ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

Immersive games and apps and 3D videos have opened a new world for emotionally exhausted people staying at home 24/7. Some of the exhibitors who will present new devices and technologies to the public are 8th Wall, Nreal, Unity, Unreal Engine, Pico Interactive, Atheer, Holoptic, Varjo, Cleanbox Technology, LetinAR, and Vuzix.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Data miner Bast564 discovered it and shared a video about it online. Then yesterday the unthinkable happened: a guy shared online some pictures and a video about a Project Cambria headset and its box. VR modder Praydog has just announced a “Universal VR injector” for Unreal Engine. Other relevant news. Some news on content.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Offering everything businesses need to create immersive environments and digital twins, the Autodesk portfolio is brimming with useful tools for the metaverse. Autodesk’s motion capture solutions are leveraged by film, television, and video game developers across the globe.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Mine was planned to ship today, so I guess that tomorrow I will do an unboxing video! It seems that Meta is working on a similar technology , too, and a video released during the Meta Connect shows a user navigating and interacting with an XR experience by just moving a bit the fingers.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. VR looks incredibly stunning with Unreal Engine 5 features like Nanite and Lumen. Video) Learn more (Soccer game in AR?—?Volumetric Volumetric Video).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

If you want to watch the video of the recording, you can find it here: And now, let’s start speaking about the best AR/VR news of the week! Acquiring it, Epic secures a great source of assets for the developers using its Unreal Engine, and also the connection with many talents. New research is carried on about haptics.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

And it’s not over on the content side: they are going to launch the Pico Video app with 600+ videos on day 1 , and are partnering to have immersive concerts with Wave. Doing its keynote on video, CEO Jensen Huang introduced the new RTX4080 and RTX4090 graphics cards, which are based on the new Ada Lovelace architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

For example, captions are provided on videos for people in the deaf and hard of hearing communities as well as those who may not be native speakers of a language. For example, could you provide the player haptic feedback in addition or instead of visual or audio cues? But what does exactly “accessibility” mean?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Moreover, industry giant Unreal opened its RT3D suite to clients outside the gaming space, giving XR solution providers access to incredibly powerful and streamlined immersive content creation tools to enhance XR delivery greatly. Specialist tools, like Pixyz, allow for more control when making complex 3D models more lightweight and reliable.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 28, 2022

With built-in depth awareness, and 12-megapixel video passthrough, Varjo’s headset ensures users can interact naturally with both the real world, and virtual content. STRATOS Inspire Haptic Module. More than just a hand tracking solution, this system comes with the ability to built haptic feedback into your XR interactions.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

The first of these is a video playback demo, a feature Amazon says has been long requested by its community and was implemented into the Beta 1.7 More exciting is the second showcase, highlighting haptic feedback for motion controllers like the Oculus Touch or Vive wands. version of the engine, released recently.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

More info (Lynx R1 Launch post on Road To VR) More info (Lynx R1 Launch post on Upload VR) More info (Some more info on its special lenses) More info (Launch keynote) More info (Video that explains this kind of lenses) More info (Feedback on this kind of lenses) More info (Stan Larroque talking about the success of the sales). Let’s hope so.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 14, 2023

They then mounted the hardware for inside-out positional tracking into the vehicle. Using the Varjo XR-3 headset, the team was then able to combine a real-time video feed, with 3d car renders, built within Unreal and Unity software.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

That would make me a little happier and would let you watch my videos where I speak with my sexy Italian accent! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. Here you can find the link: [link] Thanks a lot []-).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It’s not clear on what platforms this functionality will be working on, but if I had to guess, I would say Project Cambria, since its body tracking was already revealed in a video some months ago. The fact that this was not the best commercial made by Meta is visible also on Youtube, where only 2% of the viewers have put a like on the video.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Carmack is a computer programmer best known for his work on the Quake , Doom , and Wolfenstein video games. Created by Fable and Oculus and powered by Unreal Engine, the film has been to Tribeca, the Chicago Film Festival and the Emmys. This is the first year that the award has been given and it went to John Carmack.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 24, 2021

Another big kudos comes from the fact that Snap is clearly showing all the limitations of the device in its communication : in all photos and videos, you can spot the limited FOV of the device, something that instead all the other AR companies try to hide. Watch a throuh-the-lens video of Tilt Five glasses. Kudos to Snap for it.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1 is a good example of something that probably never would have been funded by a traditional game publisher.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

This new industrial-grade system offers the most realistic haptics experience to date. It marks the first commercial availability of our industry-leading microfluidic haptic technology platform. Following the film’s release, The Wall Street Journal profiled HaptX, proclaiming immersive haptics is “closer than you think.”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

If you want to watch it, it’s a very interesting 2-hour-long video and you can find it here [link] together with a summary of the key points he said. And virtual influencer Lil Miquela will take part in the festival Lollapalooza and has just released a new (all virtual) music video for her new song. Top news of the week.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now more than ever the term virtual is becoming more synonymous with video conferencing i.e. Zoom calls, as opposed to actual immersive virtual environments with three Dimensional elements and interactive engagement. The All-Encompassing Extended Reality! For training programs, fan interactions, Retail opportunities Retail?—?Training,

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The second one is a device that should be presented at CES: the OWO haptic suit. More info (Lick It Up TV) More info (Owo haptic suit). Then, it guarantees that there is an open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal, so if in the future Meta wants to build its own engine, it could start doing that by forking Godot.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

With this digital edition, of course, we had nothing of this, and the CES was just a bunch of video announcements. Senseglove is an “affordable” enterprise haptic glove and it has just been upgraded to a version that is much more comfortable and usable than the last one. Senseglove Nova. The whole thing is incredible.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2023

They are not CGI concerts (a la Ariana Grande on Fortnite), or pure 180-360 videos (like the concerts that Meta was used to do inside Oculus Venues), but something in the middle: 180 degrees 3DOF experiences that mix a stereo recording of the singers together with CGI elements.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

With a lot of sadness, I’m here watching the photos and the videos of WCVRI , the big Chinese conference about VR that is held every year in Nanchang. Microsoft has showcased a new haptic device, that is made by a ball that moves towards your hand when you grab a virtual object and that goes away when your hand is free in the game.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

For every one of the four main themes, a headset solving it has been shown in the video. This has been also confirmed by TESTED, which has been able to go hands-on with the headset and offer a very meaningful video about them (which I advise you all to watch). For the first time I can see a real footage of the Teslasuit haptic gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The company has not posted real photos or footage from the glasses, just a promo video with an accompanying blog post detailed some of their characteristics. It has feet controllers, haptic feedback for hands, vibrational feedback for the hand, and other cool features that are missing in the most common headsets. It has 4.5DOF.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In addition to the free Trials on Tatooine virtual reality experience for HTC Vive, the studio released a 360-degree video that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The haptics and other things you can do in those environments can be very unique and very fun and give people a different kind of experience.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Touch controllers are still necessary to have an optimal VR experience because they let you feel something in your hands, they give you haptic feedback, they make you press buttons and such. A full mesh of virtual hands superimposed to the video stream of the hands of the user from inside the Quest.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2016

In fact, it brought to mind a much more user accessible version of the new VR editor tools which are making their ways to both Unreal Engine and Unity. A summary of the significant changes on their way next month are as follows: Haptic feedback! Hopefully some tutorial videos on advanced building. ‘Game mode’ system.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Outside of experiencing HaptX Gloves first-hand, we’ve found that video is the best medium to communicate how they feel, what they enable, and why they’re special. When we announced the HaptX Gloves Development Kit last month, a video trailer was a key ingredient to spreading the word. Choosing an approach, building a team.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The short-term goal is to provide better tools to professional video creators , so Unity can compete better with Unreal Engine, which is already used in Hollywood productions. Senso has just released its latest device: called Senso Gloves, it is a pair of haptic gloves for virtual reality. Senso is a new glove for SteamVR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Because most VR developers know well Unity or Unreal, and WebVR languages like A-frame are based on Javascript, that is very different from the usual programming flow of the game engines. This is very cool, and it could be used for AR, but also VR, for instance, t o let you move your head in videos so that to have 6DOF videos or photos.

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Ryan Schultz

AUGUST 23, 2022

Chapter 6 covers the computational requirements and trade-offs in building the metaverse, while chapter 7 looks at virtual world engines such as Unreal and Unity. for motion capture, the ability to interact via haptics, etc.), Chapter 8 addresses the thorny issue of metaverse interoperability and standards (i.e.,

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen some of the videos, I’ve seen what you guys are doing; holy crap. We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal? Yeah, it is.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

With Gear VR, you use your phone to experience VR apps, but your phone is a device that has to do a bazillion things (handle calls, messages, videos, VR, etc…), so it has to be good for lots of use. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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