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MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. Superhot VR has been awarded Best Game at the Vision Awards. Superhot VR has been awarded Best Game at the Vision Awards. This is a nice feather in the cap of a game that VR users have come to adore since its release on Oculus Rift with Touch late last year.

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JULY 29, 2019

It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. OpenXR’s ‘working group’, under which representatives from member companies have been actively developing the standard, is facilitated by Khronos Group.

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. recommendations from professors and by posting in the GDC Party Facebook group.”.

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MARCH 27, 2019

On the run up to the headset’s Spring release, Oculus today confirmed a handful of new Quest launch titles. Rather than being mere ‘multiplayer games’ both offer a communal focus that spans a wide range of activities—everything from just hanging out, to charades, dodgeball, and much more. Image courtesy VRChat.

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AUGUST 3, 2020

Image by Khronos Group). Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. On top of casual hangouts, users will be able to play community-built games. Environments invite sandbox-style madness; at one point in the trailer a bowling game is abandoned as two groups of friends instead start to hurl balls at each other.

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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 That is, an application built for the Oculus runtime can also run for the Valve Index on SteamVR.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Steam is widely considered the de facto platform for PC games, VR or otherwise, but Unreal Engine creators Epic Games want change that with a new storefront that they say will leave more revenue to developers than Steam and other major digital distribution platforms. Image courtesy Epic Games.

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MAY 16, 2022

Zuck has also had a chat with Jesse Schell, the CEO of Schell Games, and has provided an exclusive interview to Protocol. Weirdly enough, most of the demos he showed were games. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news.

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JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. We won with our heart, the big heart of us Italians.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

CrossVR’s Revive , the software that allows HTC Vive users to play games from the Oculus platform, today announced it’s joining one of the leading initiatives in creating an open standard for VR and AR apps and devices, otherwise known as OpenXR. image courtesy Khronos Group.

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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. Mark Zuckerberg has been incredibly smart in entering this field before all the others, so now he already has a strong headset with a great content catalog around gaming.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Khronos Group , the consortium behind the OpenXR project which aims to standardize the way applications communicate with AR and VR headsets, just added Microsoft to its ranks. Among its count of members, the OpenXR working group consisted of nearly every major player in the industry except Microsoft until now.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2019

. “Our research shows hackers are able to monitor people day in and day out – listen to what they are saying and see how they are interacting in virtual reality,” said Ibrahim Baggili, founder and co-director of the University of New Haven Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group ( [link] ).

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The industry is striving for ever greater openness and interconnectivity, hence why The Khronos Group and its affiliates began working on OpenXR. Soon Oculus will begin to adopt OpenXR with support reportedly coming in the latest Oculus Public Test Channel release. The current OpenXR 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. More info Can Monster Hunter be Niantic’s second hit game? So personally I don’t find this news an indicator of the disinterest of people in the Vision Pro.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2018

Whether it be television, film or games, the popular animation studio injects a unique flair into everything they touch, resulting in some of the most creative and memorable pieces of animated content in recent years. An intense dogfight between a group of enemy spaceships? Hypnotic symmetrical patterns of varying colors?

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AUGUST 30, 2021

VR developer ForeVR Games today announced it has raised an additional $7 million in seed capital, bringing its total raise to $8.5 The studio says it’s going to use the dough to launch more games like its debut title ForeVR Bowl on more platforms. XR Training & Gaming Startup Touts $5.2M Yes, I watch too much baseball).

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AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. Every year, the Oculus Connect, later (sadly) renamed as Facebook Connect, is the biggest event about XR from Facebook. You can now invite your Oculus friends to play with a web link.

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MAY 17, 2021

Fokis, who has toured with hip hop legends such as Onyx, The Game, Gza, Ras Kass, Lords Of The Underground, Common, Busta Rhymes, M.O.P., The Beatnuts, and numerous other recognizable acts, explained how he was first introduced to VR, saying, “I was introduced to VR by a friend of mine, Doitall from the group Lords Of The Underground.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? There are several communities of gamers willing to test games.

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MARCH 31, 2017

Featuring a soundtrack by lead singer and composer Ville Valo, of gothic rock band HIM, 3rd Eye Studios Downward Spiral : Prologue launches on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is now available on the Oculus store for Oculus Rift and Steam for HTC Vive.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

, you might be wondering how to enable developer mode on the Oculus Quest 2. Registering as a developer with Meta Turn on developer mode on Oculus Quest 2 headset Allowing connections to your computer What to do next Common Troubleshooting. The first thing you need to do is register as a developer on the Oculus website.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

There was (and still is) quite a good hype for these headsets, exactly as there was hype for what was Oculus Santa Cruz, the codename of the Oculus Quest. The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator. Let me tell you why. To do exactly what?

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

While it might be slim pickings for Gear VR this week (as in, nothing very interesting), the Oculus Rift fights back with a vengeance. There are three new Rift games on Home this week and each is worth checking out in their own right, as well as the usual crop of new Steam titles. Ultrawings, from Bit Planet Games. Our review.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

VRChat , one of the earliest social VR apps, announced that they’ve completed a $4 million Series A investment round lead by HTC’s Vive group. If you’re handy with the Unity game engine though, you can even design your own detailed spaces and full-body avatars, and import them for others to enjoy.

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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. First, let’s start with installing Unity hand-tracking. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Also, install the Oculus app and the Oculus Hub on your computer.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

So, coming back to your question, I am an associate professor of the Computer and Control Engineering department at the Politecnico di Torino , where I am heading the Computer Graphics and Vision research group. The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision. This point is quite funny.

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JUNE 14, 2021

I’m very tired because yesterday I was ironing out bugs on HitMotion: Reloaded together with the game designer Max until 3.40 A piece of completely unexpected news was Facebook’s acquisition of BigBox VR, the development studio behind Population One, one of the most popular VR games of the moment. This is impossible without Guardian.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Buckle up; it’s a big week for Oculus Rift and Touch owners. GDC has been going on for the last five days and Oculus has made some big announcements during the show, including a Rift and Touch price cut and a new Gear VR. Plus — check out our list of the best Oculus Rift games and best Gear VR games for more suggestions!

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). VRTUOLUO is a vertical industry media that is subordinate to TUOLUO Tech, which is incubated by the Game industry media YOUXITUOLUO.

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MARCH 21, 2021

The shape of the controllers is slightly different than the one of the Oculus Touch, though, and there is a ring that surrounds the wrist of the user. The main trigger can give adaptive force-feedback, applying a different force on the index finger depending on what is happening in the game.

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JUNE 29, 2016

The experience is apparently around 15 minutes long, with groups of three players taking part at any one time. This is precisely the kind of innovative use of VR that Unity is now powering with our 3D engine and platform,” said Clive Downie, CMO Unity Technologies.

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JUNE 17, 2020

With me, and the other people at New Technology Walkers , there are the very talented Lapo Germasi and Victor Pukhov that already worked with me at our game HitMotion: Reloaded. I think that it’s an interesting experience, and I’m very proud to say that I’m part of the crazy team of people that are working on it. You should see it.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Over the past three years, Melbourne, Australia-based startup Zero Latency has been refining its multiplayer virtual reality arcade platform, which currently has three playable games for up to six players with plans to add eight-player support by the end of this year. Vandonkelaar said it takes between seven and nine months to create a game.

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