VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

These world-locked frames of reference allow you to create and permanently place virtual content in a physical space. You can, for example, attach a virtual screen to a physical wall or navigate a virtual character with realistic occlusion throughout your real-world environment. Also announced was developer access to Spatial Anchors.

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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. Can you give us some examples of good ones in this sense? Mozilla Hubs is one of the good accessibility example provided by Regine. You can find it here: [link].

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

Some people asked me how I did that and in this post, I’m sharing my knowledge giving you some hints about how to replicate the same experience in Unity. It won’t be a step-by-step tutorial, but if you have some Unity skills, it will be enough for you to deliver a mixed reality experience.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. We’ve seen some great examples of entertainment marketing, such as Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man : Into the Spider-Verse campaign done by Trigger using 8th Wall’s WebAR platform a few years back. Four Myths About AR Advertising.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I am very passionate about mixed reality and I am incredibly happy of having developed a Unity plugin to let every developer create AR/MR apps on the Vive Focus Plus (you can find it on GitHub !), It is curious that even after the launch, those devices keep many references to their previous internal names. Camera access.

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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 How to make controllers’ buttons to work in Unity with Vive Wave SDK 3.0? Because yes, we are in Unity, and that line is referred to the native C++ SDK. in Unity appeared first on The Ghost Howls. Header image by HTC).

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. One such example comes from Miller Lite’s St. One such example comes from Miller Lite’s St. Miller Time. After a few case studies that focused on upper-funnel AR ad campaigns, we now move to the mid-funnel. Patrick’s Day campaign last year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Let me explain this better with an example: if you grab a bottle in real life, your fingers can’t trespass the bottle, because the material of the bottle exerts a force towards your fingers which prevents them to enter. Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

Unity and Android Permissions. What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity? Unity makes things easier for us, so whenever we use some Unity class that clearly needs a permission, Unity adds this permission automatically to the manifest. Thanks, Unity).

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. For example, some of the cloud services that we’ll look at are cloud storage solutions. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. But, what is the cloud anyway? CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. You can grab the source for the renderer at the Unity asset store here , and check out the full blog post detailing the release here.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Example of BVH for a 2D scene: on the left you can see the geometry of the scene (the green triangles) and the bounding elements enclosing them (those orange squares) and on the right the resulting BVH tree, that the GPU has to traverse (Image by NVIDIA). What about Unity, instead? Will it be available also for Unity developers?

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. I call them the “Incarnations”.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Niantic teased it is working on a reference design for AR glasses with Qualcomm, and they are specialized for outdoor usage (so people can play Pokemon Go XR on the streets), while most of the current AR glasses are dedicated to being used indoors. AI is very good for increasing the productivity of a team. Photoshop is doing the same.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features. References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Following this announcement, we partnered with Unity and Audi and for a US roadshow that brought us from Los Angeles to San Francisco. For example, there will be guidelines for our content creators that exclude certain behaviors and movements that are dangerous in the vehicle, such as “extreme” waving of controllers.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2022

Previously developers would create high quality 3D models as a sort of ‘master’ reference which would eventually have their geometry greatly simplified (leading to a reduction detail and complexity) before being pulled into the game engine. A rea-time scene rendered using Nanite | Image courtesy Epic Games.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2021

Say, for example, you’re waiting in line for a popular dance club, but the venue is at max capacity. By public rooms, Vitillo is referring to all instances of the virtual concert created after the first instance reaches capacity. Doing something from scratch is really difficult and time-consuming.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

I used to refer to this list each time I came across a term, but didn’t remember what it meant exactly. refers to any 3D model. refers to the accumulation of potential motion tracking error. understanding the real world environment by detecting feature points and planes and using them as reference points to map the environment.

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. For example, during takeoff a butterfly might perform a sequence of powerful downstrokes to generate enough lift to bring its body clear of the ground before using the clap and fling to begin moving forward.

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Upload VR

JULY 22, 2024

Occlusion refers to the ability of virtual objects to appear behind real objects, a crucial capability for mixed reality headsets. Quest developers can find Depth API documentation for Unity here and for Unreal here. The company says it now uses 80% less GPU and 50% less CPU, freeing up extra resources for developers.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

Nunez added: So, for example, a lot of manufacturers, and other architecture companies can digitally represent the content, most have CAD data models of some type, and they will represent them on a 2D screen. ” XR for Enterprise Training Moreover, another example Nunez gave was enterprise training or “guided instructions.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 12, 2023

As enterprises leverage virtual reality (VR) for a host of use cases, one specific example remains team-building. When you’re doing a sports game like Pickleball, there’s a reference point for the users compared to developing an alien shooter game where the player is using laser guns.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

For example, do you need to build a VR MRI visualization for medical use? I had to start really low, building out core programming blocks, that are analogues of variables, references, lists, trees, classes and so on and then build out the engine from these. It’s like being inside of Unity engine with your friends.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

There are many other examples of that. The Verge started referring to them as the new “Glassholes”, the term that was invented to describe people wearing Google Glass in public, when that device was popular. I understand the fun of doing stuff with passthrough: when the Vive Focus came out, I did some stuff like that, too.

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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. You may be saying “Come on! 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

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Small startups can’t compete with big companies, so usually, startups produce expensive headsets at a smaller scale to survive : see VRgineers or Varjo as an example. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. On GitHub has appeared a new project called “Simple WebXR” aimed at letting you develop WebXR experiences inside Unity.

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ARVR

MARCH 11, 2021

The Best VR Events and Concerts Planned for 2021 Example of applying images to materials on the Unity editor. From the Unity Asset store, I downloaded the free Standard Asset. To implement this new feature, I established a SetCountText function to tell Unity what to display in the UI. Enter The Monarchy 3.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 22, 2023

Development of  Crystal Frost — a mobile-friendly Unity -based Second Life viewer which is now in beta trials — will continue despite Second Life recently announcing its own mobile virtual world viewer. Primitives, for example, may not render well. Water polo in Second Life made with Firestorm.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Finally, it’s common to see some “firmware” references in the JSON.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. The camera uses the patterns on the actual book as a reference to display the AR content, a technology that is often used today on Snapchat and Instagram.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2020

A wooden floor, a table or a mattress are examples of horizontal planes. On the other hand the walls of a house are perfect examples of vertical planes. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 When they create 3D assets(for example a 3D representation of a chair) they begin with no lighting.

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

It has a quick way to prototype any 3D application and has a great list of examples to represent just about anything. Latency, which refers to the delay in communications between a user’s movement and what they see, has to be as low as possible, to create the illusion of reality. Babylon.js Comparison Don’t forget to give us your ?? !

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As an example of a VPS solution, I will give you some details about Immersal , which is one of the leading companies for what concerns this technology. Unless you want to put a huge textured blanket in the park, you can not use markers to show the dragon on the fountain in the above example.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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.) Luckily there is a handy checklist online to get ready.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

This option gives you a headset plus $500 credit for Microsoft Azure , a three-month free trial of Unity Pro , and the PiXYZ plugin — giving you all the necessary tools to test, create, and launch enterprise apps for the HoloLens 2. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2018

By placing the connector, reference bar and IR marker in the mats themselves, Antilatency has created a free-roam VR platform with a theoretically endless tracking area. The intuitive tracking system also features multi user functionality, easy installation, support for multiple VR platforms and even an SDK for Unity 3D and UE4.

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