The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Thanks to this spike in demand, the Oculus app on the US iOS Store is now the Top 25 app among all the free apps and the Top 7 among the free entertainment apps. Image by Unity Technologies). Unity releases the EditorXR runtime. Some years ago, Unity released its VR editor, a version of its popular game engine working all in VR.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

Featuring over 200 speakers, the event will cover in detail some of the most important topics in the industry, such as: VR/AR in the age of pandemics; Museums of the future; VR for good; Immersive arts and design; AR Cloud; Training in the workplace; Location-based entertainment; VR tourism and hospitality; Social VR. ICHVR 2021.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

Immersive experiences are in greater demand in all fields: for home entertainment, for training in various industries, and for retail and marketing. An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. The VIRTUOSO SDK for XR development is available as a full open-source release for the Unity game engine on Github.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Combining 360-degree capture with solutions for spatial sound and integrations with tools like Unity, Unreal, and other engines, VR cameras are highly flexible. As demand for VR in the entertainment and media landscape continues to increase, these cameras will grow more popular in the years ahead.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. ” Best Location-Based Entertainment. AWE co-founder and Futurewei Technologies Director of AR/VR Tish Shute presented the award to Masterpiece Studio. Best Developer Tool.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). The Unity CEO opened the event with a keynote where he defined the word “metaverse” and stated that XR devices should reach similar distribution numbers of game consoles in the next 5 years (this means they won’t reach the volumes of smartphones anytime soon). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

The Controllers can track the five fingers and have very strong haptic vibrations. Adult entertainment is a strong use case of VR, and while Valve can not explicitly advocate for it, it is releasing these vibrating controllers with these enticing spheres so that they are optimized for it.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

They can help record and edit motion captured for games, entertainment experiences, and other software solutions. Sony Mocopi As one of the current gaming and entertainment leaders, it’s little surprise that Sony would want to introduce its Mocap technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Promising a new and improved way for gamers to connect with the worlds they love, XR could represent a new frontier for entertainment. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Following a successful experience with Unity Hybrid Scaling for Apex Legends, Respawn decided to work with Unity once again on its new immersive experience.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

In the last few years, we’ve seen virtual reality transform from a novel concept connected to the gaming and entertainment space to a crucial corporate tool. Around the world, technologies in the extended reality landscape have gained increasing attention from virtually every industry.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Companies like Unity also create tools to make eye and gaze tracking more accurate. Increased Adoption and New Use Cases Like many XR concepts, spatial computing was initially seen primarily as a solution for the entertainment and gaming landscape. Microsoft even creates spatial audio solutions for advanced meetings on Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Sony promises amazing haptic sensations on the controllers, that should be able to provide “impactful, textured, and nuanced” sensations. Facebook is also working with haptics, and it has presented two prototypes of the wristbands that could apply vibrations or pressure sensations on the wrist.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 27, 2023

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. Users benefit from a streamlined and lightweight form factor, crisp visuals, and self-tracking controllers with access to haptic feedback capabilities. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

These will develop tools such as haptic gloves, new immersive headsets, extended reality (XR) projectors, and other solutions. Chase Holton, Assistant Professor of Entertainment Arts, CCS , said the partnership was a “collaboration between education and industry.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Companies like Unity also create tools to make eye and gaze tracking more accurate. Increased Adoption and New Use Cases Like many XR concepts, spatial computing was initially seen primarily as a solution for the entertainment and gaming landscape. Microsoft even creates spatial audio solutions for advanced meetings on Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC). I want this advanced haptic glove Funny link. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Holoride raises $10M to develop immersive automotive entertainment. Unity developers will get this joke Funny link. Funny link.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 1, 2024

Users are discovering that virtual reality isn’t just a powerful tool for entertainment. The brand also has a range of peripherals and accessories, including gloves with haptic feedback capabilities. Demand for virtual reality is expanding at an incredible rate.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Perfectly located at the intersection of tech and entertainment, there’s no better place like LA, which has rapidly become the center of the VR content industry. Part industry event and part immersive tech festival, VRLA is a place where seasoned veterans can catch up on their latest updates while newcomers experience VR for the first time.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Saturday sessions feature industry experts from companies including Facebook, Glitched, VIVEPORT, The Third Floor, Vulcan, Kilograph, Framestore, VIBEHub, Walt Disney Animation, TheWaveVR, Chaos Group, Light Sail VR, Sunnyboy Entertainment, OTOY and more. Attendees can sign up for Circuit Stream’s workshops when they register for VRLA.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Sony Interactive Entertainment has had a virtual summit with developers about its plans for the PSVR 2 because it is looking for content for its upcoming headset. Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. Top news of the week.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The researchers wanted to come up with an interface that was not only more playful, entertaining, and fun, but also did a good job of being functional, tweaking the push and pull physics and speed variations until they felt “realistic”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. I just discovered that there are haptic displays that you can touch and feel the texture of the objects that you see. Tools to supercharge graphics workflows with machine learning. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. It is a Korean company producing haptic devices for virtual reality. Its main product is a haptic vest, but it also sells haptic arm bands and haptic headset covers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

My favorite ones have been: Sony Interactive Entertainment has revealed that the next PSVR headset will be called PSVR 2 and will feature 2K x 2K per eye, up to 120 Hz framerate, and 110° FOV. It will be the first consumer headset with eye-tracking and foveated rendering, and also the first one to feature haptics directly on the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Inside-out tracking was expected after having seen the controllers, but the haptic feedback on the head is a very welcome surprise. Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 20, 2023

There are countless reports and articles discussing how the metaverse will help to bridge gaps between communities and power a new age of entertainment. While consumer metaverses may be designed for entertainment and community growth, industrial metaverses are built to enable and empower organisations in the industrial space.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. These advanced haptics make us dream of PSVR 2 controllers with best-in-class immersive haptics … but we have to still wait various months before discovering if this is the truth.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

The idea is that if you are the passenger in a car, you can entertain yourself with virtual reality. Holoride has now announced that it is working with Unity and Pico to release its Elastic SDK and offer devkits to let developers create experiences for the Holoride store , that will also be powered by blockchain. Learn more.

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ARVR

JUNE 11, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 These type of VR experiences involves three types of components: image, sound, and haptic feedback. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2. Scripting Javascript Promise In Spark AR For Beginners 3. b) Semi- immersive ?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Sony Interactive Entertainment believes that the cable is the only way to deliver a VR experience of the highest quality possible and this is the reason why PSVR 2 will ship as a tethered headset. Spatial has announced a toolkit for creators that can be used directly inside Unity. I hope it has some aces up of its sleeve…. Learn more.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 26, 2017

“The Rift had just come out and there was also this craze with IRLShooter’s Patient Zero, which combined laser tag with real actors and a zombie storyline, and the idea was to put these two things together and create a new form of entertainment from scratch,” Ruse explained. Hands-on With Zero Latency.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

From a VR headset for gaming is now an MR headset for entertainment and productivity. PSVR 2 Controllers (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Haptic suits like the one offered by bHaptics , addons to increase the ergonomics of a headset (e.g. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2023

Education, entertainment, gaming, and training sectors have seen unprecedented growth in XR adoption. Finally, XR headsets have benefitted from innovations in gaming hardware, micro-OLED displays, haptic feedback controllers, and full-colour passthrough cameras. North America would also lead global markets for the same period.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded has just added support for LIV and bHaptics suit , and it is a total blast with haptic feedback! I don’t think the average VRChat user will ever want to move to this platform : first of all, the world’s creation tools are overly simplistic , while we on VRChat can use the full power of Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Talon Simulations was making great strides in the location-based entertainment industry, until COVID-19 hit. They have full motion simulators for entertainment and training. So Talon Simulations specializes in dynamic and immersive experiences for entertainment centers and training institutes. Today's guest is Brandon Naids.

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