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. Oculus Spatial Anchors. Oculus has just added Spatial Anchors to its SDK.

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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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VRScout

JANUARY 21, 2020

Here’s how to add custom environments to your Oculus Home. Call me simple, but one of my favorite aspects of both the SteamVR and Oculus platforms is the ability to upload custom home environments. Interested in mixing up your Oculus Home experience? Here’s how to get started adding custom environments: .

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 15, 2021

I have just tried Hand Physics Lab, a game all focused on physical hands interaction on the Oculus Quest, and I have liked it a lot. Inside it, you can also watch many minutes of gameplay to see if you like the game. It is pretty original, and it can be a glimpse of how future hand-tracking-driven games may be.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Recently released on the Quest store, Cubism is a spatial puzzle game with a slick minimal presentation. Designed by a solo indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel as a side project, the game impressively holds the highest user rating among all Quest apps with more than 100 reviews, according to our latest ranking.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Star Wars: Squadrons is officially out in the wild and so far players are absolutely loving EA’s space combat game. With two different factions to fight for, three different game modes to explore, and four classes of ships to fly, there’s no shortage of depth to this vertigo-inducing arcade flying experience.

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VRScout

JUNE 26, 2020

Available for demo this September at the annual Sonic Amateur Games Expo , Virtua Sonic is a high-speed VR experience inspired by everyone’s favorite fast-footed hedgehog in which players zip across custom Zones as they gather coins and defeat enemies using a variety of special abilities. Image Credit: SuperSonic68 via YouTube.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

I’ve spent the last days giving this pluging a try, so let me show you how to create your first WebXR experience inside Unity! How to get started with WebXR in Unity – Video Tutorial. I made a very complete Video Tutorial showing you step by step how to create your first cube in WebXR inside Unity. Requirements.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 2, 2019

Yesterday I detailed you what is the Oculus Rift S , while today I want to write you a recap about what is the Oculus Quest , the most awaited virtual reality headset of 2019. What Is the Oculus Quest? Oculus Quest is the first standalone 6 DOF virtual reality headset by Oculus. And with the Oculus Rift?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Because of his work, he finds himself working every day on XR headsets in professional settings, and he was one of the first people to share a photo of the Oculus Quest 2 For Business on my Linkedin feed. Here you are my chat with him about Oculus For Business! What are the advantages that Oculus For Business has given you?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2021

I had the great pleasure to interview SVP of VR at Sony Pictures Jake Zim on his experience with developing, producing, and launching VR games inspired by Sony Pictures’ movies Spider-Man , Jumanji , Groundhog Day , and most recently, Zombieland. Here at Sony Pictures, we publish VR games and experiences across all platforms.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Hand-tracking on Quest rolled out as an experimental feature in late 2019, but Oculus is letting it gestate before it will accept third-party apps with hand-tracking. And while Oculus’ first stab at the feature is reasonably solid, there’s still limitations around accuracy, latency, pose detection, and tracking coverage.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Oculus Quest app will allow users to turn any game into a calorie-tracked fitness experience. In February of this year , YUR (pronounced “why you are”) announced their plans for the VR fitness market with a plug-in that would allow developers to integrate calorie tracking into their games. Image Credit: YUR.

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VRScout

APRIL 3, 2019

More lifelike avatars and a new avatar editor arrive on Oculus Rift & Go headsets. Since launching in December of 2016, Oculus Avatars has brought a much-needed sense of humanity to the Oculus platform, allowing users to interact with one another on a personal level while in VR. Image Credit: Oculus.

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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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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? Focus on how to make money. Is it necessary to own all of them?

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VRScout

MAY 23, 2019

After spending just a few hours with the Oculus Quest hardware, Pavlov VR developer David Villz (davevillz) confirmed yesterday via Twitter that the fast-paced multiplayer shooter will be heading to the standalone headset. I example, Index Players at 144hz have a huge advantage over Quest player who would play at 72hz.

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2021

Generally, I enjoy VR games that imitate physical reality so I thought it might be fun to guide pedestrians, give instruction to impatient drivers, and deal with unforeseen disasters in Traffic Jams , developed by Little Chicken Game Company and published by Vertigo Games. Job Training. Traffic Jams Accessibility Options.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

And by interact I really mean attack; this is technically a DOOM game after all. In a video posted to Reddit this week, u/CypheCommander shows off a version of the popular mod running on the Oculus Quest using QuestZDoom. While the mod itself is fairly simple, it’s still an interesting example of VR modding on the Oculus Quest.

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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.

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2020

This past Thursday marked the launch of In Death: Unchained on the Oculus Quest. The result is an insanely-addictive VR dungeon crawling experience made even better thanks to Oculus technology. We thought it needed to be played on Quest, and that the game’s genre and its inherent replayability was a perfect fit for the platform.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

This means that there are some devs out there tha t don’t know how they can support SteamVR for their programs/games because they implemented everything with the cross-platform XR Interaction Tookit to discover later on it is not SteamVR-compatible. With SteamVR things are a bit more problematic. 1 Create your project.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

As it is tradition of this little blog, I will write a full round-up of the Oculus Connect 5 , the very important Oculus event that has been held in San Jose on 26th and 27th of September (2018). Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest has been the rockstar of this event. Specifications. There is also a 3.5mm jack for earphones.

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Road to VR

MARCH 2, 2017

As has been Epic Games’ style for many years, Robo Recall – built on the company’s Unreal Engine 4 – allows you to change the original game via the engine’s editor, giving you the tools you need to mod the title to your heart’s content. SEE ALSO 'Robo Recall' Review.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 21, 2019

Original image from Oculus). Oculus Rift and Gear VR have sold 10M units. At the beginning of the week, Jack McCauley, one of the founders of the Oculus startup, had claimed in an interview with CNBC that Facebook VR will never succeed. Of course, he was not only talking about Oculus but about VR in general.

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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. For example, creating and processing 360 videos creates a lot of data. Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

We have recently visited a tech company and when we told them that we wanted to show them our game HitMotion: Reloaded on the Vive Focus Plus , they told us: “let us give you a room where you can set up your computer” They had no clue about standalone VR devices. How to create the best team? This is for two reasons.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. How Do You Plan to Scale the Application? How Big and Diverse is Your QA Team? How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Table of Contents. What is the Risk of Failure?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Thanks to its motion-tracked input, VR can be a surprisingly physical activity, and even a great workout if you’re playing the right games. This article explains why working out in VR is game-changing for those of us who have a hard time staying motivated with a typical gym routine. Cas & Chary Present. Success Stories.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

For most people, gaming represented the ultimate “initial” market for the extended reality landscape. Some of the very first mainstream examples of augmented and virtual reality were delivered directly to the entertainment world, and many were met with significant levels of demand. The Potential for XR in Gaming.

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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. 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

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

A legendary game for us millennials. Today, March 23rd, it is the historical day of the launch, and at 6 pm CET we were all there trying to playing the VR game of the century. Today, March 23rd, it is the historical day of the launch, and at 6 pm CET we were all there trying to playing the VR game of the century. Half-Life.

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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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