The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Epic layoffs people and changes the price of Unreal Engine After the drama that surrounded Unity a few weeks ago because of its pricing change, it seems that Epic is not having its most epic (pun intended) moment ever, either. I’ve also interviewed him a few times on my blog. Learn more Join the Pico Dev Jam!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

The emulator lets them simulate the presence of a headset and do tests easily without having to continuously put on and off a visor. More info Meta Immersive Web Emulator is an interesting tool for WebXR WebXR developers can now use the Immersive Web Emulator offered by Meta to test and debug WebXR experiences.

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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. The company details the developer-level changes on their blog here. Improved Developer Tools.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

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. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. This means mainly two things: Livestreams and blog posts where the companies make the announcements that they would have made during the event. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). 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. It looks very interesting, and as a Unity developer, I want to experiment with it. PLEASE DONATE FOR MY BLOG!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Abi Bar-Zeev knows that too, and he has written an interesting blog post predicting how Facebook will behave in the upcoming years. Acquiring it, Epic secures a great source of assets for the developers using its Unreal Engine, and also the connection with many talents. This is not a blog, this is a metaverse Funny link.

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AllThingsVR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the company’s own blog post , Senior Vice President of New Technologies Group, Josh Walden, stated the acquisition granted Intel with “low-power, high-performance SoC [System on Chip] platforms” that would help to accelerate its computer vision services. “We Polyarc , a new company that today announced a $3.5 Read more on VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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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. Bonelab is coming on Thursday. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

More info (Daniel Beauchamp’s experiments) More info (Hands tracking + physics) More info (Quest’s hands tracking inside Unity) More info (Oculus’s hands tracking UX guidelines) More info (All apps currently employing Quest’s hands tracking). Before today, I didn’t know that Alien Kiss VR simulator was a thing…. It is very interesting.

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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. Physics and realistic light simulation (ray tracing) You’d need a way to have a persistent world with data, continuity, rules, systems.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

From Unreal community plugin creator getnamo , NexusVR is a space between worlds, where you can move between different VR experiences. You can watch videos in a variety of simulated environments, using intuitive hand controls and a virtual remote control. You can check out some more of Joshua’s projects at jcorvinus.itch.io.

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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. Xiaomi , one of the biggest smartphone and wearables manufacturers in the world, has announced its smartglasses. Yes, you’ve read everything well. Last Call has been released.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. NVIDIA Blog). Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon. Fingers crossed. More info (Metaverse Standards Forum?—?Road

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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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CraneMorley

JULY 18, 2023

Back to Blog Page Navigating today’s digital landscape can seem like a herculean task, with a plethora of learning tools available for enterprise use. Virtual Reality (VR) Strengths VR offers immersive, experiential learning that can simulate real-world environments and scenarios.

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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. This is 1999.

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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

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we essentially a “Unity Asset Store” for the metaverse?—?designed This is what composability is all about: creativity?—?with 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

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As it is tradition of this blog, I have prepared a big fatty roundup with all the news announced at the latest Facebook Connect 2. Read more about this news: Founder’s letter by Mark Zuckerberg: [link] Design blog on Meta’s logo: [link] Facebook spending $10B for the metaverse: [link] Integral keynote of Facebook Connect 2: [link].

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Ryan Schultz

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 ).

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