The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The new controller, the Touch Plus, seems also to track very well, and has the interesting feature that they have better tracking performances than Quest 2 ones around the torso of the player. It looks me a very interesting solution, and I can’t wait to give it a try with my colleagues.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The creature is controlled by the user’s facial expressions, and “survives” by eating the emotions of other people. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Following a successful experience with Unity Hybrid Scaling for Apex Legends, Respawn decided to work with Unity once again on its new immersive experience.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Image provided by Rob Cole). Second-generation base station (2.0)

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This time we will talk about haptics in XR with some celebrities in the field like Guido Gioioso from Weart, Ashley Huffman from TitanHaptics, and Joe Michaels from HaptX. Pimax Portal is a handheld console with detachable controllers , exactly like the Switch. The controllers can slip into a plastic shell with tracking rings.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

According to a guy on Twitter that answered my post, Ultraleap should launch a new tracking controller this year. According to Upload VR, for instance, “in UK, it’s now available at GAME , Amazon UK , ShopTo , Currys , Argos and more. All without leaving your editor. Maybe the time has come for a v3 sensor.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! I’m here waiting for them.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. Mark Gurman reiterated a similar rumor: he didn’t say that Meta will ship it without controllers, but just that it is evaluating also that option. The second is about interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

So for instance, if you have developed an AR experience where you tap on the screen to make something happen, on PC you click on the screen to make that thing happen, and on VR headsets you point and press the trigger with your controllers. Universal mapping of gestures to handle input across devices including controllers and hand tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

controllers-only) still have longer waiting times , but the situation is changing from them as well. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). when controllers will be close to the headset). The Rift S has been upgraded as well, and the tracking of the controllers has been improved together with the one of the Quest.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

And to be clear, I used it in a real home, not a carefully controlled demo environment or a well-lit studio. In the Shared Space where rendering is controlled by Apple it mostly just works, though very occasionally you’ll see minor visual artifacts in the periphery. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

At the end of the month, Oculus officially delays the release of Touch controllers until the last half of 2016. This offers a window to HTC and Valve making the Vive the only room-scale hand-controlled VR platform on the market for most of 2016. Unity raises a massive $181 million round to grow its ambitions. April 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the meantime, the headset sends the pose of the headset and the controllers to the PC , so that the PC can render the frames and execute the logic of the game for the next frame. You will be able to start a game, or choose a movie to watch in VR without having to use a controller anymore!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

This has been on one side amazing to increase the size of the VR market, but on the other side, it is becoming concerning, because Meta has now a de-facto monopoly, controlling all the standalone VR market, and more than 60% of the PCVR market. Pico Neo 3 Pro headset and controllers. When it will launch, it will make a difference.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Resolution (per-eye) : 1,832 × 1,920 LCD Refresh Rate: 90Hz Processor : Snapdragon XR2 RAM : 6GB Battery Life : 2–3 hours Controllers’ battery life : 4x the one of the Quest Field of View : Same of Quest IPD Adjust : 58mm, 63mm, 68mm Weight : 503g Storage : 64GB or 256GB Connectivity : Bluetooth/Wi-Fi 6. Let’s dig a bit into it.

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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. Pico Neo Eye 2 and controllers. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. So haptic gloves are getting-- they're getting the notice. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. So haptic gloves are getting-- they're getting the notice. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we're utilizing basic controls that simulate the different interfaces that you would have. So haptic gloves are getting-- they're getting the notice. Alan: Amazing. Brandon: No.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO.

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XR for Business Podcast

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This week’s episode goes all the way back to last year’s Curiosity Camp, when Alan shared a ride with Unity Lab’s Timoni West and Vapor IO CEO Cole Crawford, recording a podcast along the way. Timoni: Director of XR in Unity Labs. Alan: Director of XR at Unity Labs, and Cole Crawford, CEO of Vapor IO. Alan: It's interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.” That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. ” They say, “OK, that’s great.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you show up to a– pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, “listen, we can go build anything.” That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. ” They say, “OK, that’s great.”

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

If you show up to a-- pick your favorite large industrial customer and you show up with a great computer vision SDK and Unity and you say, "listen, we can go build anything." That is the foundational computer vision SDK that you would use most of the time with Unity. I remember the first time I tried the Ultra Haptics.

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