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Virtual reality headset: how does it work?

Steki Amusement

Products like the Oculus Rift, Virtuix Omni, Google Cardboard, and Samsung Gear VR revolutionized the market. These environments are typically crafted on computers using specialized software like Unreal Engine or Unity. However, the 2010s marked a new era for VR, with the video game industry driving technological advancements.

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How to start developing with camera access for Meta Quest 3 on Unity 6

The Ghost Howls

In this tutorial, I will explain step-by-step how you can create a project using Passthrough Camera Access of the Meta SDK , both starting from the samples and starting from a blank Unity 6 project. Update your device if you have a previous version You must have a recent version of Unity. Exciting, isn’t it?

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An insightful interview with the Animal Company team

The Ghost Howls

I started out as an architect, working in commercial architecture for about five years, and then I saw the Google Cardboard, and the Oculus headset came out. ” A lot of the leaders came from Google. I’ve been working in the VR and XR industry for the past 10 years. ” I joined the company.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.03.25): Bigscreen Beyond 2 is a hit, new reports on Valve Deckard, and more!

The Ghost Howls

21 games are currently supported by the Oculus Publishing Ignition initative. This is an approach similar to what Apple is doing on Vision Pro and Google has already teased for Android XR. Pruett also added that it is not true that Meta is disinvesting in games: 200 games supported by Meta are currently in active production.

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The XR Week Peek (2025.04.30): Meta keeps evolving Ray-Ban Meta, Quest 3S refurbished are sold for $270, and more!

The Ghost Howls

I thought that Luxottica was only doing the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, but from this document, Ive just discovered that they also worked on Oculus for VR. I thought it was Palmer Luckey making Oculus, but I was wrong all the time. I thought it was Palmer Luckey making Oculus, but I was wrong all the time. Is this a coincidence?

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My thoughts on AI in my XR job – Part 1: Development

The Ghost Howls

Google search vs AI search When ChatGPT became famous, many people started using it to ask questions about coding practices. It started substituting the usual Google search, in which 90% of the results were some Stack Overflow threads. This way you can have the best of both worlds.

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How to build and run OpenXR applications in Unity

The Ghost Howls

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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