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. 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting. Their partnership with Unity will get them there quickly. There are already a lot of developers on Unity, so I understand that developing for the Vision Pro will be quite effortless. It remains to be seen.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. For the Oculus Rift, this offset is 80mm, while on the HTC Vive it’s closer to 90mm. Multiple Frames Of Reference. Body frame of reference. Head frame of reference.

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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. For Valve and HTC’s Vive headset it’s Steam, for Oculus and the Rift it’s Oculus Home. What does Revive actually do under the hood? Who’s behind it?

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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”. But that’s just how Unity works, and this post isn’t about Unity, so let’s move on. You may be saying “Come on!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

For reference, human vision (retinal resolution) is 60 PPD, which can also be expressed as “one arc-minute per pixel” (arc minute). The XR2 processor is already used in other products like Meta Quest 2 and HTC Vive XR Elite, making porting of games much simpler.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. And then fast forward to September 2020, Unity went public at-- I think they launched at something like a $24-billion valuation at launch. But then you look at Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. And then fast forward to September 2020, Unity went public at-- I think they launched at something like a $24-billion valuation at launch. But then you look at Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

They're creating kind of reference designs for the world to build on. We heard from Alvin Wang Graylin from HTC talking about 2021 and beyond. And then fast forward to September 2020, Unity went public at-- I think they launched at something like a $24-billion valuation at launch. But then you look at Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In a side event happening after AWE, HTC has announced a bunch of updates of Vive Focus 3 that have the potential of revolutionizing the Location Based Entertainment in VR (LBEVR o LBVR) sector. Be sure to tune in if you want to participate in this interesting event! Top news of the week. The new updates to Vive Focus 3 may revolution LBEVR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. It is very cool.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Later this year, we’ll expand our Vulkan support on Quest to include Unity and Vulkan validation layers for easier debugging.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

And for price parity, companies were usually working with Pico and HTC that have always had a better approach in the B2B sector. Pico and HTC still offer better services, and better guarantees on data management than a consumer device, so it has to be seen what companies will value the most. Presence Platform. Cloud Backup.

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