Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Oculus recently published a new guide on how to optimize VR experiences along with some of the common pitfalls for devs to watch out for when tracking down and solving VR performance issues. SEE ALSO Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? You can make 3D worlds with HTML and Entity-Components for Virtual Reality headsets like Oculus Quest, Rift or WMR, SteamVR, mobile, desktop. ? Unity Game Engine ?? Supported AR/VR devices ? Widget libraries

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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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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. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Yesterday, Oculus announced the release date for what will be one of its first big Studios games this year, Rock Band VR. Starting Months of high profile rollouts with #Rockband from @Harmonix for @Oculus Rift: — Jason Rubin (@Jason_Rubin) February 6, 2017. Tagged with: oculus , Oculus Studios , robo recall , wilson's heart.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 31, 2016

Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started. Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started. Unreal Engine 4 and Open Source.

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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. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

The Cosmos faceplate features a new pattern… and apart from the aesthetics, the crux is that it is now possible to see that the headset now features even 6 tracking cameras for positional and controllers’ tracking: two on the front, two on the sides, one on the top of the Faceplate, one on the bottom of the faceplate. Other relevant news.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 5, 2017

video game industry when the Oculus Kickstarter campaign began? NB: The biggest win for Oculus was being able to get John Carmack and Gabe Newell in the Kickstarter video. With Oculus, VR had a tremendous amount of buzz. Games had developed better graphics and internet connectivity, but the controllers were basically the same.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Image by Oculus). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2019

Vertical Robot’ s acclaimed indie game Red Matter has just been ported to Oculus Quest and the title has already got a lot of interest. I have been so lucky to have the possibility of trying the game in preview , so here you are my review of Red Matter on Oculus Quest! This is part of the compromises of using the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A Facebook operating system, pervasive of all devices (Portal, Quest, Smartwatch, etc…) could give Facebook the same power as Apple: having full control of hardware and software , with also complete interoperability. Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It is for the professional and the gamer, and it is especially intriguing if mixed with wireless module and Index Controllers; Cosmos XR (price unknown): features two high-res RGB cameras, that let you use the Cosmos both as a VR headset and an AR one. Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. One of my favorite games of all times is Unreal Tournament because I just love to shoot and kill without thinking too much… or better, without thinking AT ALL.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

For Oculus, Vive, Steam and WMR, we are releasing on 11/21/18 and for PSVR on 12/18/18. How the full game will be different from episode 1? And how are you thinking taking in count the evolution that headsets and controllers will have in these two years? We had to get dev kits from Sony, Oculus, Vive and WMR.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Concepts like loops, control-logic, OOP principles like inheritance, abstraction, encapsulation, etc should be at your fingertips before moving forward. The more knowledge you have in your domain the more you can think about how to combine things and think out of the box. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. CONTROL & SAFETY With any immersive experience, the user has to have a sense of safety and freedom.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

More info (Rebecca Minkoff’s AR showcase) More info (Machine A’s AR app) More info (MetaJacket) More info (How to buy the MetaJacket) More info (Description of Awe Nite Florence event on Digital Fashion) More info (Subscribe to Awe Nite Florence event on Digital Fashion). Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 1, 2017

We plan to also bring our game to Steam VR and the Oculus Store but we wanted to reveal Ancient Amuletor on PSVR first. Initially, we were surprised to find just how many different & interesting gameplay mechanics a VR headset and motion controller can bring compared to traditional console titles.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We will be using this simple application as a foundation for the following posts in which we will start adding more interesting stuff like rendering motion controllers, rendering simple objects into a stereoscopic view so they can be seen properly in VR, and adding some simple interactions. So, let’s start! Motivation.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2020

This past Thursday marked the launch of In Death: Unchained on the Oculus Quest. The result is an insanely-addictive VR dungeon crawling experience made even better thanks to Oculus technology. So we decided we should make it happen and we put a lot of love and effort into it – with Solfar’s blessing and Oculus’ help.”

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It is the first event of this kind organized by Magic Leap: we can say that LEAP Con is like the Oculus Connect of Magic Leap and will probably become always more important, year after year, exactly as it has happened to Oculus. Some of the most notable points are: 2 Controllers support. pic.twitter.com/MbJZV8aOdf. MagicScript.

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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. Whatever platform you’re building on, it’s important to know that designing for motion control involves a whole new way of thinking about interactions.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes. I’ve found that gamers are much more likely to natively know how to explore and watch an interactive experience. Support Voices of VR.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor. If you have an Vive, you can use the Vive Controllers with the HDK headset. There are also scripts available for the PlayStation Move controllers and It will only be a matter of time until the VR Oculus Touch controller can be added to this list.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

In order for students to think about how to create pieces of music and pieces of software, we enable groups to get together and make music as an ensemble. There’s a lot to learn – you have to learn how to compose, orchestrate music for an ensemble, interaction design, etc. They came up with these new ways to control sound.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. Then, many people didn’t understand how to enter the concert, and when they got it, they couldn’t enter because of server problems. Other relevant news. Image leaked from Meta firmware).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2019

It is a real-time rendered experience (I guess they have used Unreal Engine), in which you can navigate in the cosmos and see the planets, the stars , etc… You can hear the sounds of the universe, you can see things that you are not able to see in real life (e.g. There was no electricity and I had to find how to activate it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. The tracking of the controllers and the headset has been improved a lot, and there is also great content like Synth Riders and Red Matter to play with. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I’ll be there to talk about HitMotion: Reloaded and how to properly design a VR fitness game (using the precious lessons that our game designer Max Ariani has taught me). Notice anyway that references found in the firmware doesn’t equate to sure features, but they at least show that Oculus is working on these things. It has 4.5DOF.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

With the Leap Motion Controller, you can quickly bring your hands into almost any virtual reality experience. Our plugins and resources for Unity, Unreal, and WebVR include fully interactive virtual hands that can interact with objects in 3D scenes. 4 Design Problems for VR Tracking (And How to Solve Them). and Oculus 0.5

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

minimum Controls: touch, voice. There are no controllers, but Ultraleap hands tracking (you can use it with FinchShift controllers, though). $500 for this device is a steal. Oculus has a similar practice too, and developers are forced to use its payment system for all IAP, about which Facebook takes a 30% cut.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The new VR headset enhances everything from resolution and field of view to tracking and input ; It will connect to PS5 with a single cord to simplify setup and improve ease-of-use while enabling a high-fidelity visual experience; It will feature controllers carefully studied for VR.

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