The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Since the market size of augmented reality solutions is expected to reach $209 billion by 2022, it’s no surprise AR is a trend for a handful of industries like gaming, media and entertainment, advertising, and others. You all know about the Google Translate application. How to develop a location-based AR application?

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Google released a preview version of ARCore for Android yesterday, the company’s answer to Apple’s ARKit. Built by George Michael Brower with friends at Google Creative Lab. Built with Unity and ARCore. Built by Jane Friedhoff with friends at Google Creative Lab using Unity and ARCore. Portal Painter.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 14, 2022

After a long time with my lovely Unity 2019.4 LTS, I have decided it was time to switch to something new, not to miss the new features that Unity has implemented these years. I have so started using Unity 2021.3 How to build an OpenXR application. Let’s see how to build a Unity 2021 application with OpenXR.

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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 !), with which we of NTW have created the first mixed reality fitness game, HitMotion: Reloaded. Do you want to use your Quest to wake up?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Google I/O 2019 has just finished and has all been about new augmented reality features. Well, you are in the right place… Google ARCore. It works quite well, but it can be used only by the most recent phones that have been certified by Google for ARCore (all the other ones, can try this hack ). Isn’t it cool?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

User-generated content might be a common feature of many games these days, but you could argue that its inception was kick started by Sony’s LittleBigPlanet series. Unity is hoping that, one day, something will do the same for VR. Unity may be the company to make it happen. I think that sucks,” he said.

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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. For example, a user could point a camera at areas of their city to see what it looked like ten years ago from an archive of Google Maps. Earlier this year, ARCore v.1.31.0

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 8, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is back on June, 1st The Meta Quest Gaming Showcase is back! The first one is that since the Gaming Showcase is happening on June, 1st, it seems positioned in a way to make Meta perform some announcements right before the Apple WWDC.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Later that day, Antony Vitillo presents “How to Organize a Great Virtual Event.”

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

As I said a few months ago , we are in the middle of a paradigm change: the cycle that started with the Quest is arriving at an end, and a new cycle driven by new technologies (mixed reality headsets) and new players (Apple, Google) is starting. This information shows us that Apple is playing a long-term game. To do exactly what?

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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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? ? It provides a framework that makes 3D and UI interactions available from Unity input events. Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ??

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

It was not a perfect day because I also had some work-related issues to cope with, but it’s part of life when you are working with cutting-edge technologies I’m curious to know how the holidays are going for you, so answer this post letting me know how life is going for you!

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2016

Google’s newly announced Daydream VR platform , an initiative that’s poised to bring low latency VR to a number of select Android smartphones later this fall, wasn’t exactly what the Internet was expecting when it heard about Google wanting to make its own VR headset. Watch Google I/O 2016 Livestream.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. There are many other examples of that.

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2020

See Also: How to Build a Location-Based AR Application. How to Choose the Right AR SDK. Unity Support. Unity is an advanced game engine used in the development of augmented reality apps, especially gaming. So, if you are in this business, try to pick an SDK that is compatible with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

I’m trying to do my best… I hope you’ll appreciate that Before leaving you to the news… I’m hosting a giveaway of Gang V keys… it is a cool VR battle royal game with strong GTA V vibes that has just been released in Early Access on Steam ! This game will attract many fans of the saga to the Quest, increasing its sales even more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond is a mediocre game. We have been waiting for “Medal Of Honor: Above And Beyond” for years : it had been announced as an AAA game, made in collaboration with a great studio like Respawn Entertainment, with realistic recreation of war in virtual reality. Other relevant news. Well, we were wrong.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. A research project from Facebook (not to be released anytime soon) used “super-resolution” to reduce the computational power needed by games running on Quest. This is so sad.

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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? But for the most part, you should be able to get Vive games running with your Rift and Touch. Is anything unplayable?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

On the left side, there is the Daydream logo, that reminds the user that this is a product whose software has been offered by Google, and the Lenovo logo, because this hardware has been manufactured by Lenovo. What I really appreciated have been the lenses : I think that Google here used all its expertise on the field.

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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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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. Digitas sister agencies TiltShift and SparkFoundry created and ran campaigns on Unity’s ad network that brought the Miller Lite mascot, a green-bearded leprechaun, into the players’ space in fun AR mini-game experiences for St.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

In the best-case scenario, you are the developer of the VR experience, and you want to shoot a 360° video of your own game for promotional purposes. If you are a Unity developer like me, you can use the awesome Unity Recorder package to shoot videos of your experience, both 2D videos and 360 videos. How to Record 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

More info Other relevant news (Image by Upload) Upload VR Summer Showcase brought news about many games As usual, Upload VR had its Summer Showcase, in which it announced many pieces of news about many VR games. More games are experimenting with Gorilla-Tag-like movement mechanics , and 2.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

Look at the two lower titles: you see that the name of the games is like “duplicated”, it has like a halo written in Blue. The bad thing is actually how to find this comfort. The Pico store for the G2 offers much more content than the one for the Neo 2: 19 pages of games vs the 3 of the Neo. User Interface.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The main trigger can give adaptive force-feedback, applying a different force on the index finger depending on what is happening in the game. Ctrl+Labs already demoed it years ago: check out the link to the Dino Game that I added below this paragraph. Maybe are they talking about the games by Ubisoft?

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? For example, the Google Cardboard headset is only $20 !!! craftcorner #4: Developing in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Want to learn how to develop VR and AR applications? Unity 3D is probably the most common software used for developing VR/AR applications?—?you

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

VR- A powerful visualizer that emulates enchanting experiences (Source: Adobe Stock) Playing video games has always been great fun for people of different age-groups. Many of us wish that we could spend all day just gaming especially when we have the right gaming devices. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Fortunately no!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

Now App Lab games appear if you search for a game in the Store: they are still flagged as experimental App Lab games, but they have become visible. I’ve tried looking for “HitMotion” and our game “HitMotion: Reloaded” appeared. It is fantastic because it means that finally, indie VR games have become discoverable.

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Cats and VR

JULY 15, 2016

"We were actually amazed how easy it is to launch an app for this device and create and optimize the mechanics and interaction. The build was created in Unity with the HoloLens SDK" "For now the Pokémon are randomly generated within a mapped environment. We are now focusing on how to use different gestures for specific interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

With a tweet on its account, Valve has announced that the most awaited VR game of the year, Half-Life: Alyx is going to be released on March, 23rd. The game will be available only on Steam, but it will be compatible with all PC VR headsets. The price is €50, but the game is free for Index owners. I’m hyped, and you?

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Following that is a “Fireside Chat” with Unity CEO John Riccitiello. Last year, their augmented game board was the life of the expo floor drawing huge crowds – not just to interact with the product but to watch other people interact with the product. Trying them out can be a glimpse into the future.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Making Daydream Real – Building for Google’s New VR platform. Nathan Martz, Product Manager, Google. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. Standford, Level 3.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Some months ago, we all read that letter where Zuckerberg claimed wanting to get complete control of the hardware and software stack so that Facebook shouldn’t depend on external companies, like Google or Apple for the SO, or phone manufacturers for the hardware. Interactions are very natural, and the game is fun to be played.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Then production hit a lull for around two months as we waited to hear back from Oculus,” wrote Brenda Chen, a 2017 Oculus Launch Pad Sponsorship Recipient and the director of adventure game Chrysalis. That said, for me it all comes back to developing a meaningful relationship with Oculus and learning how to refine your craft.

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