The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). VRTUOLUO is a vertical industry media that is subordinate to TUOLUO Tech, which is incubated by the Game industry media YOUXITUOLUO.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. Additionally, NVIDIA and Autodesk are teaming up to deliver real-time, enterprise-level collaborative spaces for the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their headsets have led to multiple partnerships with major automotive, architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC), aerospace training, art and music, and defence firms. The company’s sensor and tracking technology comes in the form of the “OctoXR” Unity game engine. Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2016

The team are to deliver a big update in June that adds the ability to mod the title, with the first example a complete Dungeon construction modification. We really liked the look of Modbox when we first covered the SteamVR / HTC Vive physics sandbox title last year. ‘Game mode’ system.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Event organisers and featured thought leaders will provide a space for attendees to learn from leading XR companies that will share valuable insight into real-world enterprise-grade immersive technology use cases such as education, marketing, and construction. Who is Coming? IGS Europe is hosting over 100 companies and speakers.

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Cats and VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Unity Technologies announced a host of new partnerships and exciting updates in 2016.The The dev team I work with uses Unity as our bread and butter. There is a reason it is the game engine helping to push VR into a consumer product. At the end of the year they released their EditorVR for constructing environments for VR in VR.

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Leapmotion

MAY 7, 2016

With our latest Unity Core Assets release , we’re excited to unveil full support for the Unity 5.4 beta, which features native support for the HTC Vive. And in some cases, we’re adding features to the Core Assets to support upcoming Unity Modules. The post Redesigning Our Unity Core Assets Part II: New Features in 4.1.0

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Peck is also the Board Chair of Prospera Women and hosts the Future Construct podcast. Speaking on the emerging trends for 2023, Peck explained that sectors in social media, fashion, entertainment, and games would intersect with a “multimedia approach” to engage consumers. Keynote 2023 Tech Trends.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery. It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 12, 2021

This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. Image by HTC Vive). HTC is teasing a new headset. HTC is teasing a new piece of hardware again, and this time most probably it will be a VR headset. Not much, honestly.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 18, 2017

From space exploration to architecture and gaming to education, Microsoft HoloLens has been crafted to innovate the inside of these industries and has already found a practical application across a variety of inside procedures. When using Unity, it is extremely important to set the near clipping plane to no less than 0.85m.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. You attach them to your device and then it becomes as it has always had integrated audio (Image by Bionik Gaming). Then, keep reading.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. It has more than 40M daily active users , and a thriving ecosystem of content creators that make a living by creating games for it. It is one of the most relevant 3D social spaces, together with Fortnite.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The firm’s first XR headset is due soon, and with it comes a spatial computing ambition that draws similarities and differences to Lenovo, Microsoft, Meta, HTC VIVE, and other XR headset vendors. Apple is gearing up for the Vision Pro debut.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2021

Before starting, my friends at FXG and at Leenzee Games are promoting the Chinese mystery VR game A.D. Subscribe to my newsletter , then write me an e-mail to tonyvt AT skarredghost DOT com and I will give you one so that you can play this game for free! Resolution Games steps back from implementing ads inside Blaston.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Users will pilot digital avatars to explore immersive worlds with XR technologies to shop, socialise, research, game, and travel. Firms such as Virbela, Meta Platforms, ENGAGEXR, Spatial, Arthur, NVIDIA Omniverse, Microsoft, Pico Interactive, Varjo, HTC VIVE, and UPWorlds are all working to build these platforms.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. It constructs the map of an unknown environment while simultaneously keeping track of the location of the agent.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Used to be the best way to plan a three-dimensional construction project was on a two-dimensional blueprint, or perhaps a wooden model. Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. What do I do?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Used to be the best way to plan a three-dimensional construction project was on a two-dimensional blueprint, or perhaps a wooden model. Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. What do I do?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Used to be the best way to plan a three-dimensional construction project was on a two-dimensional blueprint, or perhaps a wooden model. Greg has been designing and driving the development of immersive digital simulation for architecture, engineering, and construction markets for the last 20 years. What do I do?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 24, 2023

Uniting the Industry Multiple companies, from Meta Platforms, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Microsoft, HTC VIVE, ByteDance, Sony and even massive telecoms like Nokia and T-Mobile are chipping in to increase adoption rates for spatial technologies. Unity has also joined in on the industrial metaverse to deliver tangible results.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 8, 2023

CloudXR Client Extensions will also offer a key plugin for Unity Editor, providing developers with bespoke CloudXR applications. This connected the world’s largest “design, computer-aided design (CAD), and simulation tool ecosystems such as Autodesk, Siemens, Adobe, PTC, and Epic Games.”

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Every cloud does have a silver lining though, and I suddenly found spare time to play VR games, with my new VR system and a ridiculous “Hall of Fame” 3080Ti graphics card I’d somehow acquired at a very reasonable price. And if you like fighting games, what about a D-Pad? So what was this new idea then? Image by Rob Cole).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 17, 2017

Lots of new stuff released for HTC Vive on Steam this week, but not all of it is particularly noteworthy or earth-shattering. We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. Not quite as long as some hoped, but still a solid horror game.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

” And once we showed them that, like, “hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you’re actually recording,” it was a huge game-changer. Alan: Very cool.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

” And once we showed them that, like, “hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you’re actually recording,” it was a huge game-changer. Alan: Very cool.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And once we showed them that, like, "hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you're actually recording," it was a huge game-changer. Alan: Very cool. And it wasn't realistic enough.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Now, in my personal, humble opinion, with the technology now today with 3D modeling tools and so forth, and things like facial mapping and all that that’s going on in the media industry, rendering that 3D person — much like we see in the high-end games today –is really exciting. And that game was, “what happens if?”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Now, in my personal, humble opinion, with the technology now today with 3D modeling tools and so forth, and things like facial mapping and all that that’s going on in the media industry, rendering that 3D person — much like we see in the high-end games today –is really exciting. And that game was, “what happens if?”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

Now, in my personal, humble opinion, with the technology now today with 3D modeling tools and so forth, and things like facial mapping and all that that's going on in the media industry, rendering that 3D person -- much like we see in the high-end games today --is really exciting. And that game was, "what happens if?" Very expensive.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Epic Games releases Matrix Resurrections tie-in experience.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. So people who are in factory floors, or people who are meeting assistance for remote collaboration, or the people who are on the grounds physically doing these different actions, whether it’s on a construction site or a factory floor. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. So people who are in factory floors, or people who are meeting assistance for remote collaboration, or the people who are on the grounds physically doing these different actions, whether it's on a construction site or a factory floor. Alan: Oh, I can't wait.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So you see a lot of it in architecture, engineering, construction. So people who are in factory floors, or people who are meeting assistance for remote collaboration, or the people who are on the grounds physically doing these different actions, whether it’s on a construction site or a factory floor. Alan: Oh, I can’t wait.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This has led to long manufacturing delays and component shortages , especially for the silicon processors used in everything from electric cars and smartphones to game consoles and VR equipment. resulting in the construction of a number of development “mules” before starting work on Caliper itself. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Keep in mind that this won’t mean that we will have games that are the double more beautiful than the ones of the Quest , though. There are various reasons for that: In the beginning, many games will be porting from the Quest 1 , so they won’t exploit completely the XR2 chipset; The headset runs at 90Hz and has a 4K display.

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