Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Your app should not refer to an HMD touchpad when running on Oculus Go. The post also recommends specific versions of development tools that devs will want to use to access such features: We recommend developing for Oculus Go and Gear VR with the following tools: Unity 5.6.5p2 or 2017.4.2 You cannot rely on Google Play Services (e.g.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The camera uses the patterns on the actual book as a reference to display the AR content, a technology that is often used today on Snapchat and Instagram. Should it primarily be running on the latest and greatest Samsung and Pixel devices with high-performance AR features, or should it be less intensive to run on more devices?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. NVIDIA is a strong partner of Qualcomm and surely this solution is made to be used with the future standalone headsets that will be powered by XR2 Reference Design.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Microsoft and Samsung may be partnering for an AR device.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. And it has an associated reference design that will define the next-gen XR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Well, during 2018, Leap Motion has announced the North Star reference design : a cheap augmented reality connected to PC, that is able to detect your hands very well thanks to Leap Motion’s sensor. Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Leap Motion.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

While VR video portals like Jaunt , Littlstar , Samsung VR , and others offer a single destination from which to stream many different 360 and VR videos, another popular way to distribute VR video has been as a standalone app, offering more complete control over the experience by the creator. OZO Player SDK architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. Doug Lombardi, Valve.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

This follows similar news from Samsung, who have noted that smartphone sales are decreasing and, in response, they are investing more in XR devices. He also noted that Unreal and Unity will “try to catch up because the industrial segments are very important for them.”

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

These virtual recordings were then used as references for the final CGI scenes. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC. THE UPCOMING SAMSUNG GEAR VR CONTROLLER IS COOL. LA, GET EXCITED: BJORK’S VR EXHIBITION COMES TO LOS ANGELES. VALVE’S R&D IN EYE-TRACKING TO INCREASE. WHEN WILL WIRELESS VR GET HERE?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. References to Apple RealityOS have been leaked. Some days ago, two developers have found references to “RealityOS” both in the Apple Store logs and in an opensource repo by Apple.

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Hypergrid Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

Their phones can be used for some low-end VR, via the Cardboard platform from Google, but they haven’t had anything of their own to match the higher-end Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View headsets. The developer kit works on Unity, Unreal, and Scenekit engines. ” Google’s ARCore to compete with ARKit.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

Unluckily, in the last 12 months it has happened to me that on two platforms I tried to make a reference to another competitor platform in the environment (a little reference), and I was asked to remove it otherwise my experience would have been removed. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2019

Samsung has also teased to be interested in releasing a new AR/VR standalone device. The only exception to this rule seems to be the Samsung Odyssey+, that offers features somewhat comparable to the ones of the Vive Pro, but costs only $500. Samsung will do the same. You just turn them on and they work. Mobile headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

The HoloLens, for example, is Microsoft’s AR platform while the HP and Acer headsets are their VR platform (although they refer to them as “Immersive” headsets in documentation, but whatever, they’re clearly VR headsets.) Luckily there is a handy checklist online to get ready.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

The Lenovo Mirage Solo is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 reference design. It is the same reference design of the Vive Focus and the Oculus Quest and it guarantees a good horsepower for a mobile headset. When Daydream launched as an alternative to Gear VR, it seemed destined to kill Samsung’s ecosystem. Horsepower.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

Rumors already talk about a new AR headset produced by Microsoft in collaboration with Samsung that should substitute it, but we have no sure info about it. Lumus Maximus proves to be one of the most interesting reference designs for AR glasses. More info (Ghostbusters VR) More info (Zenith) More info (Demeo). Other news. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. The SDK is also very well documented and it is easy to find the solution to your problems also in Oculus and Unity forums since the Oculus dev community is far from being little. Specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

They are based on the Atraxa reference design (Image by Road To VR). Samsung AR glasses. Probably the true surprise of the whole show has been Samsung, that during its press conference has teased some AR glasses. Ok Samsung, you have our attention. Neon is a project about realistic avatars by Samsung subsidiary STAR Labs.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

According to some reviewers, the display may also be the same one made by Samsung. The headset is based on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 VR reference design. Both devices are made on the Snapdragon 835 VR reference design, so they feature exactly the same processor and the same 4 GB of RAM. Both headsets have configurable IPD.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2018

I’m very interested in this device, that’s why I dedicated various articles to it, like the tutorial on how to get started with Go on Unity , how to stream the headset content to an external screen and my comparison with the Vive Focus. After the calibration, there is a common reference system and you can use the controller.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But they claim having also seen a Unity experience running from it (maybe it will be possible to develop for Horizon with Unity, as it is possible with VRChat), so developers may still be able to create more complex stuff. Unity GPU We recently enabled Unity’s GPU Profiler on Quest and Go. Developer tools.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

This review will reference some of those specs, but it is primarily about the actual experience of using the product. The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

This is everything I have been able to find on specifications: Snapdragon 835 VR reference design; Same high-quality lenses of Oculus Go; FOV around 95°-100°; 1600×1440 per eye resolution; 72 FPS; Adjustable IPD; 4 GB ram. We are at the same level of Vive Focus or Vive Pro… probably the display is the same made by Samsung.

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

If you're a VR content creator and developer, you might be eligible for a discount if you reference your portfolio in your application. If you’re a student or academic faculty you may be considered for the $99 Student/Academic Pass rate.

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