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. The Superbowl is the most important sports event of the year in the United States, and airing an ad during the match is super-expensive, but also super-effective. (Image leaked from Meta firmware).

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

After raising $480,000 in funds through Kickstarter and an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures, FOVE later participated in the River accelerator program early last year alongside a number of other “frontier technology” startups.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

Let’s see: Google is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung on a mixed-reality headset. At first, we had good news: Unity finally revealed its first two AI tools: Muse, which lets you create assets (textures, animations, code) directly in the editor using textual queries. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

With currently 26 labs operating in the United States, Europe, Asia and Oceania, VR First is bringing the number to 40 labs by the end of year. While the program was principally incubated by Crytek, students working in VR First labs tend use Unity (48%), followed by Unreal (20%) and then CRYENGINE (14%).

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