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

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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Road to VR

MARCH 6, 2017

Realities, a ‘virtual travel’ title that presents near photo-realistic VR captures of real-world locations, has received a major update. In addition to a new explorable location, the software has been overhauled to support forward rendering and improved support for Oculus Rift and Touch.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Organized by the VR Society, presented by AMD Studios, and co-presented by Dell, “On the Lot” is back for its second year. ” In addition, Unreal Engine will premiere The Giant: Michelangelo’s David in VR to the public, which lets audiences get up-close with the iconic statue unlike ever before.

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APRIL 20, 2023

The Metaverse Promise Zuckerberg presented the Metaverse concept as the “successor to mobile internet” in his Connect 2021 keynote. Moreover, trusted gaming engines like Unreal and Unity are gaining new usage as RT3D engines. The report claims that roughly 16 percent believe video calls help them feel present in meetings.

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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.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

The company says Metal 2 will also support Unity, Unreal Engine and the Steam VR SDK, making Apple’s new operating system a true VR-native. The new external GPU dev kit, available today, is coming with a VR-capable AMD Radeon RX 580, which is somewhere between an NVIDIA GTX 1060 and 1070 in function. image courtesy TIME.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. Once the base becomes big enough, the platform becomes extremely interesting for marketers and advertisers.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

What’s exciting about HeadOffice.Space is that it is interoperable, flexible, and accessible across multiple platforms, with Mac, iOS, Android, Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, and Oculus Quest support currently in development.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Bleszinski in the Oculus Rift Kickstarter video | Photo courtesy Oculus. Bleszinski indeed believes in the technology.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2017

Now, developer Rocksteady has announced that it will soon launch the game on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games. Price hasn’t been announced, but the game is presently priced at $20 on the PlayStation Store.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap. Image courtesy Neat Corp.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 12, 2016

Hackathon events in various forms are now commonplace across different technologies and for virtual reality has proven an important catalyst for innovation and creativity in the past, with both Oculus and HTC embracing the format to encourage content creation. Image courtesy Scapeliving.com.

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Road to VR

JUNE 15, 2017

The games run on Unreal Engine, and are targeting all three major VR platforms. Having showcased Doom VFR for PSVR and HTC Vive and Fallout VR for Vive at the Bethesda keynote, followed by the reveal of Skyrim VR for PSVR during Sony’s presentation, the VR community have reacted to the obvious omission of the Oculus Rift.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We’re going to design and sell products, make compelling presentations and understand complex data.” ” He went on to talk about Facebook’s social VR demo that debuted at Oculus Connect 3 last month, revealing that both it and Oculus’ own Rooms and Parties social software had been made with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Then it could update them very fast and make them as powerful and successful as the Oculus Quest. More info (Oculus Quest with keyboard and mouse) More info (120Hz refresh rate on Quest 2) More info (Facebook and BCIs) More info (Rumor on Facebook smartwatch). Epic Games presents MetaHuman Creator. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

Oculus Go showcased. The Oculus Go (Image by Oculus). At GDC, the Oculus Go has been one of the main characters. First of all, Oculus has showcased all its main technical characteristics : I advise you to read the post dedicated to that on Oculus blogs , where Chris Pruett introduces you to them.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info Owlchemy Labs thinks hand tracking can make VR mainstream Owlchemy Labs has just presented a demo of the popular game Job Simulator completely working through hands tracking. I guess in my life I made the wrong job decisions… Learn more Praydog’s Universal Unreal VR Injector will automatically inject VR into many Unreal-based games.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

The talk, presented by HTC’s senior developer Dario Laverde, focused on how developers can integrate hand tracking into their applications. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

In the useful 5% part of the interview, Mark expresses very practical considerations about the present and the future. He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. He seemed like Mr. Cocteau in the movie Demotion Man.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Apart from these are dozens of SDKs present. Depending upon your app’s feature requirements and your present code architecture, select an SDK and then continue with the development. The Oculus headsets have the Oculus SDK. Android & iOS. Most of the SDKs are still evolving. In VR, there is an SDK for each VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Then, he donned an Oculus Quest 2, put a controller on the bike, and rode the bike while doing the VR game, with the real track mapped perfectly with the virtual track. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset. VR developers makes crazy experiment with a bike. More info. A mask to breath in VR.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Going by the descriptions for the images, the project was developed for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift using Unreal Engine 4. Still, Assassin’s Creed is no stranger to spin-offs, and the series’ penchant for time-swapping stories presents some interesting opportunities for the genre.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

EditorVR (which the company calls EVR for short) provides a robust virtual reality interface for Unity that’s said to support both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. Unreal Engine , Unity’s biggest competitor, has also launched an early version of a similar ‘VR Editor’ back in June with version 4.12

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JANUARY 1, 2017

Various objects (a bus, a basketball hoop etc) are presented around you to provide a sense of scale. National Geographic and Oculus. Unreal and enchanting — this kind of footage makes a case for bringing your 360 cameras wherever you travel. Kids old enough for VR will love this one. Produced by: Felix & Paul.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

One of the more surprising announcements during the presentation, Spatial Anchors serve as a way to share three-dimensional images compatible with Apple’s ARKit as well as Google’s ARCore. Microsoft wrapped up its presentation by outlining its commitment to fostering an open MR ecosystem. “We Spatial Anchors.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Its war-torn city wouldn’t be out of place in a Gears of War game (it’s built inside developer Epic’s Unreal Engine 4), and it’s quite unlike anything else the studio has made thus far. It went down “fantastically well”, according to Kibblewhite, and even a certain Oculus Rift inventor saw it and liked it.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But most probably they are just concept videos , maybe for internal presentations. Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199. Manus presents the Pro Tracker. Image by Epic Games, from The SportsRush).

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ARVR

JULY 15, 2020

You probably have heard of well-known models such as the Oculus Go, Oculus Rift, Playstation VR, and HTC VIVE?—?these Another industry standard is Unreal Engine, however, it is widely considered to have a steeper learning curve than Unity. these are relatively pricey, starting at ~$200 CAD and going up to $1000 CAD.

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Hypergrid Business

JULY 7, 2017

Although major game engines now come with built-in support for Oculus and Vive, Vizard’s support for all virtual reality hardware and head mounted display helps save a lot of time and development effort, said Hodgson. Virtual presentations with Skofield. The university is now using Unity heavily. Read more case studies here.

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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

JULY 8, 2019

nReal has been sued by Epic Games for the name too similar to Unreal and by Magic Leap that claims that nReal CEO Chi Xu has stolen the technology of the American company while working there. They present a design that is very light since all the processing power is in a separate computational unit.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. One of my favorite games of all times is Unreal Tournament because I just love to shoot and kill without thinking too much… or better, without thinking AT ALL.

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ARVR

JUNE 22, 2021

Another mode is Refuel, where you can capture 3 different points on the map by occupying them for a few seconds and eliminating all the opponents which may be present. Also what caused an outcry is that at launch, no other headsets are supported other than Oculus devices. The team that has captured the most points wins.

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