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. It’s going to be very interesting and very busy… I hope to meet you in Laval!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world? In case you are in need of a solid team able to build a high-quality XR virtual environment, please let me know. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. The whole indie VR community will appreciate that.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nowadays in social VR worlds like VRChat you can have a maximum of 50–100 people together in the same room. If we want to create virtual worlds scenarios like a concert in a stadium with 50,000 people inside singing altogether, we need to have a new networking stack. I can’t wait to have my stadium experience in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

More info (iVRy makes PSVR tracking work on PC) More info (IMU is now supported by the tracking) The European Union announces a strategy to lead on virtual worlds and Web 4.0 Government: supporting societal progress and virtual public services to leverage the opportunities virtual worlds can offer. Kudos to him.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

After Fortnite started the trend of virtual concerts in virtual worlds, always more platforms started implementing them. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. This is cool because it will help spread the word about VR and virtual worlds. Image by PUBG).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

The problem of moderation inside virtual worlds. A very interesting article I’ve read this week talks about how it is difficult to be a “bouncer” of virtual worlds, trying to keep the environment safe and banning people doing wrong stuff. And now here you are the link to donate: Support The Red Cross in Ukraine.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine. And now here you are the link to donate: Support The Red Cross in Ukraine. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio.

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