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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.27): Samsung may be working on a new headset, Half-Life: Alyx will ship on time and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. There will be an XR plugins manager, and some of them will be managed by Unity together with its partners (e.g. So sad for me, considering the 5 years I’ve spent using Vuforia in Unity… so many memories…. More info (Announcement by Unity Technologies) More info (Comment by Upload VR).

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Oculus Connect 3 Registration Now Open, Early Bird Passes from $199

Road to VR

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.08.23): Facebook launches Horizon Workrooms, Intel announces its graphics cards, and more!

The Ghost Howls

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

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.13): Magic Leap exploring a sale, events are going virtual and more!

The Ghost Howls

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…. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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View Conference 2018: What does holophonic, ambisonic and spatialized audio mean?

The Ghost Howls

Today at View Conference 2018 I attended a very interesting workshop by Gianni Ricciardi and Matteo Milani about immersive sound. Later on, we invented 360 videos, that is a sphere around the user where it is projected everything that a user can see from his position : he can rotate his head and still see coherent visuals.

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VRROOM: Lessons learnt building a VR social platform that arrived at the top place on a VR store

The Ghost Howls

For a workshop, ENGAGE can give you everything you need. Unity XR and Unity XR Interaction Toolkit would have been the ground of everything XR-related because they ensure cross-platform integration of XR interactions among all the headsets. Unity XR was a much safer choice.

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Fifer Garbesi: Immersive Media Producer and Community Organizer, Lady Who Diversify the VR Content Ecosystem

VeeR VR

My advice for aspiring VR creators (young and old) is to experiment with as many different creation tools as possible (Tiltbrush, Unity, 360 video, photogrammetry) and see what grabs you! We also hosted a VR workshop for students in Havana to understand how to create in this medium.