The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

First of all, one of the leakers affirms having found the info from a Chinese video on BilliBilli, but then some Chinese people saw the same video and said that it said nothing that was contained in the leak. There is also a new render about the upcoming elite strap and a lot of videos about its high-quality passthrough in action.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

In our previous blog we defined our Cloud encoding profiles, In this blog we will go in-depth on why we made our choices regarding video quality and video compression and what to keep in mind when setting up your own encoding profiles.

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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. In the video above, notice how the user controls the visibility of the menu with a gesture.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

How Daimler uses Unity across its automotive lifecycle. The division uses Unity to create a mixed reality pipeline connected to systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data, then deploy applications to multiple platforms, including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus devices, and smartphones. Authors’ opinions are their own. .

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. Doing its keynote on video, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new RTX4080 and RTX4090 graphics cards, which are based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture.

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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

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?” It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. So many memories, guys.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

If you prefer videos, WSJ’s Johanna Stern made a good one that is short, while if you want something more in-depth you should go for Marques Brownlee’s one. A special mention is deserved by Juno, which seems like a great app for watching YouTube videos. So now people can build content for the Vision Pro using the popular game engine.

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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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ARVR

JUNE 13, 2022

This idea occurred to me when I came across a video on Instagram where someone tried designing their future room from a 2d diagram. So first I have to measure my room in the real world and start designing it in Unity. I used Unity ProBuilder to design a 3D scene from the sketch. Here is a small glimpse of the making video.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

More info Some news on the Vision Pro A new week, a new bunch of pieces of news about the Apple Vision Pro: CNET’s Scott Stein has gone hands-on with the Spatial Videos on the Apple Vision Pro and found them very cool. Even if they are just 3D videos in the end, the impact they have on the user is very positive.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. An article in the Varjo blog warns us all about the risks of “negative training”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

But 5 years ago, at Ferragosto, I had another plan: I wanted to start a blog of mine. Following the piece of advice of marketing expert Tommaso di Bartolo, and encouraged by my friends and colleagues Gianni Rosa Gallina and Massimiliano Ariani , I started this blog to talk about the work I was doing at my startup Immotionar.

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MARCH 26, 2020

The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like. While Facebook’s blog did a good job of fielding comments on the videos and blog posts, it didn’t offer any live content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 12, 2017

You can check me playing Dead And Buried with the Unspoken one in the video below at the 51 minute mark. I am very nervous as though I have supported a team with Unity on both the product and business side enough to push them to the Super Bowl I have never had to be Lebron James. I went from not getting into E3 to that! So Mote It Be.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Release date of Stride: Fates New gameplay video for Arizona: Sunshine 2 Rolling Stones pack for Beat Saber Trailer and Release date for Silent Slayer. Who We Are Push the boundaries of the virtual reality industry with us as we create a cross-platform, VR video streaming metaverse. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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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. Now I leave you to his words and his videos: I’ve embedded many videos in this article, so that you can admire his most famous works. Hello Daniel, I am very pleased to have you on my blog today!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

I have no time today to write a full review for you (stay tuned on the HitMotion: Reloaded blog to discover why!), I hoped for something a bit more 3D, but actually, the concert was “just” a collection of 360 videos recorded from a big concert of The Muse inside a stadium.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

Founders Graham Gaylor & Jesse Joudrey plan to keep it that way for the “foreseeable future” Like other social VR experiences before it, the app will allow friends to meet up online in virtual environments with personalized avatars and talk, share videos and more. The VRChat team, which raised $1.2

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In a January 26th blog update , Unity announced the latest features released with Unity 2018.1 that enables stereo image and video capture natively in Unity. The blog briefly explained how to use this new feature and included APIs for the capture and convert function: 1. Now trying this feature out: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

These can easily be covered by watching some Youtube videos on it and a little bit of experimenting. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. In terms of software, the North Star uses Unity to render its AR graphics while the Triton uses Three.js. . Yes, Three.js

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

More info John Riccitiello steps down from its role as Unity CEO The last chapter of the drama about Unity’s pricing change is that John Riccitiello has left his role of CEO at the company. It’s good that this company managed to successfully pivot and investors are giving it trust. I will leave you the link to do that below.

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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. Meta adds video recording settings on Quest, at least for developers. Other relevant news.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

I have written a little blog post about my participation there. On Reddit, I have also been able to watch the video of an indie developer showcasing its game Cradle Of Sins made with UE5, and another developer publishing a tutorial on how to get started with UE5 for PCVR. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In a series of videos uploaded to Thrust Vector’s YouTube channel earlier this week, Nagle can be seen piloting a light aircraft while wearing an Oculus Go headset as Sommer’s sits beside him as a safety pilot.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

For the last three weeks I’ve not been very active on this blog because I was incredibly busy with my daily work at VRROOM and finally today I can reveal what we’ve worked on that hard: a new version update and a new amazing VR concert featuring Armani White! Worlds are created using our Unity SDK, which is going to launch in closed beta.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2014

Update: Check out our 4-minute bite size video on how to create a Unity VR app! Getting Started with Unity. In our first video, Daniel and Wilbur kicked off with a 20 minute guide on getting started for both desktop and VR: Getting Started with VR. with early access 3D Jam demos.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

In February, a post on Google’s official blog recognised the “confusing and time-consuming” battle of working with various audio tools, and described the development of streamlined FMOD and Wwise plugins for multiple platforms on both Unity and Unreal Engine. Image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. This is why I felt so honored when the company, now called UltraLeap, contacted me to have a preview of their new hands-tracking runtime, codenamed “Gemini” UltraLeap Gemini hands-tracking review video. UltraLeap Unity SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

Unity CEO predicts in 2030 XR headsets will be as popular as gaming consoles. Unity CEO John Riccitiello has made new predictions on AR and VR , and this time he talked about the projections for XR headsets in 2030. LIV now lets you shoot mixed reality videos with just a phone. News worth a mention. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

More info (Assassin’s Creed VR gameplay video) More info (Interview with one of the creators of Assassin’s Creed VR) VR games are getting spooky If you are into horror, this may be your favorite moment of the year, because some VR games are adding some special modes to celebrate Halloween. You’ll find all the info in the links here below.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2022

I could play a bunch of small demos made with different engines, some about gaming, some with small volumetric videos, and I think that for all of them the 3D was of good quality. The demo was a bit similar to the one I had at Sony : I tried some games, applications, and videos, and I could see them in 3D without wearing glasses.

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ARVR

JUNE 10, 2022

Unity-tutorial ?—?This This tutorial from unity can help you from setting up for development to basic Oculus development. OculusSDK Tutorial : Dilmer is a talented XR Dev and has a lot of free videos that helped me in understanding Oculus sdk’s. Do checkout his amazing videos.

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