Voices of VR

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are links to all all 12 interviews from my series covering Meta Connect 2023 in looking at first impressions of Quest 3 and Rayban Meta Smartglasses, mixed reality trends, AI, Meta Horizon World Builders, WebXR and alternative production pipelines like React Native, Apple Vision Pro buzz, VR filmmaking, unpacking the changes in Unity's fees, and (..)

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Unity Strategy Unreal Tips 70

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

And if the new headset will be about mixed reality with hand tracking (a cheap version of the Vision Pro), then we may have a division between VR content working mostly with controllers vs MR content working mostly with hand tracking. A bit late, but here I am again writing for you about the best XR news of the week!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here are links to all all 12 interviews from my series covering Meta Connect 2023 in looking at first impressions of Quest 3 and Rayban Meta Smartglasses, mixed reality trends, AI, Meta Horizon World Builders, WebXR and alternative production pipelines like React Native, Apple Vision Pro buzz, VR filmmaking, unpacking the changes in Unity's fees, and (..)

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AR Unity Unreal Tips 45

Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2019

Oculus says that “most Rift apps on the Oculus Store built on Unreal Engine 4 and Unity already provide the depth information required to make ASW 2.0 Oculus says that while ASW 1.0 performs well as long as an application can maintain 45 FPS, it can’t maintain smooth motion in cases where framerate drops even further.

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Latency Oculus Hardware Unreal 210

Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

Choosing a Focus: Visual vs. Physical Interaction Models. As far as production software, we were torn between our familiarity with Unity and the rendering potential of Unreal. We stuck with Unity for now, and hope to explore Unreal more in future explorations. VR motion controllers. Defining Goals.

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Virtual Reality Simulation Unity Unreal 100

Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. Fictional UIs vs. Today’s Motion Controls. Unity is a powerful game engine that makes it easy to rapidly build and develop VR and desktop projects.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

Let’s take a light-speed look at VR development with Leap Motion in Unity and JavaScript. Our plugins and resources for Unity, Unreal, and WebVR include fully interactive virtual hands that can interact with objects in 3D scenes. Fictional UIs vs. Today’s Motion Controls. Why Hands in VR? Escaping from Flatland.

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ARVR

APRIL 9, 2021

Just like ARKit, ARCore can work with Java/OpenGL, Unity, and Unreal. If you are using Unity3D, you’ll need to install ARCore Unity SDK. If your choice is for Unreal Engine 4, you can do so with GoogleARCore plugin. Day 6 : How to use Vuforia in Unity to create AR Application - Tutorials For AR What is AR Foundation?

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Augmented Reality Software AR Unity 130

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio.

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Magic Leap Unity Machine Learning Video 490

Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1 is a good example of something that probably never would have been funded by a traditional game publisher.

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Virtual World Unreal Machine Learning Simulation 111

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. Current gaming engines like Unity and Unreal are not designed for this. The spatial audio is cool, but honestly spatial audio is a feature I have had in Unity for a lot of years.

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Virtual World Architecture Simulation Course 533

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale. It is a tabletop tower defense inspired by classic Plants vs Zombies.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Space Pirate Trainer DX lets you play 1-vs-1 multiplayer shooter in a big 10m x 10m area. Yes, you’ve read everything well. At the same time, Humble Bundle has launched the Fall VR Emporium bundle , with some interesting VR games (like Paper Beast and A Fisherman’s Tale) at only 13€. Cool, isn’t it?

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AR Nigeria Apple Oculus 491

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

VR: Expectations vs Reality. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud. Basically, if you pay for the Azure Cloud, you can have all the building blocks to create easily a multi presence experience that runs on all devices for all people easily. Funny link. Funny link. Funny link. Play VR and save the world. Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

indoor vs outdoor) USB-C connection to a compact wearable computing pack for the computational power PC version works with Windows, but we’re doing our best to support Android and Linux. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

More info (Pico launches Pico 4 Enterprise) More info (Pico 4 Pro not sold outside of China) More info (Pico 4 Enterprise vs Quest Pro vs Vive Focus 3). In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. VR looks incredibly stunning with Unreal Engine 5 features like Nanite and Lumen.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 17, 2017

It boils down to Plants vs. Zombies, more or less. You can play against other players online, locally (using a monitor vs. VR feature) or against AI. In this VR MOBA game you’ll do battle against your enemy’s forces as you try to take down their tower. VR Sports, from SAT-BOX. Price: $12.99 (Currently Discounted) .

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HTC Gaming Strategy Spain 125

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Rift S vs Quest. A hearthbreaking story by Damo9000 about the Quest vs Rift S: click on it to see how it goes. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

being touched vs receiving a punch). bHaptics made it very easy for the developers to implement it thanks to a Unity prefab that must just be dragged into your project. These patterns can be easily designed with a visual web-based tool called bHaptics Designer and exported in.asset files ready to be imported into Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Unity has built this nice demo using the Presence Platform. Unreal Engine support is coming next year Interaction SDK : a set of facilities to develop applications with hands-tracking, that provides out-of-the-box tools for interacting with the UI and with objects in the scene. Read more about this news: Project Nazare: [link].

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