The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons. If you are a Unity beginner, I would advise you to watch the video. AppSW Unity prerequisite.

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AR Insider

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This week, we look at Niantic's Lightship rollout, Unity's big Weta purchase and Qualcomm's new platform play. The post Spatial Beats: Niantic, Unity & Qualcomm appeared first on AR Insider. Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Unity has long been in the frontline of companies leading the democratization of 3D assets and tools, including for XR applications. However, when Volvo wanted to make their 3D models and emulators more accessible, they reached out to Unity to help them do it. Unity had already been established primarily as a game engine.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The Unity Developer Bootcamp will run from October 11, 2022, to April 8, 2023. Why the Unity Developer Bootcamp Is Being Launched. Hence, the need for the Circuit Stream Unity Developer Bootcamp. The 2022 Circuit Stream Unity Developer Bootcamp. What Students Will Learn in the Circuit Stream Unity Developer Bootcamp.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

This is what the collaboration between Esri and Unity brings to the world. The launch of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0 ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity enables developers to integrate ArcGIS directly into the Unity platform. Aside from this framework, ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 2, 2022

With the show floor still closed, the highlight of the day has been the speech by Unity CEO John Riccitiello that spoke about the metaverse , telling us what he thinks it is and how he thinks it can evolve. The Unity CEO talks about the metaverse. The Unity CEO on AWE stage to talk about the M-word. That was totally insane.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 6, 2021

After almost two months, finally, The Unity Cube is on App Lab! What is The Unity Cube? The Unity Cube is an Oculus Quest application with… well… a Unity cube inside. The Unity Cube review. I have prepared a video review for The Unity Cube , and you can find it here below. There are none.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR , where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. As a Unity developer, I think that it is a very important enabling solution. How to get started with WebXR in Unity – Video Tutorial. Requirements.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 19, 2023

Unity partnered with the Vancouver Airport Authority (VAA) this month to deploy large-scale enterprise-grade digital twins to ensure success in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) use cases. Moreover, as part of its reconciliation goals, YVR is also deploying a Unity training program to Musqueam Indian Band learners.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2021

So let me show you how you can develop an AR app for Oculus Quest 2 using Oculus Passthrough APIs in Unity. In this tutorial, you are going to replicate the fantastic The Unity Cube experience, this time in AR! Open Unity (I’m still on Unity 2019.4 Open Unity (I’m still on Unity 2019.4

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 15, 2022

Popular real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity doubled down on its famed ease of use this week in a bid to enhance its toolkit with new key features to streamline the creation of immersive augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) assets. Since 2021, Unity has purchased Ziva Dynamics, Parsec, SyncSketch, and W?t? Enhancing Unity Ads.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Social VR platform Rec Room announced it’s released a new creation suite that allows you to publish content directly to the Rec Room platform from inside Unity, essentially letting its users create content using a host of industry standard tools. Unity Terrain Editor. Unity ProBuilder. Complex Animations. Custom Sound.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SideQuest threatened Unity with legal action over its planned install fees while telling the game engine maker to "stick that up your pipe and smoke it." Yesterday saw Unity announce the Runtime Fee , a new charge based on revenue in the last 12 months and installs, counting from 2024 forward. With costs as high as $0.20

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2022

Veteran enterprise VR studio VRMADA has released a public version of its VR toolset for quickly building immersive interactions for VR within Unity. But VRMADA wants to make it easier and to that end has released UltimateXR , a development framework to build rich VR interactions in Unity.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Unity plans to introduce a new 'Runtime Fee' next year and charging developers based on how many installs they reach. Effective from January 1, 2024, Unity confirms any games running the Unity Engine - comprised of Unity Editor and Unity Runtime - will incur this new charge based on revenue in the last 12 months and lifetime installs.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2023

” At MWC Shanghai, state-owned China Mobile announced the first batch of 24 members of the alliance, including Huawei, Xiaomi, HTC Vive, Unity China, NOLO, XREAL (formerly Nreal), AI company iFlytek, video streaming platform MGTV, and cloud streaming platform Haima Cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 24, 2021

For sure you remember that together with my tutorial on how to develop and submit an application for App Lab , I have actually submitted to App Lab my majestic “The Unity Cube App” , an application with just a cube and some avatar hands (Yes, I’m a troll). Unity and its automatically added permissions.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2023

Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity Google has launched Geospatial Creator for Unity, a new platform that allows developers to preview 3D assets in the Unity Editor. Geospatial Creator for Unity currently offers visualizations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 countries.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Some days ago, I was looking at the code of HitMotion: Reloaded , the fitness game that we of New Technology Walkers developed some years ago for the Vive Focus Plus, and all the intricate system I had to make in Unity to have a cross-platform VR game … and I wondered: “Is all of this mess still needed today?”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The latest version of the Oculus Integration for Unity, v23, adds experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 application development. OpenXR Support for Oculus Unity Integration. Today Oculus released new development tools which add experimental OpenXR support for Quest and Quest 2 applications built with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 30, 2021

Some weeks ago, I’ve launched on App Lab “The Unity Cube” , a VR experience for Quest, with just… a cube and nothing more. The genesis of The Unity Cube. This is the typical reaction of the VR user when he/she discovers The Unity Cube. The reasons for the cube. But “Why submitting just a cube?”,

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2020

While the tools for building WebXR apps are designed to be familiar to web developers, many VR developers use game engine tools like Unity to build their apps. With the Unity WebXR Exporter, developers now have the option of targeting browsers as their publishing platform, making their app easily accessible on the web.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2021

The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. To test whether Oculus is truly taking a hands-off approach to the content of App Lab apps, developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo created The Unity Cube.

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JUNE 6, 2023

Apple confirmed Vision Pro supports porting Unity apps and games. Acknowledging the existing Unity VR development community, Apple said "we know there is a community of developers who have been building incredible 3D apps for years" and announced a "deep partnership" with Unity in order to "bring those apps to Vision Pro".

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The enterprise-grade immersive software-as-a-service (SaaS) now supports RT3D design projects from Unity and Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). The platform now supports design projects running on Unity and UE5, streaming VR/XR content at human eye resolution. The Unity and UE5 RT3D engines power several enterprise-grade services.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2020

Some months ago I published a guide for all Unity developers on how to request Android permissions for the Vive Focus Plus, because it took me a while to sort out how to do it to access the camera stream to do augmented reality on that headset. How to obtain permissions for Oculus Quest in Unity. What are Android permissions?

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard. This inflection point has accelerated our efforts to enable OpenXR in Unity,” writes Matt Fuad , Sr.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 8, 2022

Operated by parent company VRMADA, the service employs Unity’s software agnostic toolkit to secure cross-platform distribution of virtual reality (VR) training environments for frontline workers. Currently, major XR firms such as Meta and Unity are developing frameworks to create inclusive immersive experiences.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 8, 2019

But then, as a developer, I felt the urge to understand how to develop my applications in Unity for the Oculus Quest. That’s why I decided to create this little tutorial: to help all the Unity developers that want to get started in developing for the latest Oculus standalone device in understanding what are the first steps to follow.

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VRScout

MAY 2, 2019

The developer-focused release includes $500 in free Azure credits, 3-month free trials of Unity Pro. Following the announcement of the Microsoft HoloLens 2, Unity has revealed a new partnership with the US-based multinational technology company to release a developer-focused version of the upcoming mixed reality headset.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Mixing magic with Lovecraftian horror, The Events At Unity Farm arrives on Steam Early Access. Developed by Titan1Studios, The Events At Unity Farm takes inspiration from H.P. The Events at Unity Farm arrives today on SteamVR Early Access while the full release targets Q1 2025.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Ars Technica reported : For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold. ” “Unity is quite simply not a company to be trusted.” What has happened?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In this article, you may find the answers to all the above questions : I will guide you in developing a little Unity experience for the nReal glasses (the typical grey cube!), How to get started with nReal development (and emulator) in Unity (Video tutorial). And then of course you have to download the nReal Unity SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 5, 2022

Oculus Spatial Anchors in Unity: video tutorial. I have made a huge video tutorial on Oculus Spatial Anchors, where you can see me create from scratch an application implementing them in Unity. Let’s start by creating a Unity project. Let me tell you everything you need to know about them! A note on this tutorial.

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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2020

Oculus has introduced three changes to significantly speed up the iteration process for developers building Quest applications with Unity. The company has introduced three improvements for the Quest Unity integration which can drastically reduce iteration time. Two of the three changes are available with Unity 2018.1

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Unity Technologies has reportedly backtracked on the controversial fees it introduced last week, triggering a public outcry from the developer community. Many Unity developers have slammed the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially.

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