The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

95% of the content is about the vision of the future “metaverse” in which we all are always in XR , we work, we connect with other people physically distant away, we attend events, we play multiplayer games, etc… all in XR. Luckily there is 5% of information there that I’ve actually found interesting. I mean, we all already knew this, Mark.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The official Oculus Developers Twitter account announced the release with an illustration from the documentation showing a user’s full body pose being tracked. The spokesperson described the technology as a combination of inverse kinematics (IK) and machine learning (ML). That’s our current strategy.”.

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The Ghost Howls

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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Our primary research areas are Computer Graphics and Mixed Reality and our works span different topics like MR for serious games, human-computer interaction, usability in MR, virtual heritage, and so on. The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). This is so sad.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But she’s not been the only one taking a similar decision: Vogue Business reports that Cult fashion boutique Machine-A and the Institute of Digital Fashion are launching an augmented store environment to promote the London Fashion Week collections of designers like Martine Rose and Richard Quinn. An interesting VR game appears on Roblox.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training. Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. Applications.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . Automatic Time Synchronization : LooxidVR facilitates time synchronized acquisition of eye and brain data , as well as VR contents and interaction data (Unity event logs).

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Like many other technologies, there is no perfect roadmap to learning XR. Nevertheless, I have tried my level best to come up with a generalized learning process for the same. Learn programming from YouTube, Udemy, Udacity and a thousand other free platforms. There are tons of online resources to learn these.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. Even when talking about games, the first mention was to Apple Arcade games you can play on a giant screen. The same, it could be interesting to port NTW’s fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded to that.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Emteq’s technology called “Faceteq” uses a range of biometric sensor techniques including electromyography (EMG), electrooculography (EOG), heart rate and more in the faceplate of VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, which track the electrical current generated in the movement of facial muscles.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

The creative puzzler is made by Canada-based game-making couple Sarah and Colin Northway teaming with Radial Games’ Andy Moore, Kimberly Voll and Lindsay Jorgensen with sound by Gord McGladdery. It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Meta abandons the Oculus name on Twitter. Technically speaking, it is amazing. Other relevant news. Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

Creative agency B-Reel explored several approaches and open sourced their experiments for others to learn from. But on the gaming side of things, there’s been a clear shift towards less visual, more physical interactions. We stuck with Unity for now, and hope to explore Unreal more in future explorations. VR motion controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). More info (Getting started with VR) More info (Best 5 Quest games to start with). Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

They “will incorporate some of the key features found in the DualSense wireless controller, along with a focus on great ergonomics”; There will be a “new generation” of games and experiences for it; It is still under development and won’t launch in 2021. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

Just a few years ago I found the Oculus meeting room hidden in a corner of the show floor where they were showing the HD prototype of the Rift featuring improved resolution. Panels and presentations will also be offered allowing visitors to learn more about the projects. Learn more from the Lytro team. Rainbow Crow.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

How did you get involved in VR and learning? But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One thing that I’m trying to do is continuing my daily job and at the meantime learn as much as I can about AR and VR. When they saw the Kickstarter campaign of Oculus, they immediately grabbed it and started thinking about how they could do data visualization in VR. Machine Learning has become a key part of the product, now.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

which makes the hand tracking more responsive to fast movements of hands : the system can so track the hands also when the user is playing fitness games like FitXR (or HitMotion: Reloaded). Meta has also released a small demo of a fitness game to prove how it works well. Meta Quest will receive Hand Tracking 2.2,

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Pokemon Go is the best example for an augmented reality game. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Notice that we have to be very careful about this news: it doesn’t mean that we had 1M of new headsets sold because of Alyx: that wouldn’t be realistic given the estimated sales of the game (around 1M in that period, according to SuperData), and the limited production of headsets due to the pandemic. A rumor about Oculus Go 2.0

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. I learned how to do the coding. I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Learn all about the effects of super-cooling. I’ve worked on front-end web applications, middleware, server software and databases, but the most fun I’ve had in recent years has been with the Unity game engine. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Mac, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Mac.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

I’m overly happy to announce to you that today we of New Technology Walkers have launched our VR fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded on Oculus App Lab ! Even if you already have the game, please get it again from App Lab, so that you will receive our upcoming updates (that will be super cool!) Top news of the week. Image by Sony).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

If there is a VR game that really intrigues me, that game is Boneworks : it has a semi-realistic physics engine that makes you use in the game the weapons and the objects like in real life. The game has also strong Half-Life vibes , and in the gameplay video that has just been released, they are clearly visible.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So instead of playing a video game and shooting everybody, you're enjoying a concert by Trevor Scott or whoever. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised. We’ll discover it in some months… Learn more on: Next Reality Upload VR. Nothing that will shake the ecosystem.

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Leapmotion

JANUARY 18, 2015

These spotlights will focus on game design, interaction design, and the big ideas driving our community forward. Tomáš Mariančík wants to change how people learn about the world and bring their ideas to life. You can download the Windows demo free for the Oculus Rift: frooxius.itch.io/world-of-comenius. world-of-comenius.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Today Tilt Five is launching its Kickstarter campaign for its innovative augmented reality glasses for tabletop gaming. Some of my toy projects… I did a ton of these toys joysticks that you plug into a television and have a bunch of video games built in. Here you are the full video of the interview. The Vive Wands.

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