Road to VR

JULY 13, 2020

Oculus has updated its UE4 Quest development tools so that developers can spend less time waiting and more time testing and iterating on their VR applications. SEE ALSO Oculus is (still) Covering Unreal Engine Royalties for $5M in Revenue Per-game Through 2025. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2018

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if the app passed minimum standards and a content review to determine it was a complete and polished experience. image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Today I publish a very specific post to help Oculus developers in a particular situation I’ve been myself in: how to publish an update to an App Lab experience of yours when the “Production Channel” is missing in the Oculus Developer Hub interface and the web uploader has been deprecated. My story with this problem.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. The virtual collaboration product uses 3D visualization tools to enable pharma R&D between computational chemists and structural biologists. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Back at Microsoft’s annual SharePoint Virtual Summit in May 2018, the company announced it was getting ready to ship a new VR maker tool set called Spaces for SharePoint, the web-based collaborative platform for enterprise customers. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

Unreal Engine 4.20 In the VR realm, the new version brings native mixed reality video compositing for VR applications, and an update to a much newer Oculus SDK. Unreal Engine 4.20 Updated Oculus SDK. For developers using Unreal Engine to build titles for the Rift, UE 4.20 The post Unreal Engine 4.20

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Quest 3 was the third most used VR headset on Steam in January, surpassing Oculus Rift S and almost catching up to Valve Index. As we predicted it would last month, Quest 3 is now used more on Steam than the PC-native Oculus Rift S. The data comes from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey. It was 5.2% UploadVR David Heaney

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VRScout

MAY 19, 2016

Riding the wave of excitement over Google’s new VR platform, Daydream, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri announced on the Google I/O stage today that the gaming giant has brought support for Daydream to Unreal Engine 4. In a collaboration with Hardsuit Labs on the plugin, Epic Games has made Unreal Engine 4 support for Daydream available now.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The company puts a focus on community building with a new suite of developer tools. The social media company is doubling down on its vision of the metaverse with new tools, games, and experiences, and a reinvigorated focus on social, fitness, and work. . Last week was quite a busy one for Facebook, or should I say Meta.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Oculus recently revealed in a blog post that in the past months they’ve been working on bringing native mixed reality capture support to Oculus Rift, and it’s available today for developers to start creating mixed reality videos. image courtesy Oculus. 3D printable mixed reality mount, image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD.

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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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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

In a quest to create increasingly lifelike audio in VR environments, Oculus has pushed out an update to its Audio SDK recently that provides developers with the ability to create more realistic audio by generating real-time reverb and occlusion based on the app’s geometry. This isn’t Oculus’ first go at more realistic audio.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It provides complete services to creatives and brings together all the tools and platforms they need in one XR studio. This studio system contains the latest interactive production tools, such as Oculus, Manus, Vive , Faceware, Varjo , and Xsens motion capture. The Forge leverages the power of XR technology.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Oculus recently published a new guide on how to optimize VR experiences along with some of the common pitfalls for devs to watch out for when tracking down and solving VR performance issues. SEE ALSO Oculus Research Devises High-accuracy Low-cost Stylus for Writing & Drawing in VR.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

We took these incredible tools and “workified” them, making them persistent, secure, and integrated with the most important business and communication tools, for the optimal headquarters.” ” Image Credit: HeadOffice.Space. HeadOffice.Space offers 20+ spaces to choose from.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Use of VR in the Field of Education Vindevogel goes on to say that VR will be a useful tool in the field of education. More Accessible Developer Tools VR solutions are becoming more popular in commercial settings and it’s expected that developing such solutions will become simpler in the coming years.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Now, Survios CTO and co-founder Alex Silkin is set to share his experience by teaching a full semester course on expert-level Unreal Engine VR development. Course Name : Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Target Student Demographic : Expert-level Unity (or other game engine) developers who want to master Unreal Engine 4 for VR.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

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. On the professional side, I’ve been blown away with the amount of progress we’ve been able to make with the VR Unreal Editor.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

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. Tagged with: haptic feedback , immersion , oculus touch.

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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. Become familiar with commonly used tools: Like most designers, VR designers will need to be familiar with graphic design, audio editing, and similar tools.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The open-source demo offers a framework for use in any Unreal Engine project, as well as a ‘Playground’ scene containing an underground bunker and shooting range to showcase hand interactivity. Originally developed as an internal tool for prototyping at iNFINITE Production, the team decided to kindly share it with the world. “I

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Upload VR

APRIL 3, 2023

Some users have reported that it even works with praydog’s Unreal Engine VR injector, the tool that adds basic VR support to certain non-VR Unreal Engine titles, including in Returnal, Atomic Heart, and STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order. As this is an Oculus blog, if you experience it you should report it to Meta.

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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. For sure in the future hand tracking will be very important for XR experiences, especially the ones that don’t require you to have tools in your hands (e.g.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Now the tech is available to all Unreal Engine developers in version 4.14 Graphically rich indeed, Robo Recall , which Epic announced last month as an Oculus Rift exclusive shooter for Touch, has some of the best looking graphics you’ll find in VR right now. SEE ALSO Watch: 12 Minutes of 'Robo Recall' Gameplay with Oculus Touch.

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VRScout

JUNE 18, 2021

Impulse Gear’s class-based team shooter is now available on Oculus Quest and Oculus Rift. The goal, according to Impulse Gear, was to develop a game that stands out from the surplus of realistic shooters on Oculus and SteamVR headsets, resulting in one of the first true hero shooters developed from the ground up for VR headsets.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Kilograph brings Michael Graves’ unrealized architectural designs to life in VR. Using an Oculus Rift/Rift S VR headset in combination with Leap Motion’s hand-tracking technology, you can teleport throughout different areas of the resort and use your own two hands to add color to interactive outlines of various buildings.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Although SteamVR also supports the Rift on PC, it relies on elements of Oculus’ PC SDK which means it’s unlikely that we’ll see Rift on Mac until Oculus supports it officially. Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? You can make 3D worlds with HTML and Entity-Components for Virtual Reality headsets like Oculus Quest, Rift or WMR, SteamVR, mobile, desktop. ? Three main eXtended Reality (XR) interaction toolkits/platforms are: ??

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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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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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