The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Using Unity and Photon , the team pioneered a new software framework designed for producing live musicals and operas that could be used in future productions. The technology is so new, in fact, Miranda will actually mark the world debut of this new software! There are several ways to jump into the world of Miranda.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2021

feet (74 x 66 cm) Weight: 110 lbs (50 kg) Communication: Wifi, LAN Wifi Setup: Bluetooth setup by Yaw2 app General setup: Yaw2 app for android, iOS, Windows SDK: unity, UNREAL Emulator: android, iOS, Windows. Image Credit: Yaw VR. Image Credit: Yaw VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Custom waveform editor window, allowing you to design waveforms without ever leaving Unity. Anything supported by the Unity XR platform should be supported by this.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

“Our goal at Charles River Analytics is to provide a next-generation interface that streamlines development and increases adoption without sacrificing the quality of the XR outcome,” said Charles Rivers Analytics Software Engineer, Dan Duggan, in a press release. An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Meta (Oculus). At the same time, Meta’s flexible software landscape ensures teams can access a wide range of educational apps, or make and implement their own learning tools from scratch. VIVE’s technology combines incredible high-definition visuals and audio with ease of use and a flexible ecosystem for software programs.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. I’ve made a nice Youtube video with me saying random stuff and exploring the Vive Hand Tracking SDK at first in Unity and then in action using my hands in VR.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi took the stage and confirmed that “Valve is bringing SteamVR to Mac.” ” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Until recently, Rune Skovbo Johansen worked at Unity as a senior software engineer, working on Eye of the Temple as an indie developer in his spare time. The demo is still available for free on Steam too, supporting SteamVR headsets including Valve Index, HTC Vive, Windows MR, Oculus Rift, and Oculus Quest via Link.

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. All of the features we’ve seen on-stage so far are expected to be included in the experimental release, though we’ve reached out to Unity to confirm this.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

Game creation has become a big topic for ease-of-use software applications in recent years. As is popular in many game engines, such as Unity , SMILE GAME BUILDER is adding the ability to interact with your creations in real-time by going inside a VR headset. Tagged with: creation , jrpg , smile game builder , smileboom , steam.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Back at CES, Oculus announced that Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi would exclusively bring its own branded version of the standalone Oculus Go headset to China. The Xiaomi Mi VR Standalone headset is identical hardware to the forthcoming Oculus Go, the $200 standalone headset that Oculus announced late last year.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

forward, OpenXR will retain “full backwards compatibility […], giving software developers and hardware vendors a solid foundation upon which to deliver incredible, portable, user experiences.” Oculus has committed to bringing OpenXR runtime support to both Rift and Quest later this year. The post OpenXR 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Image by HTC Vive). HTC expands its Cosmos offering and teases the future with Proton. This has been a pretty interesting week for HTC Vive. And it is nice that HTC with this new Cosmos line is satisfying the needs of a broad share of VR people : from the casual gamer that wants something cheap to the professional.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. Lone Echo). But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’ve seen Unity’s impressive in-VR authoring tool a few times throughout 2016, with no real clue of when it’s coming. Unity (@unity3d) November 1, 2016. This time, West used the HTC Vive, having used the Oculus Rift with Touch controllers in previous demos. That changed today.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

It’s no doubt been a massive undertaking creating a platform agnostic standard for VR and AR, as The Khronos Group consortium has included in its ranks the important hardware and software creators in the industry, including AMD, ARM, Epic Games, Facebook, Google, HTC, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Unity, and Valve.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Up until this point, creating a completely unique avatar meant designing your own 3D model, rigging it for animation, and importing your creation into the 3D game engine Unity. Not only is this a lengthy process, but it also requires a certain amount of knowledge of 3D modeling software. Image Credit: Ready Player Me.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Magic Leap also benefits from a robust open platform, where retail and ecommerce innovators can develop applications with open-standard software. Alternatively, companies looking to provide their customers with more fully immersive experiences can build applications for the Oculus VR headset.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 20, 2020

The Oculus Touch controllers are great devices for interacting with virtual reality (VR) worlds but they’ll never be as intuitive as simply using your hands , which Oculus Quest users have been able to experiment with for several months now.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 9, 2022

Meta is also the company behind Oculus, one of the more accessible and affordable VR headsets on the market. Unity represents one of the most flexible environments in the XR landscape for companies looking to build their own collaborative experiences from scratch.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 18, 2018

If you aren’t familiar with the concept of a video game emulator, this magical piece of software (or hardware) allows a computer system, also called the “host,” to operate like a particular video game platform. Developed in Unity, each pixel is rendered with volume, in turn adding a sense of depth and layer to the original 2D composition.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

During their investigation, the team claimed to also have discovered several concerning security flaws in the popular game engine Unity – upon which Bigscreen was developed. On February 14th, the research team presented their findings to Bigscreen and Unity, who have since provided a security patch and user warning respectively.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe. Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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Peter Graham

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Soon Oculus will begin to adopt OpenXR with support reportedly coming in the latest Oculus Public Test Channel release. Appearing on the Oculus Forums , the preview release is available for testing now , just don’t expect to be running an HTC Vive or Valve Index on Oculus Home anytime soon.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

CrossVR’s Revive , the software that allows HTC Vive users to play games from the Oculus platform, today announced it’s joining one of the leading initiatives in creating an open standard for VR and AR apps and devices, otherwise known as OpenXR. image courtesy Khronos Group. .”

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MARCH 14, 2017

Back at GDC 2017 at the start of this month Unity gave us a brief update on Editor VR, its new platform for developing 3D content within headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Tagged with: Editor VR , KinematicSoup , Scene Fusion , unity.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS. While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Vive Demo on Stage.

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

Revive is an application that allows select VR games exclusive to the Oculus Home platform to be played on a rival SteamVR-powered HTC Vive headset. A recent update to Oculus Home crippled Revive , an act that has caused outrage in the VR community. And are Oculus really doing anything wrong anyway? Who’s behind it?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. Image by Unity Technologies). Other relevant news.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 29, 2024

Android is a semi-open software platform. And since then, it has failed to build its own software development platform besides a fragmented series of integrations for game engines like Unity, nor has it built out its own suite of vital first-party applications beyond Horizon Workrooms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Some people even found the demo pretty underwhelming, but actually, I know that the strength of Meta all these years has been the software updates.

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