyra , and Pinch Draw have all been updated to Oculus SDK 1.3,

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In a brief blog post , the studio says that they’re no longer actively developing for Space Junkies. 10] in our review , noting however that the admittedly standard arena shooter experience would need more than smooth visuals and Unreal Tournament -style gameplay to keep users happy in the long run.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In addition to releasing Oculus Quest 2, Facebook spent $150 million on content for the device (to bring you VR games from brands like Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Medal of Honor).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars’ Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. ” The resulting environments, rendered capably using Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, are some of the most detailed and realistic recreations I’ve ever seen.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Zuck still thinks that it is a device that can start substituting the laptop. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. Funny link.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the company’s own blog post , Senior Vice President of New Technologies Group, Josh Walden, stated the acquisition granted Intel with “low-power, high-performance SoC [System on Chip] platforms” that would help to accelerate its computer vision services. Polyarc , a new company that today announced a $3.5 Read more on GeekWire.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Ryder used to be the Editor of Dark Horse Comics, and we’ve talked about a graphic novel, comics and a weekly blog that has already been started. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. For the Oculus Rift, this offset is 80mm, while on the HTC Vive it’s closer to 90mm. The post Space and Perspective in VR appeared first on Leap Motion Blog.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. You may be saying “Come on!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Adding fuel to the fire, Lead Programmer Brian Windover noted that “native VR support” played a role in selecting Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4 as the development tool for the project on a blog on Epic’s site. UE4 is indeed highly compatible with VR headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2019

video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Image by HTC). HTC has not confirmed nor denied the price, but 90% of cases when this happens, the rumored price is true. Oculus wants to make people control AR headsets just using the brain. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

No grey zones like HTC did in the past. Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. An article in the Varjo blog warns us all about the risks of “negative training”. Beware of negative training.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

My blog has just turned 4 years old and I’m incredibly happy about it! New Oculus Venues gives us a glimpse of Facebook Horizon. Without previous notice, Facebook has started rolling out a new version of Oculus Venues, for now available only to selected beta users. The HTC Cosmos Play will be an enterprise headset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Next week my blog will turn 3 years old! Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). I am so excited. Gear VR is dead.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Be sure to tune in if you want to participate in this interesting event!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Oculus Quest gets v29 update. This week Facebook has started rolling out the v29 runtime update for Oculus Quest , and it brings some interesting features like: Multi-user mode on the original Quest 1 A renewed UI of the “toolbar” of the device. HTC had $210 million as the total revenue for 2020. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As it is tradition of this blog, I have prepared a big fatty roundup with all the news announced at the latest Facebook Connect 2. Read more about this news: Founder’s letter by Mark Zuckerberg: [link] Design blog on Meta’s logo: [link] Facebook spending $10B for the metaverse: [link] Integral keynote of Facebook Connect 2: [link].

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they’re pivoting to enterprise.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

She's Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU. It helps that a lot of the big companies, HTC, Oculus, Lenovo, they're pivoting to enterprise. So it's just grown a lot.

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