The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 3, 2017

A toned-down version of the more intricate ZED long-range depth camera, the Mini attaches securely to the front of an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset and captures the real world in stereoscopic video via the camera’s two “eyes.” The device then maps the captured data in real-time in order to track its position within the 3D space.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

Axon Park has begun a strategic partnership with VR First with the Unreal Engine VR Masterclass being the first endeavour. They’ve brought on board Survios CTO and Co-Founder Alex Silkin to teach the course who will also be supported by the Unreal Engine Team.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

While similar to the Asynchronous Spacewarp tech available to Oculus PC apps, Meta says Application Spacewarp will produce even better results. Developers also have full control over the key data the goes into Application Spacewarp: depth-buffers and motion vectors. Application Spacewarp Availability.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This headset is basically identical to the Pico 4, but it features a more cleanable headset, additional sensors for eye and face tracking, plus enterprise services (dedicated assistance, device management, data security certifications, etc…) and an enterprise runtime (which offers kiosk mode, for instance). Meta is under heavy pressure.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

The 3D models have not been created by hand, but by an AI mixing satellite data with Street View pictures. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. ” He expects Meta to continue pushing the narrative for VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Oculus brands disappears. And most importantly, the Oculus brand will disappear and will just become Meta : Oculus Quest will be the Meta Quest (yes, it sounds terribly, I know). He says that “We all have a strong attachment to the Oculus brand, and this was a very difficult decision to make”, but I don’t believe him at all.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly. There’s full SDK access, support for integrating payment systems, and data statistics.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Moreover, the firm’s Facebook lineage makes critics sceptical of Meta’s mission due to the firm’s previous user data controversies. Moreover, trusted gaming engines like Unreal and Unity are gaining new usage as RT3D engines. Although, in reality, these technologies co-exist.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All these data together make me a bit skeptical about the capabilities of this company: developing such kind of a high-quality headset requires a lot of expertise, while the company is very small and features no known expert in the field. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

In this first post we will be describing what OpenVR is, what it may be useful for and finally, we will go through a little OpenVR application to demo some of the core functionality of the API in what respects to interacting with a VR system (get connected devices, get tracking data, etc). You may be saying “Come on!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 30, 2016

RPG Maker also tops the list of simpler game creation tools, as well as Twine for interactive fiction, All of these programs are viewed as a more approachable way of getting into game development as opposed to the more complex programming required for engines such as Unity and Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

This means that while you have the Quest on, your microphone data will be always listened by the device, and you can imagine my profound happiness in knowing this. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. It states, among other things, that “The company used its data advantage to create superior market intelligence to identify nascent competitive threats and then acquire, copy, or kill these firms”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Let’s say that talking about a device the users put directly on their faces when your company is being challenged about the data it collects wouldn’t have been the smartest of the decisions. The new name containing the word “Oculus” means that the original name of the VR company is not completely going away.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

It is our live-action world recorded as data and then all that data processed into a volume. These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Manus VR , the company which makes enterprise-grade data gloves, is almost ready to release its solution to this challenge, Manus Polygon. Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. And are also good for data harvesting cough cough cough. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. Facebook, owners of VR giant Oculus, held their online alternative to GDC over three days last month. Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2020

New Oculus Venues gives us a glimpse of Facebook Horizon. Without previous notice, Facebook has started rolling out a new version of Oculus Venues, for now available only to selected beta users. After having read this post, I think that people at Unity and Unreal Engine should do something to fix this issue.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2019

I haven’t managed to talk about it until now because of the posts I had to publish for Oculus Connect 6 , but now that the hype for the Oculus Link is over, it’s time for me to inform you about this incredible news, with some exclusive photos and videos that you won’t find in other articles!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Zuck also didn’t address much the theme of privacy and how much data harvesting in VR could be dangerous. Probably the sentence “five years from now people will primarily think about us as a company harvesting data on the metaverse, rather than doing it on mobile phones” wouldn’t have sounded much sexy, so he avoided speaking about this.

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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. Copy-pasting a message from Cognitive 3D: We are Cognitive3D, a spatial analytics platform built specifically for collecting, measuring and understanding user behavior data from 3D environments.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Learnings Of Early Access From ‘Raw Data’ When? Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.),

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to do the coding.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Connecting your client side app to some API to show dynamic data using JSON Parsing techniques. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. This course from the University of Michigan focuses mainly on developing XR apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal — Developing AR/VR/MR/XR Apps with WebXR, Unity & Unreal Skill 5?

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

As part of our 3D Jam spotlight series, here are 17 utility demos that let you reach into a sea of data and extract its insights, explore a CAD prototype before committing it to a 3D printer, meet with people from around the world, and more. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Build Chinese.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. “The beauty of our PPT system and the new plug-ins is that they take the orientation data from the game engine.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

The group has spent the better part of a decade collecting and cataloging an obscene amount of visual data from all over the planet. There are around 175 cities with full, 3D data, and over 600 ‘urban cores’ as well.” This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth.

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