The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” How I got started with virtual reality. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember one day at Immersive Architecture with Enea Le Fons in 2018 when we played around with the Focus, and then at a certain point, he was walking with us in the central plaza of Venice (Italy) with the headset on. Upload VR is hosting a new Showcase of VR games on December, 6th 2023. Let’s see if this will prove to be true.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

VR events are one of the big trends of virtual reality of the last 3 months. Electronic French composer Jean-Michel Jarre , that is very famous in the electronic music environment , is going to seize this opportunity and host one of the first live concerts all in virtual reality.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

for the “ Elsevier Simulation Learning System for RN with Virtual Reality (SLS with VR). ” Untold Games for “Daily – act software,” a “gaming” application for evaluating and rehabilitating neuropsychological patients. VR Inn for “Virtual Reality training for container glass manufacturers.”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2022

After a long time with my lovely Unity 2019.4 LTS, I have decided it was time to switch to something new, not to miss the new features that Unity has implemented these years. I have so started using Unity 2021.3 Let’s see how to build a Unity 2021 application with OpenXR. It is a Unity 2019.4 LTS (2021.3.5

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Today is a watershed moment for virtual reality : Pico has finally done what everyone in the XR community was waiting for with the launch of Pico Neo 3 Link , the first Quest 2 competitor. As for the content, the company aims at having more than 200 games on its native Pico Store. Pico enters consumer VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Despite Zuckerberg’s reported failure and investment reduction for Reality Labs, Meta Platforms is only one of many tech firms developing spatial solutions. Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. Downsides to Metawork.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

The Ultraleap Gemini hand-tracking platform works in both Augmented and Virtual Reality solutions, allowing for more immersive, interactive, and realistic experiences. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

Nunez added: So, for example, a lot of manufacturers, and other architecture companies can digitally represent the content, most have CAD data models of some type, and they will represent them on a 2D screen. Also, in augmented reality, you can actually train someone while they’re doing the work.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

Since we’re focused on value creation in the enterprise and education space, Charlie Fink from Forbes described us as “ a new 3D game engine that means business “ The MetaVRse Engine was released on June 1, 2020, at Augmented World Expo (AWE). First of all, you won’t see any games on our platform.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

The latest VR job listings from Apple are not the first time the company has been spotted looking for hires with experience with virtual reality, but activity has certainly picked up of late, with seven new VR-related job listings in just over three weeks. See Also: Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Image by Epic Games). 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. 10 minutes of Youtube video have been enough to make all game developers hype. Other relevant news. Black magic.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

XCOM Labs has worked on all the layers of this solution: the network architecture, the hardware, and the streaming protocols. They are not aiming at substituting Virtual Desktop, but they want to offer this solution to companies that may need to offer remote rendering to multiple employees at the same time in the same room.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

Planet Whack , is a whac-a-mole-inspired game, where two players participate in the same VR space trying to hit cartoon worms emerging from a sphere, with the giant beach ball providing haptic feedback. Further medical and architectural visualisations showcase other potential uses for large volume VR tracking.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 20, 2023

The solution also includes a simple and robust system architecture which doesn’t rely on eye-tracking technologies. Poplar Studio Focusing on the era of virtual commerce, Poplar Studio is a specialist agency committed to developing unique experiences through visualization technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Latest Manus News Spectre XR The Spectre XR company focuses on the development and design of VR games and apps, as well as fully immersive AR and Mixed Reality experiences for a host of business needs. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. Keep in mind that this device has a pixel density far superior even to the one of the Valve Index, so it is perfect not only for gaming but also for prototyping, design and architecture. Unity launches MARS tools. What will happen next?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is 6DOF and lets you enjoy both virtual reality and passthrough augmented reality. Among its side-effects, we have also things related to Virtual Reality. Ubisoft is working on an AAA VR game. I think that after all the cues of the past months, there were few doubts that Ubisoft was working on a VR game.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Game Development You should have a basic idea of any one of them atleast. Also, I am not diving deep into things like code architecture, testing, security and fixing memory leaks in your mobile apps. Augmented Reality VR i.e Virtual Reality MR i.e Mixed Reality Here is a course from the University of Michigan.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

There might be a growing collection of virtual reality (VR) videogames that can off big expansive worlds to explore but if you’re looking for something more akin to Ready Player One’s Oasis then your options are fairly limited. will see persistent server architecture arrive to ensure that no one will experience.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2018

VRChat has the most advanced friend-finding features of any Social VR experience, but they also have the user experience of traversing between virtual worlds with a group of people by dropping in-world portals. SEE ALSO 'VRChat' Virality Runs Its Course After 3M Installs, Healthy Concurrent Usership Remains. Support Voices of VR.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

NVIDIA wants USD to become the HTML of the metaverse; Major extensions to NVIDIA Omniverse , the computing platform for creating virtual worlds and digital twins. New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. Some news on content.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

On October 31, Oculus and Kaleidoscope will kick off DevLab , a new initiative to support independent VR creators by bringing together 28 VR artists from around the world to incubate new work, explore new ideas, and create the next wave of great virtual reality experiences. Eidolon, his first VR project, was released in 2011.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As real-time 3D (RT3D) production becomes commonplace alongside the rise of extended reality (XR) services, solutions to accelerate and democratise the production of RT3D assets are starting to increase. RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. By using these architectural features in conjunction with Apple Maps Look Around data, a user’s location can be better approximated for location anchors.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

VRX 2017, one of world’s premier conferences on the subject of business and technology needed for Virtual Reality, announced the first speakers for a two day event. Confirmed speakers are as follows: Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP Virtual Reality, HTC. Denny Unger, CEO, Cloudhead Games.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Kate Edwards shares a quality with many people in the game industry: She didn’t set out to work in games. Reflecting on her career and her time at the IGDA, she says that like many, she ended up in games after finishing a so-called “normal career.”. The common denominator is that we love games, and we have since we were kids.”.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Our primary research areas are Computer Graphics and Mixed Reality and our works span different topics like MR for serious games, human-computer interaction, usability in MR, virtual heritage, and so on. What are the differences and the similarities in Virtual Reality before Oculus Kickstarter campaign and after?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

It’s a good read , full of interesting anecdotes, like when it is written that Beat Saber became the testbench for the tracking of the Quest controllers , or that Asgard’s Wrath, in the beginning, was a tower defense game. Niantic has just teased the game Urban Legends, another geolocalized game, but this time with more emphasis on AR and 5G.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Pico is also going to have its first exclusive title: Just Dance VR, a popular game good for all ages. Doing its keynote on video, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new RTX4080 and RTX4090 graphics cards, which are based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture. The annual GTC event for NVIDIA has been a blast.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2024

For a little multiplayer game for Gen-Z, you can try Roblox. I read a few books about software architectures and also about how to be a good CTO and these turned out to be incredibly useful to be able to succeed at my job. (I For instance, if you want to build a social VR place, probably you can do that in VRChat.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

At GDC 2017 LG showcased a virtual reality headset that was SteamVR compatible: it was a game-changing moment since for the first time a new non-Vive headset would have been compatible with SteamVR tracking and ecosystem. Oculus is going to found big games. Their goal is continuing this way until they fund AAA games.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 11, 2017

Unity rolled out a major update to its development platform bringing with it a number of improvements across the board. Lens Matched Shading uses the new Simultaneous Multi-Projection architecture of NVIDIA Pascal-based GPUs to provide substantial performance improvements in pixel shading.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

From space exploration to architecture and gaming to education, Microsoft HoloLens has been crafted to innovate the inside of these industries and has already found a practical application across a variety of inside procedures. When using Unity, it is extremely important to set the near clipping plane to no less than 0.85m.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. There are games that use passive exploration brilliantly to tell a great story ( The Stanley Parable comes to mind), but the Leap as an input device begs to be used and used often. I still have a lot more I want to explore!

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