UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Sweeney, whose company makes the Unreal Engine toolset used in creating some of the biggest budget 3D projects, outlined in a blog post this week why he saw this as a huge moment for immersive computing: Apple’s debut of VR support for Mac and AR support for iOS are true game-changers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

The latest example of this is PUBG, which surprisingly is hosting a concert by the Korean band Blackpink. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. See Unity running on Quest. (Image by PUBG). PUBG to host its first concert.

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APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! It’s an incredible example of how you can optimize for 90-frames-per-second VR, and the whole project is free for download, including its content library.

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APRIL 8, 2020

For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. See Also: MR Company Nreal Talks Hand Tracking and New Partnerships.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. Much like the Quick Switch gesture for Unity, this experimental approach lets you rapidly toggle between the real and virtual worlds. GET THE PLUGIN.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” The company’s main product is a new platform for networked 3D graphics called SpatialOS.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. On GitHub has appeared a new project called “Simple WebXR” aimed at letting you develop WebXR experiences inside Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

We all like to shoot videos and screenshots of the VR experiences we play : sometimes to me it is a necessity because I need content to insert inside my articles for my blog, but in general, we all love to save some great moments we had in VR, in the same way we feel the need to take a picture when something interesting is happening in real life.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. In this section, we’ll cover our community’s three most popular environments for deskop and VR/AR: Unity, Unreal, and JavaScript.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets. MARCH 2: To match the new capabilities of Leap Motion Orion with the performance demands of VR, we gave our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. JUNE 1: The Hands Module adds a range of example hands to your Unity toolkit.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence. Weightless and Hollow , for example, both include tracks that influence how we experience them. Here are just a few: Unity documentation. Ambiance and Mood.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Our Unity , Unreal , and JavaScript integrations already include model hands that you can quickly drop into any project. Building a 3D Desktop App with Unity. Unity is a powerful game engine that makes it easy to rapidly build and develop desktop and VR projects. Building a Web App. Building a Web App.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In this blog, we’ll take you behind the scenes of how we overcame unfamiliar software challenges, smashed UFOs in our office, demoed to celebrities, and edited together 62 seconds of footage that we’re proud of. For example, a gloved finger presses down, then an ungloved finger hits a real piano key. LIV’s support was astounding.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Having had the chance to play with it for some days , I can tell you that it is really an interesting product (I’ll write a review about it here on this blog, so register to my newsletter to not miss it!). The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Medical, climatological, and military visualizations, for example, sometimes struggle to convey the massive amounts of data associated with models. Now, professionals from the game industry, such as Unity and Unreal developers, environmental artists, and 3D modelers are seeing demands for their skills beyond games. “My

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Example of BVH for a 2D scene: on the left you can see the geometry of the scene (the green triangles) and the bounding elements enclosing them (those orange squares) and on the right the resulting BVH tree, that the GPU has to traverse (Image by NVIDIA). What about Unity, instead? Will it be available also for Unity developers?

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

An example of this is how it can be used to dream of virtual machines and text adventure games. Lensa’s growth, with examples of its output based on the author. is a good example of something that probably never would have been funded by a traditional game publisher. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1 16,384 cores!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. You may be saying “Come on!

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. For example, imagine a classic HUD.). The post Space and Perspective in VR appeared first on Leap Motion Blog. Head frame of reference. Hand frame of reference.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. There is also a good example of a part of the day of a person in the metaverse. (Thanks to Will Burns for the tip). Yes, you’ve read everything well.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Today I’m very proud to host on my blog what is probably one of the best interviews I have ever had in these 6 years of career in VR blogging. I promised to celebrate this blog’s birthday with a few cool interviews and this is one of them. Or Unreal if that’s your language. It is so difficult.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. Alan: Today’s guest is Matt Miesnieks, the CEO at 6D.ai.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. Alan: Today’s guest is Matt Miesnieks, the CEO at 6D.ai.

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VeeR VR

JUNE 13, 2018

For example, you need to always make sure that there are interesting things ‘wrapping up’ the camera all long your designed path. Unity and UE4. As for Unreal Engine, they have an official plugin for users to capture 360 stereoscopic photos or videos. Here is a blog on how you get a 360 capture from inside of a three.js

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. It’s exactly the same use case as the IKEA couch example, but it’s a different industry, and the ROI is much, much faster. Alan: Today’s guest is Matt Miesnieks, the CEO at 6D.ai.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That’s why I feel very honored to host on my blog OpenBCI , a famous company aimed at building neural interfaces that have not only a very high quality, but are also opensource. Attention, stress, and cognitive load are some of the more proven examples of more subjective states that can now be quantified with physiological data.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

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 ?—?from essentially a “Unity Asset Store” for the metaverse?—?designed Composability is Compound Interest?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Next week my blog will turn 3 years old! On a post on the developer blog , Oculus has detailed how it works internally. Unreal Engine is adding Vulkan support for Oculus Quest and Unity fill follow later on this year. I am so excited. Anyway, I will keep you posted about that in a dedicated article! Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

I’ve already reported on this blog how Xiaomi has disbanded the team working on the Oculus Go and this seems to point that there won’t be a Go 2. Unity and Qualcomm now have GPU profilers for Quest so you can better tune apps to the headset pic.twitter.com/hYeD7TPCfl — Russell Holly (@russellholly) September 25, 2019.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

He frequently shares his views and knowledge on his blog. For example, head tracking can come from optical trackers or inertial ones. Many game engines—such as Unity, Unreal, and SteamVR—immediately support it. Yuval is CEO of Sensics and co-founder of OSVR. It turns out that others share this vision.

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AUGUST 23, 2022

I am on holidays this week, and today I decided to set aside a couple of days to read through—and write a review of—a recently published book by the venture capitalist Matthew Ball, author of the Metaverse Primer and lead creator of the Ball Metaverse Index (whom I have written about before on this blog ). VRChat, Rec Room, Sansar, NeosVR).

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