The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

NVIDIA has had its annual GTC event, and while there it hasn’t announced new graphics cards, it has anyway provided some interesting pieces of news. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. Other relevant news.

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MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. The event is a chance for the 3D visuals company to focus on its support for the VR/AR industry and encourage creators to develop using its tools. Superhot VR is an action/puzzle hybrid with a unique time control mechanic. Best Cinematic VR – Zero Days VR (Scatter).

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia Supported AR/VR devices ? SteamVR ? —?SteamVR

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

VR will be huge for events, as soon as some issues will be ironed out (e.g. If you want my help in organizing your VR event, please reach out to me … Waiting to meet you in VR, let’s talk about some news…. Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

This would be pretty disruptive, because up to now every standalone headset has been a walled garden with its own store and hardware, with the only exception being HTC trying to distribute its Viveport store to some other Chinese devices. Basically, Google could try to be for standalone devices what Steam has been for the PC VR ones.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

It was pretty cool using it inside a discotheque The tools we had were very limited: the Vive Focus had just a Snapdragon 835 processor, the image was black and white and low-resolution, we had to do everything at the Unity software level, and we had no environment understanding.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Plus, if you are in Karlsruhe, I’ll be attending the LEARNTEC event and I’ll be there on Thursday morning… if you’re there, we can meet! That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. Top news of the week. Learn more.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Google said that it has partnered with Unity and Epic Games, creators of two of the most popular third-party gaming engines, so developers can use the game-building tools they already know well. “Unity’s native support for Daydream aims to solve the hard problems for you. .”

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

While doing demos, people new to VR technology would repeatedly put both controllers into one hand to reach out and try to touch digital artefacts. For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. Hand tracking is not really meant to necessarily replace controllers,” said Laverde. VIVE’s Hand Tracking Roadmap.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). built in to headband Controllers ?—?6DOF pounds (0.55kg) Cable Length: 19.5

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Someone leaked on Imgur a screenshot from a call on Facebook Workplace where it is possible to see some Oculus controllers that are completely different from the ones that are on the market today. These depth cameras are used for positional tracking of controllers and the headset. Pepperidge Farm remembers!).

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

During a press event at Milk Studios in Los Angeles Sunday night, Jaguar revealed the I-PACE, the company’s first-ever electric car. Nine circular tables were arranged neatly on a stage, each seating six guests, all of whom were donning a HTC Vive headset, calmly waving a Vive controller in front of their face.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

HTC Vive Focus is one of the most famous standalone VR headsets. I have always been intrigued by this device, since the first time I’ve read about its reveal at an HTC event : I don’t know why, maybe because of the azure color that is my favorite, maybe because it looks so informal. It was funny.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Regarding VR, this week we register the fact that two important events like Facebook F8 and GDC have been canceled. The Game Developers Conference , a big event where there have been in the past many announcements about VR, has been canceled after all the major brands withdrew from it , leaving the organizers with no choice.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

VRTK, as other existing VR interaction toolkits, is built around logic input from controllers. Developers will have to build or find an extra module to make the bridge between the analogic hand tracking, and the logic controller input. This allows Interhaptics to include a more advanced event system due to logic-based interactions.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Part industry event and part immersive tech festival, VRLA is a place where seasoned veterans can catch up on their latest updates while newcomers experience VR for the first time. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive. There’s quite no conference like VRLA.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Especially the first feature made most people go in awe : volumetric videos are very expensive, so they’re typically not used during XR events. The result was the one of having Alex Kipman as if he was really in front of you , a fantastic immersive feature for an XR event. Image by HTC). they had no problems in using it.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

The Academy of International Extended Reality has held the VR Awards for the last four years and the fifth annual event is scheduled to take place in VR on November 18. Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. HTC for the VIVE Focus 3. Let’s take a look. VR Healthcare of the Year. Make Real Ltd.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The HTC Vive should not exist. For a troubled company that’s spent much of the past few years making losses instead of profits, the niche and expensive VR market is the last place HTC is going to make a quick buck. And yet here we are, with the smartphone maker and Valve seemingly in it for the long haul. Expected Expense.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

John Root co-founded VRLA with Cosmo Scharf in 2014 , and it has organically grown into a thriving VR event with over 10,000 attendees at the Los Angeles Convention Center. The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”. Rikard Steiber, President Viveport and SVP of Virtual Reality, HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

David of Upload says that thanks to its big boost in specifications , PS5 can offer an amazing flat screen experience : better resolution, better framerate, better graphics, better load times, better controller. All the PSVR system is retrofitted into the new console , and so it is like if it can run only in some compatibility mode.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

In its recent Facebook Connect event (which the echoAR team covered here ) Facebook made a number announcements that cement its place as a leader in the AR/VR space. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. The event is offering 5 tracks offering a wide range of topics from technical to the practicalities of VR as a business.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

January saw HTC Vive hold its first developer jam in five years, created in collaboration with Admix, Corsair and VRFocus. Each team had two HTC Vive Pro Eye’s to play with – the company’s latest enterprise-focused headset – meaning eye-tracking needed to feature in some way.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The two-day event is essentially a mini-GDC, focused exclusively on VR headsets and related technologies. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. November 3rd, 10:15am. November 3rd, 2:30pm.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. Controllers: Inputs : A Button, B Button, System Button, Trigger, Thumbstick, Track Button with Force Sensor, Grip Force Sensor, Finger Tracking, IMU Connections : USB-C, 2.4 Valve Index and its controllers (Image by Valve). Is the Index the Vive 2?

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2018

Despite only having existed three short years, VRLA has already managed to cement itself as the one of, if not the most impactful annual immersive entertainment events in the United States. Upon first entering the exhibit i was instructed to lay on a specially-designed massage table fitted with an HTC Vive headset at the face rest.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Following the event, several global executives from the immersive tech industry weighed in on the device. The initial event and follow-up conversations have generated the necessary buzz and set expectations that “spatial computing” will be a part of everyday life. Brian Meaney , Head of Product, Alteon.io

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

In the meantime, Bloomberg published a report saying that Apple is going to launch its XR headset in the “next several months” (a timeline that goes from now to 2023, I guess), and that it is probably waiting until there could be physical events again before doing it. Viveport users get access to Sansar events for free.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

CEO of Refract Chng told TechCrunch that the solution they found out was to allow players to use their bodies as game controllers. This addresses common issues like occlusion and space requirements of systems such as HTC Vive,” Chng told TechCrunch. Everything is on the body, with proprietary inside-out tracking capability.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Focus 3 and Vive Pro 2. In the end, the rumors were correct and HTC launched two headsets at VIVECON: the Vive Pro 2 and the Vive Focus 3 Business Edition. base stations) Controllers : Vive Wands. Then, the price is a bit high , and this is very HTC. Top news of the week.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Morph 3D wants to change that, and it is unveiling its 3D-animated avatars for VR today at the VRDC event in San Francisco. You have shaping controls to morph them to your own interests,” Frei said. It works with the Unity game engine, enabling developers to make it easy for players to craft their own characters in VR apps.

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. They recall demos of Owlchemy’s Job Simulator, Google’s Tilt Brush and Valve’s early robot demo, each of which made excellent use of those hand controls. Learning New Skills.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 25, 2018

The Focus features two frontal cameras that are used for the inside-out tracking and through scripting, in Unity, it is possible to access their stream. The cybernaut Enea Le Fons: he always pushes for a completely open and free XR ecosystem (Image by HTC). Are you interested in it? Then keep reading! It was unusable.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

As with every big event, I’m writing a post to try to summarize the most important news that have come out from the GDC 2018 … so that if you have lost something, you just need to read this post to get in par with the rest of the world. So, are you ready? Let’s start! Vive Pro price and release date.

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