EON Reality

JUNE 18, 2019

The US Embassy in Firenze (Florence), Italy, opened its doors for an incredible double-centenary celebration, and EON Reality Italia was asked to represent the high-technology presence in the region of Emilia-Romagna at the forum titled ‘United States of Bologna.’. Benjamin Wohlauer, Console Generate degli Stati Uniti a Firenze.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2021

Shipping was a bit slow: the skins had to arrive from the US and I live in Italy, so I was expecting at least 2 weeks of wait, and that happened. I created a custom skin with Skarredghost logo and Unity Cube controllers and installed it on my Quest 2. The Unity Cube sticker is fitting very well on top of my controller.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember one day at Immersive Architecture with Enea Le Fons in 2018 when we played around with the Focus, and then at a certain point, he was walking with us in the central plaza of Venice (Italy) with the headset on. Everyone was looking at him like a weird guy, it was very funny.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

Inflation here in Italy is ramping up, and the impression I have is that we are entering into a recession phase. The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Image by Unity Technologies). And all these problems are also creating unfavorable economic conditions. Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below. Let me take a moment before to thank anyway all my Patreon donors for the support they give to me: Alex Gonzalez VR DeoVR GenVR Eduardo Siman Jonn Fredericks Jean-Marc Duyckaerts Reynaldo T Zabala Richard Penny Terry xR. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

In the long and troublesome travel back to Italy from AWE, I’ve lost the last flight and so I’m currently here writing my newsletter from the lobby of the hotel where I spent the night :|. Hello all from L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the small town of the Barcelona airport.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since I have worked on some VR concerts myself (and one even got featured on the Unity blog), I thought my opinion could be valuable for someone… at least for the Stageverse developers that so have some feedback about what to improve. but I thought it could be interesting to write some short first impressions about it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

There are lots of tests that must be done on VRChat to see what is feasible because in VRChat you can develop using Unity, but you can’t write C# scripts and this kills completely lots of possibilities for us developers. So… it’s complicated, it’s stressful , but at the same time when you see what is being created, it is also very rewarding.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Holo-Light has also just announced to have become the first AR/VR streaming provider to be named Unity Verified Solutions Partner. I wonder if I launched the same application from my city here in Italy, if I would have the same results. Hands-on XRnow. Even worse if I was not in a city but in the country side.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Probably I should tell you that I was busy with VR projects, but the truth is that I have been celebrating a lot lately, especially the recent victory of Italy in the Euro 2020 soccer championship. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

Anyway, in these two weeks, even with some difficulties, I’ve managed to work quite at the same pace that I had in Italy , and we are going full speed ahead in improving the platform (some news about it is coming very soon…). While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

August, 15th is a special day in Italy: it is called “Ferragosto”, and people go out with their friends and families and grill some BBQ in the parks, have picnics, or just chill together. Almost no one works, and people are focused on enjoying good food and good company.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tony Parisi from Unity was also there. That’s probably the most important feature of the event: people from all over the United States are coming, and also people from all parts of the world are coming (I just got here from Italy), and this is amazing if you want to enlarge your community. It was literally insane!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

Another busy week has passed by, and here in Italy we just got the news that lockdown measures will start to loosen from next week, but the road to go out as we wish is still long. We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management).

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ARVR

JUNE 19, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 The goal was to communicate their international certification to B-Corp (the first in Italy): a company that works responsibly, sustainably, and transparently and pursues a purpose greater than profit, that is, a positive impact on people and ‘environment.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by NVIDIA).

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. Unity launches MARS tools. After many months of teasing them, Unity has finally launched the MARS tools, a suite of tools to build easily Augmented Reality experiences in Unity without knowing how to code.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!), The HoloLens 2 Development Edition will become available in 10 additional countries by the end of the year: Canada, Germany, France, UK, Ireland, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and Italy.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And it is so satisfying using VR to promote art and culture , even more if it is about my lovely Italy. While you have no possibility of using C# in VRChat, you have still 100% of Unity power in the Editor. Unity editor scripts are very useful to produce some automation for you. Why VRChat? You are going to need automations.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. I am in the team organizing On|Metaverse Summit 2022, the first international B2B summit on metaverse and virtual transformation in Italy. The CEO of Sketchfab has tried it and said that it works quite well. News from partners (and friends). Join the On|Metaverse summit.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Regarding porting your content, as a developer, there is good news: Pico has recently become compatible with Unity.XR, so it’s much easier to port your content (if you are a Unity developer). For Laval Virtual, I was able to port our fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded from Quest 2 to Pico Neo 3 Link in a few hours!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator. If you add VAT, in Italy it will cost €600. The rumors from Mark Gurman talk about a new cheaper version, which can have a more mass market appeal, forecasted for 2025-2026.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. It looks very interesting, and as a Unity developer, I want to experiment with it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

I’m back in Italy, but I have left a piece of my heart in Austin, where I had an unforgettable experience both on the personal and professional side at SXSW (you can read more about my experience here ). XR Bootcamp has created an interesting table with the comparison of all the most popular interaction SDKs for VR in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

When a journalist of IGN Italy was trying to install the new Xbox Wireless Headset on the platform, he was greeted with an Italian message saying “The VR goggle must be updated”. Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College). (Image by Microsoft). Xbox VR support has been leaked, or maybe not. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

It will have tools for building for it, and aside from the usual Apple tools, developers can use Unity to create content for it. Remember that in the US, salaries are much higher than in other parts of the world, so if in San Francisco $3499 may be worth “just” the rent of a month, in Italy, it is 2.5

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 19, 2021

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 10, 2020

My team is looking for freelancers for developing an XR experience : we’re looking for 2D artists, 3D artists, Unity developers, sound designers, and UX designers. These people must preferably stay in Italy, but we are also open to remote collaborations. Register now. Propose yourself.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

This means that if you have developed your application using Unity XR and Unity XR Interaction Toolkit, you can port your application that already runs on Quest to Pico Neo in just a few hours. It is already available in the native SDK, and according to the company, it is coming to the Unity SDK soon. I felt honored.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

There is a lot at stakes, because if these two companies won’t settle (and I think that they are just firing big shots before finding an agreement), Unreal Engine developers won’t be able to develop properly for Apple XR devices, and they will have all to migrate to Unity. China is launching real name identification in games. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

I have almost no friends here in Italy with Apple TV. Talking about the price, most people in the Valley forget how the world has different salaries from them: $3000 may be an acceptable expense in San Francisco for a gadget, but in Italy, for most people, it is worth 2-3 months of salary , so that would be a very hard call.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Some people choose to create a Unity 360 virtual tour, since this game engine has multiple plugins and extensions that make development easier. For example, many tourists in Italy are offered VR tours for Oculus that let them explore ancient monuments restored to full glory in 3D.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

The damn coronavirus has arrived in my city in northern Italy, but I’m still alive and kicking, reporting you the most interesting XR news of the week! This weekend I’ve also organized together with SIDI a big VR workshop on new technologies (XR, AI, neural links, etc…). Do yourself a favor and invest 30 minutes of your life to read it all.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The damn coronavirus continues to impact all our lives: the fact that many countries are applying restrictions on flights to and from Italy is, for example, creating various nuisances to my job. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. Coronavirus impacts headsets production and kills F8 and GDC. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Today in Italy it should be the day when we go pic-nicking… but given the fact that we are in lockdown, I’ll just eat a lot at home While I send you a lot of good vibes, let’s see together what have been the best pieces of AR/VR news of this week, that has been incredibly interesting! (My Learn more.

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