ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Interhaptics is a Haptics software company specializing in tools for haptic design and rendering, and hand tracking interactions for digital platforms as Mobile, XR, and consoles. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices. All are already included in Unity.

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ARVR

JUNE 16, 2020

In this blog post, we analyze how V-commerce scenario creators can leverage Haptics and hand interactions to increase the value for its customers. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Multi-sensory experience with haptics With Interhaptics, you can create your haptic designs very easily.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. Unity has just released the XR Hands package, currently in preview, that aims at making developers integrate hand tracking into their applications via OpenXR. All VR magazines reported the news with enthusiasm. Cats are the best haptic devices. It’s terrible, really.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

This time we will talk about haptics in XR with some celebrities in the field like Guido Gioioso from Weart, Ashley Huffman from TitanHaptics, and Joe Michaels from HaptX. All the YouTubers and VR magazines talked about it, and it seems that the game is very fun. Interesting research about a VR haptic glove. Learn more.

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ARVR

JUNE 11, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 These type of VR experiences involves three types of components: image, sound, and haptic feedback. Trending AR VR Articles: 1. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2. Scripting Javascript Promise In Spark AR For Beginners 3. b) Semi- immersive ?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The PS5 is a big step forward for console gaming , and being paired with a next-gen controller like the DualSense, that provides realistic haptic sensations, it can give its players countless hours of fun. But the same sense of amazement doesn’t hold for VR. News from partners (and friends). Some XR fun. Funny link. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Japanese magazine Famitsu interviewed Sony Interactive Entertainment’s Hideaki Nishino and asked him many questions about PlayStation 5 and PSVR 2. Spatial has announced a toolkit for creators that can be used directly inside Unity. Diver X has started a new Kickstarter campaign about haptic gloves. Some news on content.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Haptics? —?The Haptics be used to assist in the creation of virtual objects in a computer simulation, to control such virtual objects, and to enhance the remote control of machines and devices (telerobotics). measures orientation and angular velocity; for ARCore-capable smartphones, it helps enable motion tracking.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR).

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some magazines talked about thousands of people laid off, but Bytedance refuted that the scale of the operation was that big. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. Meta shows its work on haptic gloves. Sometimes Meta publishes interesting posts about its research work, and this week it has released an article detailing its project about building haptic gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR….

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Especially the DualSense is an amazing piece of tech, with very stable IMUs and haptic sensations that increase a lot the “immersion” in the games : they can provide you the sensation of resistance, of textures of materials, of movements. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 6, 2016

As of the time of this writing, the beta branch of SteamVR has fully enabled haptic feedback for the Touch controllers, finally, and remapped many of the default button configurations. Everything’s very self-explanatory and Steam should automatically detect your sensors, both Touch controllers, and your Rift itself.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

HaptX announces the new generation of its haptic gloves. Dubbed HaptX G1, they are much smaller and cheaper than the previous version, and so present an important evolution for all the haptics space. So many exciting things are happening and I’m thankful to you all for the support you are giving me.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Thanks to this exporter, every Unity developer can create a WebXR experience by just building the Unity project for HTML5!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

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! HurricaneVR developer shows you the best way to promote a Unity Plugin for handling VR objects realistically with your hands. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

It’s my first time in such an important magazine and I’m incredibly happy about it! Reading the reviews from the most important magazines, I’ve learned that the killer feature of this headset is the new XR2 Gen2 chipset. Shipping will start on October, 10th.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Inside-out tracking was expected after having seen the controllers, but the haptic feedback on the head is a very welcome surprise. Having tried the bHaptics facial haptics interface , I can tell you that being headshot in a game and feeling a vibration on your face is very fun. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 9, 2021

Regarding the controllers, we know that they are similar to the Oculus Touch but with force-feedback triggers and more nuanced haptic sensations. VR To Tablet is a Unity plugin that lets you build your VR Android games in a way so that they can be enjoyed also by people that have a standard tablet. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. The VR magazine has anyway advised against buying it because Pico will probably release a new device in the next 12 months.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Teslasuit , the company famous for having created the most advanced virtual reality suit (that embeds haptics, hot/cold sensations, pain induction, etc…), has just announced a new product of its: a haptic glove. Image by Unity Technologies). Unity releases the EditorXR runtime. Thanks Matias Nassi for the tip!).

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Dean: I've tried some haptics gloves. Alan: "HaptX."H-A-P-T-X,

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Dean: Yeah, I was sort of a traditional newspaper and magazine journalist for a long time, and then, when the web came along and people started podcasting and blogging, I looked around and felt like it was less of a risk to go try something new than it was to stay at a newspaper. Dean: I’ve tried some haptics gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

Yeah, the 3D model of the trainer seems taken from the Unity Asset Store… Samsung has not talked about the glasses, not even revealing the name, or the specifications. Thermal haptics devices ThermoReal by TEGWay (Image by Road To VR). They look like the nReal Light (another clone?) but we know zero about it. Good luck to it.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Streamlining the development and integration of haptics and interactions is a necessary step to scale the use of Haptics in digital content, and including a haptic device that can raise the immersion of any XR project. Therefore, Senseglove and Interhaptics are collaborating to enhance XR content thanks to Haptics.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC). I want this advanced haptic glove Funny link. News worth a mention. Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Funny link.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Because I think it's a big shock, when you explained to me how the magazine that we get, some of the photos in there aren't real photographs, they're renders. And I've gone through the magazine, I can't tell. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I've tried a bunch of haptic gloves so far.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Because I think it's a big shock, when you explained to me how the magazine that we get, some of the photos in there aren't real photographs, they're renders. And I've gone through the magazine, I can't tell. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I've tried a bunch of haptic gloves so far.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. They get haptic feedback while they’re using the chainsaw and they understand viscerally the link between deforestation and using non-recycled paper or not recycling. I learned how to do the coding.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. As usual, these are all speculations, so let’s see what will actually happen.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 23, 2020

Because I think it's a big shock, when you explained to me how the magazine that we get, some of the photos in there aren't real photographs, they're renders. And I've gone through the magazine, I can't tell. Alan: Actually, I would say all of them are based on Unity or Unreal. Alan: I've tried a bunch of haptic gloves so far.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

But the bad of hand tracking is that you don’t have real haptic feedback of what you’re doing, and also the FOV is quite limited. And do you remember that demo all magazines talked about, that you read a text and when you arrive at the bottom of it, the text scrolls automatically? Plus it is also quite tiresome.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2021

Some weeks ago, I’ve launched on App Lab “The Unity Cube” , a VR experience for Quest, with just… a cube and nothing more. The genesis of The Unity Cube. This is the typical reaction of the VR user when he/she discovers The Unity Cube. The reasons for the cube. But “Why submitting just a cube?”,

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

Two years ago, when I went to the Gamescom with Max , I had the possibility of trying a haptic suit by Korean company bHaptics and I appreciated the more realism it could give to VR games. bHaptics is a Korean company producing haptic systems for virtual reality. bHaptics video review. What is bHaptics?

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