The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta launched Quest 3 The main piece of news of the week is of course the launch of the Meta Quest 3 at the Meta Connect. The last big feature is of course mixed reality: Zuckerberg defined the Quest 3 as the first consumer mixed reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Amazon promises “single-digit latency” XR streaming. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This acquisition signs a new course for Facebook strategy in XR: after having just partnered with external studios for the development of its top-notch exclusive titles (e.g. The consumer spending will increase and the dominant form of media consumed will be games, of course. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. For example, Fortnite is built by them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. For example, Fortnite is built by them.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

This is of course an application I’m doing myself very soon because I want to create content for this device. Of course, Meta has plenty of stock of these components, but this means that it has already started the process to sunset the headset. This Apple-owned development device needs to be returned upon request.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? I mean, a game is everything about a simulated world and a story mixed together. So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. Again, think of it of a simulated world. For example, Fortnite is built by them.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Of course, this would have been a much bigger deal in a world before Quest Pro and Quest 3, which have lenses with an eyebox so wide that it doesn’t really matter if your IPD is set slightly wrong. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The pages have been already removed, of course, so this makes us think that they had been published by error. Do you remember that Facebook is working on hyper-realistic avatars , that not only have an appearance very similar to the one of the user, but that can also simulate exactly his/her facial expressions?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. In fact, developers using Unity and SteamVR start effectively standardizing this mixed reality capture method. October 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). The image below shows a layout of the pogo pins, with Pin.3

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They’ve taken virtual and augmented reality for the automobile industry to the next level; from AR apps where you can see cars in your living room, to full VR simulators where you can drive the cars and see what they interact like. ” I said, “have you ever played a real simulation race game?” You mentioned.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

They’ve taken virtual and augmented reality for the automobile industry to the next level; from AR apps where you can see cars in your living room, to full VR simulators where you can drive the cars and see what they interact like. ” I said, “have you ever played a real simulation race game?” You mentioned.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

A lot of what I do is try to take new and emerging technology -- obviously right now, VR/AR/XR; all that falls into it -- and using that to enhance messaging and storytelling, training, simulation, all of that type of stuff. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. It's not something that every company will do.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

This, of course, became the World Wide Web. So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, “we want to move this object from here to here. Of course, I think a lot of us would like to see global markers for health beyond mere economic numbers, but that certainly would help. Alan: Yeah, an oil rig.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

This, of course, became the World Wide Web. So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, “we want to move this object from here to here. Of course, I think a lot of us would like to see global markers for health beyond mere economic numbers, but that certainly would help. Alan: Yeah, an oil rig.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 26, 2019

This, of course, became the World Wide Web. So they were running a simulation inside of a digital twin of, "we want to move this object from here to here. Of course, I think a lot of us would like to see global markers for health beyond mere economic numbers, but that certainly would help. was it an oil plant or oil rig.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Being able to simulate hazardous environments without putting anybody in harm’s way during a training scenario or training exercise is the ideal situation. There was a division of the Coast Guard that was doing training on search-and-rescue simulations. So, had I had a VR simulator, I probably saved myself a lot of money.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Being able to simulate hazardous environments without putting anybody in harm’s way during a training scenario or training exercise is the ideal situation. There was a division of the Coast Guard that was doing training on search-and-rescue simulations. So, had I had a VR simulator, I probably saved myself a lot of money.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Becoming a licensee gave me access to the SteamVR Tracking HDK and Steam SDK, which also contained the original 2016 SteamVR training course documentation which was run for a couple of years in conjunction with Valve partner Synapse in Seattle. This training course cost about $3,000 and was mandatory for anyone wanting to use SteamVR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Being able to simulate hazardous environments without putting anybody in harm's way during a training scenario or training exercise is the ideal situation. There was a division of the Coast Guard that was doing training on search-and-rescue simulations. So, had I had a VR simulator, I probably saved myself a lot of money.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Omniverse Avatars are interactive AI avatars that combine technologies in speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding , recommendation engines, and simulation. Megadodo simulation has announced a hard pivot for its Decagear headset. Unity has bought Weta Digital for 1.6B. Decagear headset is going to pivot.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

But over the course of a year, I can’t even imagine what the savings are for almost any-sized company. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

But over the course of a year, I can’t even imagine what the savings are for almost any-sized company. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

But over the course of a year, I can't even imagine what the savings are for almost any-sized company. Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. Is it marketing?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

bHaptics made it very easy for the developers to implement it thanks to a Unity prefab that must just be dragged into your project. Well, bHaptics has ideated a way to somewhat simulate the support, that is give you haptic sensations on your torso based on the audio that the game is playing. What about not supported games?

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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.” ” And then, of course, I realize I get the crash course and “Oh, we make this CAD-like program where you can build a product.”

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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.” ” And then, of course, I realize I get the crash course and “Oh, we make this CAD-like program where you can build a product.”

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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." And then, of course, I realize I get the crash course and "Oh, we make this CAD-like program where you can build a product." They say, "OK, that's great."

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Of course, the device that is reaching (or has already reached) this magical number is the Oculus Quest 2 , which has literally taken VR out of its quicksands, becoming the first mainstream device. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. I am a Unity developer, and I can tell you that now Unity.XR

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