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The XR Week Peek (2023.12.04): Varjo announces XR-4 headset, Quest 2 sells much more than Quest 3, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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The XR Week Peek (2024.05.07): Apple Vision Pro is used by Fortune 100 companies, its cheaper version may come in 2025, and more!

The Ghost Howls

One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! In my opinion, it will be the latter: Apple’s goal is still winning the AR race among the masses. This week has been quite cool for me.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.03.27): Vive inside-out Tracker announced, Pico’s launch in the US delayed, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.04.12): HTC and Pico are ready to launch new VR headsets, and more!

The Ghost Howls

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. I think that HTC will do something with them regarding AR or VR too. There are many hints about this. That would be a great feature, honestly.

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Express Yourself! Augmenting Reality with Graffiti 3D

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Similarly, VRClay and Virtual Clay use Razer Hydras to sculpt meshes in 3D. Gravity Sketch uses a custom hardware “AR tablet” as the input device – essentially a flat plane and stylus are combined with control sticks for rotation and translation.

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Song Made By AI Gets Stunning 360° Music Video

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But I didn’t want to switch to a 2D workflow once I imported into Unity, and so I used Virtual Desktop’s display overlay to work in Unity on a virtual big screen. With this approach, I was able to preview my scene in VR while still maintaining control over my variables in Unity.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.10.02): Meta Quest 3 launched, Vive Ultimate Tracker leaked, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I’m a big fan of passthrough AR, and the fact that the reviewers highlighted how the quality of this passthrough is high, makes me excited. It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes.

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