Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since I have worked on some VR concerts myself (and one even got featured on the Unity blog), I thought my opinion could be valuable for someone… at least for the Stageverse developers that so have some feedback about what to improve. The quality of the video, the quality of the songs (hey, they are The Muse!),

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. Runners up for the honor included Vertigo’s Arizona Sunshine and Virtual Virtual Reality from Tender Claws. Best 360 Video – MIYUBI (Felix & Paul Studios, in collaboration with Funny or Die).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

AI, music, and VR creation tools collide in this beautiful 360° video. Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality are two of the most compelling and fastest growing sectors in today’s technological landscape. I just had to press play, and the scene would appear around me and my virtual monitor.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

The creative software company heats up to augmented and virtual reality. Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. It’s a great hybrid between the real world and the virtual world.”. .

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I absolutely wanted to attend it, because I know that audio is very important for immersion in virtual reality , but I have a great lack of knowledge in that field. Due to their similarities, ambisonics are usually employed with 360 videos, so that from a vantage point, you can feel credible visuals and sounds.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

Two of the latest listings suggest the company is exploring VR video codecs and file formats. The former listing seeks a candidate with “direct experience with implementing and/or designing media file formats,” as well as “experience with VR and 360 video.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Apple is positioning the new iMac Pro—available this Thursday starting at a cool $5,000—as an ideal machine for VR content creators (both 360 video and real-time). Virtual reality gets real. Apple earlier this year also said that it planned to update Final Cut Pro X to support 360 degree video editing.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. NETFLIX LOOKS TO GET AUGMENTED.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2021

This New Year’s Eve, together with the team of VRrOOm, I worked on the virtual reality concert Welcome To The Other Side , starring the electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre playing inside a virtual Notre-Dame Cathedral. We started assembling the scene in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

This is also used to substitute workshops and speeches usually employing Youtube Videos or Youtube Live Streams ; VR events , made in virtual reality in platforms like ENGAGE, Somnium Space, Mozilla Hubs, VIRBela, etc…. From the videos, it is impressive, and I’m going to test it very soon.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

Since it is my last post about AWE, let me cast a ray of visibility on some companies I have met there, but about which I do have not enough material to write a full article: Gamedriver : an interesting solution to create automated tests for your XR application in Unity. I hope you have enjoyed all these articles of mine about AWE!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2020

On June, 21th, in the occasion of the French Music Fest, there has been a virtual reality concert held by electronic music legend Jean-Michel Jarre. If you are organizing a meeting for the fans of the “Video paused. And all of this using Unity, the tool that I already use every day. Streaming the background videos.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

One month ago, I’ve participated in the Stereopsia event in Bruxelles (Belgium) to perform a talk about how to organize an event in virtual reality. Presenz is a company developing a solution to create 6DOF Videos. That is, using its software, you can create a 360 3D video where the user can move the head.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2020

Thanks to the WeChat group XR Story I got to know Gianluigi Perrone, a very talented movie director that works a lot with virtual reality , and that also teaches cinema at the Beijing Film Academy. Hello Gian, introduce yourself and your book “Dogma VR – Storytelling in Virtual Reality”!

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2016

Just as Unity and Unreal are able to create 3D sound environments for interactive games, Dolby Atmos has an ProTools plug-in with a 3D interface that allows you to mix 3D audio objects for narrative, 360-video content. Here’s the highlights from the Sundance panel on Immersive Sound for Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

I’ll link the ones I’ve personally liked the most… for the other ones, you can watch the whole video of the showcase, or go directly to the Upload website and look for all the posts of June, 14th. As of things to keep an eye on, I found it interesting to see two trends: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

According to Virtual Reality podcast “Coffee & VR”, the next-gen Xbox, codenamed “Project Scarlett” may actually be compatible with Oculus Rift S. Vive Video 6 DOF Lite is now available. At MWC Shanghai, HTC has made various announcements for what concerns virtual reality. Steam Summer Sale 2019 is here.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2018

You have just to add to the manifest of your app this simple line: <meta-data android:name="no_controller_pairing" android:value="true" /> In Unity, this means opening the Manifest.xml of your Vive Wave experience and adding the above line in the position where there are the other meta-data lines.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. The award-winning operating system is also layer-based, providing clients with fully bespoke configurations.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. Watch this cool 360 video about playing the Star Wars theme! (A Some XR fun.

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Cats and VR

MAY 26, 2017

On Saturday May 20th Nick Ochoa and his Magik Gallery crew presented a reality that consisted of his vision of a possible definition of VIRTUAL REALITY. The event was well attended by a gallery of guests of VR newbies, artists appreciating other artists, and industry heavy hitters like Head Of VR and AR at UNITY Tony Parisi.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. on an internal training program called Walmart Academy—and it turns out that virtual reality will play a part.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

It just needs some adjustments in the final part and bug fixing; On this game have worked many people already involved with other Half-Life titles; More gameplay videos will be shared in these weeks; The team has worked hard to ensure that gamers could enjoy just hang around in the environment and explore them. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

I picked Unity as the game engine because it is one of the best ones out there, I’m good at using it, it has a great community that can support you in case of issues, and it is also the first engine to be compatible with XR headsets when they’re out: Apple itself talked about Unity during the announcement of the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

If you want to watch an unboxing video in which I have a terrible hairstyle and a WIDMOvr T-shirt that makes you feel in summer again, here you are: The headset. I couldn’t wait to turn it on, so after the unboxing video, I positioned it on my head and turned it on. The Mirage Solo looks like a device that is well made.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Recapping the top stories covered on the VRScout Report , a weekly live video show and podcast discussing the best in VR, hosted by Malia Probst. Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. EVERYONE WANTS IT STANDALONE.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2017

Outside of supervising VFX for big budget Hollywood films, Mack creates abstract surrealist art, realizing them as 3D printed sculptures, 2D renderings, and now through his newly founded VR production house Shape Space VR , immersive virtual reality experiences that let you explore his strange and beautiful globular creations up close and personal.

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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. Experiences — Learn VR and 360 video production techniques from the teams that brought you Henry, Nomads: Maasai, LeBron James: Striving for Greatness, and more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung. movies), or have a virtual computer screen everywhere you want. movies), or have a virtual computer screen everywhere you want. You can see the actor in the video triggering a 3D virtual house and seeing himself inside it.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

The consortium brings together several Japanese companies, which – from February this year – will coordinate activities with the aim to develop the Virtual Reality business. The enduring popularity of platforms such as @SecondLife has taught us that people can become incredibly invested in their virtual personas Click To Tweet.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2017

Immersive content agency Purple Pill has announced a VR interface design competition and is offering $10,000 in cash prizes to those who create the best virtual reality interfaces. Even from one motion controller to the next, VR interface designs don’t agree on the best way to pick up and hold virtual objects.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The good news is that Oculus is continuously improving it : in this video reported by journalist David Heaney, you can see some hands tracking performances that Oculus has obtained in the lab, including hands interacting the one with the other and external objects held in the hands. I imagine Oculus enabling this in the future, but not now.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

Once inside things were pretty easy to get the hang of — you can see what the default Home environment is like, plus a few of the apps, in the video above. I can pick some pre-selected apps here like Microsoft Edge for web browsing, a Photo viewer, a Video client, and more. You can see those in action in the video above.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 8, 2022

The solution involved creating a 3D, configurable version of the incredible Arksen 85 yacht, powered by Unity. The new virtual reality experience makes it easier to market the adventure experience to potential consumers, by giving them an insight into what it’s going to be like onboard. Microsoft and Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe.

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