The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today I’ve played around with Oculus Quest , trying to hack it a bit via command-line tools (ADB), hoping to activate some cool features. with which we of NTW have created the first mixed reality fitness game, HitMotion: Reloaded. Oculus Go was codenamed “Pacific”, instead. Oculus Assistant.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following its expansion onto new VR and non-VR platforms alike, social virtual world Rec Room is seeing serious growth. Pair that breadth of accessibility with built-in tools which allow creators to make and share their own virtual experiences, and you’ve got a recipe for a thriving virtual world.

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ARPost

MAY 30, 2022

Gaming is usually not considered a ladies’ activity. ” While this bias permeated early virtual reality communities, the accessibility of new devices and an uptick in women jumping into VR for fitness, immersive experiences, and an opportunity to escape are changing the dynamic. This is a clever tool for engaging audiences.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2022

Meta this week released a new demo app called First Hand to showcase the kind of experiences that developers can build with the company’s controllerless hand-tracking tools. But what’s better than a good hands-on example? We also showcase several of the grab techniques offered by the SDK.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2022

Starting next month, Venues will officially merge with Horizon Worlds , a VR social platform where users can build and share their own virtual worlds, host live events, and develop interactive games and activities. The company says you’ll still be able to catch highlights and replays via Oculus TV.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Leaks in advance of Facebook Connect, particularly around the time that VIVE Flow was announced , had many anticipating new devices from Oculus. There were announcements, mainly involving hardware and new titles and game updates in the coming year, and a new headset was announced though it won’t be here until next year at the earliest.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 10, 2022

See Also: Geenee AR Launches Web3 AR Game ‘NFT All Stars’ Playable With Select NFT Avatar Collections. With a recent acquisition, they also have plans to help onboard users to Web3 technologies through games that “bridge” Web2 and Web3. Then, “In 2014, I put on an Oculus for the first time and I saw the future.”.

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ARPost

JANUARY 26, 2023

The game view is limited. The game is flattened and there’s little environment ambiance. Mcguinness presented the idea of “taking that whole experience that we were doing there in the physical world and bringing it into the virtual world,” Ortlepp said in a video call with ARPost. Virtex wants to fix that.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Facebook changes the name of its upcoming social VR platform to better represent its diverse selection of virtual worlds. Early creators have already created hundreds of worlds for the highly-anticipated social VR platform. To help support the creation of even more worlds, Facebook has announced a $10 million Creator Fund.

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VRScout

JUNE 28, 2021

The esports industry has come a long way since its humble beginnings back in 1972 when a handful of students from Standford University took part in the first reported video game tournament featuring the 1962 space combat game Spacewar! You can even teleport from your seat directly into the match and surround yourself with the action.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

For those that have purchased land through Somnium Space’s previous Initial Land Offering’s (ILO) the Builder tool will be enhanced to purchase or create new assets. “We are putting a lot of effort into the immersive aspect of our VR world. anyone to instantly monetize their creations. As well as Somnium Space 2.0,

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Road to VR

MAY 21, 2019

Oculus’ new ‘Defy Reality’ ad spot for Quest effectively uses mixed reality video capture to show players in VR, instead of just showing first person footage that’s hard to understand if you haven’t actually been in a headset before. Oculus is far from the first to use mixed reality capture for VR.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

HeadOffice.Space announced their premier space for connection, it’s the world’s first metaverse on the moon designed for the ever-changing way remote teams work, play, learn, and explore together. A few examples include: Squadpods: Private, secure office space for teams to customize, meet and collaborate with work tools they know and love.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2017

Oculus Connect 4, the company’s fourth annual developer conference, is set for October 11th and 12th in San Jose, California. There, Oculus will share with developers some of its latest research and developments, including what’s coming to the company’s VR Audio SDK.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 5, 2022

For most people, gaming represented the ultimate “initial” market for the extended reality landscape. Some of the very first mainstream examples of augmented and virtual reality were delivered directly to the entertainment world, and many were met with significant levels of demand. The Potential for XR in Gaming.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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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. 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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 4, 2022

Particularly in the last couple of years, we’ve seen the rapid adoption of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality experiences across various environments. The gaming landscape was one of the first arenas where developers and creators really began putting XR to the test. 1. B2B Experiences and Education.

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ARPost

JULY 16, 2020

Winners from the past three events include Oculus Rift and Quest, Google Tilt Brush, HTC VIVE Pro, and the Vader Immortal series. VRChat , the group bringing the VR Awards online, is a free-to-play virtual world currently in early access on Steam , Oculus , and VIVEPORT. The Oculus Rift S headset. Pimax Artisan.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2020

With just four months to go in 2020, we still have plenty of VR gaming to look forward to. In January we received The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners , a thrilling and quite realistic zombie survival game. Meanwhile, the Alice-in-Wonderland-inspired title Down The Rabbit Hole took us on a mesmerizing tour through a mystical world.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It feels like we’ve been talking about Oculus Touch for awhile — and that’s probably because we have. We first got our hands on the Rift Touch hand-controllers during Oculus’ developer conference (OC2) in September 2015. The day is finally upon us — the Oculus Touch launches tomorrow. It turns out it never really went away.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2022

There’s Worlds , a place where people can build experiences for others to enjoy; Venues , where people can watch concerts, sports, and more together; and Workrooms where people can collaborate with traditional meeting tools. If you have the original Oculus Quest you can only use Worlds and Venues.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Over the years, technology has become smaller, lighter, more comfortable, and with faster processing, breathing life into the virtual world. Also, unlike augmented reality (AR), which people can access via smartphones and smart glasses, VR relies on larger headsets and controllers to interact with fully-immersive virtual worlds.

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ARPost

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. We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Our portfolio includes various projects, such as virtual tours to monuments and cities, VR games, marketing activities and corporate training simulators. Modeling Next, we created virtual copies of the tools and uniforms, so that all of them looked real in a virtual world. We did 3D modeling in Blender.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

This afternoon I’m flying to Paris to then go to Laval to attend Laval Virtual, one of the oldest events about virtual reality, where I’ll be as an attendee , a virtual speaker (about the game HitMotion: Reloaded), a host of the AWE Nite Florence (featuring great speakers like Charlie Fink… ), and also as a.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

And that’s ok, it is still a new technology and it has already made big steps forward (I remember all the computer crashes I had at the Oculus DK 2 times!), Recently I had a big issue with my VR controllers in SteamVR (both with Oculus and Vive) and so I’m writing this post to try to help you in solving it.

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ARPost

JANUARY 18, 2022

Defining a 3D realistic world in which he could virtually be a part of, the term ‘metaverse’ was born, and hasn’t been forgotten since. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual reality has continued to evolve and place itself outside of game-based settings and now within remote offices and the corporate sector.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2022

The reason why I think that this news is super-important is two-sided: On one side, it means that a platform with 50M of daily users is coming into virtual reality. Some months ago, the company behind it teased it was going to launch a virtual world, dubbed Oasis, that should have become “The Linkedin of the M-word”.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2022

Many journalists wrote bad things about Meta’s M-word efforts: they said that Meta invested $10B just to have this cringy virtual world. As the release notes state, Oculus profiles will “evolve” into a new Meta Horizon profile, while ‘Friends’ will become ‘Followers’. Read the comparison of the AR filters creator tools.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Audiences can also watch on Windows-powered laptops.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Finally, a new indie VR game that isn’t a wave shooter! Created by indie developer Deeperbeige Games, Bending the Light is a puzzle game launching exclusively on Oculus Rift today. Arrive in an ethereal, dreamy world filled with colorful beams of light and ambient music to set the tone.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Road To VR) More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Upload VR) Valve releases its own version of Quest Link Out of the blue, Valve has launched Steam Link, which basically is… Oculus Air Link offered directly by SteamVR. Lone Echo). But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2019

Today the studio is revealing Boneworks as a full game , due for launch in 2019. Yes, it surely incorporates what the development team has learned in the intervening years, but from a tech standpoint the studio started with a fresh slate and set out to redefine the fidelity of VR interactions by rooting their game in physical simulation.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2023

MR-integrated immersive wearables allow a user to combine their surrounding real and virtual worlds. MR passthrough enables users to display augmented visuals in real-world locations or introduce real-world items, such as a keyboard, into a workplace VR environment. VITURE also debuted a new device at CES 2022.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Virtual You: 3D Avatar Creator is powered by VR/AR developer Wolf3D , a company focused on exploring the idea of bringing humanity and VR/AR together through realistic avatars that you can use in games and other virtual experiences. Virtual You: 3D Avatar Creator is currently available on compatible iOS and Android devices.

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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. Supports Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, Valve Index, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, and more.

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