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. Developers also have full control over the key data the goes into Application Spacewarp: depth-buffers and motion vectors. Application Spacewarp Availability.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

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. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

The 3D models have not been created by hand, but by an AI mixing satellite data with Street View pictures. 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.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. ” He expects Meta to continue pushing the narrative for VR.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Phase Sync Latency Reduction in Unity and Unreal Engine.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly. There’s full SDK access, support for integrating payment systems, and data statistics.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Moreover, the firm’s Facebook lineage makes critics sceptical of Meta’s mission due to the firm’s previous user data controversies. Moreover, trusted gaming engines like Unreal and Unity are gaining new usage as RT3D engines. Although, in reality, these technologies co-exist.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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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

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. It states, among other things, that “The company used its data advantage to create superior market intelligence to identify nascent competitive threats and then acquire, copy, or kill these firms”.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Manus VR , the company which makes enterprise-grade data gloves, is almost ready to release its solution to this challenge, Manus Polygon. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

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. Facebook, owners of VR giant Oculus, held their online alternative to GDC over three days last month. Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Copy-pasting a message from Cognitive 3D: We are Cognitive3D, a spatial analytics platform built specifically for collecting, measuring and understanding user behavior data from 3D environments.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Zuck also didn’t address much the theme of privacy and how much data harvesting in VR could be dangerous. Probably the sentence “five years from now people will primarily think about us as a company harvesting data on the metaverse, rather than doing it on mobile phones” wouldn’t have sounded much sexy, so he avoided speaking about this.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Connecting your client side app to some API to show dynamic data using JSON Parsing techniques. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. This course from the University of Michigan focuses mainly on developing XR apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal — Developing AR/VR/MR/XR Apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal Skill 5?

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

As part of our 3D Jam spotlight series, here are 17 utility demos that let you reach into a sea of data and extract its insights, explore a CAD prototype before committing it to a 3D printer, meet with people from around the world, and more. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Build Chinese.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.” This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Facebook is rolling out an update to let multiple users share the same Oculus Quest 2 (the feature is coming also to Quest 1, but at a later time).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The Meta team is exploring augmented reality solutions designed to work with smartphones and smart glasses, as well as virtual reality environments compatible with a range of Oculus headsets. The Virbela ecosystem can support everything from file and data sharing to audio and chat, and it works across multiple devices.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. So, here you are what I did today. That’s powerful.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Wires are a VR buzzkill, but the untethered VR headsets are powered by smartphones – which are graphics-processing lightweights compared to the robust PCs behind the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. And if you have an NVIDIA graphics card, it can already offer foveated rendering out of the box! Yes, it is!

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VRWorld

JUNE 7, 2016

We started development using Oculus Development Kits (DK1), and our breakthrough came when we started to show our code on DK2’s with different business leads. In our team, we now love the (HTC) Vive and we’re certain Oculus will catch up. TH: Front end engine; we worked with both Unity and Unreal Engine on different experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

In this first post we will be describing what OpenVR is, what it may be useful for and finally, we will go through a little OpenVR application to demo some of the core functionality of the API in what respects to interacting with a VR system (get connected devices, get tracking data, etc). You may be saying “Come on!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

If words like open source, GitHub, GNU, firmware, C#, or Unity don’t mean you anything, then you better stay away from this headset and buy a Rift or Vive. For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor. The OSVR is packed in a brown cardboard box which is bit similar to the Oculus Rift DK2 box.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And is there any data around the work they're doing? And for our training products, they are a little bit more customized for each project. Alan: Amazing. Alan: Amazing.

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