Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Here’s the full press release for VRLA 2018 ( Road to VR readers can save 15% on passes, details here ): Announcing VRLA 2018 Keynotes & Expo Highlights. Passes are available now and start at just $30, and for the first time ever attendees can register in VR via the official Payscout VRLA Registration 2018 app.

Los Angeles 160

Los Angeles AR Augmented Reality Microsoft 160

Cats and VR

MARCH 31, 2017

Featuring a soundtrack by lead singer and composer Ville Valo, of gothic rock band HIM, 3rd Eye Studios Downward Spiral : Prologue launches on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is now available on the Oculus store for Oculus Rift and Steam for HTC Vive. The VR technology will be launched in 2018. CatsAndVR.com/blog.

Finland 100

Finland Gaming Entertainment Unity 100

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

How has VR performed in 2018? Let me do some speculations… Virtual Reality in 2018. Virtual Reality in 2018 has not performed that awesomely good : in my opinion, it has just laid the foundations for the success that will come in the upcoming years. 2018 has been the year of standalone headsets. PC VR headsets.

Virtual Reality 318

Virtual Reality Oculus China Samsung 318

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. This video is from 2018, but I still dream about it today. In that moment, I regret not having visited it before.

Virtual Reality 472

Virtual Reality Tools Virtual Environment Unity 472

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

AR 436

AR Controllers Unity Hand tracking 436

The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2021

I lived a similar situation in the years 2017-2018 , that is the Winter of VR, the period that you may remember the most for being the “VR is dead” era. VR has got the attention of the mainstream thanks to Alyx and the commercials by Oculus. If you don’t have such a group, then probably you are in the wrong place.

AR 544

AR Technology Gaming Groups 544

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Augmented Reality in 2018. More or less AR in 2018 has gone as I predicted in 2017. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Leap Motion.

Augmented Reality 396

Augmented Reality Magic Leap Leap Motion AR 396

Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

VR may not really fit this categorization, as its application can/should be much broader than a single user group. Graylin: Initial versions of above applications could happen in late 2017 or the first half of 2018. But likely it’ll be the second half of 2018 or 2019 for mass adoption of such apps to really take off.

China 206

China Asia Virtual Reality Education 206

VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

& 13-15, 2018 Venue: To be announced South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. IEEE Virtual Reality Conference Date: March 18-22, 2018 Venue: Stadthalle Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany Check here for pricing.

Conference 27

Conference San Jose San Francisco AR 27

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Additionally, founding the Upload Academy, a VR/AR developer training program, which graduated its first class in August with a number of success stories including Found – a gorgeous Miyazaki-esque narrative experience created by four of our students which was recently recognized on stage during the Oculus Connect Keynote. January 2016.

San Francisco 100

San Francisco HTC Unity Conference 100

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

Virtual Reality 483

Virtual Reality Eye Tracking Apple Government 483

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance).

Virtual Reality 519

Virtual Reality Trends China HTC 519

ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

On the other hand, developers only have to write the code once and it will work on all devices (Oculus, Vive, HTC, Google Cardboard, etc.) WebXR Examples WebXR Room I recently created this simple application using the WebXR Device API developed by Mozilla on the Unity video game engine. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.How ExpiCulture?—?Developing

Augmented Reality 147

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Examples Latency 147

Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

This column previously covered the 2018 BETT show and how VR was immerging as a possible EdTech trend – but with BETT 2020 the event cemented this movement, with a vast array of new developments and applications for this technology, and growth of previous early adopters. Another exhibitor using Beat Saber and the Oculus Rift S was Nutanix.

Education 69

Education Examples Technology Google 69

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. In 2018 we did a case study where people were invited to use virtual reality in a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) fashion. For 360 video we use Oculus Go, because a Vive Index would be an overkill.

AR 392

AR How To 360 Video Training 392

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

Fantastic Contraption’s developers are part of an exclusive group of VR creators who have successfully generated in excess of $1 million. It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. This summer, it launched on Sony’s PlayStation VR.

Machine Learning 137

Machine Learning Groups Unity Gaming 137

The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

Magic Leap 165

Magic Leap AR Oculus Hardware 165

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the best moments ever at View Conference 2018 , has been when I was able to interview John Gaeta. All sort of innovations were happening in that studio, so my group of friends pulled me there and I got a job in the camera department. Within a year, I was already shooting scenes with a running camera.

Magic Leap 306

Magic Leap Virtual Reality Immersion AR 306

XROM

JULY 18, 2021

billion before it fell into administration in 2018 after an investor dispute prevented it from raising emergency funding. While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. Blippar was reportedly worth $1.5

Augmented Reality 52

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality India Asia 52

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

A big tranche of patents was released earlier this year following the termination of a lawsuit against an optics supplier they’d made a $9 million investment into back in 2018. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). Image by Rob Cole). The Guncube. Image by Rob Cole).

Controllers 494

Controllers Haptic Hardware Simulation 494

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. Players control Marcus Holloway, a hacker who works with the hacking group DedSec to take down the city's advanced surveillance system known as ctOS.

Gaming 20

Gaming How To Microsoft Video 20