The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

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). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC.

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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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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. Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen? You should see it.

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Virtual Reality Unity Russia Italy 385

Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Sinespace , a virtual world platform from OpenSim co-founder Adam Frisby, launched its virtual reality beta last week and reports 20 percent weekly user growth. Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Virtual meeting. Unity 3D user interface for Sinespace.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It will be possible to shoot 4K videos of the augmented applications, body tracking has been improved , and the system will be able to perform better environment understanding The new ARKit features will be used by a new tool provided by Apple for all its iPhone users: RoomPlan.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. Destin’s video is approaching two million views and hit YouTube’s front page. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. This video is from 2018, but I still dream about it today. In that moment, I regret not having visited it before.

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Virtual Reality Tools Virtual Environment Unity 472

Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Much like our UI Widgets , it’s a set of interface elements – switch, lever and potentiometer – that can be embedded in any virtual environment. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift. But with the lines between the real and virtual worlds now blurrier than ever, could we cut it even further?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. Though it’s not perfect, Vermeulen states that it does allow for good proof-on-concept videos.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Meta Quest 3 (left) and Apple Vision Pro (right) We once asked Oculus executive Jason Rubin whether his company was considering a tethered compute model. This doesn't much matter for watching traditional video content, as most of it is in widescreen aspect ratio anyways. He's what he said: "That’s a model we’ve definitely explored.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Brand Ambassadors.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

For the past few years, virtual reality meetings, events, and classrooms haven’t taken off the way that proponents expected, due to inconvenience, usability issues, bandwidth requirements, the need for high-end computers, and expensive headsets, new software, and more. Pricing: AltspaceVR is free to use.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments. This is obviously the big one for virtual worlds. Virtual windsurfing in Second Life. Creativity.

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Virtual World Virtual Reality Virtual Environment Video 80

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

The first time I saw the vision video and the vision of the device, it was, wow. Alan: I was watching the video as you were talking about it now. If you're not on an AR device -- like a laptop -- then it behaves more like a virtual environment, so you can just move using keyboard and arrow keys or mouse. And it was.

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Training Unity Real Estate Software 78

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

The first time I saw the vision video and the vision of the device, it was, wow. Alan: I was watching the video as you were talking about it now. If you're not on an AR device -- like a laptop -- then it behaves more like a virtual environment, so you can just move using keyboard and arrow keys or mouse. And it was.

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Training Unity Real Estate Software 78

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen some of the videos, I’ve seen what you guys are doing; holy crap. One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Greg: Thank you very much, Alan.

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Training Examples Unreal Virtual Reality 78

XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

The first time I saw the vision video and the vision of the device, it was, wow. Alan: I was watching the video as you were talking about it now. If you're not on an AR device -- like a laptop -- then it behaves more like a virtual environment, so you can just move using keyboard and arrow keys or mouse. And it was.

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Training Unity Real Estate Software 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

Augmented Reality 78

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 78

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

I’ve seen some of the videos, I’ve seen what you guys are doing; holy crap. One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Greg: Thank you very much, Alan.

Training 60

Training Examples Unreal Virtual Reality 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

Augmented Reality 60

Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

I feel like some products, such as Google Cardboard, and some of the lower-end pieces of hardware, have actually done more harm than good to the reputation of virtual reality. People get in it, and they see, "this as a medium-to-low-quality image or video that I'm sitting in," and there's not much interaction if it's a Google Cardboard.

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

It follows, then, that for people to want to engage with each other in virtual environments, we need to foster that sense of social presence, which means getting your avatars right. For game and app developers this is a huge time saver as it plugs into the Unity engine and lets players craft their own characters.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Oculus Quest 2. The biggest announcement of the event has been for sure the Oculus Quest 2, that Facebook has not only revealed but also launched. Oculus Quest 2 is a great piece of technology. Then Oculus will move the whole experience to 90Hz. The magic of the Oculus Quest 2 (Image by Facebook). Specifications.

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