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Who needs an old-fashioned controller when you have a perfectly good set of arms and legs? AXIS (Active XR Interface System) is a full-body controller that uses a combination of wireless sensors attached to key points on the body to deliver high-quality motion capture. MORE
” Given my recent experience with Unity developing, I could give myself only a clear answer: “NO” With nowadays Unity tools, it is much easier to make cross-platform content, and with OpenXR this will be even better. Create a Unity project. MORE
We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Speaking at the 2016 Unite conference in Los Angeles, Principal Engineer of Unity Labs Amir Ebrahimi confirmed that the in-VR editor would be launching in December and Principal Designer Timoni West showed it off in action. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. Finally, the pair debuted Tools, featuring VR-specific extensions for Unity. MORE
In this article, you may find the answers to all the above questions : I will guide you in developing a little Unity experience for the nReal glasses (the typical grey cube!), How to get started with nReal development (and emulator) in Unity (Video tutorial). It’s a lot of topics: all you need to know to get started with nReal development in Unity … and you can find them in only one video, that you can watch here below! Unity. Finishing configuring Unity. MORE
During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR , which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the next couple of months. SEE ALSO Unity's VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God. SEE ALSO Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR Growth. MORE
The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity adds the ability to use Quest’s controller-free hand tracking in the editor. Facebook added experimental controller-free hand tracking for Quest in December. MORE
Unity launched its Editor VR service in an alpha form late last year, and the engine-maker appears to be pretty happy with the results so far. Editor VR is an in-VR section of the larger Unity engine that lets you edit virtual scenes in games and more. The Unity Labs team is developing an XR Foundation Toolkit to help #VR creators design, prototype & test experiences. Unity (@unity3d) February 28, 2017. Tagged with: Editor VR , unity , XRFT. MORE
Developers of Oculus Rift games made with the Oculus Unity plugin can now add Windows MR headset support with their existing code. Facebook first added SteamVR support to the Oculus Unity Integration back in November. The documentation includes details of how the Oculus Touch APIs relate to the Windows MR controllers. Oculus Store games still can only have Oculus API support ticked in Unity. Oculus Windows VR facebook oculus Samsung Odyssey+ Unity Engine Windows MR MORE
Unity Technologies has been known among developers as the maker of a “game engine” since the tool debuted in 2005. That’s because experiences created with Unity are more often than not films, interactive movies, advertisements, or augmented reality and virtual reality content. Disney Television Animation said last week it is making the Baymax Dreams series, a trio of short films in the Big Hero 6 world, as an animated series using the Unity engine. Image Credit: Unity. MORE
Unity told us they will add the same “later this year” What Is Vulkan? This may have been spurred by the recent release of the Oculus Quest, the first consumer standalone headset with room scale tracking and Touch controllers. Almost all Oculus Quest and Go apps are made with Unity or Unreal Engine. Development Oculus Quest development epic Oculus Go unity Unity Engine Unreal Unreal engine VR Development vulkan MORE
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. As a Unity developer, I think that it is a very important enabling solution. I downloaded Unity 2019.3.11 MORE
In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. It was something that I already knew… plus I was really tired because of the hard work done and so I was really going through the text lines not giving much interest, when suddenly I read something like “Mozilla that has released a WebVR exporter for Unity” and suddenly I woke up and my eyes popped out. MORE
I’m among them: today I’ve made my first builds and so I want to guide you through the first very basic steps in building an app for Oculus Go on Unity , to spare you some little headaches. You have your shiny new gray Oculus Go on your desk and you want to start developing for it using Unity Engine. Now you have to set-up your Unity development environment. Save the Unity package somewhere in the disk. Import everything and let Unity do its stuff. MORE
The Unity game engine, which powers most of the apps on the Oculus standalone store, now supports the Vulkan graphics API with Oculus Quest and Oculus Go. OpenGL is similar to DirectX up to version 11, but controlled by an open industry consortium and is cross platform. MORE
VR developer Turbo Button released an interface for multiplatform VR development in Unity. Input (handling controllers) is a core focus of the interface. TButt handles everything from basic 3DoF laser pointers to dual 6DoF controllers. A useful feature is that it allows for emulating a 3DoF controller in the Unity editor for more rapid development than pushing a full build to a standalone headset. MORE
I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! It is embedded into Oculus Unity SDK. MORE
These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons. If you are a Unity beginner, I would advise you to watch the video. AppSW Unity prerequisite. MORE
Oculus MRC in Unity – Video Tutorial. I have made for you a video tutorial where I explain everything I learned about Oculus Mixed Reality Capture in Unity, including the complicated problems with XR Interaction Toolkit, URP, and object transparency. MORE
I was porting our Unity game Hit Motion: Reloaded to the new Vive Wave SDK 3.0.2 so that to make it ready for launch on the Vive Focus Plus , when something made me panic: no button on the controllers was working ! How to make controllers’ buttons to work in Unity with Vive Wave SDK 3.0? Because yes, we are in Unity, and that line is referred to the native C++ SDK. How to make the controllers point correctly at menu items in Vive Wave? MORE
From his bedroom in the UK, he decided to make one- he called it SteamVR Unity Toolkit. The toolkit quickly became the most popular Unity VR framework with thousands of developers using it. It had become so popular that during the launch of the Oculus Touch controllers Facebook sent Harvey a Rift and Touch for free in order to add support. Development Unity Engine VR Industry News VR Development VRTK MORE
The latest update to the Oculus Unity Integration adds a feature which should reduce the latency between real world and in-VR controller position by around 10ms, according to Facebook. Unity is the engine powering the majority of VR games. The new feature, which is enabled by default, is called ‘Late Controller Update’ Before this feature, the Oculus system would provide Unity with the controller position at the start of the frame. MORE
Valve released a beta OpenVR package for the Unity game engine’s new XR plugin system. Unity is used to make the majority of VR games. When the Unity 2019.3 Currently, the input system works by mapping specific buttons on a simulated per-controller basis. MORE
Digital artist and animator Chris Bradley has loved driving remote control cars since she was a kid. Bradley took a moment to talk to us more about building realistic RC cars in VR, saying, “ VRChat is based on Unity, which has a great physics engine built-in. MORE
Facebook’s Oculus released a new update to its Unity integration package to make it easier for developers of Rift-only games to port to HTC Vive. What makes modern game engines like Unity so useful for both developers and end users is that they support many platforms with the same project and code — eliminating development time to “port” a game from one platform to the other. Haptics: the same APIs for haptic feedback on Touch now works on HTC controllers. MORE
Meta’s new Avatar SDK is now available for all Unity developers, with Unreal Engine support coming next year. Announced at last year’s Connect , Meta Avatars replaces the legacy Oculus Avatar SDK first launched with the Oculus Touch controllers in late 2016. MORE
Unity Technologies presented their Special Keynote at GDC 2017 in San Francisco on February 28, announcing the release date of Unity 5.6 alongside a bulletin of other updates, including a glimpse of Unity 2017. Digressions aside, this keynote picked up where Unite LA’s host of major announcements left off, indicating a continuation of Unity’s commitment to make their system the most intuitive and user-friendly game engine on the planet. Unity 5.6. MORE
Facebook no longer supports Oculus Go in the latest version of the Oculus Unity & Unreal Integrations. This deprecation means Go isn’t officially supported in v19 of the Unity & Unreal Oculus integrations, and could lead developers to stop updating Go versions. MORE
So let me show you how you can develop an AR app for Oculus Quest 2 using Oculus Passthrough APIs in Unity. In this tutorial, you are going to replicate the fantastic The Unity Cube experience, this time in AR! Open Unity (I’m still on Unity 2019.4 MORE
The Unity game engine released a preview (beta) ‘XR Interaction Tookit’ which handles some core interactions for VR and AR. Like most optional Unity features, the XR Interaction Tookit is downloaded and activated from the Package Manager. MORE
The latest release of MRTK adds official support for Oculus Quest and can now be managed directly in Unity’s package manager. Its main purpose is to enable developers to rapidly build user interfaces which support interactions from hands and/or tracked controllers. MORE
Unity version 2019.2 In 2018 Unity introduced Scriptable Render Pipelines, allowing developers to have greater control over the engine’s rendering. Additionally, Unity’s AR Foundation now has support for face-tracking, 2D image-tracking, 3D object-tracking, and environment probe. The post Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline Now Supports VR appeared first on UploadVR. Development Unity Engine VR Industry News hdrp lwrp unity unity 2019.2 MORE
Oculus Spatial Anchors in Unity: video tutorial. I have made a huge video tutorial on Oculus Spatial Anchors, where you can see me create from scratch an application implementing them in Unity. Let’s start by creating a Unity project. MORE
So to assist those looking to take advantage of this desperate thirst for VR and AR developers, massively popular cross-platform game engine Unity has teamed up with celebrated online learning company Udacity to create their VR Developer Nanodegree Program as well as their all-new Learn ARkit Nanodegree Foundations Program. Learn 360 pre-production and post-production techniques and build an interactive 360 video experience in Unity. MORE
It is a short guide to implement some sort of compatibility between the SteamVR Unity plugin and the Unity XR Interaction Toolkit , that under the new XR Plugin Management in Unity are not working very well together. I personally used Unity 2019.4 Hello everyone! MORE
As the camera panned out, a person could be seen standing next to the avatar, wearing a VR headset and waving controllers through the air. Normcore , their multiplayer networking plugin for Unity, allows for the addition of voice chat-enabled multiplayer VR functionality for games and experiences in minutes. The post Normal VR Technology Turns Any Unity VR/AR App Into A Multiplayer Experience appeared first on VRScout. MORE
Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. Speaking to UploadVR, Unity confirmed that the release will feature everything that’s been demonstrated on-stage at various conferences this year and will arrive as a custom build of Unity 5.4. Unity sees VR development going down this path in the future. MORE
For sure you remember that together with my tutorial on how to develop and submit an application for App Lab , I have actually submitted to App Lab my majestic “The Unity Cube App” , an application with just a cube and some avatar hands (Yes, I’m a troll). MORE
Unity CEO John Riccitiello doesn’t think we’ve yet seen a true consumer launch of a VR or AR headset. Speaking at this month’s TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco, Riccitiello stated that around two-thirds of all VR and AR applications were built inside the Unity engine, though he reasoned that every device on the market today was really a ‘beta’ kit. Unity Engine VR Industry News John Riccitiello unity MORE
The Ghost Howls
DECEMBER 11, 2021
These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons. If you are a Unity beginner, I would advise you to watch the video. AppSW Unity prerequisite.
The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
It is a short guide to implement some sort of compatibility between the SteamVR Unity plugin and the Unity XR Interaction Toolkit , that under the new XR Plugin Management in Unity are not working very well together. I personally used Unity 2019.4 Hello everyone!
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The Ghost Howls
JULY 10, 2021
Oculus MRC in Unity – Video Tutorial. I have made for you a video tutorial where I explain everything I learned about Oculus Mixed Reality Capture in Unity, including the complicated problems with XR Interaction Toolkit, URP, and object transparency.
UploadVR
SEPTEMBER 6, 2019
The latest update to the Oculus Unity Integration adds a feature which should reduce the latency between real world and in-VR controller position by around 10ms, according to Facebook. Unity is the engine powering the majority of VR games. The new feature, which is enabled by default, is called ‘Late Controller Update’ Before this feature, the Oculus system would provide Unity with the controller position at the start of the frame.
UploadVR
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity adds the ability to use Quest’s controller-free hand tracking in the editor. Facebook added experimental controller-free hand tracking for Quest in December.
UploadVR
JANUARY 28, 2020
The Unity game engine, which powers most of the apps on the Oculus standalone store, now supports the Vulkan graphics API with Oculus Quest and Oculus Go. OpenGL is similar to DirectX up to version 11, but controlled by an open industry consortium and is cross platform.
The Ghost Howls
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
” Given my recent experience with Unity developing, I could give myself only a clear answer: “NO” With nowadays Unity tools, it is much easier to make cross-platform content, and with OpenXR this will be even better. Create a Unity project.
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Who needs an old-fashioned controller when you have a perfectly good set of arms and legs? AXIS (Active XR Interface System) is a full-body controller that uses a combination of wireless sensors attached to key points on the body to deliver high-quality motion capture.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 24, 2021
For sure you remember that together with my tutorial on how to develop and submit an application for App Lab , I have actually submitted to App Lab my majestic “The Unity Cube App” , an application with just a cube and some avatar hands (Yes, I’m a troll).
UploadVR
JULY 30, 2019
Unity version 2019.2 In 2018 Unity introduced Scriptable Render Pipelines, allowing developers to have greater control over the engine’s rendering. Additionally, Unity’s AR Foundation now has support for face-tracking, 2D image-tracking, 3D object-tracking, and environment probe. The post Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline Now Supports VR appeared first on UploadVR. Development Unity Engine VR Industry News hdrp lwrp unity unity 2019.2
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. As a Unity developer, I think that it is a very important enabling solution. I downloaded Unity 2019.3.11
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The Ghost Howls
SEPTEMBER 7, 2019
In this article, you may find the answers to all the above questions : I will guide you in developing a little Unity experience for the nReal glasses (the typical grey cube!), How to get started with nReal development (and emulator) in Unity (Video tutorial). It’s a lot of topics: all you need to know to get started with nReal development in Unity … and you can find them in only one video, that you can watch here below! Unity. Finishing configuring Unity.
UploadVR
DECEMBER 19, 2019
The Unity game engine released a preview (beta) ‘XR Interaction Tookit’ which handles some core interactions for VR and AR. Like most optional Unity features, the XR Interaction Tookit is downloaded and activated from the Package Manager.
UploadVR
MAY 4, 2020
Valve released a beta OpenVR package for the Unity game engine’s new XR plugin system. Unity is used to make the majority of VR games. When the Unity 2019.3 Currently, the input system works by mapping specific buttons on a simulated per-controller basis.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 4, 2022
Oculus Spatial Anchors in Unity: video tutorial. I have made a huge video tutorial on Oculus Spatial Anchors, where you can see me create from scratch an application implementing them in Unity. Let’s start by creating a Unity project.
UploadVR
AUGUST 6, 2019
Unity told us they will add the same “later this year” What Is Vulkan? This may have been spurred by the recent release of the Oculus Quest, the first consumer standalone headset with room scale tracking and Touch controllers. Almost all Oculus Quest and Go apps are made with Unity or Unreal Engine. Development Oculus Quest development epic Oculus Go unity Unity Engine Unreal Unreal engine VR Development vulkan
VRScout
JULY 3, 2021
Digital artist and animator Chris Bradley has loved driving remote control cars since she was a kid. Bradley took a moment to talk to us more about building realistic RC cars in VR, saying, “ VRChat is based on Unity, which has a great physics engine built-in.
UploadVR
MARCH 6, 2019
Developers of Oculus Rift games made with the Oculus Unity plugin can now add Windows MR headset support with their existing code. Facebook first added SteamVR support to the Oculus Unity Integration back in November. The documentation includes details of how the Oculus Touch APIs relate to the Windows MR controllers. Oculus Store games still can only have Oculus API support ticked in Unity. Oculus Windows VR facebook oculus Samsung Odyssey+ Unity Engine Windows MR
UploadVR
DECEMBER 14, 2016
Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. Speaking to UploadVR, Unity confirmed that the release will feature everything that’s been demonstrated on-stage at various conferences this year and will arrive as a custom build of Unity 5.4. Unity sees VR development going down this path in the future.
Upload VR
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Meta’s new Avatar SDK is now available for all Unity developers, with Unreal Engine support coming next year. Announced at last year’s Connect , Meta Avatars replaces the legacy Oculus Avatar SDK first launched with the Oculus Touch controllers in late 2016.
The Ghost Howls
MARCH 3, 2018
In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. It was something that I already knew… plus I was really tired because of the hard work done and so I was really going through the text lines not giving much interest, when suddenly I read something like “Mozilla that has released a WebVR exporter for Unity” and suddenly I woke up and my eyes popped out.
UploadVR
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
Facebook’s Oculus released a new update to its Unity integration package to make it easier for developers of Rift-only games to port to HTC Vive. What makes modern game engines like Unity so useful for both developers and end users is that they support many platforms with the same project and code — eliminating development time to “port” a game from one platform to the other. Haptics: the same APIs for haptic feedback on Touch now works on HTC controllers.
The Ghost Howls
MAY 9, 2018
I’m among them: today I’ve made my first builds and so I want to guide you through the first very basic steps in building an app for Oculus Go on Unity , to spare you some little headaches. You have your shiny new gray Oculus Go on your desk and you want to start developing for it using Unity Engine. Now you have to set-up your Unity development environment. Save the Unity package somewhere in the disk. Import everything and let Unity do its stuff.
VRScout
OCTOBER 8, 2017
So to assist those looking to take advantage of this desperate thirst for VR and AR developers, massively popular cross-platform game engine Unity has teamed up with celebrated online learning company Udacity to create their VR Developer Nanodegree Program as well as their all-new Learn ARkit Nanodegree Foundations Program. Learn 360 pre-production and post-production techniques and build an interactive 360 video experience in Unity.
The Ghost Howls
JANUARY 3, 2020
I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! It is embedded into Oculus Unity SDK.
VRScout
MARCH 1, 2017
Unity Technologies presented their Special Keynote at GDC 2017 in San Francisco on February 28, announcing the release date of Unity 5.6 alongside a bulletin of other updates, including a glimpse of Unity 2017. Digressions aside, this keynote picked up where Unite LA’s host of major announcements left off, indicating a continuation of Unity’s commitment to make their system the most intuitive and user-friendly game engine on the planet. Unity 5.6.
Upload VR
AUGUST 7, 2020
Facebook no longer supports Oculus Go in the latest version of the Oculus Unity & Unreal Integrations. This deprecation means Go isn’t officially supported in v19 of the Unity & Unreal Oculus integrations, and could lead developers to stop updating Go versions.
The Ghost Howls
APRIL 11, 2019
I was porting our Unity game Hit Motion: Reloaded to the new Vive Wave SDK 3.0.2 so that to make it ready for launch on the Vive Focus Plus , when something made me panic: no button on the controllers was working ! How to make controllers’ buttons to work in Unity with Vive Wave SDK 3.0? Because yes, we are in Unity, and that line is referred to the native C++ SDK. How to make the controllers point correctly at menu items in Vive Wave?
Upload VR
OCTOBER 5, 2020
The latest release of MRTK adds official support for Oculus Quest and can now be managed directly in Unity’s package manager. Its main purpose is to enable developers to rapidly build user interfaces which support interactions from hands and/or tracked controllers.
UploadVR
APRIL 19, 2019
From his bedroom in the UK, he decided to make one- he called it SteamVR Unity Toolkit. The toolkit quickly became the most popular Unity VR framework with thousands of developers using it. It had become so popular that during the launch of the Oculus Touch controllers Facebook sent Harvey a Rift and Touch for free in order to add support. Development Unity Engine VR Industry News VR Development VRTK
VRScout
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
As the camera panned out, a person could be seen standing next to the avatar, wearing a VR headset and waving controllers through the air. Normcore , their multiplayer networking plugin for Unity, allows for the addition of voice chat-enabled multiplayer VR functionality for games and experiences in minutes. The post Normal VR Technology Turns Any Unity VR/AR App Into A Multiplayer Experience appeared first on VRScout.
UploadVR
AUGUST 19, 2018
Unity Technologies has been known among developers as the maker of a “game engine” since the tool debuted in 2005. That’s because experiences created with Unity are more often than not films, interactive movies, advertisements, or augmented reality and virtual reality content. Disney Television Animation said last week it is making the Baymax Dreams series, a trio of short films in the Big Hero 6 world, as an animated series using the Unity engine. Image Credit: Unity.
UploadVR
NOVEMBER 1, 2016
We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Speaking at the 2016 Unite conference in Los Angeles, Principal Engineer of Unity Labs Amir Ebrahimi confirmed that the in-VR editor would be launching in December and Principal Designer Timoni West showed it off in action. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. Finally, the pair debuted Tools, featuring VR-specific extensions for Unity.
UploadVR
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
Unity launched its Editor VR service in an alpha form late last year, and the engine-maker appears to be pretty happy with the results so far. Editor VR is an in-VR section of the larger Unity engine that lets you edit virtual scenes in games and more. The Unity Labs team is developing an XR Foundation Toolkit to help #VR creators design, prototype & test experiences. Unity (@unity3d) February 28, 2017. Tagged with: Editor VR , unity , XRFT.
UploadVR
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
Unity CEO John Riccitiello doesn’t think we’ve yet seen a true consumer launch of a VR or AR headset. Speaking at this month’s TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco, Riccitiello stated that around two-thirds of all VR and AR applications were built inside the Unity engine, though he reasoned that every device on the market today was really a ‘beta’ kit. Unity Engine VR Industry News John Riccitiello unity
UploadVR
DECEMBER 31, 2018
VR developer Turbo Button released an interface for multiplatform VR development in Unity. Input (handling controllers) is a core focus of the interface. TButt handles everything from basic 3DoF laser pointers to dual 6DoF controllers. A useful feature is that it allows for emulating a 3DoF controller in the Unity editor for more rapid development than pushing a full build to a standalone headset.
Road to VR
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR , which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the next couple of months. SEE ALSO Unity's VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God. SEE ALSO Unity Raises $181 Million Series C in Anticipation of VR/AR Growth.
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