The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

These are the days of the Venice Film Festival, one of the most important movie festivals in the world. All of this of course made together with the Venice Biennale (thank you Michel Reilhac and Liz Rosenthal) and the VRChat team (Jason, you’re the best). Of course everything for $1000. Venice VR Expanded.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. If you already have an Oculus Rift and Touch controllers, you can join the early open beta and dial in your parents via Facebook Messenger. TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL LOVES VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. Since hands-tracking is being so successful, Oculus has made two things to help developers. PSVR game Ghost Giant has come to Oculus Quest on February, 20th. It is very interesting.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

I’m not sure what I was expecting to experience when I sat down to try Zero Days VR in Sundance’s VR Palace, but when I took the Oculus off, my mind was spinning. The documentary was based on a feature-length film by Alex Gibney, called Zero Days as well. This happened around 2010.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It seems that the filming of Matrix 4 has just started in San Francisco and people on social media are already getting crazy. More info (News on filming) More info (A shot recorded by a fan). Add custom environments to your Oculus Quest… if you can. The problem is: it seems that in latest update Oculus has removed this feature….

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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. The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. So, here you are what I did today.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Of course, I could simply wait for the viewer to look in the “right” place, but then I must sacrifice other aspects of storytelling, like rhythm and pacing. Audiences can choose how they want to experience the story: as an active participant in VR, or as a film goer, where they can simply sit back and let the story wash over them.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I’m honestly not that convinced by this feature , having seen similar features for PCVR headsets (Oculus Rift Home, SteamVR Home) never gaining ground, but maybe with Quest will be different. Of course, take these numbers with a grain of salt , because analysts’ predictions are always prone to errors.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Tyler left a comfortable job at renowned video game studio Double Fine Productions to pursue a career making music videos and short films in New York City, but the grim reality of that path became abundantly clear rather quickly. “My I was really pumped to work on these really cool short films and music videos that I had seen.

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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?). Many Rift users reported problems in using the Oculus Store on PC this week , in particular in downloading games.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The pages have been already removed, of course, so this makes us think that they had been published by error. A market where Oculus has almost no earning s from the hardware sales, though, so it’s a weird situation. The “Cablegate” is hurting Oculus Rift CV1 owners. One of these pages indicates a shipping date of October, 4th.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 15, 2015

This year marks the 120th anniversary of L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat , an early piece of silent film footage that astonished (and by some accounts even terrified) its audience. Every Frame a Painting , an online film analysis series, dives into some of these techniques. Storytelling in the fourth dimension.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

This year’s Venice Expanded set out to do just that, scouring the metaverse for the most exciting and important works; a Hadron Collider of film, gaming, and social experiences, brought together in a single festival. The layout and logistics for the festival are enough to make any Unity developer break out in a cold sweat.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

People knew it was not possible to do that: the film resonated because only in a simulation, only in virtual reality you can cheat time and space. ” The early bullet-time effect was something a bit like quick-time-VR, but a much higher level… you know, it is impossible to cheat time and space with a camera.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2018

On one hand, they are able to distribute their content cross platforms (including Oculus Go , Oculus Rift, Gear VR , Steam VR, HTC Vive, MIVR, Android, iOS etc) just with one single click on VeeR; on the other hand, we have developed the free web-based interactive experience creation tool VeeR Experience back in August 2018.

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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). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In virtual reality, you have to do this reprojection, Oculus calls it timewarp, and that means that your video card and your computer has to be running at a really high frame rate to correct for your head motion and we’ve rolled that all into the headset. That’s where I got started with augmented reality. The Vive Wands.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. High-quality models are the best choice for visually compelling industries, like film and video production, advertisement. There is a market for every type of model. Well, what can I say?

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. You, Alex, our VP of marketing.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. You, Alex, our VP of marketing.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 78

XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And then, of course, nobody– like myself, nobody reads the manual. And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And then, of course, nobody– like myself, nobody reads the manual. And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And then, of course, nobody-- like myself, nobody reads the manual. And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and-- including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Of course, we've always had the JavaScript editor on there and you can wrap code in five different languages into this. Sergei [Sachkov], our VP of Research and Development and of course, Octavio, our creative director. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. You, Alex, our VP of marketing.

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Machine Learning Education Apple Technology 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But it's so important that it's done in a tasteful and high-quality way.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest has been the rockstar of this event. Specifications. There is also a 3.5mm jack for earphones.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). Oculus is updating its Rift S and Quest offering. This has been an interesting week of news and updates for Oculus’s flagship devices. And finally, Oculus has deployed a new update to remove the annoying “Static Flash” bug that was taunting Rift S users.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 24, 2021

HTC is a very practical company and doesn’t give you the pleasant unboxing experience typical of Oculus. You can also clearly spot the 4 tracking cameras in positions that are similar to the ones of the Oculus Quest. Of course, when you want to wear the headset, the final adjustments have always to be made by rotating the knob.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

But over the course of a year, I can’t even imagine what the savings are for almost any-sized company. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

But over the course of a year, I can’t even imagine what the savings are for almost any-sized company. Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Amazon Sumerian.

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Tips Training Augmented Reality Exercises 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

But over the course of a year, I can't even imagine what the savings are for almost any-sized company. Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. You can dive in and start building for VR with almost a $300 laptop and an Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2020

Looxid Link is an accessory for VR headsets, compatible with HTC Vive/Vive Pro and Oculus Rift S, that enables brainwaves reading. Let me be honest: none of these demos is particularly exciting: they are short experiences, usually also very rough (some seem to be made using assets from the Unity Asset Store). What is Looxid Link?

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