VRScout

MARCH 14, 2018

But therein lies the problem: we’ve yet to see an experience that embodies an equal combination of all the features we want in an one immersive VR social app. Sinespace was built using the Unity game engine allowing for an easily customizable as well as upgradable experience.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

will see persistent server architecture arrive to ensure that no one will experience. Full body avatars will become available so you can look like a real digital person using the Unity Avatar SDK. “We are putting a lot of effort into the immersive aspect of our VR world. Somnium Space first began discussing the 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

or just meet and talk about immersive realities. He started working in the field many years before me , and he has seen all the transition from old-school VR to the modern devices kickstarted by Palmer Luckey, and so has a great knowledge on immersive realities and many other related technologies. This point is quite funny.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The legendary developer, who for several years held the role of Oculus CTO but now maintains a less formal “consulting CTO” arrangement, says that his keynote presentation at last year’s Facebook Connect conference foreshadowed some of the announcements that can be expected at the event next week. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It comes out from the passion of someone that has just discovered how immersive realities are beautiful, or maybe from the mind of a student that has just finished the university and wants to find a dream job in AR or VR. I will briefly highlight all my recent story and how I got started with every new role I covered in the immersive field.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. Unfortunately, there is a trade-off as people get either simulator sick in normal VR setups or immersion suffers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

For this reason, I gained a good expertise in immersive collaboration tools, and one of the VR platforms that I love the most in this sense is Mozilla Hubs. Mozilla Hubs is an immersive meeting tool that lets you meet online with other people, and speak with them. Why not a Unity exporter?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Image by Unity). Palmer about Oculus being rebranded to Meta Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that. To realize that, RP1 engineers should do some improvements to the current architecture, but they see it as totally doable. Current gaming engines like Unity and Unreal are not designed for this.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 15, 2015

It’s available free for the Oculus Rift on the Leap Motion App Store. I found Chris’ music years ago while pulling all-nighters in architecture school. How does your background in architecture inform the structure and artistry of the experiences you create? What inspired that? The piano score in the game is really distinctive.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

There’s a chance that the coronavirus pandemic and related lockdowns may encourage more people and organizations to give immersive platforms a try. The Microsoft-owned company is now compatible with Vive, Oculus headsets, and Gear VR, and users can also access it without a VR headset via a desktop app.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. So, yes, we really accommodate people knowing that the value-- a lot of this, Alan, comes back to what are-- what problems are you solving with immersive training? At Oculus, they said 10 years.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. So, yes, we really accommodate people knowing that the value-- a lot of this, Alan, comes back to what are-- what problems are you solving with immersive training? At Oculus, they said 10 years.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Most of our customers come from video production, advertising, architecture, game and software development. This is also true for architectural visualizations.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

So I actually started out in architecture. I have a masters of architecture, and worked as an architect for a number of years. So, yes, we really accommodate people knowing that the value-- a lot of this, Alan, comes back to what are-- what problems are you solving with immersive training? At Oculus, they said 10 years.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Greg is the chief operating officer at Neutral Digital, an end-to-end immersive content creator, focusing on the luxury travel sector. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Just just a quick overview. Greg: Yeah, sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Greg is the chief operating officer at Neutral Digital, an end-to-end immersive content creator, focusing on the luxury travel sector. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Just just a quick overview. Greg: Yeah, sure.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

All the tools you’ll need are at your fingertips, and Archy is there with his professional architectural suggestions.” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. ” Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. We learned how to use Unity, code in C#, design in Autodesk Maya, and use a Leap Motion sensor. Hand Capture. PaintThrush.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

For instance, in the box I’ve found a cleaning cloth for an Oculus device… and I don’t think it actually comes with a Microsoft HoloLens! On HoloLens 1, whatever Unity application I run had framerate problems, while here all Unity applications worked like a charm. Anyway, 52° diagonal is still little.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Austin McCasland, a designer and developer in immersive computing. But if you need to have a really detailed, highly-immersive experience — that is, you’re just focusing on the virtual content — a good example would be if you’re training someone how to service a new type of valve.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Alan: Today’s guest is Austin McCasland, a designer and developer in immersive computing. But if you need to have a really detailed, highly-immersive experience — that is, you’re just focusing on the virtual content — a good example would be if you’re training someone how to service a new type of valve.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Alan: Today's guest is Austin McCasland, a designer and developer in immersive computing. But if you need to have a really detailed, highly-immersive experience -- that is, you're just focusing on the virtual content -- a good example would be if you're training someone how to service a new type of valve. And these B2B use cases.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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Leapmotion

JULY 21, 2015

Our team’s video got shared on /r/oculus and led to a feature on Wired. At a high level the architecture had a few different modules running asynchronously: Libraries used: SFML , LeapGL, Autowiring , Eigen , FreeImage , Glew , Leap Motion SDK, Oculus SDK. Our team of five ran with this concept to create AR Screen. normalized().y;

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

The new update for Oculus Quest brings with it some interesting features, like the tracking of the Apple Magic Keyboard, some updates to the UI, and a new menu for hand tracking. Samsung has just announced its new Exynos 2200 mobile chipset , powered by AMD RDNA 2 architecture. Meta releases runtime v37 for Quest.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). image courtesy VR First. development at Carleton University, image courtesy VR First.

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