The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It makes sense for Samsung, which is great in manufacturing hardware, to partner with Microsoft , that is doing a good job in creating a platform for XR, to compete with the other companies. It is a big showcase demo for its Unreal Engine 5, and I have to say it is pretty impressive. Click this link to donate and support this magazine!

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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. Somnium Space gives detail on its new hardware. A look back at 2021. I like this approach.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

After this VR performance, he was interviewed by a lot of magazines and websites and became famous in the VR communities of the whole world, China included. I think humans are more than ready, the hardware is getting there … and software making VR more relevant and useful is being built as we speak. And if not, why?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Dubbed “The Metaverse Primer”, it describes all the various aspects of the metaverse, from hardware to software, not to mention networking and monetization. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Google also offers ARCore , a developer tool for Android, iOS, Unreal, and Unity which help integrate AR elements into the real environment. With 5G technology expected to drastically improve AR/VR experiences, Qualcomm’s hardware, such as the Snapdragon XR2 chipset platform, is destined to play a major role in the future of AR/VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Unreal Engine is not exactly the most friendly game engine when it comes to Android development, and that’s why Oculus has just released some facilities to help UE4 developers in iterating Oculus Quest applications faster. Support this VR magazine! of units more produced annually. Not a great evolution from Microsoft.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

The promise of Augmented Reality hardware has been immense, but so have been the number of misses. Can Jio’s next hardware play be any different? Reliance Jio’s foray into mixed reality started in 2019 when they acquired majority stake in deep-tech startup Tesseract which has a few hardware products in XR space.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2020

So it is not advised to just shoot like crazy a la Unreal Tournament : you also need some strategy and think when to use the grenades or the explosive barrels that are scattered all around the levels. The problem is more on the hardware side than on the software one : I mean, after hours with a headset on my head, I started feeling some ache.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Or Unreal if that’s your language. I learned how to build hardware because back in the late ’90s, we weren’t using beautiful inside-out tracking systems. There was a lot of hardware work. You were really there building hardware and using very low frame, low-resolution headsets. It’s all very cool.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

UEVR is a universal VR mod, and it lets everyone easily convert every Unreal Engine-based PC game (including the AAA ones) into a VR experience. More info Some interesting interactions in VR Keeping talking about Road To VR, sometimes the magazine publishes articles where they talk about some good UX made in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

As I told you before, bHaptics suit and accessories, even if they actually shine in VR, are not VR-specific hardware. As soon as I released the magazine, I could feel the haptic sensation of something falling down through my back , as something really slipped into a bag there. I loved that sensation, it was so cool.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

More info Other relevant news (Image by Apple) Apple invited XR journalists to WWDC For the first time ever, Apple has explicitly invited the main editors of the most important XR magazines to the WWDC. It’s interesting to see how Somnium is strategically investing in many hardware companies like Vrgineers, Lynx, and now Hypervision.

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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

MAY 24, 2021

In an interview with a Chinese magazine, HTC China (Mister) President Alvin Graylin has stated that in his opinion, Facebook may lose at least $100-$200 for each sold Oculus Quest 2 device. Considering that Quest has sold at least 3M units now, this means more than $300M of losses from the hardware sales for Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The community is not happy with this news, but another piece of news spread this week by VR magazines has given us some hope. Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. A report and recommendations prepared by a U.S. I love the internet.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 7, 2018

Speaking with Alvin and an Unreal developer (that has used the Pro since various days) after my quick tests, they told me that probably I haven’t been excited by it because I just used it some minutes and because I haven’t tried demos that highlight all the pro-features that I’ve discussed above.

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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. Of course, the hardware you use must provide access to this software solution. Why does this matter? Enter the new dimension of advertisement.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. It is much better than ALVR and other similar solutions (of course, because Oculus can operate at a deeper level on its hardware and runtime).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 15, 2018

So, the company has created this androgenic girl called Mica , which should be as close as possible to a real human, featuring a great visual quality (thanks to Unreal Engine) and credible eye movements and facial microexpressions. This has been a news that has been ignored by most XR magazines and that is instead very important.

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