ARVR

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

virtual reality. And yet, we are still obsessed with virtual reality and aim to improve the medium as both a playful User Experience (UX) and an accessible Customer Experience (CX) Why? Though the project was small in scale, it was a welcome reminder of how far VR development has come since our Oculus DK1 days.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The choice of the magazine is not casual: Apple keeps pushing to show that its device is not a nerdy thing that isolates people, but it is a trendy thing that augments reality while you can still interact with other people. For the first time, Tim Cook showed himself wearing the Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2018

VRTK is a toolkit aimed at making things easier for VR Unity developers : it offers out-of-the-box functionalities (like locomotion, objects interactions, etc…) to developers, together with cross-platform support. I’m sincerely joyful for what happened: Oculus has saved VRTK, exactly as Microsoft has saved Altspace.

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ARVR

MARCH 8, 2021

Virtual reality has endless applications, from surgery precision training to fighting zombies in a game! For my first VR project, I decided to create a bowling game using the Unity game engine for an Oculus quest. For my first VR project, I decided to create a bowling game using the Unity game engine for an Oculus quest.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Oculus releases hands tracking SDK, official Link cable for Quest and more. This has been a great week for all Oculus Quest users and developers. First of all, Oculus has finally released the hands tracking SDK for Oculus Quest , letting all developers create hands-tracked application for this popular standalone headset.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. You can now invite your Oculus friends to play with a web link. This is great news for us all.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

App programming (Unity) We developed a simple intuitive application that would help employees understand and remember a sequence of actions. on HTC Vive, connected to a computer, for home training and presentations there is adapted for Oculus Quest. All actions are predetermined, each new step is highlighted.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Roblox has a huge user base (like 50M daily users) and bringing it to VR, maybe together with the launch of Quest 3, would give Virtual Reality an infusion of lots of new young users. Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. All VR magazines reported the news with enthusiasm. I would really hope for this to happen.

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ARVR

AUGUST 31, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. Hrafn Thorisson has worked in the field of virtual reality (VR) experiences since 2013. Hrafn Thorisson has had an intense interest in virtual reality (VR), specifically since he was a kid. The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4. Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Righ Taking the use case of a training session where the user is learning how to use specific equipment, like a dashboard, you will see your hand curling up around the steering wheel just like you are doing in real life.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Chinese magazine VRTUOLUO has published some photos of what looks like an early prototype of the device. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. million as pre-seed to build virtual characters (e.g.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Balthazar Auxietre. Eliza Mcnitt. Elliot Cole.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). Oculus delays shipments of the Elite Strap due to breakage reports. New details on the Lynx MR headset.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2020

The anxiety coming from this question is one of the reasons why I jump into learning Unity 3D and C# instead of learning Javascript. And after taking basic Oculus Quest development course, learning about WebXR, and trying new titles on SideQuest, I thought through this question again with a bigger picture in mind.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2020

I so asked some questions on Twitter to some people from the social media corporate and Chris Pruett , Director of Content Ecosystem at Oculus, has been so kind as to answer them. At OC4, Zuck said that he wanted 1 billion people in virtual reality… inside Facebook (Image by Upload VR). New Facebook account policy.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Facebook has started today enforcing the “Facebook login” rule , asking Oculus users to merge their Facebook and Oculus accounts. The community is not happy with this news, but another piece of news spread this week by VR magazines has given us some hope. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This is so cool!

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ARVR

JUNE 10, 2020

To illustrate this point we will compare two looking alike products that you can use to create interactions for VR content: the VR Interaction Framework, a well-reviewed Unity Plugin known to be user friendly, and the Interaction Builder from the Interhaptics Suite. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0

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ARVR

JULY 29, 2021

During the last few years, web developers have tried to integrate virtual reality experiences on websites, starting in 2016 with the first WebVR API, but leaving aside the important segment of augmented reality, which is why WebXR was born. It consists of a room in which you can interact with some objects.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The peripheral supported span from Oculus and Ultraleap Hand tracking, to Go Touch VR haptics devices and all commercial XR controllers. Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4. All are already included in Unity. It supports an extensive list of XR controllers, hand tracking systems, and haptic devices.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Since Meta made the acquisition and took over Oculus, VRTUOLUO began to write original and in-depth articles on the XR industry.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

One part of the characteristics of VRTK is its management of the project/scene for specific platforms (Oculus, Vive, etc.). The First No-Headset Virtual Monitor 3. Augmented reality (AR) is the future of Restaurant Menu? It is required to set up tracking, bindings, and several SDKs if you want to work on multiple platforms.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Though you probably wouldn’t have guessed it, one of those categories is virtual reading. Vive this week announced Vivepaper , an intriguing new VR app developed in partnership with the Chinese-branch of magazine publisher Condé Nast. The app doesn’t just bring the magazine into VR, however.

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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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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). 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. What can make it become the mirror of the real world.

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ARVR

JULY 5, 2021

These include video, social media, mobile apps and games (just ask Unity). Today, there are only about 18 percent of applications in VR stores such as Steam and Oculus which are free,” said Admix CEO Samuel Huber at an AWE EU event. VR shows similar patterns to media that were increasingly ad supported as they matured.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

As a virtual reality development company that has produced a variety of virtual tours for customers around the globe, we are ready to answer your questions and help get you started with building your own digital tour. 3D Virtual Tour As the name suggests, this tour is presented through 3D models.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Augmented Reality VR i.e Virtual Reality MR i.e Mixed Reality Here is a course from the University of Michigan. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. The objective behind this step is to get you familiar with terminologies of XR and become comfortable with the words used loosely in the XR domain.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

This also let me write various articles about it, like this one on Vive Focus streaming , this one on Focus instant preview for Unity or this other one highlighting the updates of the v2 runtime. When I published this photo of the Oculus Go and Vive Focus together, a lot of people got surprised by its dimensions. Oculus Go).

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 28, 2018

Oh, actually testing the program with Oculus Rift seems that the teleporting doesn’t work, damn. Eat an Oculus Rift that is on the desk just to make the stomach calm down. I had similar issues when developing with Unity for Oculus in 2015, for instance. Add the networking component to add multiplayer.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). These numbers are impressive for a VR company, and show how a virtual reality company can be successful now.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Going on the stage at an investor event, Qualcomm CEO and President Cristiano Amon has revealed that Oculus Quest 2 (now Meta Quest 2) has sold 10 million units worldwide. Roblox CEO has said in the past that he was intrigued by the Oculus Quest, and now it seems that the whole company is betting more on virtual reality.

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