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The epic journey of The Unity Cube

The Ghost Howls

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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The XR Week Peek (2021.07.26): Facebook aims at the Metaverse, Quest 2 goes MR, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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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What is the Valve Index? Everything you need to know: features, specs, price and how to preorder it!

The Ghost Howls

The Valve Index is for sure the big surprise for virtual reality in this 2019. It is funny because the GTX 970 was the same minimum requirement of the Oculus CV1 , that is a headset that is far less demanding than the Index. Oculus Rift CV1 Headset. Image by Oculus). How can this be as demanding as the Index??

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Jeremy Bailenson talks about 1,000,000 Walmart employees training with VR, presence, and the VR “empathy machine”

The Ghost Howls

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to do the coding.

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Valve Index review: a step closer to next-gen VR

The Ghost Howls

I have always praised Oculus for being the company offering the best packaging, but now Oculus has a true competitor. Furthermore, it is not as in the Oculus Go , where you can clearly see the grid of the pixels: here the grid pattern of the subpixels doesn’t disturb the user. The headset is very elegant and classy.

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Top 50 Asian Virtual Reality-Augmented Reality Leaders,Evangelists, Investors & Influencers

XROM

The startup was rescued from bankruptcy by existing backer Candy Ventures in 2019. In June 2019, Magic Leap accused Xu of stealing AR glasses technology when he was an engineer working at the firm. He is an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Faculty at number of institutions in Australia, Singapore & India. 32- Dinesh Punni.

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Getting Fit with a VR Toolkit, and Other XR Tips with VRd?j?’s Michael Eichenseer

XR for Business Podcast

” Alan: In my last interview, we were talking about 2019 as that year where it goes from, “you’re doing VR — you’re ahead of the game, you’re a future company,” to, “you’re not using VR? You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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