The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

It’s a long time that I don’t write an article about the Vive Focus Plus , and it has been interesting exploring what’s happening on the Vive Wave ecosystem again. Vive Hand Tracking Unity SDK. It gives you many buttons through which you can simulate the pose of the hands in your application (e.g.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In this Guest Article, developer Thomas Van Bouwel explains his approach to designing an MR game that adapts to different environments. Guest Article by Thomas Van Bouwel Thomas is a Belgian-Brazilian VR developer currently based in Brussels. When it comes to MR platforms, an active discussion on data privacy is important too.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

For whatever reason you may be reading this article, I wish you a lot of happiness. A must-read article. In his article, he says that it is better than other headsets, but it still shows issues, like uneven white color across the display. They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

The 3 days of lectures has been recorded, and I will update this article after I watch all the recordings. link] Training Edge Flow : step by step training simulations in VR. New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). I hope it works as they advertise. super expensive.

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

Part 2: Flight In the last post , I covered the creation of the monarch butterfly avatar that players will embody in this VR game/simulation. In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. and other butterflies?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

One of them is today’s article, where I interview one of the people whose work has inspired me the most this year: Daniel Beauchamp. Now I leave you to his words and his videos: I’ve embedded many videos in this article, so that you can admire his most famous works. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Toyota makes mixed reality magic with Unity and Microsoft HoloLens 2. This includes the use of Unity’s real-time 3D development platform across its automotive lifecycle. Its virtual pipeline starts by importing vehicle data into Unity using Pixyz. Find out more or contact us to participate here. by Nick Davis.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2020

Source Simulating user environments with my own Adobe XD plugin Introduction Imagine yourself in your kitchen. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? I will write an article as soon as I test it out.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

Since it is my last post about AWE, let me cast a ray of visibility on some companies I have met there, but about which I do have not enough material to write a full article: Gamedriver : an interesting solution to create automated tests for your XR application in Unity. I hope you have enjoyed all these articles of mine about AWE!

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

I want to put together this brief (maybe not so brief) and digestible little article, to help anyone new to this space understand all (some) of the programs flying around that enable XR creation and development! Refer to my medium article?—? 3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software?— ?Maya

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article. The emulator lets them simulate the presence of a headset and do tests easily without having to continuously put on and off a visor. First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Varjo XR-4 is on sale for enterprises, but the company has also opened up a waiting list for interested consumers (especially simulator fans, I guess). 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.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons. If you are a Unity beginner, I would advise you to watch the video. Get ready because it will be a very interesting post if you are a developer!

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ARVR

MARCH 8, 2021

VR holds the power to create immersive and realistic experiences through computer generated simulations and the recreation of a user’s senses. Check out my article here to gain a basis on how the tech works. For my first VR project, I decided to create a bowling game using the Unity game engine for an Oculus quest.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

Physically-based audio is a simulation of virtual sounds in a virtual environment, which includes both directional audio and audio interactions with scene geometry and materials. Traditionally these simulations have been too resource-intensive to be able to do quickly and accurately enough for real-time gaming. Photo courtesy NVIDIA.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

More info Meta is working on a system to decode the images in your brain Meta has just published a fascinating article about a research project it is carrying on about using AI on the magnetoencephalography (MEG) visualization of brain activity to try to reconstruct from that the image that the user is watching at that moment.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2020

The anxiety coming from this question is one of the reasons why I jump into learning Unity 3D and C# instead of learning Javascript. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

I want to dedicate this newsletter article to my friend Mathew Olson, who at The Information kickstarted the “Reality Check”, a newsletter about XR which I received 3–4 times a week in my e-mail, and that was very well done. The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Reading the article excited me a bit, because when an experienced VR journalist says that something impressed him, well, I know that thing is super cool for real Vicon , which is a leading company in mocap systems, showcased for the first time its markerless mocap tool.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Before starting, let’s make a recap of the previous article: what is SenseGlove? The SenseGlove can apply a strong force-feedback to stop your fingers , to simulate a solid object in your hands, like a bottle, or it can just apply some resistance , to simulate a malleable material, like the one of an anti-stress ball.

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Building the Metaverse

JUNE 14, 2023

Read on for a summary of the most relevant articles and conversations I’ve had in the last 3 months. This is the article that covers the programming methods that allowed my team to win the LA AI TechWeek Virtual Worlds hackathon, building a playable RPG in 1 day. Please link over there to see the latest!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

The Unity CEO opened the event with a keynote where he defined the word “metaverse” and stated that XR devices should reach similar distribution numbers of game consoles in the next 5 years (this means they won’t reach the volumes of smartphones anytime soon). News worth a mention. Image from OpenBCI). Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. It’s an effective solution to simulate real writing. Another article about the Metaverse. Vogue Business has written a good article about what is happening in the AR fashion scene.

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AR Insider

APRIL 30, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. It excerpts a section from the report, The Incredible Impact of Enterprise AR & VR , to which AR Insider Editor Mike Boland contributed insights and commentary. . The Incredible Impact of Enterprise AR & VR.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. For example, during VR training , sports simulation, gaming, or even showrooms, the way the hand is placed to grip a lever will be reproduced almost as in reality. It will also support Unity 3D engine’s latest version Unity 2020+. How To Use the ARLOOPA App: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020) 3.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Youtube video about virtual commerce experiences Check out all our articles here to read about how haptics keep you immersed in your VR experiences.

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

In one such visits I tried on a VR headset just to realize that such a powerful visualizer can effectively simulate unbelievably enchanting experiences that may be difficult to achieve in reality. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. It is the VR based simulators! I mostly go for the latter! The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

You can be sure that this article has been entirely crafted by some breathing meat… for the good and the bad. It’s a few weeks that nothing truly relevant is happening in the XR field: it seems the most interesting articles lately are all about AI… and especially about how AI is going to kill us all. Not 2x or 3x, but 26x.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

On the front of the device, you can see the 16MPixel RGB camera , that has been added to the G2 4K model so that it can be used in some enterprise applications (more on this later on in the article). The Pico SDK can be easily accessed from the Pico website : it is available for Unity, UE4 and also for the native Android platform.

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ARVR

JUNE 24, 2020

In this article, we will discuss how augmented and virtual reality will impact your career. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? AR VR training course will give you a deep insight into the domain.

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ARVR

JUNE 10, 2020

To illustrate this point we will compare two looking alike products that you can use to create interactions for VR content: the VR Interaction Framework, a well-reviewed Unity Plugin known to be user friendly, and the Interaction Builder from the Interhaptics Suite. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Why these two?

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ARVR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. Simulation Play mode lets you walk through or around a 3D model and watch it on your computer. Simulation Play mode lets you walk through or around a 3D model and watch it on your computer. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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ARVR

JUNE 11, 2020

Existence Hence, making VR all about things that don’t have a physical existence, but can be simulated. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Scripting Javascript Promise In Spark AR For Beginners 3.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

This article will go through the best examples of implementing haptics to exoskeletons and gloves. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen. Read this article to find out more. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

This article was extracted from the Recommended Practices for Haptics in Enterprise VR published by the Haptics Industry Forum. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Haptic Technologies Used: The system was developed in Unity and incorporated 4 VR Touch (Go Touch VR) gloves. A CAD to Unity pipeline. Application maturity.

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