Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you can essentially create a video that places you straight in the action—one that better communicates the immersion of a VR game than a simple first-person screen capture. image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

JUNE 6, 2016

Epic Games’ popular Unreal Engine has just received a major update with version 4.12 With the latest release release of Unreal Engine 4 (version 4.12) Epic have included a preview version of the VR Editor they first unveiled in February and more recently at GDC 2016. The post Unreal Engine 4.12 Elsewhere, UE4 4.12

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

We looked at daily schedules in the Squad Pods, sketched on the whiteboards in the Immersion Rooms, looked at a 3D model around a holographic table in the R&D Lab, attended a virtual meditation class in the Wellness Center, toured the Studio Room, jammed out on the Main Stage, walked on the moon and more. .

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The German federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen recently partnered with the Nordmedia funding agency to debut a chilling immersive experience for history learners. XR and Immersive Documentaries.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Touch technology company Immersion wants to bring that work to the next level. Already supported devices include Nintendo’s JoyCons for the Switch — which we previously speculated might make good controllers for VR — and Oculus’ own position-tracked VR controllers, Oculus Touch.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The German federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen recently partnered with the Nordmedia funding agency to debut a chilling immersive experience for history learners. XR and Immersive Documentaries.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

In the last few years, we’ve seen virtual reality transform from a novel concept connected to the gaming and entertainment space to a crucial corporate tool. Increasingly, companies will search for designers versed in metaverse and virtual reality technologies to help them construct their own immersive worlds.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 20, 2023

Although Meta is pushing multiplayer-ready immersive worlds for gaming and the future of work, firms like Pico, Decentraland, Engage, and HTC VIVE are all debuting Metaverse services to provide different use cases. Finally, the Horizon hub includes Venues, a metaverse solution for enjoying live events with immersive visuals.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

‘Curfew: Join The Race’ is an immersive, interactive VR experience for Oculus Rift inspired by the exhilarating new drama. The experience was created using REWIND’s in-house version of Unreal engine along with a set of narrative and interactive tools, purpose-built for making immersive VR experiences.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

VR video games are some of the most immersive, visceral experiences to date. 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. They’re doing some amazing things. “We’re

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Road to VR

AUGUST 10, 2018

There are plenty of great games out there for Oculus Rift, with the Oculus Store featuring a number of top titles certainly worth your hard-earned money. But before you crack that wallet too wide open, you may want to take a look at some seriously cool free content out there on the Oculus Store right now. Developer : Epic Games.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is called “First Hand” because it has been roughly inspired by Oculus First Contact , the showcase demo for Oculus Touch controller released for the Rift CV1. All of this showed me that hand tracking may be unreliable, but when it works, it gives you a totally different level of immersion than controllers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

He stressed many times how he wants to empower creators, and how he wants to provide free tools for content creators and cheap hardware for the users. Zuck’s announcement has been reported everywhere, and this has been a very powerful endorsement for immersive technologies. Oculus brands disappears. I updated this image for you.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Reading the article excited me a bit, because when an experienced VR journalist says that something impressed him, well, I know that thing is super cool for real Vicon , which is a leading company in mocap systems, showcased for the first time its markerless mocap tool. The startup just raised $1.6

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

We’ve discovered how valuable the right XR tools can be in collaboration and communication, and how they can help innovators to build new products and ideas. Here, universities, schools, and training companies are embracing the experiential benefits of immersive XR technology to deliver lessons like never before. Meta Oculus and Aptiv.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations. More info.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And in fact, in these years, NVIDIA has always worked in offering the tools to improve the graphical quality of games and 3D applications in general , with ray-tracing (RTX ON / RTX OFF) being the latest big innovation it brought to the market. Omniverse is a powerful tool for creating 3D virtual worlds that is made of different modules.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

On the more comical side of the news, Unreal is suing Chinese smartglasses maker Nreal because the brand names are too similar and will cause confusion. Soon, you will be able to superimpose your real self into a virtual world through Oculus casting. Former Oculus chief Hugo Barra has announced he’s left Facebook in a blog post.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2019

Vertical Robot’ s acclaimed indie game Red Matter has just been ported to Oculus Quest and the title has already got a lot of interest. I have been so lucky to have the possibility of trying the game in preview , so here you are my review of Red Matter on Oculus Quest! The pause menu, showing amazing lighting.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

As companies continue to embrace the age of digital transformation, they’re looking for tools which can align seamlessly with the solutions they already rely on every day. As a result, the demand for “interoperability” in XR is increasing. The solution also integrates with Unity, Unreal, and even the iOS environment in some cases.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

Attendees could jump into one of six networked Oculus Rift headsets and enter the world of SlimeZone, letting you play games, watch cartoons, create art, and of course slime others. SlimeZone was built using Epic’s Unreal Engine and Nvidia FleX particle system for slime simulation.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

This week in XR has seen the launch of the first standalone MR headset, plus a lot of interesting news and articles about immersive realities. These are pretty cool, also because the Snapdragon XR 2 is much more powerful than the 835 mounted by the Oculus Quest. Do you want to discover them with me? Top news of the week.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This Year’s VR Hardware of the Year Award went to the Oculus Quest. The Oculus Rift S was also nominated for the award. The original Oculus Rift won the first VR Headset of the Year Award (not its own category this year) in 2017. That same year, Oculus Touch won VR Hardware of the Year. VR Experience of the Year.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And why should a creator use STYLY and not a social VR world with building tools like Horizon Worlds or VRChat? And the supported creators tools? Tools STYLY is compatible with. This world is called “Immersive Photo Exhibition ‘The Beautiful Girl Has Killing Eyes'” (Image from Styly). STYLY is free!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

Yes, this one has passthrough, 4K screens, etc… but still, it’s a very old and very not-immersive use case. And the video trailer showed a guy playing with a gamepad and the Apple headset , like people playing with the Oculus CV1 at launch. What year is it? 2016 or 2023? So it’s a good use case, but nothing new.

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VRScout

MAY 1, 2017

That’s why Mozilla, the makers of the popular FireFox web browser, are advocating their open source JavaScript API WebVR platform and HTML framework A-Frame to make it easier to design internet-based VR apps that run within cheap smartphone headsets or the more powerful Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. WebVR is one of these technologies.

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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 Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Meta One of the better-known names in the Metaverse landscape today, Meta (previously Facebook), is a technology company investing in the creation of immersive virtual spaces. Currently, the company is investing in a variety of tools to unlock the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 23, 2019

You know, I’m here for the Sandbox Immersive Festival that will begin tomorrow and I’m ready to tell you all my experience here! Oculus has teased the OC6. Oculus has just announced the dates for the Oculus Connect 6. Oculus is going to announce something not only about VR but also about AR. Other relevant news.

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Cats and VR

OCTOBER 31, 2016

the legendary indie studio that established the adventure exploration genre with the beloved and best-selling games Myst and Riven, today released the VR version of its critically-acclaimed sci-fi thriller, Obduction, on Oculus Rift. Obduction players can now immerse themselves in VR on Oculus Rift, or on a traditional monitor.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

It is a lightweight Python package capable of harnessing the heavyweight power of speech AI (NVIDIA Riva) and large language models (LLMs) to simplify user interactions in immersive environments. The new name containing the word “Oculus” means that the original name of the VR company is not completely going away.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine.

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