The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — Upload VR) More info (Samsung prototype headset leaked — XR Daily News) Other relevant news (Image by Meta Reality Labs) Meta’s first AR glasses will be just for internal use A new report by The Information talks about the AR glasses that Meta is building.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. I’ve also interviewed him a few times on my blog. Learn more Join the Pico Dev Jam!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article. The newspaper describes the glasses as the hardware through which Tim Cook will leave his legacy because they are a new product line fully built under his management. And that now t here is some pressure to release them.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

Here you are my shortlist of the interesting articles about the M-word that I’ve read this week: According to a report from The Information, the prices of virtual lands have plummeted. Official Blog Post) More info (First Hand?—?Road Some articles on the metaverse. A post worth reading. More info (First Hand?—?Official Donate for good.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

And for sure there are many internal prototypes that will lead to nothing; Apple also spreads false information. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. Other relevant news. Funny link.

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Mashable VR

JULY 21, 2022

Former Coinbase product manager Ishan Wahi, his brother Nikhil Wahi and Ishan's friend Sameer Ramani have been charged with two crimes: wire fraud conspiracy, and wire fraud, both of which revolve around crypto insider trading based on confidential Coinbase information. million in realized and unrealized gains.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Luckily there is 5% of information there that I’ve actually found interesting. Abi Bar-Zeev knows that too, and he has written an interesting blog post predicting how Facebook will behave in the upcoming years. Disclaimer: Jake, the CEO of HaptX, is a Patron of this blog) Learn more. New research is carried on about haptics.

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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. They’re easier to project.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2018

Your app must use the correct versions of Oculus PC SDK, Unity, or Unreal Engine. For more information of the VRC Validator, check out the official Oculus blog post. There’s no need to download it either, as the VRC Validator is automatically installed with the Oculus Runtime. image courtesy Oculus. TestEntitlementCheck.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

AR brings digital content and information into the real world. However, I would like to go into this debate in one of my next blog articles, as otherwise, it would go beyond the scope of this article. The focus is and will be on people and their interactions. The use cases seem sheer endless.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

So I guess that someone at Pico is leaking information to indirectly say “Don’t buy the Quest 3, we are going to release something better soon”. And this makes me believe that the information is authentic. Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Details on how to view the screenshots can be found on the NVIDIA GeForce blog: [link]. For more information, visit www.obduction.com This updated Obduction version is available for PC and Rift on the Oculus Store, Steam, GOG, and Humble Store, for the introductory price of $29.99 (and coming soon to Mac).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

According to a blog post today penned by Oculus’ VP of Content Jason Rubin, the closure of Story Studio is happening so that the team can focus on its established pattern of investing in the work of outside studios. Story Studio is also the creator of Quill — a VR artistic creation platform similar to Google’s Tilt Brush.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Finally, Magic Leap has revealed information about the price and availability of Magic Leap 2. This is a total joke. According to this SUPER-RELIABLE information, the second generation Apple headset will launch in 2025, and it will consist of two models: a high-end one and a “more affordable” one. Top news of the week. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

This also open the door for Epic and their Unreal Engine to shine and capture the entire XR development market. Valecillos added, “I like to push for Unity to adopt a simplified model and ensure they inform people / studios in advance when drastic changes like this are coming.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

In addition to the Unreal Engine Daydream integration which has been improving since its launch alongside the Daydream announcement, the promised Unity integration has finally arrived in the form of a ‘technical preview’ which developers can download today. Developers can get the Google VR SDK over at the Google VR developer site.

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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. A report on Bloomberg informed us all that Magic Leap is exploring a sale of the company. The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 !

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” The company’s main product is a new platform for networked 3D graphics called SpatialOS.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment. This blog post has been prepared for informational purposes only and is not intended to be used as a complete source of information on any particular company.

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Ryan Schultz

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Helios , an Unreal-based social VR platform which actually came and went before I even had a chance to add it to the spreadsheet! Community Edition users will be responsible for researching, evaluating, and staying informed about the hosting options available to them.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Some reports by Business Insider and The Information talk about the current situation of Magic Leap, that seems always more complicated. In a recent blog post, the space Agency details how Lockheed Martin, the lead contractor for NASA’s Orion spacecraft, uses the AR glasses to show workers how they must assemble the pieces of the ship.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

And while Unreal Engine already supports OpenXR, Unity is a bit lagging, but support is coming in 2021. Managing a blog requires a lot of time and effort , but I like doing it because I really care about informing the VR community. Donate to this blog! Playing Echo VR is dangerous. Funny link. Donate to The Ghost Howls!

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Ryan Schultz

APRIL 28, 2024

Four days ago, I blogged about a widely-circulated report by an Apple industry pundit , speculating that the computer maker was making significant cuts to the number of Apple Vision Pro (AVP) units it was planning to ship this year, and stating that demand for the brand new, high-end VR/AR headset had “fallen sharply beyond expectations.”

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Question: how hard is it to move from Unity to, say, Unreal, or Godot? There’s zero information about how a “device” will be kept track of, so potentially just changing the hardware in a device will cause the fee to reset. Sansar’s in-house engine looks pretty good right now, eh? Is it an impossible task?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Before leaving you to the weekly roundup, I remind you that if you want to support my hard work in informing the community, you can always do that with a little donation on Patreon (thank you for that!). Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

If you don’t know what to give me as a Christmas gift, I have an idea for you: donate on Patreon to this blog! It’s a gift to me, but also to all the XR community because I’ll use that money to keep writing informative articles for everyone. Make me a Christmas gift!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

This strategy is focused on four pillars: Empowering people and reinforcing skills to foster awareness, access to trustworthy information and build a talent pool of virtual world specialists. Business: supporting a European Web 4.0 industrial ecosystem to scale up excellence and address fragmentation. Funny link Opening my email.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2018

I don’t like the idea of seeing 2D pictures in VR, but the 3D structure of the museum and the navigation mode were original; An aperitif on Mars created in Unreal Engine by Enea Le Fons and some students of the University of Venice; Enea Le Fons with Neiko’s Luigi Tonon in the installation that let you experience the aperitif on Mars.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The startup is pretty new, in fact, and its owner group is Megadodo, another unknown company that is working on an MMO game about which is difficult to find any information. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

What informed your decision to start the series off with a novel, vs. telling the story in a visual medium such as a webcomic or a series of shorts? 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.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. HTC has finally unveiled some information on the Vive Cosmos. nReal has also been sued by Epic Games for its name that is too close to “Unreal”. But for now, let me do a recap of the best news of the past week in AR and VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” The blog & social media. My suggestion to them is to start first of all to learn Unity and C#, or Unreal and C++.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

The more we can access the human senses for processing information, the more meaningful the information becomes.”. The eyes can only process so much information. We’re looking for companies and individuals to feature on the blog. “It helps you understand data in a more intuitive way,” she says.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

This is actually quite a cool concept: if you for instance install a soundwaves detector on your glasses, you can transform the information it gets to visual shapes, so through your MR glasses you can actually see the soundwaves propagating from a guitar you are playing. Bonelab is coming on Thursday. Some interesting XR research project.

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