Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you can essentially create a video that places you straight in the action—one that better communicates the immersion of a VR game than a simple first-person screen capture. image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Developers wasted no time creating unique experiences that effectively showcased the potential of Oculus Passthrough technology. Facebook designed Passthrough, Spatial Anchors, and Scene Understanding so that developers can create mixed reality experiences without the use of raw images or videos from your Quest sensors.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. Vive Hand Tracking SDK video review. Checking its dedicated documentation again after more than one year, I’ve noticed that now the library has reached the 0.1.0

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. You can watch me unboxing it in this Youtube video. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2022

Fasten your seatbelts because today I’m going to publish for you an amazing new tutorial, this time on Oculus Spatial Anchors, a new experimental feature added to the Oculus SDK. Oculus Spatial Anchors in Unity: video tutorial. You can find the video here below: Yes, it took me a lot to shoot this video.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space. With an Oculus headset, users can jump into a virtual meeting space and access a range of unique capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2023

If the application has multiplayer components, then it has to implement a User Reporting Tool easily accessible via the Oculus button on the right controller. Because the documentation talks about the Oculus button, but it doesn’t explain what happens when the button gets pressed.

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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%. These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons.

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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. Pico G2 4K Enterprise video review. User Interface.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico has been a very smart company, and all these years it has been able to evolve from the mediocre Pico Neo 1, to the interesting Pico Neo 2, to arrive at the Pico Neo 3, that on paper, looks like a Chinese version of the Oculus Quest 2 , and it seems to have all the features to compete properly with this device. Full unboxing video!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

For example, captions are provided on videos for people in the deaf and hard of hearing communities as well as those who may not be native speakers of a language. Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. But what does exactly “accessibility” mean? You can find it here: [link].

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

An internal email reportedly sent by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to senior executives offers a glimpse into the strategic thinking behind the company’s feet-first leap into XR following the 2014 acquisition of Oculus. Facebook turned heads across the tech industry and beyond when it acquired Oculus for some $2 billion in 2014.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove video review. This post contains a very detailed review of the SenseGlove force-feedback gloves, but if you don’t like walls of texts and prefer a more agile video review, then I got you covered! Have fun watching this review video. What is SenseGlove? This should be fixed in future iterations of the device.

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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. So I imagine a Quest 2 where you can avoid having a Facebook account, but you can’t use the Oculus Store, or all the most important apps and games , and so you are de facto forced to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 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. In a recent video , we shared our first impressions and showed footage recorded in the headset. I imagined this must have been like when Oculus just started out.

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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Pico Neo 3 Link Video Review. For the ones of you that don’t like walls of text, I have prepared an extensive video review of the unit, where I talk about all its features, and I compare them with the ones of the Quest 2 and the Pico Neo 3 Pro. I found tracking to be good, but it is not as amazing as Oculus Insight, though.

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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. The fact that this was not the best commercial made by Meta is visible also on Youtube, where only 2% of the viewers have put a like on the video.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

This year, the Venice VR event, called Venice VR Expanded, is going to be held mostly in VR , with the participating movies and artworks that are being distributed through Viveport and Oculus TV and the event being hold in VRChat with a world built by VRrOOm. Unity editor scripts are very useful to produce some automation for you.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. It talked about SIFT features and how the inventor used this kind of features to add 3D model of rabbits and teapots on top of a desk and over the hand in a camera video stream. So many memories, guys.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

This year we saw the launch of: Oculus Go ; Lenovo Mirage Solo ; Vive Focus ; Pico Neo / G2 ; S hadow VR; and the announcement of the Oculus Quest. Oculus has been the king of standalones , because it is selling devices at very low prices that offer great content. Oculus Quest and controllers inside a stand.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 2, 2021

In this post, I’m going to tell you how to implement hands tracking in Unity for the Vive Focus 3, how to enable it on the device, and what are its performances, also compared to the ones of the Oculus Quest 2. All you need to know on Hand Tracking on Vive Focus 3 – Video. Hands Tracking on the Vive Focus 3.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 23, 2016

You can see some of the examples of how this works in practice in the demonstration video above. Dexta are now ready to show the latest version of the Dexmo, which they believe now represents the core of what they intend to offer in a final device; this latest prototype can be seen in the images and videos in this article.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

This also let me write various articles about it, like this one on Vive Focus streaming , this one on Focus instant preview for Unity or this other one highlighting the updates of the v2 runtime. I can’t show you a personal unboxing video for this reason. Oculus Go). The headset. The Vive Focus headset is a bit big.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

NReal Light Devkit Video Review. For everyone of you that doesn’t want to read thousands of words, I’ve prepared a very nice review video about this device. The unit runs over a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Chipset , offering so more horsepower than the Oculus Quest. Are you ready? Nreal glasses and the Oreo.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

Featuring passthrough capability , new collision assets , and out-of-the-box Oculus Rift VR/AR support, getnamo’s plugin exposes the entire Leap Motion API to Unreal’s Blueprint system. Oculus Rift VR/AR support is easily accessible, as the plugin handles all the necessary transforms. This is the video where it gets really cool.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2019

One of the most discussed themes in the VR communities nowadays is the Oculus Quest content curation. SideQuest is a tool that let you install and uninstall unapproved apps on your Quest easily, and can be also be used to move your Oculus Go apps to your Quest. Aren’t I cool? (If Have a nice time watching it.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This price is ridiculously low: it is less than what a nreal glass costs, a lot less of a HoloLens 2 and perfectly in line also with the prices of VR headsets like Oculus Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3. Lone Echo 2 will be available for Rift S (yeah, the forgotten headset) and Quest + Link from October, 12th for $40 as an exclusive Oculus release.

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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”. we can’t use OpenVR and choose to execute directly in Oculus runtime); that will be dictated by the API/SDK we are using instead. .:

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

My silly app The Unity Cube is now in 20th place among the best-rated applications on App Lab ! Finally, Facebook has released passthrough APIs for Quest 2, so you can create AR/MR apps for the Oculus standalone headset. Space Pirate Arena to come soon to Oculus Quest. Absolutely not bad for an app… that is just a cube.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Are they on AR?

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Are they on AR?

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Nothing works right — it’s easier to have a phone call or video conference. So far, none have seen the kind of explosive growth that Zoom has seen in video conferencing, but as the pandemic drags on, that might change. It also allows the import of PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

Current gaming engines like Unity and Unreal are not designed for this. 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. He made me watch a video, and we both could see it in a synchronized way.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Brand Ambassadors.

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