Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2021

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. This time it’s designed for ease of use; it’s wireless and is compatible with standalone VR headsets like the Oculus Quest, Pico Neo, and Vive Focus. Cas & Chary Present.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

I removed the Main Camera from the scene, then I selected the menu voice Oculus-> Tools -> Building Blocks and added the camera rig and the passthrough to my project. Heading to the Passthrough API documentation , you can discover that there are many tools to manipulate passthrough. But how could I show something meaningful?

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Road to VR

JUNE 16, 2020

The update also includes improvements to the Workshop tools, including more example content for animation, audio, and shaders, along with new documentation. SEE ALSO 'Half-Life: Alyx' Update Adds Impressive Liquid Simulation, Foundation for Mod Scripting. Replacing Sounds. Custom Pistols. Hotspot Texturing.

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ARPost

MAY 24, 2021

Available through both Oculus Store , Steam , and Viveport for PCVR headsets, the experience has received mixed reviews, but if you look closely at the comments, most of the negative feedback revolves around the fact that the experience is incredibly short – 14 minutes from start to finish and that includes the credits.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

If you remember well, this platform is based on a modified version of the Snapdragon 865 (3 generations after the 835 of the Oculus Quest) and supports features like eye tracking, high-quality passthrough AR, and 5G. Oculus Connect is starting and a new Facebook AR/VR logo appears. Other relevant news. But let’s see in a few days….

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

With Valve’s new input system, dubbed SteamVR Skeletal Input, the company is essentially giving app developers a ready-made set of lifelike skeleton-based hand animations that support a number of existent controllers: Vive controllers, Oculus Touch, and the new Knuckles EV2 design.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

While Oculus has decided to discontinue the Oculus Go and abandon completely the 3DOF sector, Chinese vendor Pico has decided to double down on 3DOF offering two new models , the Pico G2 4K S and the Pico G2 4K Enterprise , that are two improvements of the original Pico G2 4K. Simulation view of the VR application inside Unity.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

HTC recently released a document ( PDF ) detailing how its upcoming Tracker is supposed to function. The Tracker holds enormous promise for extending 1:1 physical simulation to a wide range of activities. An example we saw at CES was a firehose , with the Vive Tracker attached to the end for a realistic firefighting experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC. A vague rumor spread on Reddit this week: Oculus Del Mar could be a 4K headset, and it could have been launched at GDC. Furthermore, the documentation talked about “Early access to dev” for Del Mar, and this means that the project is still at the alpha stage.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. The heavy use of physics simulation in the game is something you don’t see often in VR games because it’s very challenging to do right. Cas & Chary Present.

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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. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training.

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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. With no luck.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Body tracking leaked from Quest SDK documentation. A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. CPR Simulator. PSVR 2, Apple XR visor) and games, will be fundamental to understand its evolution and its potential. Other relevant news.

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Road to VR

MARCH 29, 2017

Here’s a number of others that have caught our eye so far from NASA, Oculus, Pixvana, OTOY, NVIDIA and Stanford’s Computational Imaging Lab. Insights From the First Year of VR – Jason Holtman, Oculus. Patney’s talk is just one of several deep technical talks that we’re looking forward to at GTC 2017.

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Tech Trends VR

JUNE 11, 2018

His inspiration, he told me, was a well-documented phenomenon called the Overview Effect, which is that first moment an astronaut realizes their place in an infinite universe, something they only achieve through direct observation.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

They’re the company behind Dexmo, a robotic exoskeleton glove that provides force feedback to simulate the act of touching objects in virtual reality. Gu: Dexmo is very developer friendly and well documented. With our SDK, libDexmo, any developer should be able to pick up Dexmo in a few hours after reading the documents.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. Thanks to Application SpaceWarp, which can be shortened in AppSW, your Oculus Quest 2 experience can run at half the frame rate without impacting how the user sees it.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

Finally, Facebook has released passthrough APIs for Quest 2, so you can create AR/MR apps for the Oculus standalone headset. NVIDIA is keeping working on Omniverse, its solution that is a bit a collaboration tool, a bit a simulator, a bit an engine. Space Pirate Arena to come soon to Oculus Quest. AR/VR developers, rejoice!

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Acadicus is a tool for medical simulations and for training, and works both with or without a virtual reality headset. The Microsoft-owned company is now compatible with Vive, Oculus headsets, and Gear VR, and users can also access it without a VR headset via a desktop app. We will update the story if they get back to us.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

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. Using my Quest 2, I was able to go to a certain website with the Oculus browser and then magically I found myself in a pretty crude 3D world. Sean guided me to different spaces.

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Road to VR

JULY 7, 2020

The Oculus Quest has been my daily driver for standalone VR ever since its release. Cas and Chary VR is a YouTube channel hosted by Netherland-based duo Casandra Vuong and Chary Keijzer who have been documenting their VR journeys since 2016. The Oculus Quest can be front heavy for many. Cas & Chary Present.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

The headset came out last year , starts at $800, and is hands-down the best VR headset I’ve used to so far, and that includes various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, the Microsoft Hololens, the original HTC Vive, Oculus Go, and dozens of different smartphone-based headsets. VIVE Focus Plus. Image courtesy HTC Vive.).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 5, 2016

After spending over a week putting the Oculus Rift with Touch through its paces, and re-testing many aspects of the HTC Vive itself, I’ve come away a more conditioned, sore, and seasoned gamer than I was previously. For reference, here is our original Oculus Rift review , HTC Vive review , and Oculus Touch controllers review.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2022

From the document, it is possible to find some interesting info: The device is dubbed Pico 4. Let me quote Upload VR: The executives say the average number of Oculus friends per account was 0.5 Remember that before releasing an electronic device in the US, the producing company has to file a report to FCC to guarantee its safety.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2017

While practically all driving simulators can be played with a gamepad, the experience is transformed by using dedicated input devices. SEE ALSO Top 5 VR Racing Sims for Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. The two leading virtual reality headsets for PC—the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift —both have fairly wide-ranging support for VR racing sims.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR. Being in a simulation has its benefits.

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TechCrunch VR

MAY 31, 2023

Morton Helig’s 1962 patent describes a system that delivers a realistic simulation for potential work and military training purposes: There are increasing demands today for ways and means to teach and train individuals without actually subjecting the individuals to possible hazards of particular situations.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Some days ago, the Chinese government has released a document that states how China really wants to commit to VR , how wants the ecosystem to grow well and fast and how also wants to lead the world for what concerns virtual reality. The document talks about the standardization of VR hardware, software, and testing. – VR+ health.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Considering MMOs require a healthy player base to function, MetaWorld is hoping to invigorate its procedurally generated 10,000 square mile digital wilderness with a wide swath of the VR headset-owning market, including cross-play support for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PSVR, and Gear VR. image courtesy MetaWorld.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

The HoloLens, for example, is Microsoft’s AR platform while the HP and Acer headsets are their VR platform (although they refer to them as “Immersive” headsets in documentation, but whatever, they’re clearly VR headsets.) No cameras, no trackers, no Steam, no Oculus Home. It’s just Windows in VR.

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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. I’ve accidentally skipped to a different part of a movie while opening a can to drink, or selected random text in a document while my hands were just resting on the keyboard.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2019

And so I've been documenting his experience and his family's experience in VR, because it is the empathy platform and it's the medium that many people will see things different. They never released it on YouTube or anything, but we were able to see this training simulation room that they have, for terrorist threat situations.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 12, 2015

One of the biggest barriers to VR is simulator sickness, which is caused by a conflict between different sensory inputs (i.e. Oculus’ best practices guide covers this issue in great detail. In this section, we’ll use the Oculus Rift Unity plugin as an example, but this approach can be applied to other headsets as well.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Google , Oculus and Samsung Internet also published their WebVR and open-source developer resources. . On the browser front, browser vendors are developing or enhancing their browsers to make them VR-friendly: there’s Chrome for Android, Firefox Nightly, Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge, Chromium, Servo and Oculus Carmel.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Becoming a licensee gave me access to the SteamVR Tracking HDK and Steam SDK, which also contained the original 2016 SteamVR training course documentation which was run for a couple of years in conjunction with Valve partner Synapse in Seattle. It had no sensors, just a simulated sensor bar in front of the handgrip. Image by Rob Cole).

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