The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. More info (How Puzzling Places was ported to the Apple Vision Pro) New apps get released to the Vision Pro every week : Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator have been announced for it (I teased this on my blog a few weeks ago).

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JANUARY 6, 2023

A leading Unity 3d game development services provider explained that gaming is the biggest driver of VR and it will certainly continue in the near future. Facebook and Rising Metaverse Technology Facebook acquired a virtual reality development company called Oculus, which included the Oculus Rift. with virtual reality?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

The great news is that SenseGlove has been so kind as to send me a review unit some days ago, and of course I’ve made many extensive tests so that to write a detailed review for you! Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. Applications.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. It’s an effective solution to simulate real writing. Every year, the Oculus Connect, later (sadly) renamed as Facebook Connect, is the biggest event about XR from Facebook. Other relevant news.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2020

The anxiety coming from this question is one of the reasons why I jump into learning Unity 3D and C# instead of learning Javascript. And after taking basic Oculus Quest development course, learning about WebXR, and trying new titles on SideQuest, I thought through this question again with a bigger picture in mind.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

And of course this is all much more likely to happen in the most inconvenient and crucial moments of a demo or experience. Dynamically mapping rich features of input gestures to properties of physics-based simulation made the interface controllable in most cases.

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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. Specifications Of course, it would be lying to say that they are identical.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Currently, the gold standard for BLSD learning is instructor-led courses. However, they are time-consuming, and they are costly because you have to pay the experts and rent a room for the lectures, and learners have to travel to the course location and spend a whole day there. And this is what inspired us in developing Holo-BLSD.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. Very Silently, Oculus has changed the specifications of Oculus Link , which now doesn’t require anymore a USB 3.0 port and cable.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. A total of 43 persons (39 passengers and 4 cabin crew) participated in the tests in KLM’s motion base cabin simulator. He of course was a prerecord and did not reply. No headphones were used.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. But of course we can put legs on other people, that you can see, and it doesn’t bother you at all. These equations power all full-body VR avatars in apps today.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

Huge Immersive Virtual Environment (HIVE) of Miami University is a 1,000 square meters virtual reality environment, and is used for the university’s research work such as spatial cognition and medical training simulations in nursing programs. The university is now using Unity heavily. I’m anxious to see how that plays out.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

And once you decide to sell a premium product, of course, the price becomes super-high and unaffordable for all normal people. Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. 72 Hz mode : the headset can run not only at 60 Hz but also at 72 Hz.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And that’s ok, it is still a new technology and it has already made big steps forward (I remember all the computer crashes I had at the Oculus DK 2 times!), Recently I had a big issue with my VR controllers in SteamVR (both with Oculus and Vive) and so I’m writing this post to try to help you in solving it.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. And of course, something about either GTA San Andreas or Assassin’s Creed VR would be much appreciated. A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. Inside this growing VR market, the headset that is selling the most is the Oculus Quest 2. billion in content revenue by 2025?—?

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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Facebook said that this growth has been mostly due to the sales of Oculus Quest. Admitting that Oculus Quest is the only responsible for this big growth from last year (just an assumption, I want to be clear), we obtain that the sales of Quest for Q3 account for $81M. Oculus Quest may have an assistant soon.

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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. CPR Simulator. CPR Simulator is an application available on App Lab meant to teach CPR (CardioPulmonary Resuscitation) through VR in an easy and user-friendly way. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

The Oculus Quest 2 continues its march towards mainstream adoption. It wouldn’t be a normal week without some news about Facebook and/or the Oculus Quest. The first one is that the Quest 2 has now sold in some months more than all the other Oculus headsets (with the exclusion of Gear VR) combined in all these years.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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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

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 22, 2015

Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Charles ( @cwan2011 ) is a software developer experienced in both iOS and Unity game development. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Bad Dreams.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI. They see the value. Affordable.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators — big aircraft simulators, etc. But obviously these people couldn’t afford a $50-million simulator. So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI. They see the value. Affordable.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2022

This is, of course, a problem, because we want virtual worlds that can have city-scale, but this is hard if you can see a maximum of 50 people at a time. It is so not possible for instance to simulate a virtual stadium with 10,000 people in, with you seeing all the other people you have around you. Some open worlds (e.g.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dan: In my past, I used to work with simulators -- big aircraft simulators, etc. -- and I got really excited about seeing the effect it has on pilots and soldiers, and I always thought that it would be useful to do the same, but for normal people, nurses, etc. But obviously these people couldn't afford a $50-million simulator.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

monthly connected headsets only on Steam (so this doesn’t consider Oculus Store users and PSVR users), and t he year-over-year growth is +75%. He said that only on Christmas day, people spent $5M on the Oculus Store , and we can expect that most of this money was spent on Quest. Image by Oculus). There is not enough market yet.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 4, 2021

I know that you’re big fans of my unboxing videos, and of course, I have one also for NextMind. Of course, if you want to use it together with a VR headset, you have to own a VR-ready PC. This means that at the moment you can not use NextMind with the Oculus Quest standalone (you can use it with Quest + Link, of course).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Some weeks ago, Meta announced that it was going to remove the name “Oculus” from almost all its products and services to substitute it with “Meta”. This week we had an important step in that direction, with the historical “Oculus” account on Twitter being rebranded to “MetaQuestVR”.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Florian: Sure, of course. Florian: The use case of BASF, BASF is doing a lot of stuff, doing simulation things on AR, engineering things on AR and VR. So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something= Florian: Yeah. Florian: [laughs] Without ISAR, of course not. You have ISAR.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Florian: Sure, of course. Florian: The use case of BASF, BASF is doing a lot of stuff, doing simulation things on AR, engineering things on AR and VR. So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something=. Florian: [laughs] Without ISAR, of course not. And I'm really excited.

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