The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is called “First Hand” because it has been roughly inspired by Oculus First Contact , the showcase demo for Oculus Touch controller released for the Rift CV1. This makes sense considering that controllers shine with different kinds of interactions than the bare hands , so the applications must be different.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 3, 2020

Compatible with a range of headsets and videogames, towards the end of 2019 3dRudder added compatibility for Oculus Quest via Oculus Link. Soon the standalone headset will get its own foot controller in the form of 3dRudder Pro Wireless. Additionally, there is a Unity asset and an Unreal Engine plugin. EUR/$199.00

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Oculus recently revealed in a blog post that in the past months they’ve been working on bringing native mixed reality capture support to Oculus Rift, and it’s available today for developers to start creating mixed reality videos. image courtesy Oculus. 3D printable mixed reality mount, image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Oculus Rift getting Minority Report-like interface for VR. On top of announcing a new and more affordable standalone headse t at Oculus’ annual developer conference, the Facebook owned company also teased a massive update to the Oculus Rift platform. Oculus also announced a new upgrade to Home with Rift Core 2.0.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API. Notably missing from the Apple keynote was any presence of Facebook’s Oculus Rift.

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JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. There are a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

Each company, even if a supporter of OpenXR, still has control over where their content is made available and which platforms support which headsets. support in Unreal Engine and plans to update the engine for the 1.0 Oculus has committed to bringing OpenXR runtime support to both Rift and Quest later this year.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Plexus Immersive Corp, a San Francisco-based startup, announced a pair of VR gloves that integrate haptic feedback and interface with multiple tracking standards, including SteamVR, Oculus Rift, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR. It’s unclear if the halo tracker will manufactured for both tracking standards—Oculus and SteamVR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While similar to the Asynchronous Spacewarp tech available to Oculus PC apps, Meta says Application Spacewarp will produce even better results. Developer Control. Meta emphasizes that Application Spacewarp is fully controllable by the developer on a frame-by-frame basis. Application Spacewarp Availability.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Back at CES, Oculus announced that Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi would exclusively bring its own branded version of the standalone Oculus Go headset to China. The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone headset is identical hardware to the forthcoming Oculus Go, the $200 standalone headset that Oculus announced late last year.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Oculus recently published a new guide on how to optimize VR experiences along with some of the common pitfalls for devs to watch out for when tracking down and solving VR performance issues. SEE ALSO Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR.

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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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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? You can make 3D worlds with HTML and Entity-Components for Virtual Reality headsets like Oculus Quest, Rift or WMR, SteamVR, mobile, desktop. ? Supported AR/VR devices ? Widget libraries

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2017

A toned-down version of the more intricate ZED long-range depth camera, the Mini attaches securely to the front of an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset and captures the real world in stereoscopic video via the camera’s two “eyes.” One of the more exciting of options is Stereolabs’ ZED Mini depth camera.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

Daniel is an XR professional that has become very famous this year for his mindblowing experiments with the hands tracking of the Oculus Quest , where every prototype of his is focused on an interaction that is so crazy that most of the time you couldn’t think about it before. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Oculus’ big announcement of the day, however, should be in people’s hands either now or very soon. The news was announced by the company’s Nate Mitchell over on the Oculus forums. Note the careful wording; Oculus is clearly keen to avoid making bold claims after the 1.11 update earlier this month.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? The first step is to educate yourself. You can find it here: [link].

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Major VR stakeholders—including Oculus, Valve, HTC, Microsoft, Unity, and Unreal Engine—now offer full or partial support for the standard. Sony’s next-gen VR controllers | Image courtesy Sony. Image courtesy Khronos Group. After years of development, the OpenXR 1.0 Sony, however, remains an odd one out.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. This means that Unreal Engine is now free for everyone forever until you really become rich.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. It is still not known exactly when the improved controllers and SteamVR 2.0 Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it. Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. If it becomes always richer of new content and new features, may it be possible that it will have always more importance in the Oculus ecosystem?

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. 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.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Logitech currently lists VR Ink Pilot Edition support for Flyingshapes, Vector Suite, VRED, Mindesk, Gravity Sketch, MARUI (Maya plugin), IrisVR, and Tilt Brush, with integrations for Unreal Engine and Unity so that developers can adapt more applications to the stylus.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

Built with SteamVR Tracking tech, the stylus works similarly to a typical SteamVR controller, but affords the natural precision that comes with precise finger control. Though it’s ‘just’ a stylus, the VR Ink has a surprising number of controls built right in. Photo by Road to VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 30, 2016

RPG Maker also tops the list of simpler game creation tools, as well as Twine for interactive fiction, All of these programs are viewed as a more approachable way of getting into game development as opposed to the more complex programming required for engines such as Unity and Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

With the recent release of the Oculus Rift CV1 and 1.3 How can I build in Unity with the 1.3 With just one simple Unity patch, you’ll be ready to tackle the brave new world of consumer VR. With just one simple Unity patch, you’ll be ready to tackle the brave new world of consumer VR. How about Unreal Engine?

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive , an act that has caused outrage in the VR community. And are Oculus really doing anything wrong anyway? Who’s behind it?

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. With the Leap Motion Controller, you can quickly bring your hands into almost any virtual reality experience. With the Leap Motion Controller, you can quickly bring your hands into almost any virtual reality experience. and Oculus 0.5

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2017

More exciting is the second showcase, highlighting haptic feedback for motion controllers like the Oculus Touch or Vive wands. The demo is set in a room filled with boxes that you can use controllers to realistically throw. Finally, there’s an audio production room. Tagged with: Amazon , development , lumberyard.

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