The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 5. Epic Games has finally released the latest iteration of its popular game engine: Unreal Engine 5. This means that while great, Unreal Engine 5 is not disruptive for us VR users and developers, yet. Meta is keeping its update pace of the Oculus Quest software very high.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. The following VR games and apps are available now on the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2 100% free of charge via the Oculus Quest Store, App Lab, and SideQuest: COUCH. Couch is available free on Oculus (Meta) Quest via the App Lab. NEVER BOARD.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2022

Fortnite doesn’t natively support VR headsets, however an update coming to the popular battle royale shooter today reportedly holds mention of Oculus, possibly pointing to future VR support for the game. Epic added stuff related to Oculus (Quest, Quest 2 & Mobile) in today's update. — HYPEX (@HYPEX) August 30, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 10, 2021

Oculus Mixed Reality Capture is a plugin that lets content creators make amazing mixed reality videos of a VR game for the Oculus Quest. Since I had to make some tests with Oculus MRC for our game HitMotion: Reloaded (download it now on SideQuest !) Are you ready to implement Oculus MRC like a boss?

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2018

It started with the HTC Vive headset and only recently have we begun to see support added to Unity applications on the Oculus Rift. Now Unreal Engine developers can finally open up their projects to mixed reality capture with a new plugin created by HTC Vive developer Foo Hoang. Image Credit: VRScout.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Oculus covered a lot of ground during their opening keynote at Oculus Connect 3 this week; among many exciting announcements, one of interest for Unreal Engine developers might be how Oculus says that they’ll cover the royalty fees for any Unreal Engine applications on their store, up to the first $5 million in gross revenue.

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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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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

And it is made possible by VIRTUOSO , an open-source SDK created by Charles Rivers Analytics, which is now available for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. This is the big news the XR development world was waiting for for a long time. VIRTUOSO SDK (VSDK): Making XR Development More Streamlined. Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

The end for Oculus Go is nigh. The latest Oculus SDK (v19/1.51) no longer supports the company’s first true standalone VR headset. The company says in the SDK’s developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus Go has officially been dropped.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 4, 2020

The launch on Quest has gone pretty well , and the game has had good feedback from the press (apart from some graphical glitches that can be solved in future updates) and very positive reviews on the Oculus Store. Now there is the Oculus Quest. Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus).

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2020

Unreal Engine 4.25 Unreal Engine is one of the most popular game engines for building XR content. This week Unreal Engine 4.25 Epic Games says that Unreal Engine now offers production-ready support for HoloLens 2. On the VR side, Unreal Engine 4.25 The post Unreal Engine 4.25 Image courtesy Magic Leap.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Rather than developing a mod for the original 2007 release, however, Loan is constructing the entire experience from the ground up in Unreal Engine, resulting in higher quality visuals as well as a new range of possibilities. The post Super Fan Remaking Original Witcher Game In VR Using Unreal Engine appeared first on VRScout.

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VRScout

JANUARY 20, 2021

A short video shows VR music production on the Oculus Quest 2. We’ve yet to receive any news regarding which headsets will receive support, although you can clearly see an Oculus Quest 2 headset at the very beginning of the video. You can pick up this app for free on the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 via SideQuest.

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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. Arden’s Wake hits the Oculus Store. Finally, Penrose Studios’ award-winning narrative VR experience is available for the Oculus Rift for $7.99. The MetaHuman tool is powered by the Unreal Engine.

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Program Ace

JUNE 23, 2022

The post Benefits of Building Apps for Oculus Quest in Unreal Engine appeared first on Program-Ace.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Epic Games, creators of Unreal Tournament , have revealed a sneak peek of their newest title, Robo Recall , during Oculus Connect 3. Being offered as a free exclusive title for Oculus Rift utilizing the Oculus Touch hand controllers, the game will demonstrate clearly what a triple A title designed for VR should be.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Meta is killing off two first-party original Oculus Quest launch titles next year. Meta announced the deprecation of the original Oculus Quest back in January. Bogo was a free virtual pet app designed as a demo of Oculus Quest's wireless room scale tracking and hand controllers. c_pruett can you move it to AppLab, at least?

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VRScout

APRIL 9, 2020

One of the coolest parts of developing with Unity or Unreal Engine is the ability to instantly hop into your VR headset and view 3D creations at scale. The ladder even has a VR mode that lets you build in-headset using the Unreal Editor tool set. Users will soon be able to view their 3D scenes in VR. Additional features on the way.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Oculus Rift getting Minority Report-like interface for VR. On top of announcing a new and more affordable standalone headse t at Oculus’ annual developer conference, the Facebook owned company also teased a massive update to the Oculus Rift platform. Oculus also announced a new upgrade to Home with Rift Core 2.0.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2018

Kite & Lightning, the studio behind some of VR’s earliest experiences, is one of 13 developers receiving a portion of over $200,000 in ‘Unreal Dev Grants’, a program set up by Epic Games to showcase and provide financial support to projects using Unreal Engine 4. million in seed funding to expand the scope of the title.

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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

AUGUST 2, 2019

Red Matter (2018), the sci-fi puzzle-adventure from Vertical Robot , is slated to launch on Oculus Quest on August 15th. The post Sci-fi Adventure ‘Red Matter’ Coming to Oculus Quest in August appeared first on Road to VR. In the meantime, check out why we gave Red Matter a solid [8.3/10]

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VRScout

JULY 25, 2020

This past Thursday marked the launch of In Death: Unchained on the Oculus Quest. The result is an insanely-addictive VR dungeon crawling experience made even better thanks to Oculus technology. So we decided we should make it happen and we put a lot of love and effort into it – with Solfar’s blessing and Oculus’ help.”

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Unfortunately we didn’t learn more about Oculus Quest’s launch date at GDC 2019 this week, although Oculus did reveal a few more titles coming to the standalone 6DOF headset at launch this Spring. In the meantime, here’s every Quest launch title currently confirmed by Oculus: Beat Saber. Robo Recall.

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VRScout

APRIL 10, 2021

Built using Unreal Engine, this VR project will look and feel like a cozy modern studio filled with unique collectibles and stylish furniture. Ekholm’s NFT VR experience is designed to be used on the most common VR headsets, such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Oculus Quest via Oculus Link.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Following a two-part blog series in partnership with Crytek , where the studio shared some of its research into VR locomotion comfort , Oculus has now added 8 new experimental locomotion methods to the SDK. A recent entry on the official Oculus blog provides an introduction to the techniques. Unreal World Beyond Static Cockpit.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Oculus’ PC SDK version 1.19 This week, Oculus announced the addition of LMS to their PC SDK 1.19. The post Oculus PC SDK Adds NVIDIA Lens Matched Shading to Boost Performance appeared first on Road to VR. Back in 2016, NVIDIA offered an approachable explanation of LMS. With 92.2% of Rift users using NVIDIA GPUs (65.8%

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

(Image by Oculus). Oculus could be starting the production of a new Quest at the end of July. Multiple reports seem to confirm that Oculus is actually starting the production of a new Oculus Quest headset, with an expected release date in 2021. Oculus improves development time for UE4 developers. Image by Pico).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. There are a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking.

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Road to VR

MAY 4, 2021

Epic Games, the creators of Unreal Engine, said it would consider building a launch title for Sony’s “next VR platform” during negotiations about Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation in 2018. Shown during the debut of the Oculus Rift DK2, Couch Knights put players in the body of an avatar sitting in a contemporary room.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2019

Oculus Rift S doesn’t have a launch date yet, although it seems the most recent Oculus software update has brought along with it a few day-one essentials for prospective Rift S owners. We suspect the ‘Oculus First Steps’ tutorial will automatically follow after a user goes through the initial setup of their Rift S.

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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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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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VRScout

JUNE 30, 2019

Survios CTO Alex Silkin will teach a semester-long course called Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Courtesy of VR education startup Axon Park , the ‘Unreal Engine VR Master Class’ will debut in VR this autumn. Axon Park holds that there are some prerequisites to consider when applying for the Unreal Engine VR Master Class.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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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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