Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Meta now has three mixed reality headsets, but still not a ton of mixed reality content to go with it. Anyone with a Quest 2/3/Pro can download it now and play the new immersive escape room, which warps a mysterious cabinet and a host of cryptic puzzles items into your room.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2023

In a dev blog post announcing the news, Meta says developers who choose to work with Epic’s game engine should start thinking about using UE5 for their Quest apps. Meta is transitioning its support from Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.1 for apps built for the Quest platform. And why not on Quest 2 or Quest Pro?

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2020

Learn how industrial giant ABB is using Unity and augmented reality to transform field maintenance procedures into a completely paperless process. Kielar, to walk us through how they used Unity to develop a new digital field operator system. by Nick Davis. odarczyk and Rafa? What are some challenges faced by maintenance operators?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In a blog post published by the university, a team of researchers led by Ibrahim Baggili, Elder Family Endowed Chair of Computer Science & Cybersecurity and a well-known veteran in cybersecurity and digital forensics; master’s student Peter Casey; and Martin Vondrá? A full disclosure of their findings can be found here.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2018

What Nagle is seeing is a crystal clear map of the area created in the Unity game engine, complete with altitude and heading references courtesy of a WAAS-enhance GPS and modern ADS-B aircraft surveillance equipment strapped to the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 26, 2023

I’m already feeling the air being electric in the ecosystem… My highlight from last year was chasing the Unity CEO and making this horrible photo with him I have great plans for this AWE.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. It’s amazing to see that it is possible to solve many visual problems of current XR headsets via software. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Virtual Desktop Guy Godin commented on the news saying that he is not worried much by Steam Link, since his software offers many more functionalities , and it also works with the Meta PC runtime games (e.g. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge. Lone Echo).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. NVIDIA blog on the Industrial Metaverse More info?—?Video Other relevant news. More info?—?NVIDIA

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by NVIDIA). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Some people even found the demo pretty underwhelming, but actually, I know that the strength of Meta all these years has been the software updates. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. 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

JUNE 6, 2022

Anyway, it is more probable that we’ll have some software reveal that hints at Apple’s XR strategy. More info (Galea on Road To VR) More info (Galea on my blog The Ghost Howls). Today is the day of the Apple WWDC event and maybe we can have more info about its upcoming headse t. Pimax and Skyworth announce new VR headsets. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

I have written a little blog post about my participation there. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. Meta is keeping its update pace of the Oculus Quest software very high. Like last week, also this week I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

We plan to continue maintaining the system software with critical bug fixes and security patches until 2024. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who is considered a reliable reporter about Apple, claimed that “a small number of high-profile software developers” have already received the Apple mixed reality headset to start developing content for it.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

The company notes the following improvements in what they’re calling the “fourth generation of our core software”: Better finger dexterity and fidelity. The company details the developer-level changes on their blog here. Significantly smoother hand and finger tracking, with motions that look and feel more natural.

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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. But if remove all this boring stuff, the software is actually good according to the first reviews, and also introduces some innovative solutions. brainstorming vs workshop). A truth about WebXR Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

DISCLAIMER: Before starting, I would like to acknowledge you that since some weeks Niels Bogerd has become a Patron of this blog. What puzzled me is that there is no software setup. Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. SenseGlove video review.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Our plugins and resources for Unity, Unreal, and WebVR include fully interactive virtual hands that can interact with objects in 3D scenes. One of the world’s most popular game engines, Unity makes it easy to rapidly build and develop VR projects.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment. The Unity game engine is A top choice for game developers, designers, and artists and is compatible with many other platforms supporting the creating of AR/VR applications, including echoAR.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. These collaborations are also a result of the need to create an open and interoperable metaverse.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

It is amazing how Sony has decided to offer high-quality controllers to its users, and it is also great that it is following current VR standards so that to not disrupt the software that is already on the market. As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. Some XR fun.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 2, 2016

Leap Motion’s new Orion software represents a radical shift in our controller’s ability to see your hands. In tandem, we’ve also been giving our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. We started with a brand new LeapC client architecture for streamlined data throughput from the Leap service into Unity.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 2, 2016

With the Leap Motion Unity Core Assets and Modules , you can start building right away with features like custom-designed hands, user interfaces, and event triggers. The Leap Motion Unity assets provide an easy way to bring hands into a Unity game. Since they’re built on the native VR integration included in Unity 5.4,

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

university, I started as a software engineer for a small Internet Service Provider in Osaka City in the mid-nineties. From there, I worked my way up through various companies to software management, then director, and since last year I’ve been the head of all things technical at meleap inc. After majoring in computer science at a U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

The first one is a software update in V31 that enables passthrough APIs (only on Quest 2). Abi Bar-Zeev knows that too, and he has written an interesting blog post predicting how Facebook will behave in the upcoming years. Disclaimer: Jake, the CEO of HaptX, is a Patron of this blog) Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. While HTC is struggling on the hardware side, I think that it is moving very well to create a good software ecosystem, at least in China. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

To a request for further explanations by Upload, Microsoft answered that the future release of Windows that will remove the software will happen in late 2024. Of course, existing WMR users can still use the devices if they do not upgrade to a version of Windows that does not have the software anymore. And that “ As of Nov.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Benzing then moved on to create Hilda , which “ had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2017 and was distributed to Amazon, ” and Diptych , which “ had its world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Dance on Camera (2018), ” as is stated on her personal blog. We’re working with Unity on this project.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

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. How and when to incorporate hand tracking isn’t only a hardware and software question. Camera access is significant, particularly with smartphones.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

Since no other company is doing similar operations, the result is that the monopoly of Facebook in the VR field is growing always more , because they are now controlling the hardware and the software of VR. If in every piece of software I’m a different person, this is frustrating. Support this blog. slightly different colors).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Finally, the company will back developers on its software platform with persistent anchoring.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” I chose the specialization in multimedia and software applications. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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