The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results. Wait, what???

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

What is the only wearable that people is keeping on their face all day? Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. There are many use cases, of course, all devoted to enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

A new report from CCS Insight, instead, predicts that this year will be sold 7 million standalone VR headsets , and of course Oculus Quest and Go should make a great part of these devices. Unreal Engine is adding Vulkan support for Oculus Quest and Unity fill follow later on this year. Amazon thinks using AR for its delivery agents.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Starting with the Device itself: today we use smartphones, and tomorrow we may be using some kind of headset, glasses or audio-only wearable, with different kinds of control or head/gaze tracking. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. The AR Cloud will happen within a broader context.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

The full suite consists of a suit for the torso, plus wearable elements for: arms, hands, feet, and even the face. Being a developer, of course one of the first things that I did was digging into the bHaptics SDK, that you can find on the Unity asset store or on Unreal Engine Marketplace. being touched vs receiving a punch).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The aim when designing wearable VR equipment is to make it ‘transparent’ to the user ; remove any physiological barriers to immersion to enable users to achieve a strong sense of presence on a repeatable basis. Valve Index facial interface strip down (Image by Immersive Computing). Final note: Community reactions.

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