The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. One month after the reveal of a “next-gen VR headset for the Playstation” (whose name is not known, but I guess it will be PSVR2), Sony has revealed one important detail of its new VR system: the controllers. The controllers will be given to selected developers very soon.

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Peter Graham

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Earlier this year British startup Litho revealed its hardware idea for controlling and manipulating digital objects in the real world, an elegant device which sits between your index and middle fingers. The current model is designed purely for developers at the moment, more accurately creators who use Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Someone in the communities argued with me that HoloLens 2 has still some advantages over Magic Leap 2: it is well integrated with Azure, it is standalone so it doesn’t need a potentially dangerous cable connecting the headset to the computational unit, and it doesn’t need controllers (it uses hands tracking). See Unity running on Quest.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The purchase enables Meta to leverage technology that simulates user touch and feel feedback from a controller or glove. This month XR Today is hosting the inaugural XR Summit on 21 September, featuring industry experts covering the latest topics and trends.

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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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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? Trending AR VR Articles: 1. SteamVR is the ultimate tool for experiencing VR content on the hardware of your choice like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality headset, or any other supported VR headset and controllers. ? Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ??

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. The company behind the popular browser Firefox has decided to focus on its browser and on the current trend of artificial intelligence , and to shut some projects that are not promising anymore.

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. Building our butterfly avatar’s flight capabilities in Unity based on our simplified flight model A note to readers: as before, I’m embedding some short video clips of the avatar’s flight capabilities in action?—?but

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ARVR

JUNE 4, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. Trending AR VR Articles: How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry ExpiCulture?—?Developing The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics. Do you want to listen to the full podcast ?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. This type of game-play will also change as audio plays a larger role in game controls.

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ARVR

MARCH 8, 2021

For my first VR project, I decided to create a bowling game using the Unity game engine for an Oculus quest. Game Overview The bowling ball: By pressing the trigger on the controller, the user can pick up, hold, and release the ball. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Check out my article here to gain a basis on how the tech works.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases. The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Join pick a side and join the battle for control of previous Exotic Matter in this modern revival of the 2013 location-based AR game. It wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say that Ingress is somewhat responsible for sparking the popular location-based AR gaming trend that exists today. But what is XM? What is its potential?

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ARPost

JUNE 8, 2023

Pro hallmarks coming to the Quest 3 include color passthrough and the Pro controllers. The headset’s 12 cameras, five sensors, and six mics enable controller-free tracking, voice interactions, and impressive audio. Developers with early access include JigSpace , and the headset’s software is compatible with Unity.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Having revealed the ‘Knuckles’ EV2 controller development kit just a few months ago, Valve has rapidly incorporated improvements based on feedback from developers and today revealed the updated EV3. Revealing the Knuckles EV3 controllers today , Valve shared a brief rundown of changes from EV2: Strap. Improved reliability.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Interhaptics is based on a controller agnostic architecture. You will have the possibility to see several actions that the user can experience in a physical shop. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. Mark Gurman reiterated a similar rumor: he didn’t say that Meta will ship it without controllers, but just that it is evaluating also that option. The second is about interactions.

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ARVR

JULY 6, 2021

Getting Started The initial tech stack for this was Flutter, Unity AR, and Firebase, but we soon had to switch to using the ar_core_flutter plugin and Appwrite for the backend. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Augmented Reality Options The first option was to use Unity AR with the help of the Flutter Unity Widget package.

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AR Insider

APRIL 12, 2021

The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. The “micro-gestures” will use AR input to create controllers out of the user’s fingers if positioned a certain way.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

I’ll link the ones I’ve personally liked the most… for the other ones, you can watch the whole video of the showcase, or go directly to the Upload website and look for all the posts of June, 14th. As of things to keep an eye on, I found it interesting to see two trends: 1. I do not know what to think about this.

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ARVR

MARCH 11, 2021

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. This is usually triggered, by the player letting go of the hand trigger, or the controller getting too far a way from the object you are interacting with. While Grabbed: Update the drawers position to move towards the players controller. Let physics control the guns movement again.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. The peripheral supported span from Oculus and Ultraleap Hand tracking, to Go Touch VR haptics devices and all commercial XR controllers. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Feel explosions, swordplay, precise controls, and texture feeling.

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ARVR

JUNE 10, 2020

To illustrate this point we will compare two looking alike products that you can use to create interactions for VR content: the VR Interaction Framework, a well-reviewed Unity Plugin known to be user friendly, and the Interaction Builder from the Interhaptics Suite. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Why these two?

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 The width of the cone angle can be used to control the area that it illuminates. Controlling audios can be challenging. It is monotonous to first build the scene in Unity and then test the AR Experience out using a real device.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2019

Virtual Cast uses position and rotation information captured from VR headsets, controllers and trackers to puppeteer Unity humanoid models in VR space. As long as your avatars have Unity humanoid bone setup, you can be anything in any shape. for example, you can create a board game and play it with your friends.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

Enhancing the user experience is key in VR Training, but controllers can be very limiting for this kind of experience. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen. However, we can see that the rate for VR Training is very high, at 75%.

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ARVR

AUGUST 31, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. To many people, controllers can be a bit intimidating, and the number of things that can be done with just the hand is immense. The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics. Do you want to listen to the full podcast ?

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ARVR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Automatic light control. Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. API: C # for Unity, C ++ for iOS, Java for Android. Integration with Unity. Detection of 2D objects: horizontal, vertical, and inclined planes. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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Tech Trends VR

JULY 23, 2018

The tool integrates into Unity environments and allows eye-tracking studies to be conducted within 3D virtual reality environments. VR puts you in complete control of an environment while eye tracking explains our behavior while in that world – a powerful combination making the behavioral insights accessible to many more people.”.

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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. So this is a market we should all keep an eye on.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2020

They decided to base everything in the massively popular 3D development platform Unity. See Also: XR Technology for Industry According to Unity’s Andre Gauthier. With gesture support, and voice controls, the headset is good for learning scenarios as well as in-the-field use. VR Headsets.

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ARPost

JUNE 2, 2023

A new maps SDK compatible with Unity is also coming to 8th Wall. XR’s Inflection Point The panel discussion “How Immersive Storytelling Can Deepen Human Understanding of Critical Issues” brought together Unity CEO John Riccitiello, journalist Ashlan Cousteau, and TRIPP CEO and co-founder Nanea Reeves.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. 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. How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings?

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for AAPL as of 2/3/20 Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment. Ways to Get Your Business into VR 2. How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

Let’s dive in… Sony Confirms New Playstation VR2 for PS5 with New Controllers. The product allows users to create 3D content on top of CAD models without a game engine like Unity. This week, we look at Sony’s tease for PSVR2, new features in Snapchat’s Lens Studio, and a whole slate of new AR glasses emerge.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Although they haven’t deployed on Magic Leap yet, they’re hopeful that because every platform out there is investing in enabling Unity compatibility which enables them to develop cross-platform more easily. Alice Bonasio is a VR Consultant and Tech Trends’ Editor in Chief.

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ARVR

JUNE 25, 2020

Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 You do not have to understand how the tool is built to use it, and you are not limited and have open API access if you want to expand the tool. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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