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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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions. The city of San Francisco, where GDC was set to take place, also issued a state of emergency only a few days prior.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). I’m Chen, General Manager and Chief Editor of VRTUOLUO , also a senior media expert who has dug and studied deeply the XR industry since 2014.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

To build out the software ecosystem, Qualcomm lined up a wide range of partners, including Epic Games’s Unreal Engine, Niantic’s Lightship platform, Unity, Viacom CBS and others. In 2014, we created new chips dedicated to virtual reality and augmented reality — and we are here for the long run.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. The event is organized by The Virtual Reality Foundation, which is composed of many of the same people behind the Virtual Reality Los Angeles conference and startup Mindshow.

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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. Many of you recall that I started working in VR in 2014 and my first solution was a full-body system that needed a PC, a VR headset, an array of Kinects, and some networking magic to work.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 23, 2017

Presence Capital — one of the earliest venture capital firms to focus on virtual reality and augmented reality startups — is today announcing that it has made 33 investments. While Facebook bought Oculus in 2014, Presence Capital contends that its was the first VC fund to focus on VR/AR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

On October 31, Oculus and Kaleidoscope will kick off DevLab , a new initiative to support independent VR creators by bringing together 28 VR artists from around the world to incubate new work, explore new ideas, and create the next wave of great virtual reality experiences. In 2014, he founded Innerspace VR with Hayoun Kwon.

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ARVR

JULY 5, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). That figure declined to 15 percent in 2014 and about 10 percent today. was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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ARVR

JUNE 24, 2020

And it is memorable, like a trauma, because that is when our new view of the World supplants the old one that we can never return to, making us an orphan to that old Reality, but a proud and bold explorer in the New. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 of place?—?AND AND (b) memories. Read Part II here.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Special announcements from Intel, with Kumar Kaushik, GM, Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality. YouTube star Vsauce3 (aka Jake Roper).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. I started working in XR in 2014, long before the term was even coined.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

Dexta Robotics are looking to create the next generation VR input device, one that not only lets you interact with virtual objects but also lets you sense the size and solidity of them, letting you touch virtual reality. In Oct 2014 we launched and then canceled the KS project. This is the Dexmo exoskeleton glove.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. This also opened the door for traditional VR investment.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

Rob Cole has published on this blog a great guest post on the importance of ergonomics in virtual reality and this headset clearly showed me why ergonomics are so fundamental: if a headset feels uncomfortable, no user can love it completely. Unity Development. Unity Development for the Mirage Solo is not difficult.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

Another great IP is now being bond with virtual reality, and this will be highly beneficial for the technology. My team is looking for freelancers for developing an XR experience : we’re looking for 2D artists, 3D artists, Unity developers, sound designers, and UX designers. And it will also be awesome for its players.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Held in San Jose, CA between October 5th and 7th, Oculus Connect returns once again and, as before, promises to become a Mecca for virtual reality developers around the world.

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TechCrunch VR

JULY 8, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). That figure declined to 15% in 2014 and hovers around 10% today. VR shows similar patterns to media that were increasingly ad supported as they matured. Over time, developers learned they could reach scale through free downloads.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

This morning, our second annual 3D Jam kicks off with developers around the world competing for over $75,000 in cash and prizes – building brand new experiences for virtual reality, desktop, mobile, and beyond. Virtual reality experiences dominated the field, representing 14 of the top 20 and taking all three finalist spots.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

This latest acquisition is another piece in a secretive strategy: over the past few years Snapchat has quietly acquired a couple of other potentially augmented reality-related companies as well as talent. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In this post, we’ll cover everything you need to know about our integrations and best practices for augmented and virtual reality, desktop, and the Internet of Things. Get inspired by the 2014 3D Jam and our Developer Gallery (now with tags for VR , open source , and more). Get started with Unity. and VR support.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

After spending the past ten days in Hollywood, we met with numerous industry members who are working on next generation of Virtual Reality content. For a pure enjoyment, theBlu experiences simply are the best way to immerse a person in virtual reality, no matter the age. We wanted to do the blue whale.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. Parisi is a virtual reality pioneer, serial entrepreneur and angel investor.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

The acquisition of North, together with the AR platform built with Google ARCore could make Google jump back on the AR glasses train, realizing that vision that it teased in 2014 with the Google Glasses. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Do you want to learn Unity for your next big AR/VR app?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. It is like having a virtual recording studio in your home! I don’t know if it is the plan, but for sure it is a possibility. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I work in the XR field since 2014 , and I’ve been able to follow almost all of its hype cycle. We entered so the “winter of VR”, which happened between 2017 and the first part of 2019, that is the period when virtual reality was considered “dead”, and it was very hard to survive in the ecosystem.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

I got my Leap Motion Controller at the start of 2014, and quickly went about making demos. I’m currently doing my honours, researching the feasibility of VR and haptics for midwifery training, using Deakin’s upcoming Virtual Reality Lab. Check out the source code at github.com/Zaeran/CAD-Demo.

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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Best Societal Impact Unity VP of Education and Social Impact Jessica Lindl said that “the world is a better place with more creatives in it,” as she prepared to award another of the evening’s most anticipated Auggies. The award went to Verizon for The Future of Training , an XR upskilling program.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Or Unreal if that’s your language.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

And here we are, almost two years later, that we have done together massive virtual events like SXSW 2021 or the concert of Jean-Michel Jarre for which I have been even mentioned by Unity itself on its website. The amazing Unity Cube. Don’t give up. We are all here for the long run.

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Leapmotion

MAY 3, 2015

Early Unity experiment using a button menu. Our virtual hands would contort sporadically, even when keeping our hands completely still. the idea of controlling a virtual reality interface with… buttons , felt like a poor utilization of the tools. Developing a virtual reality app has been a true privilege.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

exploding space stations, fight rival AIs, craft futuristic swords in virtual reality, and more. C0NFL1CT is a turn-based virtual reality game prototype that adds a new dimension to classic chess-like gameplay, including new tactical possibilities. In 2014, a friend of mine told me I should try a global game jam….

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

From 2014 semi-finalist Felix Herbst ( Prefrontal Cortex ), Iterazer is a tool to play with complexity and create intricate sculptures of light and geometry in 3D space. We learned how to use Unity, code in C#, design in Autodesk Maya, and use a Leap Motion sensor. Requires: Windows, Mac. Iterazer VR. “Our team (HisarCS.)

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 10, 2024

I started working in VR in 2014, and if you asked me what the XR landscape could have been in 2024 , I would have totally missed the predictions. You can get some projections, you can get some mental tools through which to analyze the future, and you can learn some good attitude with which to tackle whatever future evolution may happen.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2021

Some weeks ago, I’ve launched on App Lab “The Unity Cube” , a VR experience for Quest, with just… a cube and nothing more. The genesis of The Unity Cube. This is the typical reaction of the VR user when he/she discovers The Unity Cube. The reasons for the cube. But “Why submitting just a cube?”,

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. It is the sequel to 2014's Watch Dogs and was released worldwide for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows in November 2016. What's Nvidia Ansel?

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