The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Google wants you to play with Blocks, this smartphone wants you to get rid of your headset, a new marketplace connecting content creators with funding, the price of the Oculus Rift is slashed, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… 1. GOOGLE WANTS YOU TO PLAY WITH BLOCKS.

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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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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). 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.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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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. But the sequel of the popular Virtual Virtual Reality has not been received very well: many reviewers highlighted the high amount of bugs found, and some others (like me) the clunky controls and the slow pace.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. This also opened the door for traditional VR investment.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook). References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Our Virtual World. In a second I am miles above the city, and by pointing my Vive controller this way or that and clicking the pad with my thumb, I soar anywhere I choose in the bustling virtual metropolis. Turning slowly I can almost feel the wind in my hair but I know that couldn’t be possible.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 9, 2015

Touchscreens, accelerometers, and a bevy of easy-to-use external controllers have given performers many options in how to control and shape sound and music. The impossibilities of VR are extremely exciting as anything in virtual space can be controlled by the performer and used to create sound and music.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

VR has the power to transform our lives and connect us in new ways, while hand tracking lets you reach beyond the digital divide and take control. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). (Image from Reddit). The VR ecosystem can end 2021 with a big smile on its face. Other relevant news. Image by Rec Room).

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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

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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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 17, 2017

The Public World also suffered some server issues, resulting in a drop of more than 400 actives on that grid alone. And the number of regions went down by 839 standard region equivalents, as Virtual Worlds Grid turned off the less-used servers to allow for a greater than usual load on its welcome regions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Omniverse is a powerful tool for creating 3D virtual worlds that is made of different modules. On the lowest layer, you have the tools with which you make a scene (Blender, Unreal Engine, 3ds Max, etc…). First of all, he highlighted that in controlled conditions, cloud rendering over 5G already works incredibly well.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Lessons Learned From A Thousand Virtual Worlds. He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

In what had to be the most physically jarring of all the projects on display, World And Place Evaporating was a unique project that utilized actual reflective surfaces to warp your perspective while in the virtual world. Soon after my controller became a music baton for me to conduct and draw musical patterns with.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. We have been working in Unreal for a long time, and we’ve certainly built a team around that. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal?

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

We received word from WorldViz that they are putting the finishing touches on a Virtual Reality expansion for their PPT (Precision Position Tracking) system. HMI development was mostly limited to keyboard, mice and their varieties (Wacom tablet is still a 2D space with mouse like controls, no matter how great or precise it is).

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. We have been working in Unreal for a long time, and we’ve certainly built a team around that. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. The official boxes of the Oculus Quest (above) and Vive Focus Plus (below). Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). The only true difference is in storage.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Spaces offers functionalities in: Image tracking Object tracking Hand tracking Spatial mapping Environment understanding and meshing Plane detection Real/virtual world occlusion …and more. Automatic translation of 2D web UI elements onto a spatial control panel when an experience is accessed on a VR or AR headset.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there's so much of a mirroring of what's happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it's a surgical simulation or Walmart's using it to train for different employees. I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. I think it's--.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. And you’ve got these 6DOF controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

The real question is: what about headsets that don’t rely on PC like the Oculus Quest or the Vive Focus Plus ? Interface to pair your Oculus Quest application to your bHaptics suit in VR. Here below, I’ll tell you something about these experiments, that happened both on my PC (+ HTC Vive) and my Oculus Quest.

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