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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. As for the review, since I’m crunching these weeks, probably I will just write a quick hands-on article and delay a more detailed review for next month. Some people have expressed a good opinion about this game on Reddit.

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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.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with the updates to their tracking technology, Leap Motion is also releasing improvements to their developer tools, including newly updated Unity and Unreal Engine integrations, and deprecating some older APIs. Improved Developer Tools. The company details the developer-level changes on their blog here.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

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! More info Unity 6 introduces new features for XR developers The new version of Unity, called Unity 6, is currently in preview.

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

Guest Article by B-Reel. See Cosmic Trip , which brilliantly uses physical buttons to navigate its item menu; or Job Simulator , which almost entirely eliminates the old point-and-click interaction paradigm. Cosmic Trip (Left) Job Simulator (Right). The type of link defined the methods we employed to simulate weight.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

I leave in the links here below also two great articles about the available online platforms and how it is hard to organize a VR event (an amazing post written by the Educators in VR summit organizer), so that if you want to organize one, you have some hints on how to start. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Who knows….

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Some articles on the metaverse. A good article on XR Must highlights the best work that has been presented at Sundance Festival New Frontiers this year. CPR Simulator.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

Of course, no AWE recap article would be complete without mentioning the exciting announcements made during the various talks. The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. Announcements. Best Developer Tool.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

The most viral XR article of the week has been an interview that Mark Zuckerberg had with The Verge. The claim reshared by many people from the article is that “five years from now […] people will primarily think about us as a metaverse company, rather than a mobile internet company”. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). More info (China’s push for VR) More info (Huawei 6DOF VR glasses) More info (Huawei smartglasses) More info (Shadow Creator’s new glasses) More info (Full article on HongHu glasses, in Chinese) More info (Official page of HongHu glasses). Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 25, 2023

Source: [link] Game developers often like “number goes up” hierarchies — so it inspired me to think about how to apply this thinking towards game development (as well as its natural extensions like simulations, metaverse and virtual worlds of any kind). The game itself can create content while you play.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

Upcoming titles, coming around 3-4 months after launch, should include Rec Room, Gorilla Tag, Waifu Super-Simulator, and Marky Mark’s Special Sauce. RecRoom without kids For us developers, there will be a dedicated Unity SDK at launch , with the Unreal one following a few months later.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Guest Article by Enrique Tromp. With a strong passion for computer graphics and digital art, his career spans 20 years in simulation, video games, and live interactive experiences. Three years ago I had the opportunity to discuss the importance of delightful interactions in VR applications in this Road to VR guest article.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio. It reports that CMO may earn up to $1.5M/year

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

and you found this article for whatever reason, first of all, welcome to the club! I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. and if you get your Quest for Christmas…. … Some shower of realisms on the Metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. Unreal, together with ILMxLAB and Nvidia have produced a fantastic Star Wars demo to showcase how a scene rendered in real-time through ray-tracing is cool. While very simple, I think that this app may give people some funny moments.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. This article explores the technological and business trends enabling this future. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

And if you are super-lazy, you can directly go to the end of the article and just read the key points of the interview. People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. This is the story. And that’s as far as I got up to this point.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

It is so not possible for instance to simulate a virtual stadium with 10,000 people in, with you seeing all the other people you have around you. Current gaming engines like Unity and Unreal are not designed for this. The solution also was able to simulate a day and night cycle inside the virtual city.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Every week I share with you the very rare articles that say something interesting about the metaverse, and this week I want to propose two posts by the smart PhD Kim Nevelsteen that talk about the definitions of “the metaverse” according to science and what XR experts think about it. Yes, you’ve read everything well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

He wanted to write on my blog his opinion on this device to inform the community and of course I accepted, because I’m more than happy to host another one of his super-detailed articles. For PCVR simulator enthusiasts using HOTAS, or wheels and pedals, the session can continue as long as they can stay awake!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

That’s why this week we had a serious amount of articles that got shared that added no information about what we already know but got popular anyway. Some articles on the metaverse. We have lots of non-news about Apple’s XR efforts. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon. It’s very cool.

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ARVR

JUNE 3, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Toyota executives also demanded that VR technology can make field trips and simulations of complex concepts available to people of every age group which in turn can make cognitive training effective, powerful, and secure. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I was lucky enough to get a job at UC Santa Barbara in a combination social psychology lab and computer science hub , where we were using VR to run experiments, to simulate the social world. We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. This is 1999.

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ARVR

JUNE 12, 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? Create anticipation by welcoming everyone at a set time in a virtual waiting room (such as Zoom) and create an impressive entrance.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

More info (Meta Quest+ gaming service) More info (Cross-buy available for Meta Quest+ games) Unity announces AI tools when Valve stops AI games This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for games (VR and not) made with the support of artificial intelligence. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

That is the subject of this article: composability in the metaverse. In this article, I will cover: What composability means, with examples of composability in nature, art and technology Why we are are the forefront of a new era of the internet in which all aspects of the metaverse value-chain ? Composability is Compound Interest?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

You can read some of my hands-on articles on my blog (e.g. Omniverse Avatars are interactive AI avatars that combine technologies in speech AI, computer vision, natural language understanding , recommendation engines, and simulation. Megadodo simulation has announced a hard pivot for its Decagear headset.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. But I guess there were some legal reasons for that.

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 8, 2023

However, one field in which they are undoubtedly generating more than just hot air is gaming and 3D design, where companies like Unity Technology and Epic Games are pulling the strings connecting these hot technology topics. Then they will progress to a “connected” digital twin and on to a “live data” twin.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

bHaptics made it very easy for the developers to implement it thanks to a Unity prefab that must just be dragged into your project. After having read this article until this chapter, you are probably intrigued by the bHaptics suit. Once you are inside Unity, you can import these patterns and play them to play the haptics effect.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. Unreal Engine support is coming next year Interaction SDK : a set of facilities to develop applications with hands-tracking, that provides out-of-the-box tools for interacting with the UI and with objects in the scene. Read more about this news: Project Nazare: [link].

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