The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Some people wondered if the avatar moved in realtime with the real Alex, but the answer is no, of course, he was pre-recorded. Of course, there is news on Quest also from this week. Sony announces new games for PSVR. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

The team had their interest in VR piqued around 2012, at an internal conference for Sony developers. An early prototype of PlayStation VR, codenamed Project Morpheus | Image courtesy Sony. Was there a temptation to jump into engines such as Unity or Unreal to jumpstart development? Was that about par for a play through?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

As a spectator, I was able to teleport around the golf course and view the action from wherever I decided to point my headset. Todd Hooper: We have an SDK for Unity and Unreal 4. We are Sony partner and will be talking more about Sony later. Road to VR: How does a developer make a game work with VREAL?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. The device is, of course, an enterprise one (the vest costs around $500), but the company aims at releasing a more affordable enthusiast version before the end of the year. Then we’ll follow how the situation will evolve.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. But that’s just how Unity works, and this post isn’t about Unity, so let’s move on. You may be saying “Come on!

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Of course, all of this holds only on the technical side: if Oculus for instance wants to prevent the applications on the Oculus Store to work with Vive, it can anyway block it. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

This week we had two bad news related to the Covid-19: Valve has reassured that the Index will get back in stock before the launch of Alyx, but due to the virus, the amount of devices available will be much less than they hoped for; Sony and Facebook have pulled out from GDC. I’ve already applied, of course. It is very interesting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

BigscreenVR has partnered with many of the major movie studios including Paramount Pictures and Funimation (Sony Pictures). Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. While at Zynga, he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. 14- Kai Liang.

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