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

AUGUST 11, 2020

In 4 days it will be the 4th birthday of my blog, and so in this period, I want to write some special posts to celebrate. Hello Daniel, I am very pleased to have you on my blog today! My favourite is probably the hair cutting simulator because it was so fun to build, and the end result was hilarious. Hair simulations!

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

They managed to put 4,000 bots simulating 4,000 connected clients in the same WebXR virtual world. At the same time, the developers of Myst have released on Road To VR a guest post about how they properly implemented a hand tracking interface in Unreal Engine for their game. Official Blog Post) More info (First Hand?—?Road

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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

APRIL 10, 2023

More info (Twitter post that describes the excitement around this project) More info (Official launch blog post) Other relevant news (Image by Google) Chrome ships WebGPU Chrome , the most popular browser around, has just implemented WebGPU. This research, taken further, could bring many interesting innovations in the AR field.

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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. Who knows….

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. In a BMW Blog report , German automaker BMW has developed its own Metaverse platform – the M2 Mixed Reality – combining physical driving with immersive reality experiences. With Epic, we have found the best possible partner.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

This allows for watching the Vision Pro emulator in stereoscopic VR, giving people the closest simulation possible of the Apple device. More info Praydog’s UEVR mod adds roomscale tracking Praydog’s UEVR mod is an incredible project to let gamers automatically mod all games based on Unreal Engine to make them VR-compatible.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

But the cool stuff is that it doesn’t perform the classical cloud rendering with “video streaming”, but it performs “polygon streaming”, sending geometrical data that is much more optimized, for a better final result Another startup called Wonder Interactives wants to create a framework to let you play Unreal Engine 4 games on the web.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

He also works jointly with other industry-leading tools, including Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5, Autodesk Maya, and Blender. Using Omniverse’s Create XR app, Nizam later leverages VR tools to direct and design his content. I can’t wait to get back in and try out more ideas”.

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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. Polyarc , a new company that today announced a $3.5 Read more on VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine. PLEASE DONATE FOR MY BLOG! Header image by Megadodo Simulation Games). Top news of the week. News from partners (and friends).

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VRWorld

JUNE 16, 2016

REWIND used Unreal Engine 4 to its full extend, and you will need a high-end computer in order to enjoy BBC Space in its fly glory. As the name says, you’ll be transported onto the International Space Station, where you will go through a simulated spacewalk developed in conjuction with NASA and ESA.

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

StageCraft is a big LED screen, powered by Unreal Engine, that is used to replace the traditional green screens when shooting movies. The Virtual Reality nordic is an interesting event about Virtual Reality organized by my partners at MeKiwi (who sponsor some posts on my blog), that will take place in Oulu, Finland. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war. Bonelab is coming on Thursday. More info (Multiplayer Horizon Worlds home) More info (Meta Quest runtime v44). Some interesting XR research project. Funny link. Donate for good.

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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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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Our Unity , Unreal , and JavaScript integrations already include model hands that you can quickly drop into any project. You can weave music from the air or create a physics simulation like this gravity mesh example: Hardware Hacks. You even have access to the raw infrared camera feed, letting you create augmented reality experiences.

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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. It has 4.5DOF.

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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

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

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. More info (Blog article about new Oculus For Business) More info (Official page of Oculus For Business with consumer Quests).

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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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NVidia VR

OCTOBER 31, 2018

These very large datasets were then optimized for real-time rendered in Unreal Engine at a stable 90 frames per second, retaining all 24Bn points of detail utilizing texture streaming from Granite. NVIDIA’s new architecture combined with Unreal Engine adds a level of speed and power that’s unbeatable with this enormous amount of data.”.

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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 (Niantic laying off people) More info (Niantic’s new ad format) More info (Niantic’s new ad format — Official blog post) Emteq Ocosense reads your emotions Emteq, one of the leading companies regarding brain-computer interfaces, has just announced Emteq Ocosense, a pair of glasses to track all the subtle facial movements of the user.

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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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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 Linda Xie wrote “Composability is Innovation” for the a16z blog, focusing on how composability helps developers bootstrap projects and communities far more rapidly. Composability is Compound Interest?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

The “most WTF news of the day” prize has been won by the University of Taiwan, where researchers have worked on a haptic device with fur on it so that to simulate your contact with an animal. Epic Games has sued Nreal because its name is too close to “Unreal”, which is its trademark. You can now touch a virtual cat with full haptics.

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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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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

She’s Head of Content and the lead writer at BrainXchange, lead journalist and senior editor at Enterprisewear Blog, and head of marketing and communications for Augmented World Expo USA and AWE EU. I got to try it at… maybe it was AWE, but I got to try one of their training simulators and I was tiling a wall in a bathroom.

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