Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2017

Planet Whack , is a whac-a-mole-inspired game, where two players participate in the same VR space trying to hit cartoon worms emerging from a sphere, with the giant beach ball providing haptic feedback. The system uses Samsung Gear VR headsets for visual output. The usual limitations of this mobile VR solution—i.e.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Image by MegaDodo Simulation Games). Some of its features are: 2,160 × 2,160 resolution per eye 90Hz framerate 4-cameras inside-out tracking (like the Quest) Touch-like controllers with Knuckles-like finger-sensing Face tracking Hips tracking (for better orientation in games) Integration with SteamVR games Wireless add-on.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

It seems that the latest version creates some stuttering while playing VR games , and this is creating discomfort for some users and making the devices unusable for others. More info (Example n.1 1 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.2 2 of post about this on Reddit) More info (Example n.3

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Image by Samsung). Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. But at the presentation of the latest Samsung Note 10, for the first time after the Note 4, Samsung has dropped support for Gear VR in its latest flagship device. And Samsung is not abandoning XR for sure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

As always in January I like to play the speculation game and make my personal predictions for augmented and virtual reality for the new year (2022, in this case). In the USA, it is almost mainstream; in Europe, it is something for people that have some knowledge of gaming or technology; in South America, is very difficult to get a headset.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The $100 consumer Gear VR also debuts during this same period, arriving alongside a virtual arcade from Oculus to let people play some classic games. CCP Games, the maker of EVE: Valkyrie , Gunjack and other upcoming VR games, raises $30 million while NextVR gets $30.5 December 2015. January 2016. February 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. 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. No headphones were used.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

The expectations had been over-inflated by analysts over the year and this has created a lot of problems: when CCP games has abandoned VR, a spokesperson said that they expected the market to be 2 or 3 times bigger than what it actually turned out to be. Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Sure Quest 3 will dynamically adjust its exposure when you get near a bright light source, so that for example screens are temporarily visible, but Vision Pro doesn't have to. It's an example of how Apple Vision Pro was optimized for stationary seated use, not active movement. footage from Apple) The Shared Space is the default.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). Room 2011, West Hall.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 1, 2023

” He explained that XR had become a thriving industry , transforming verticals such as healthcare, entertainment, education, and gaming. Explaining further, he added, “Not to be outdone, the Google-Samsung-Qualcomm power trio is cooking a comeback of their very famous mega Android partnership with a new XR headset.

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JULY 7, 2017

Beyond the well-known gaming experiences, immersive reality impacts a collection of entertainment industries by way of ads, live event broadcasts, news shows, and more. One example of the increased exposure in New York City is VR In The Sky, a two-day event focused on the ads, brands, and media communities in the city.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative. Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. “The beauty of our PPT system and the new plug-ins is that they take the orientation data from the game engine.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

So, basically, you connect with a USB cable your Quest to your PC, and you can play PC VR games, on the Oculus Store, Steam or Viveport. In the meantime, the headset sends the pose of the headset and the controllers to the PC , so that the PC can render the frames and execute the logic of the game for the next frame.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Some examples of this category of glasses: Intel Vaunt (project abandoned); North Focals; Vuzix Blade; Snap Spectacles v2 (they are just cameras to share videos); Bose AR glasses (these are not for visual, but for audio augmented reality). Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 20, 2021

Another slightly different example is when they acquire a game studio like Beat Games and they say that “Beat Saber will continue being supported on all current platforms” And this is 100% true. Do you remember the leaked letter written by Zuckerberg when he wanted to acquire Unity? The tech world domination.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Companies such as Itsme , Morph3D and Loom , for example, are bringing technology to market looking to enable users to do just that. They already captured about 8,000 people so far during a five-city tour of Canada with Samsung. Currently there are over 400 3D characters available to use in VR applications on their platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

nReal has just a 3DOF controller (that can also just be your smartphone), but it has just announced that you can pair it with Finch controllers or Black Shark gaming kit to play 6DOF games all around your home. Two examples are 0Glasses and Am Glasses : they try offering a similar product at a cheaper price (e.g.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung. This is the same chip of the Samsung S8 and it is not the latest available for VR: Qualcomm has already released the 845 VR reference design. There’s no way a game with complex and photorealistic graphics can run on Quest.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This is-- Steelcase is a good example of an early adopter of this technology. A good example of that is Crate & Barrel. You don't have to mention any names, but just maybe examples of how people are using it. Ben: Yeah, like we work with-- Pukka is a good example, they make custom hats. Alan: Oh, it's fine.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This is-- Steelcase is a good example of an early adopter of this technology. A good example of that is Crate & Barrel. You don't have to mention any names, but just maybe examples of how people are using it. Ben: Yeah, like we work with-- Pukka is a good example, they make custom hats. Alan: Oh, it's fine.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This is-- Steelcase is a good example of an early adopter of this technology. A good example of that is Crate & Barrel. You don't have to mention any names, but just maybe examples of how people are using it. Ben: Yeah, like we work with-- Pukka is a good example, they make custom hats. Alan: Oh, it's fine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware. It felt like I was part of the app.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?) The only big name surviving in this field is Pokemon Go, but just because it has changed how the game works and it has already a very large and passionate userbase.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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AUGUST 4, 2017

The HoloLens, for example, is Microsoft’s AR platform while the HP and Acer headsets are their VR platform (although they refer to them as “Immersive” headsets in documentation, but whatever, they’re clearly VR headsets.) Among those suggested are games as well, like Candy Crush, and Minecraft.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. Oculus is going to found big games. Robo Recall is still the best game for VR currently released (Image by Oculus).

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And my co-founder and CTO, Cedric, had been a 3D programmer in the gaming industry for 15 years, was hired by Mozilla to make one of the very first demos of WebGL for the launch of Firefox 4. Either regards to presentations, or it could be to build video games. Let’s just take it, for example, in comparison to YouTube.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. He also helped form Super Ventures, which is a platform and V.C. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. He also helped form Super Ventures, which is a platform and V.C. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And my co-founder and CTO, Cedric, had been a 3D programmer in the gaming industry for 15 years, was hired by Mozilla to make one of the very first demos of WebGL for the launch of Firefox 4. Either regards to presentations, or it could be to build video games. Let's just take it, for example, in comparison to YouTube.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 10, 2020

You’ve done everything from IBM Watson, to Google, to HTC, Samsung. And in that way, we have an SDK for Android, an SDK for iOS, and then also an SDK for Unity, which you can use to deploy cross-platform that will allow you to interpret and read data from the sensors to do things like recognize gestures.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 23, 2019

And my co-founder and CTO, Cedric, had been a 3D programmer in the gaming industry for 15 years, was hired by Mozilla to make one of the very first demos of WebGL for the launch of Firefox 4. Either regards to presentations, or it could be to build video games. Let’s just take it, for example, in comparison to YouTube.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

CEO Matt Miesnieks has been in the AR game since the beginning, and he says the best in the industry have always known the best, native use cases for the technology; the problem was for the technology to catch up to the use cases. He also helped form Super Ventures, which is a platform and V.C. firm investing in AR solutions.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We were so blessed to find literally the man that wrote the book on Unity [chuckles] Joe Hocking, to join the team. Alan: But would an example of that be? And he, with the new phones -- the iPhone 12, and the iPad, and the Samsung Galaxy S20 and up -- they all have infrared scanners on them now. And Lewis Gardner on our CMS.

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