The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I finally managed (with some delay) to find the time to try First Hand, Meta’s opensource demo of the Interaction SDK , which shows how to properly develop hand-tracked applications. The Unity project. The Unity project of First Hand is available inside this GitHub repo. First Hand. First Hand Trailer.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Oculus recently published a new guide on how to optimize VR experiences along with some of the common pitfalls for devs to watch out for when tracking down and solving VR performance issues. SEE ALSO Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? You can make 3D worlds with HTML and Entity-Components for Virtual Reality headsets like Oculus Quest, Rift or WMR, SteamVR, mobile, desktop. ? Supported AR/VR devices ?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Of course, all of the various applications, programs and tools will require a base engine for creation, and that’s where Epic Games – and specifically its Unreal Engine – comes in. Creative applications like Oculus Medium, Tilt Brush and Ghost Paint are exposing artistry to computer users that’s much more visceral than ever before.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. When we started to show people [the Oculus Rift] in Hollywood, their question was ‘how do we get started?’…

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Oculus devices will require a Facebook login. The enormous piece of news of the week is tha t Facebook has communicated that from October, 20th, all people that want to use an Oculus device for personal use will have to use their personal Facebook account to log in. Top news of the week. Image by Tweakanalogy). The same on Twitter.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. This brings the point home about the need to learn how to develop content on other platforms.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My impression is that in the best case, this Deca is the new Pimax, a company with great ambitions, a good spirit, but no idea on how to execute, and this will lead to delays, confusion in the logistics, higher prices than expected, etc… And this is just the best case. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Image by Oculus). Other relevant news.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Turning to the Leadership Network, and leveraging the power of Oculus for Business, Aptiv achieved phenomenal results. With the Oculus Quest headset, Aptiv has been able to reduce in-person training times significantly, with most courses now only taking between 4 hours and 2 days.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Our plugins and resources for Unity, Unreal, and WebVR include fully interactive virtual hands that can interact with objects in 3D scenes. 4 Design Problems for VR Tracking (And How to Solve Them). and Oculus 0.5 JavaScript.

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. Oculus Rift VR/AR support is easily accessible, as the plugin handles all the necessary transforms. Breaking into Unreal development for the first time?

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these craftcorner #4: Developing in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Want to learn how to develop VR and AR applications?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Inside the box, you can find the instructions on how to assemble the device, both in English and in Chinese. Otherwise, you can code something using Unity and do some tests yourself. The aGlass SDK contains plugins for Unity and Unreal. The SDK contains also a little sample to better understand how to use it.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The actions coming from the US are not much related to VR and Oculus, but mostly to the social space. This could also mean splitting the Facebook Reality Labs into a separate company (a new Oculus?), In Germany, instead, the legal action regards the mandatory Facebook login for Oculus Quest 2. Oculus Rift S now costs $300.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

The more knowledge you have in your domain the more you can think about how to combine things and think out of the box. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. If in the future, you are working on an XR application that requires reaching out to a billion users, then you cannot ignore these quality aspects.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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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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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative. Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. Since hands-tracking is being so successful, Oculus has made two things to help developers. PSVR game Ghost Giant has come to Oculus Quest on February, 20th. It is very interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

More info (Rebecca Minkoff’s AR showcase) More info (Machine A’s AR app) More info (MetaJacket) More info (How to buy the MetaJacket) More info (Description of Awe Nite Florence event on Digital Fashion) More info (Subscribe to Awe Nite Florence event on Digital Fashion). Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

Although major game engines now come with built-in support for Oculus and Vive, Vizard’s support for all virtual reality hardware and head mounted display helps save a lot of time and development effort, said Hodgson. The university is now using Unity heavily. I’m anxious to see how that plays out.”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. So, here you are what I did today. Space Junkies is like that.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. we can’t use OpenVR and choose to execute directly in Oculus runtime); that will be dictated by the API/SDK we are using instead. .:

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. 4 Design Problems for VR Tracking (And How to Solve Them). Get started with Unity. Get started with Unreal. Getting Started Checklist.

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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. Then, many people didn’t understand how to enter the concert, and when they got it, they couldn’t enter because of server problems. Other relevant news. Image leaked from Meta firmware).

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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 recommended to build an exit scenario, where the user knows how to stop or leave the experience at any desired time.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2017

Oculus is calling its latest rendering tech ‘Stereo Shading Reprojection’, and says that for scenes which are heavy in pixel shading, the approach can save upwards of 20% on GPU performance. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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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. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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VR Bites

OCTOBER 10, 2016

If words like open source, GitHub, GNU, firmware, C#, or Unity don’t mean you anything, then you better stay away from this headset and buy a Rift or Vive. For example, you can use the Oculus Rift sensor instead of the OSVR sensor. The OSVR is packed in a brown cardboard box which is bit similar to the Oculus Rift DK2 box.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. For VR engines, we have CryEngine, Unity Engine and Unreal Engine.

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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. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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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. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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