AR Insider

JULY 1, 2020

Learn how industrial giant ABB is using Unity and augmented reality to transform field maintenance procedures into a completely paperless process. Kielar, to walk us through how they used Unity to develop a new digital field operator system. In the video above, notice how the user controls the visibility of the menu with a gesture.

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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

MARCH 18, 2021

Vive Hand Tracking SDK video review. I’ve made a nice Youtube video with me saying random stuff and exploring the Vive Hand Tracking SDK at first in Unity and then in action using my hands in VR. Vive Hand Tracking Unity SDK. With all those buttons and fields, you can simulate two hands inside Unity (Image by HTC).

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2023

Starting next month, anyone who uses Unity’s authoring tools to create 3D games and apps will be able to bring their creations to Apple Vision Pro. Using Apple Vision Pro, manufacturers can easily create and manage interactive 3D content—such as videos, animations, and illustrations—across their entire product line.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

My gameplay video of First Hand. The Unity project. The Unity project of First Hand is available inside this GitHub repo. Since the Interaction SDK can be quite tricky, my suggestion is to read its documentation first, and only after check out the sample. Or to have a look at the sample while reading the documentation.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

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. The Unity Library, available early next year, will come with a set of ready to use, interaction components like grab, poke, target, and select.

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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. The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022?

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The MLTK, available now for developers working in Unity , offers up a range of pre-built tools which take some of the heavy lifting out of building AR apps for the Magic Leap headset. Here’s a look at what’s in the MRTK, with short example videos from Magic Leap: ControlPointer. SurfaceDetails. ControlInput. RuntimeConsole.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

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. Application SpaceWarp on Quest 2 – A Video with all you need to know. If you like videos, take a comfortable seat and enjoy it.

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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? The first step is to educate yourself.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

We all like to shoot videos and screenshots of the VR experiences we play : sometimes to me it is a necessity because I need content to insert inside my articles for my blog, but in general, we all love to save some great moments we had in VR, in the same way we feel the need to take a picture when something interesting is happening in real life.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2022

Oculus Spatial Anchors in Unity: video tutorial. I have made a huge video tutorial on Oculus Spatial Anchors, where you can see me create from scratch an application implementing them in Unity. The video is very long because the topic is not easy and I want to explain it to you really well. A note on this tutorial.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2023

Because the documentation talks about the Oculus button, but it doesn’t explain what happens when the button gets pressed. It even lets you record a video of the problem happening and then send it to the Meta team. The first question we asked ourselves is: where the hell should this user reporting tool appear?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

Pico G2 4K Enterprise video review. I know you all are fans of my videos and you can’t live without them, so I have also shot a complete review of the Pico G2 4K enterprise on Youtube. There I show you the device, and highlight the pros and the cons from all standpoints: audio, video, content and even the SDK!

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ARVR

JULY 22, 2020

Developers build everything in Unity or Unreal, including all training modules. The only path would be for you to become a Unity or Unreal developer. Here’s how the process works: Trainers create a series of documents, spreadsheets, videos, emails, meeting notes, etc… to describe the training procedure or any updates to the procedure.

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ARVR

AUGUST 11, 2020

Overview & Resources Android Developers are at an advantage over here because developing Vuzix Blade Apps seems very similar to Android Development according to their official documentation. You can even check out their how-to-videos here. Perhaps they will update the documentation later on.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Unity, one of the market leaders in RT3D technology, has a comprehensive kit intended to assist businesses and developers in this optimization process. One-click solutions such as Unity Reflect automatically prepare data for real-time consumption in a 3D, interactive environment.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The email was acquired by author Blake Harris who gained access to it and thousands of other documents through research for his upcoming book The History of the Future , which explores the formative years of the modern VR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Pico Neo 3 Pro Video Review. As usual, I have also created a video version of this article, and in it, I describe to you all the main features of this headset , from the visuals to the comfort, not to mention the headset and controllers’ tracking. If you are a video type, you can watch it here below. Full unboxing video!

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

We see evidence of augmented experiences on social media through 360-degree photos and videos. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.” Many courses and documentation options are available to help educate you on the solution too!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2019

In the application, you can choose among a wide set of cartoon avatars, but you can also import yours , provided that you rig it in the right way following the documentation. Virtual Cast uses position and rotation information captured from VR headsets, controllers and trackers to puppeteer Unity humanoid models in VR space.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

According to Unity , around 55% of manufacturing and AEC companies were already planning on adopting real-time 3D engines by 2021. Unity, one of the market leaders in RT3D technology, has a comprehensive kit of tools intended to assist businesses and developers in this optimisation process. Step 4: Explore Elements for Interactivity.

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Tools Unity Immersion Simulation 87

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. We were not obligated to post a video. Cas & Chary Present.

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Building the Metaverse

JUNE 14, 2023

Along the way I’ve done a number of experiments, as well as conversations with hundreds of people (including a dozen recorded conversations for my video podcast, Building the Metaverse ). We used Anthropic ’s Claude LLM (with 100K context), Blockade Labs , Scenario , Beamable and Unity as the key technologies.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

Remote expert solutions allow dispersed workers to collaborate and communicate through XR devices instead of traditional 2D video conferencing tools like Zoom or Teams. You don’t want games in your enterprise, so I like to call them rendering engines like Unity and Unreal Engine.”

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VRPlayin

MAY 8, 2023

Capture the Moment: Documenting your team event through photos or videos can help preserve the memories and foster a sense of unity and camaraderie among your team members. Thus you will help reinforce the lessons learned and promote a deeper understanding of the event’s objectives.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Mine was planned to ship today, so I guess that tomorrow I will do an unboxing video! It seems that Meta is working on a similar technology , too, and a video released during the Meta Connect shows a user navigating and interacting with an XR experience by just moving a bit the fingers. Wait, what???

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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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Machine Learning Eye Tracking Unreal Latency 102

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. The author of the video has used a free app available on the Apple Store and with it, it was able to scan 3D objects with a quality and a speed never seen before. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity.

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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. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

There have been various calls with the organization to understand their needs, then we produced 2D sketches and design documents that were proposed to them so that they could understand how we imagined the world to be. While you have no possibility of using C# in VRChat, you have still 100% of Unity power in the Editor.

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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 have made a video to give you a tour of how is the runtime of this headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2023

The teaser video showed a system that was able to predict what you wanted to write and write it down even before you could think about it. After I assigned it to me and a few colleagues, I received a Welcome email containing a few links to the documentation of Copilot, teaching me how to install it in Visual Studio and start to use it.

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Machine Learning Architecture Data Unity 358

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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Virtual Reality Unity Course AR 430

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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