The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

This game has had a very long and interesting story (maybe one day I’ll write a long post about it), and it has lived various transitions, with the last one being from a passthrough AR game to a standard VR game. It was an AR game that could be played on a VR headset , in 2019. The setting.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Modbox (2016) , the multiuser VR physics sandbox from indie studio Alientrap , is getting an update next month in hopes of making the app more of a “Unity-like experience – only simplified,” says developer Lee Vermeulen. Modbox is currently in Early Access on Steam , supporting HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.

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MAY 24, 2017

Unity Technologies’ Unity Engine is playing an increasingly important role in the VR industry, and new funds announced today should help it grow further still. Unity Technologies is getting $400 million from private equity firm Silver Lake. That is if regulators approve the deal, taking its valuation to $2.6

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Used correctly, haptics make VR games more playable and immersive. Custom waveform editor window, allowing you to design waveforms without ever leaving Unity.

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JUNE 12, 2020

Valve just took a big step in prepping Steam game developers for the full arrival of OpenXR, the new industry-wide open standard for AR and VR headsets. With today’s news we’re hoping Oculus Store game developers will be getting that prototype sooner rather than later. version of OpenXR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking on the Unity integrations, Ivan Rajkovic, CEO of SpectreXR, noted: We’re excited to expand hand-tracking support for OctoXR and enable even more Unity developers to create immersive and engaging interactive VR/AR experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. Editor VR is designed to make developing both VR and non-VR content much easier by allowing creators to make games without needing to remove their headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

Last Thursday, leading hand-tracking firm SpectreXR announced a strategic collaboration with XR headset vendor HTC VIVE via its Linkedin account to drive innovation, immersion, and realistic interaction on the latter’s product portfolio. HTC VIVE also offers a rich resource hub for XR adoption and understanding.

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JUNE 6, 2017

In just 3 short days from June 16 – June 18 you’ll learn how to build a VR experience from scratch using the Unity game engine. HTC Vives & Oculus Rifts for Project Testing. 6:30pm: Dinner, drinks and play VR games in our Holodeck Rooms. 6:30pm: Dinner, drinks and play VR games in our Holodeck Rooms.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

Developers of immersive games and apps, rejoice! And it is made possible by VIRTUOSO , an open-source SDK created by Charles Rivers Analytics, which is now available for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

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. Joining HTC are venture capital firms Brightstone VC , GVR Fund and Rothenberg Ventures. VRChat says HTC is both a key investor and strategic partner now.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Trying to capture what someone is experiencing when they’re head-first in a VR game has been an interesting problem to crack. Oculus has recently published a guide to teach developers how to capture mixed reality with two important tools (besides a VR headset): a green screen and an external camera. image courtesy Oculus.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Unity sign-up page confirmed two of the best-selling VR games are coming to Apple Vision Pro: Job Simulator and Vacation Simulator. Google-owned Owlchemy Labs is the studio behind both games, which are currently available on Meta Quest, PlayStation VR, SteamVR, and even Pico headsets. USD on Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. Lone Echo).

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APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Eye of the Temple is an upcoming room-scale puzzle game that basically turns you into Indiana Jones—torch, hat, and bullwhip included. Now developer Rune Skovbo Johansen says the full game is aiming to release on SteamVR headsets sometime this spring.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Or has the game been rigged from the start? Using Unity and Photon , the team pioneered a new software framework designed for producing live musicals and operas that could be used in future productions. You can watch in standard 2D via YouTube, or you can participate in VR using the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or as a WebVR experience.

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JUNE 9, 2020

Companies such as Fable , HTC, and Oculus have each walked away as winners for their groundbreaking hardware, alongside genre-defying titles such as War Remains , Tilt Brush and ImmersiCare. Since its release back in 2017 the game has attracted a sizable community of players thanks in large part to its $0.00

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. million late last year with help from the likes of HTC, certainly seems to be doing that. On top of casual hangouts, users will be able to play community-built games. VRChat will be releasing on Steam in Early Access on February 1st 2017.

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Cats and VR

MAY 25, 2017

award for Immersive Reality Game of the Year and the fastest-selling game for Oculus Touch, SUPERHOT VR is available today for VIVE. Winner of the D.I.C.E. SUPERHOT VR for VIVE comes complete with the recent FOREVER update, expanding the experience even further with new modes, challenges, and endgame content.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Home A Drone will allow players to fight off invading swarms of enemies by placing structures that automatically target and shoot at whatever approaches, similar to other tower defense-style games like Defense Grid 2. Image courtesy Construct Studio. Fight for friendship, and discover the truth about DroneCorp and Scrappy!

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2021

By replicating your in-game movements as they happen in the real world, Yaw VR claims that its motion simulator can actually reduce motion sickness. Compatible with major VR headsets—including the Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR—the Yaw2 is compatible with 20 popular VR games via the Yaw VR Game Engine app.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

.” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API. Also continuing the theme of VR support for Mac, Industrial Light and Magic staffers demonstrated the first-ever native HTC Vive demo on a Mac system.

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JULY 25, 2016

How Unity is preparing for the mobile VR revolution The gaming landscape looked quite different when TechRadar spoke to John Riccitiello, CEO at game engine Unity, back in June 2015. That hasn’t caused Unity to shy away from VR though, quite the opposite. billion PCs).

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR , which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the next couple of months. SEE ALSO Unity's VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God.

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JULY 29, 2019

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to unify the underlying connections between VR and AR hardware, game engines, and content, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. Oculus has committed to bringing OpenXR runtime support to both Rift and Quest later this year. Epic says that it has previously implemented OpenXR 0.9

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? WebXR is a JavaScript application programming interface (API) that enables applications to interact with augmented reality and virtual reality devices, such as the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard or Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR), in a web browser.?—?Wikipedia Supported AR/VR devices ?

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. This time, West used the HTC Vive, having used the Oculus Rift with Touch controllers in previous demos. That changed today.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

The Oculus founder and a girl in a cape stole the gaming show. This was a huge year for VR during Japan’s premier Tokyo Game Show. Some 110 VR games for PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and HTC Vive got all the attention with new demos and mixed reality performances. See our video below.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

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. Image by Oculus).

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2022

Meta Horizon Home has been launched as an update to the Quest 2 headset, joining Meta Horizon Worlds – another VR app for socializing focused on playing games and attending concerts and sports events. It works on the following platforms and devices: Oculus Quest; Oculus Rift S; Valve Index’. Windows Mixed Reality; Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

With great pleasure, I announce to you that we have updated our game HitMotion: Reloaded (the first mixed reality fitness game ) on Viveport, and now we have far better bonuses management, apart from having fixed lots of bugs. Bigger than the usual indie VR team, but pretty little for an AAA game. Hello everyone!

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

By now, you’ve probably heard that the Game Developers Conference has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. How It Works. What They Have Planned.

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