The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Human Fall Flat (2016) is getting VR support soon , bringing the whimsical, wobbly physics-based platformer to all major headsets. And you can thank VR modder ‘Raicuparta’ for that.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

.” Among Oculus’ setup guide, other guides for integrating mixed reality capture support Unity and Unreal apps are also available ( Unity , Unreal , Native ).

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. The demo was shot against a green screen so that it could be composited together with the virtual world, offering a mixed reality view for the audience.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

Google prides itself on its stewardship of Android, the largest mobile platform in the world with over 80 percent of the mobile market share in 2016, according to research and advisory firm Gartner. Nougat and above.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Google have announced that developers itching to get started on building Android VR games using the Unity game engine can do so right now using a Daydream plugin. Initially, Unity support for Daydream will be available via a plugin, with native support arriving some time in the Summer.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. ” He went on to talk about Facebook’s social VR demo that debuted at Oculus Connect 3 last month, revealing that both it and Oculus’ own Rooms and Parties social software had been made with Unity.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with the updates to their tracking technology, Leap Motion is also releasing improvements to their developer tools, including newly updated Unity and Unreal Engine integrations, and deprecating some older APIs. Image courtesy Leap Motion. Improved Developer Tools.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 14, 2025

This update makes OpenXR the recommended way to create immersive experiences across Unity, Unreal, and Godot. Since diving into the OpenXR initiative in 2016, Meta has been quietly laying the groundwork for this moment.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Earlier this week Unity’s Editor VR platform evolved from a novel new way of making videogames into potentially the most forward-thinking VR development platform, and its all to do with Tools. According to VP of Unity Labs Sylvio Drouin, that’s a very real possibility. Interactivity.”

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Road to VR

MAY 23, 2016

Manus VR have already announced that their first developer kit edition gloves will ship in Q3 2016 and will set you back $250. The post Manus VR’s Gloves in Action Using Valve’s Lighthouse Tracking for Hands and Arms appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Since around 2016, I have invested a big portion of my life building a framework and toolset that has become the technological foundation of the company. The result is UltimateXR for Unity. We hope to soon port it to other platforms as well (Unreal, Web…?). They can both be used interchangeably.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Tomorrow Unity plans to launch the first experimental build of EditorVR, a component of the Unity game engine which will let developers build games within virtual reality. Timoni West, Principal Designer at Unity Labs, has announced that EditorVR will launch tomorrow, December 15th. of their game development engine.

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Upload VR

JUNE 26, 2024

LIV has been helping developers, YouTubers, and streamers create this kind of mixed reality footage since 2016. The beta is available today for Unity, and is coming to Unreal Engine later this year. The result can be used in trailers or livestreams, and is the next best thing to actually putting a headset on someone's head.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 5, 2017

The first time I tried a Tactical Haptics virtual reality controller was at GDC 2016. The focus lately has been getting both controllers ready to go and perfecting Unity and Unreal Engine integrations. I wasn’t expecting much. From the moment that controller was in my hand, however, I knew I’d made a miscalculation.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

For many in 2016, the hardware that delivers the most immersive experiences was too expensive and the software too shallow for many to justify the purchase just yet. Gaming is likely to be the bridge to that change — the content that offers a reason to buy it and helps put immersive hardware in millions of homes.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative. Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

FOVE, the company behind the eponymous eye-tracking VR headset, today announced that they will be showing off a new industrial design at both Comic-Con and SIGGRAPH 2016 where attendees will have a chance to demo the new headset design themselves. Previous FOVE design | See Also: FOVE’s Eye-tracking VR Headset Was the Next Best at CES.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. Some others, like Niantic, will probably join soon. Others, like Apple, will probably never join and develop their own standards.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 13, 2017

It’s available as a plug-in for development engines like Unity and Unreal. It’s been a while since the company has demoed its tech, but you can see (or, more accurately, hear) the state it was in a year ago at CES 2016 below.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Might we finally learn the precise launch date and price of Oculus’ Touch motion controllers?

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Leapmotion

APRIL 30, 2016

Last year, we featured 6 kickass Unity assets with the power to bring your project to the next level. Since we’re giving away five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credits as part of our 2016 developer survey , we thought we’d share some more cool stuff you can buy with cold hard virtual cash. Custom Pointer ($17).

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Road to VR

JULY 25, 2016

Throughout the past year, we’ve loved working in virtual reality — from in – house projects to our work with Google Daydream for IO 2016. As far as production software, we were torn between our familiarity with Unity and the rendering potential of Unreal. VR motion controllers. Defining Goals.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Their OctaneRender is GPU-based, physically correct renderer that has been integrated into 24 special effects industry tools with support for Unity and Unreal Engine on the way.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And while the easy path would likely have been to take one of the readily available built-for-VR engines—like Unreal Engine or Unity—to develop a one-off Battlefront VR experience, the developers behind the X-Wing VR Mission have confirmed that it is indeed the Frostbite engine powering the experience. pic.twitter.com/zIhEZJD2qC.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The Qualcomm design is essentially a reference design and promotes Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 processor as a solution for other companies to make their own wireless HMD, and the specifications will be released in Q4 of 2016. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets. MARCH 2: To match the new capabilities of Leap Motion Orion with the performance demands of VR, we gave our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2016

In fact, it brought to mind a much more user accessible version of the new VR editor tools which are making their ways to both Unreal Engine and Unity. — Brian Lindenhof (@TheShadowBrain) May 10, 2016. Importantly though, Modbox will also add the ability to add functionality and game logic to your creations.

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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

For many in 2016, the hardware that delivers the most immersive experiences was too expensive and the software too shallow for many to justify the purchase just yet. Gaming is likely to be the bridge to that change — the content that offers a reason to buy it and helps put immersive hardware in millions of homes. Things are changing though.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Are some publicly accessible locations inappropriate or offensive (2016 saw complaints of Pokestops in graveyards, hospitals, churches and memorials). Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. During this process of development the Northways learned Unity, a game creation toolset that alongside competitor Unreal Engine has been early to support VR. Learning New Skills.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 23, 2016

With our 2016 developer survey in full swing, we thought we’d share some great assets that you could buy with one of five $100 Unity/Unreal asset credit prizes! Completely free for Unreal development, the 7,600 art and sound assets on the Marketplace represent $3 million in content development. VFX Weather Pack – $19.99.

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TechCrunch VR

MARCH 25, 2019

VR, gaming engines, Unity, Unreal and Epic were just some of the topics we touched upon. And I was playing Doom 2016 and was just like clicking the trigger, and then a half second later it was firing a shot. But perhaps the biggest of all was Google’s new game-streaming service Stadia. There were so many problems with it.

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VRWorld

MAY 27, 2016

Just in time for E3 2016, WorldViz will bring support for Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 on most popular devices such as Google Daydream VR, HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR. meters i.e. 26,910 sq. feet are covered with a single device.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2025

This update makes OpenXR the recommended framework for creating immersive experiences across Unity, Unreal, and Godot. Since joining the OpenXR initiative in 2016, Meta has been laying the groundwork for this moment. lighting and effects) and to drive ML/CV pipelines for apps like object recognition.

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