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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Zuck’s announcement has been reported everywhere, and this has been a very powerful endorsement for immersive technologies. Everyone with an internet connection has got to know that one of the most important companies in the world has even changed its name to focus on immersive realities and this thing called “the metaverse”.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. One of them is a new interest of investors towards immersive technologies: since the metaverse is the next big thing, now everyone is looking for a way to invest in it. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

It is a lightweight Python package capable of harnessing the heavyweight power of speech AI (NVIDIA Riva) and large language models (LLMs) to simplify user interactions in immersive environments. The new name containing the word “Oculus” means that the original name of the VR company is not completely going away.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It has a retro look that makes it very nerdy, and it should be able to offer passthrough AR and hands tracking via Ultraleap. On 14th, Meta dropped some merch for fans to get for free : a Beat Saber ugly sweater, some Questy (a cute smiling Quest) plush toys, Oculus-branded socks, and cookie cutters. Meta acquires Imagine Optix.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

There are no controllers, but Ultraleap hands tracking (you can use it with FinchShift controllers, though). $500 for this device is a steal. And since Epic has violated the rules of the App Store, Apple had all the rights to kick Fortnite out of it, and even to suspend the support in the integration of iOS inside of Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. So gaze-to-aim and hand-to-shoot. So ok, I won’t be too harsh on this, I promised myself.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Image by Epic Games, from The SportsRush).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

They have hired the popular singer Madison Beer (I had no idea who she was, honestly) and have made her perform inside a virtual venue for a virtual concert that won’t be available only in streaming, but also via Oculus and PSVR headsets. You know that I organize VR concerts with VRrOOm (and our last one even had 75M total views!)

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. 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. Brandon: Yeah. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: They are.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. 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. Brandon: Yeah. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: They are.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence. Extra Reading.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2017

If you own an Oculus Rift, it’s being brought to you absolutely free of charge. Publisher: Oculus. Available On: Oculus Rift (Oculus Touch Required). You grab them – and anything else in the world you want to pick up – with the hand trigger on the Touch controller and shoot with the primary trigger.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. 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. Brandon: Yeah. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: They are.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there’s just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you’re actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there's just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you're actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

All these different people who are making these 3D objects in these CAD programs, there’s just something that you can make design decisions lot faster when you’re actually immersed into this space. What is the return of investment for jumping into immersive? So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction.

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