Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. 6DOF hand controller (Totem) tracking. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

Announced last week via an official update to the Vive developer blog , Vive Pro developers now have full control of the headset’s front-facing stereo cameras to develop their own mixed reality experiences. The SDK also supports native development with plugins for both Unity as well as Unreal Engine 4. That is until now.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 6, 2017

The mod uses SteamVR’s Unreal Egnine plugin. You can download the mod from GitHub where you’ll also find detailed instructions to installing it. Instead, he’s utilising the game’s mod support for a new release that he’s labelled RoboRevive.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Battles are admittedly much better suited for HTC Vive players, as Oculus Rift players will need a full 360 setup because the lack of directional controls such as snap-turn, or directional teleport. Image captured by Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. This means that Unreal Engine is now free for everyone forever until you really become rich.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Game engines such as Unreal engine, Source, and RPG Maker provide the framework for visual, aural, AI, and other crucial elements for many of the games we play today. There are bugs to be expected considering alpha tests are largely incomplete works of software, but if you’re interested you can register here for the download.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 26, 2019

The idea worked very well and this little demo, released for free on PlayStation Network, got over one million downloads. And this why an indie game developer, Radius Gordello , has decided to re-create completely it in Unreal Engine. There’s almost no use of your hand controllers. has entered the legend of games.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2017

Batman: Arkham VR has placed consistently in the top 10 most downloaded PSVR titles since the headset’s October 2016 launch. Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

A decade on and there is a new kid on the block from Epic/Unreal called Metahuman. The animation rigging of the body is joined by very detailed facial feature rigging allow these to be controlled with full motion capture live in the development environment of Unreal. Roisin from Reconfigure and Cont3xt in Unreal engine.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Using the weather and fire packs, Fnordcorps from Spectacular-Ocular.com has been working on integrating different particle effects into Leap Motion hand controls.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This option gives you the most control over the game, but it also requires the most time and expertise. Use a game engine: Another option is to use a game engine such as Unity, Unreal Engine, or Godot to build your game. And if you don’t have the go with the best mobile game development company.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2021

Since I had to make some tests with Oculus MRC for our game HitMotion: Reloaded (download it now on SideQuest !) Oculus Mixed Reality Capture (MRC) is an important plugin for Unity and Unreal Engine that developers can integrate into their projects. Where to download my helper package in its GitHub page.

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2019

Using an HDMI input, users connect their computer-of-choice to the device, at which point the Looking Glass becomes a second display for your PC; there’s also a USB-C port for controls. Once connected, users can upload a variety of 3D content—from models and animations to volumetric video—at 60FPS without the need of a VR headset.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fans of the Rift will remember when developer Epic Games took to the stage of the Oculus Connect 2 keynote that year to announce a tech demo for the then-unreleased Oculus Touch controllers, called Bullet Train. Bullet Train, meanwhile, can now be downloaded on Rift for free.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2023

More info (WSJ report on Ray-Ban Stories) More info (NWN talks about the report) Roblox had 1M downloads on Quest When I reviewed Roblox on Meta Quest App Lab last week, I highlighted how it had a very high number of user reviews: 1200 in just 24 hours, which is kind of a record for App Lab. IN A FEW DAYS. ON APP LAB. Let this sink.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

and is now ready for download. The company says the SDK includes “a simple API used for creating apps inserted into Cardboard viewers, and the more complex API for supporting Daydream-ready phones and the Daydream controller.” ” See Also: Google’s (Day)dream: ‘Hundreds of Millions of Users in a Couple of Years’.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

It doesn’t have controllers (you just use your hands), but you can buy external controllers by Finch to use with it. But this week we had the announcement that at least one of these limitations is going to lift off: Oculus is going to add downloadable content (DLC) or in-app purchases (IAP) to App Lab experiences “later this year”.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Many owners have reported having issues with Oculus’ experimental room-scale setups, which utilize three of its sensors and its Oculus Touch controllers. Today’s improvements will be arriving in stages, so if you haven’t already downloaded it be on the lookout for it to arrive a little later on. Elsewhere, 1.12

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The headset has a very nice design and features these specifications: Standalone 6DOF headset 1600×1600 resolution per eye 90Hz refresh rate 90° FOV RGB AR passthrough Innovative lenses that make the headset more compact Integrated audio Controller-free hand-tracking Eye-tracking 6GB of RAM 128GB of storage WiFi 6 (802.11ax), Bluetooth 5.0,

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

Every device used to enter the extended reality landscape needs to be able to access content from somewhere. In the past, companies have had to download and process huge amounts of data on their own computers and other devices, to enable XR experiences.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Meanwhile, AI content creators and solutions are increasing in influence on Metaverse apps and the engines which power them, like Unity and Unreal Engine 5, leading to a significant grey area—leading to speculation by regulators to address and future-proof laws. What Are the Issues that Metaverse Law Must Address?

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2016

A piano, playable with Vive hand controls, sits in the middle of the monument, almost as an invitation to the viewer to re-imagine the space as a posh concert hall. Download ‘Buzludzha VR’ for HTC Vive and Desktop. See Also: Preview: ‘Arnswalde VR’ is a Memorial to Life as it Was Before WW2.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The With Google AR and VR technologies, companies can create immersive experiences designed to rapidly convert customers, and enhance brand loyalty. The ARCore solution from Google supports developers in creating simple but effective AR applications, which customers can download from the Google Play store and access on any Android device.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

But the thing that surprised me the most in Gurman’s description is the controllers. Controllers do have not the tracking ring like the ones of Quest 2 and have not onboard cameras like the ones of Quest Pro (I guess they would have been too expensive). But that’s just a speculation of mine. Cool, isn’t it?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

For this second article, we will concentrate on the Index Controllers ; the first article has already covered my experiments with the Index Facial Interface , whilst a forthcoming third article will cover the Index Ear Speakers. A bunch of Valve Index Controllers, with and without comfort modding (Image by Rob Cole). tracking system.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR , where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. I downloaded Unity 2019.3.11 Press Play, and now you can see that you can close your hands using the buttons in your controllers! for this project.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The mod will support 1st & 3rd person, motion controls, and more! At first, the mod will focus more on playing the game using your motion controllers like a gamepad (the game has fantastic gamepad support out of the box), but will later support actual motion controls (you can also play with mouse & keyboard too if you want too).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The mod will support 1st & 3rd person, motion controls, and more! At first, the mod will focus more on playing the game using your motion controllers like a gamepad (the game has fantastic gamepad support out of the box), but will later support actual motion controls (you can also play with mouse & keyboard too if you want too).

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. Create a developer account to download the SDK and integrations you’ll need to start building. Fictional UIs vs. Today’s Motion Controls. LeapJS and WebVR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. The controller too is very comfortable and does its job very well. So, are you ready? Let’s start!

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Leapmotion

MARCH 30, 2016

Using our latest Unity Core Assets , just download Unity 5.3.4p1 and install the OVRPlugin for Unity 1.3.0. How about Unreal Engine? Unreal Engine 4.11 doesn’t currently have Oculus 1.3 What can the mounted controller track? If you’re updating a project from the 0.8 support, but is coming soon in the 4.11.1

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

There is proof everywhere about that: The Oculus app on the iOS App Store has been at the #1 place among the most downloaded app of the day on Christmas. Thanks to the vaccines and the pandemic that seemed more or less under control, this seemed a possible scenario, and in-person successful events like AWE 2021 confirmed this hypothesis.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. There are also two simple 6DOF controllers through which you can interact with the augmentations. The change made by one user in its program (e.g. ZapBox is like a Cardboard for AR, that for only $40 lets you enjoy AR.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Zero Latency has a team of 10 people plus some external contractors working on new titles as well as downloadable content for existing experiences. Vandonkelaar did say their platform will support Unreal Engine 4 and other technology beyond Unity. Vandonkelaar said it takes between seven and nine months to create a game.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Rob is a big fan of PCVR (he even tried to design a new SteamVR controller , do you remember?) This would be my second test of hardware from Pimax, following last year’s Sword controllers. Today I host another fantastic guest post written by VR ergonomics expert (and friend of mine) Rob Cole.

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VRGuy

APRIL 25, 2015

Examples of such peripherals could be head trackers, hand and finger sensors (like Leap Motion and SoftKinetic), gesture control devices (such as the Myo armband and the Nod ring), cameras, eye trackers and many others. Provide optimized connectors to popular engines such as Unity and Unreal.

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