The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2019

It’s a while that I don’t write something about entrepreneurship, so I thought it could be a good idea to give you some pieces of advice on how to be a good VR startupper. If you don’t have a budget, how are you supposed to buy all this stuff? Me and my HTC Vive, obtained my the great VR man Nicolas Esposito.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Attention, stress, and cognitive load are some of the more proven examples of more subjective states that can now be quantified with physiological data. Can you make us some examples? NeverMind, a game by Flying Mollusk. A little concentration game I played with my HTC Vive and the Looxid Link addon.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

It may seem like no surprise that music—in the form of creation tools, rhythm games, mind-bending visualizations, and virtual performance venues—have intersected with virtual reality (VR) in a large way. TribeXR , for example, has focused on CDJ decks, which are expensive in real life and are suited to be replicated in a virtual environment.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It can power various genres of video games, and people use headsets for fun, fitness , and social interaction. Virtual reality is commonly associated with the gaming industry, as major companies like Meta, HTC, Sony, and others are creating VR-based video games , which typically appeal to a younger audience.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I am very happy to host on my blog a guest post by ambr, the Japanese company that is hosting these days the TGSVR , which is the VR edition of the Tokyo Game Show. Have a nice read, and don’t forget to visit the Tokyo Game Show VR! Tokyo Game Show is one of the world’s biggest game festivals.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 7, 2017

Last week at both the Mobile World Congress and Game Developers Conference we got hands-on with the HTC Vive’s Tracker peripheral once more, and one of the best uses for it we saw was to enable full-body tracking in VR. HTC says it will. Island 359, for example, is still entirely playable with just two Vive controllers.

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ARVR

APRIL 28, 2021

In this article I will instead talk about: What to expect and how to manage a group of people in a VR environment How to learn the basic controls while having fun Icebreaker activity for VR sessions How to deal with (hardware) diversity You made it in VR… now what? Now that you are in VR it’s time to have some fun (finally).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Today I host a new post by my friend and VR professional Rob Cole , who has already published many interesting posts on my blog, including a review of Pimax Sword controllers , a series of hack on how to modify the Valve Index , and his experiements in creating new innovative controllers for SteamVR. HTC Vive Trackers (Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2019

I was porting our Unity game Hit Motion: Reloaded to the new Vive Wave SDK 3.0.2 I wrote to HTC and in the end, I managed to someway solve the issue… so I am writing this post for everyone that may find him/herself in the same situation. How to make controllers’ buttons to work in Unity with Vive Wave SDK 3.0?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This was such a game-changer that she asked me what we could do with that. We were the first ones using pass through on the HTC Vive , using a portal to get in your scenario, we were the first ones with hand tracking on VR headsets where you could flip switches, turn knobs, and push buttons in a VR world overlay. An Innovation center.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The Room: A Dark Matter is an upcoming VR puzzler from Fireproof Games , the same minds behind The Room (2014), its beloved predecessor for PC and mobile, and VR shooter-adventure Omega Agent (2016). The game’s linear story is punctuated with hand-written notes that you find along the way in a each level.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

OhShape , previously called OnShape , is an early access rhythm VR game by Odders Lab. The HTC Vive and Oculus Rift title fuses dance choreography with skillfully posing through carved out walls. Warning, before playing OhShape or any VR game for that matter, make sure you’ve turned on your boundary lines. Embodiment.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Why and how has it started? and covered more than 80% of the XR pioneers as communities members.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. As a developer, we haven’t control over the runtime in which our application will execute (i.e.:

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

But this time, Valve has made it without the collaboration of HTC. The specs list is very similar to the one of the HTC Vive Pro. But in my opinion, we have to wait for the first benchmarks to understand the real requirement of this headset on real games for the native resolution and framerate of the Index. More or less, yes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Last week we let you know about 10 great SteamVR games that work well with the Rift and Touch by default. How well do the Oculus Touch controllers work with SteamVR apps that are only designed with Vive in mind? Of those 800, all of them support the HTC Vive officially, whereas only 180 support the Oculus Rift. The Limitations.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 9, 2017

We also have a top list of the absolute best HTC Vive games — which is updated every few months with the latest and greatest options. New HTC Vive Releases on Steam. Vehicle VR is a motor-powered puzzle game that aims to be rage inducing. Recommendation: Unique puzzle game at a cheap price. Price: Free To Play.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Since then the game has amassed an even larger following due in large part to the VR modding community, who’ve since established an impressive catalog of custom mods. It’s very annoying, but at times it’s really satisfying when you finally figure out how to solve a problem.” The Half-Life modding community continues to impress.

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VRScout

JULY 1, 2016

Despite the fact that this genre is being mentioned in combination with VR in many different books, movies and VR games, the classic movement mechanics did not please users that experimented with VR FPS games. VR players cannot even walk normally through the gaming environment – they start vomiting (in a literal sense).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Anyone that’s tried The Lab , the free mini-game collection from Valve that’s available on Steam , knows that Longbow is one of the standout experiences. In this way it feels like part wave shooter, part tower defense game, with a unique combination of elements.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2021

Giants such as Oculus, HTC, Sony, Microsoft, Samsung, Walmart, and many others have been implementing their technologies in this field for a long time. Virtual reality has long ceased to be just a game story and is actively being implemented in all areas of human activity. See Also: 4 Inventive Examples of Virtual Reality in Education.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 30, 2020

(Image courtesy HTC Vive.). Yesterday afternoon, I got a preview of the new HCT Vive Sync virtual meeting platform from HTC Vive, and it’s the best one I’ve seen yet — and I have seen a lot of these platforms. — HTC VIVE (@htcvive) April 30, 2020. Image courtesy HTC Vive.). VIVE Focus Plus.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? Sample Examples ? Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ?? Supported AR/VR devices ? Maturity of Toolkit ? Stability of Toolkit ? Developer Community ?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Jesse Schell (Video game designer). There was lots of information available on the importance of sound in cinema and video production including video gaming and virtual reality. Sound is what truly convinces the mind is in a place; in other words, ‘hearing is believing.’ The otherwise amazing “Reef Experience” at 144hz and 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

For instance, I contributed to the little musical experience that Enea Le Fons has taken to a disco club during his 30 Days in VR experiment and I made the porting of the ImmotionRoom full-body VR system to the new HTC device. Then, HTC Vive has already added a custom manifest that gets imported when you import the Wave SDK Plugin.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Conductor is not the most complex of VR games. The puzzles, for example, are well-plotted. If anything the game lacks a real sense of invention for the most part. I just would have liked to see it go a little further; the game’s abrupt ending had me wanting to see what happens next and learn more about the world.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2020

Looxid Link is an accessory for VR headsets, compatible with HTC Vive/Vive Pro and Oculus Rift S, that enables brainwaves reading. The system detects if you are actually relaxed or not; Pyrokinesis : this is a little BCI game: you have to fight against a dragon, but to create your fireballs, you have to be in attentive state.

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ARPost

MAY 19, 2021

It is the first time video game techniques meet filmmaking techniques. How do you adapt a comic book with such a particular style in a medium that uses real-time animation – that is, video game tools that have their own aesthetic?” Jailbirds – Bwa-Kayiman is a perfect example of this.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Some immersive games will be available at launch: Game Room, What the Golf?, Probably What The Golf will become the game of the year 2024… I’m of course super excited for this launch because the hype created by this headset can reinvigorate the whole XR ecosystem. and Super Fruit Ninja. The PCVR space is literally on fire.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Throughout the game, you’ll enter a variety of levels in the story mode, and you progress through them by doing physics-based puzzles and combat. The game has three game modes: Story mode, Arena mode, and Sandbox mode. But what makes this game so exciting? For example, each weapon has its own weight.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

It is doing that for privacy reasons : if a malicious developer made a cute game and behind the curtains activated the cameras and streamed whatever they saw to its servers, that would be an enormous privacy violation. Another example could be an educational experience that trains the user in doing something (e.g.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For example, Project Cambria, the codename for Meta’s (previously Facebook) MR hardware, is continuously being classified as either AR, VR, or MR depending on the article or publication. Only recently has the term XR become pertinent as the three platforms have begun to conform making each of them less discernible.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 10, 2017

They include Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR, OSVR, Samsung Gear VR, Daydream, Cardboard apps for both Android and iOS, and even Windows Phones and the IdeaLens K2 all-in-one headset. For example, it only lists about 40 Daydream apps, out of more than 200 that are available now. HTC Vive Viveport app store.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

For example, they can disable Wi-Fi access, set device-based PINs, and whitelist specific VR applications. For example, social platform functions such as adding Facebook friends aren’t active in the Oculus for Business headsets, nor are other non-business elements such as gaming features, the Oculus Store, and a range of consumer media apps.

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MAY 1, 2017

The developers behind the popular VR game rounded out last week by dropping a rather obvious hint: a tweet with the game’s orange logo background holding a flashing HTC Vive logo, complete with the word “soon” It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what that means.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

I joined BISim in 2009 after seven years of working in engineering positions in video games companies. We use the latest game-based technology and a large, experienced in-house team of engineers to develop high-fidelity, cost-effective training, and simulation software products and components for defense applications. .

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