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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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. It’s tough to explain so let’s jump right to a video example: Take a look at the video above. We look forward to mixing reality ourselves next year.

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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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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

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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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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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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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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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. For example, Google Swirl could serve as an important AR accelerant by incentivizing brand adoption through Google-scale distribution. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. Zeroing In. AR as a Service.

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AR Insider

JULY 19, 2021

for example, they should lean into consumers’ social affinity noted above by amplifying their campaigns through shareable AR experiences with clear calls-to-action. That ecosystem is coming together as we speak, including ubiquitous 3D experience-creation platforms like Unity. So what did the report uncover? Puzzle Pieces.

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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I had a few friendly chats with him since he’s a nice guy… and quite soon I started Italianizing his name into “Cirillo” : this is how I will refer to him for the remainder of this article. I think that this could become a powerful thing in our mixed reality future that someone references with the M-word.

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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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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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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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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

For example, firms like Walmart and Ikea have smartphone applications for customers to position new furniture items in their homes or try on clothes. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.” operating system or later.

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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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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps, and games (just ask Unity). For example, VR’s current installed base of 16 million headsets is equivalent to half of a percentage of the global smartphone installed base. Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer projections if applicable. Facebook’s cut).

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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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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

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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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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Leapmotion

JUNE 1, 2016

In rebuilding our Unity developer toolset from the ground up , we started by rearchitecting the interfaces that receive data from the Leap Motion device. Moving up the tech stack, we then refactored most of the mid-level Unity scripts that pair the Leap hand data with 3D models and manages those representations. Hand Model Examples.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

For example, they can also “approach” exhibits and objects up close, seeing them with a beautiful level of detail. For example, they might unlock animations showing some processes, or even handle objects?—?opening For example, wrestling star Conor McGregor used a drone to film a tour of his pub , The Black Forge Inn.

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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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ARVR

JULY 23, 2021

For definitional sake, the term “branded AR” refers to consumer engagement with branded (versus organic) AR experiences such as sponsored lenses. — for example, they should lean into consumers’ social affinity noted above by amplifying their campaigns through shareable AR experiences with clear calls-to-action.

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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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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

This article will go through the best examples of implementing haptics to exoskeletons and gloves. Learning retention refers to the process by which new information is transferred from short-term memory to long-term memory. It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Realistically and specifically, the Metaverse does not only refer to a series of immersive worlds. For example, a Metaverse platform could provide users with a series of remote MR collaboration applications. Microsoft is introducing a suite of no-code tools and integrated Unity features to power the avatar system.

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