The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I have been able to speak for almost one hour with Jeremy Bailenson , which is the professor at Stanford that is a legend in the VR field for his studies on interactions, psychology, and training in Virtual Reality. His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Or Unreal if that’s your language.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. As part of that, I got to meet Nate Mitchell and Brendan Iribe who later became two founders of Oculus.

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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. It is especially essential for training and educational VR experiences, where interactions should be measurable, retractable as well as evaluable.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Those enterprise customers have enthusiastically been adopting Microsoft’s mixed reality technology in a variety of productivity, collaboration, training, and visualization use-cases; while Microsoft, in turn, have been satisfying the wish-list of those dedicated customers.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

Huge Immersive Virtual Environment (HIVE) of Miami University is a 1,000 square meters virtual reality environment, and is used for the university’s research work such as spatial cognition and medical training simulations in nursing programs. I’m anxious to see how that plays out.” ” Virtual training use cases.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. For instance, since I work on a VR fitness game , I’m thinking about all the new training experiences that will become now possible. Other relevant news. Image leaked from Meta firmware). Learn more.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

And it might be true that it’s only as audiences start to go through experiences like this that they’ll start to learn the best practices for how to watch it. In order to watch a movie or TV show, we’ve trained our bodies to sit completely still and pay full attention to whatever is happening directly in front of us.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

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. There is also a companion app (another thing copied from Oculus), through which you can buy the games (of course connected with Alipay and WeChat pay).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And also, for AI training, as we’ll see in a while, realistic rendering and physics engines to create synthetic training data are of paramount importance. Or it can be that you use that scene to perform the training of some AI (e.g. some robots), so you can use the AI training service.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2018

The typical development environment that they use is Unity, but if the customer requires Unreal because wants a better graphical quality, they can develop using UE4, too. He told me that now even Chinese elementary schools have 3D printers , so children can learn how to create real objects by using Space Block.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

Even just providing a satisfying answer to everyone on how to get started would be difficult, because everyone comes from a different background and has a different final goal to which he/she can arrive with many different paths. So, I googled around and found a workshop from a Unity event that taught how to do a Unity game.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

The Rec Room community is growing pretty steadily, also thanks to the great sales of the Oculus Quest. All the transactions happen using Rec Room tokens, but recently the company made it possible to convert these tokens back to real money. Bank Of America to use VR training. News worth a mention. Image by Rec Room).

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI. They see the value.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. And yes, I use sarcasm a lot: “Hey Facebook, thanks for this”.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. Now, that same asset -- that same 3D model -- can be used for training your team on the features of that product. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. Now, that same asset -- that same 3D model -- can be used for training your team on the features of that product. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. Their market caps over $3-billion right now.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. Their market caps over $3-billion right now.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development. Nick Whiting.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

And let’s unpack this, because if you’re somebody who’s in the aviation world, this is a technology that can be used right across your enterprise; from previsualization, marketing, sales, training, remote assistance, remote collaboration — it can be used everywhere. You mentioned Unreal Engine.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

It was in the context, we were chatting -- watercooler moment -- chatting about how we could make some noise about untethered VR, particularly around the Oculus Quest. Now, that same asset -- that same 3D model -- can be used for training your team on the features of that product. Daniel: [laughs] One of my crazy ideas.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. They work on Oculus Quest, they work on the Magic Leap. Their market caps over $3-billion right now.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

And let’s unpack this, because if you’re somebody who’s in the aviation world, this is a technology that can be used right across your enterprise; from previsualization, marketing, sales, training, remote assistance, remote collaboration — it can be used everywhere. You mentioned Unreal Engine.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. But there is a need to to have more talent to help with it, and to strategically think through why and how can I use augmented reality. So, you know, factories, training — that type of thing. It’s to train social care workers using virtual reality.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. But there is a need to to have more talent to help with it, and to strategically think through why and how can I use augmented reality. So, you know, factories, training — that type of thing. It’s to train social care workers using virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2018

Echo Combat is a game funded by Oculus and developed by Ready At Dawn , the same game studio that developed Lone Echo and the popular multiplayer e-sports game Echo Arena. Apart from these little problems, the tutorial is very well made and guides you in learning step by step how to move within the game. Otherwise the blue team wins.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 17, 2019

How to create the best team? Let’s suppose that you are offering a solution for training in VR. Maybe you get featured on Road To VR, you get 200 likes on /r/Oculus. If you are in the VR training business, your customers are industrial companies needing training, not VR enthusiasts. This is for two reasons.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Back six months ago when we started to create this project of providing everybody with a resource of how to collaborate online using XR technologies. And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. Nobody can.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Back six months ago when we started to create this project of providing everybody with a resource of how to collaborate online using XR technologies. And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. Nobody can.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

On the downtown 3 train. Or because he’s been the first person attaching a Leap Motion to an Oculus DK1 with some duct tape, envisioning how hand tracking could be vital for virtual reality. After all of th ese technical difficulties, he had also to study how to 3D print the frame of the North Star and how to assemble it.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Back six months ago when we started to create this project of providing everybody with a resource of how to collaborate online using XR technologies. And XR Collaboration introduces that way of thinking, that way of training each other, and mentoring each other, and using that technology to express our creativity. Nobody can.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Everyone of us already knew that Gear VR was a platform almost abandoned when Oculus announced the Oculus Go. Anyway, officially, both Samsung and Oculus have continued at least to support it. Original image by Oculus). Xiaomi disbands the Mi VR team, with unknown effects on Oculus Go. Gear VR is dead.

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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. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees. Michael: Most impressive business cases, I think, go back to training.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

And one of the… I don’t know how many names I should name, but there’s definitely a large company here in KC that uses VR for training employees. I worked at their technology headquarters, and we did technology training for the employees. Michael: Most impressive business cases, I think, go back to training.

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