The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2019

I was porting our Unity game Hit Motion: Reloaded to the new Vive Wave SDK 3.0.2 I wrote to HTC and in the end, I managed to someway solve the issue… so I am writing this post for everyone that may find him/herself in the same situation. How to make controllers’ buttons to work in Unity with Vive Wave SDK 3.0?

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APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR working group includes all the major companies in the industry, including Meta, Pico, HTC, Valve, Varjo, and Unity - but notably not Apple. specification was finalized in 2019. It's managed by Khronos, the same non-profit industry consortium that manages OpenGL, Vulkan, and WebGL. The OpenXR 1.0 Further, OpenXR 1.1

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FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Side-by-side comparison of the HTC Vive Pro (left) and Varjo VR-1 (right) / Image Credit: Varjo. Varjo is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in VR fidelity,” spoke Timoni West, Director of XR Research at Unity Technologies. Side-by-side comparison of the HTC Vive Pro (left) and Varjo VR-1 (right) / Image Credit: Varjo.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

in 2019, and in the last 12 months it has significantly picked up pace with SteamVR officially supported it back in February and Oculus announcing last month that it’s going “all in” on the standard , saying that all new developer features will be built on top of OpenXR going forward. That makes Unreal Engine 4.27

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

With much surprise for us all, HTC has just announced the Vive Focus Plus , its first full 6 DOF standalone headset! The Vive Focus Plus, in all its majesty (Image by HTC). Regarding the release date: somewhere in Q2 2019. Internal view of the Vive Focus Plus (Image by HTC). Do you want to know more? The Vive Focus Plus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

HitMotion: Reloaded has been one of the 20 launch titles of the Vive Focus Plus , and we can never thank enough HTC for the support that has given us. It was an AR game that could be played on a VR headset , in 2019. Passthrough AR was made through a plugin that we invented, and it was not officially supported by HTC.

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JUNE 26, 2024

It was used to create many of the trailers for the original HTC Vive launch titles, for example. Since 2019 Meta has had its own competing Mixed Reality Capture Tool for Rift and Quest too. The beta is available today for Unity, and is coming to Unreal Engine later this year. All this is available in LIV SDK 2.0.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

OpenXR includes all the major companies in the space such as Meta, Sony, Valve, Microsoft, HTC, NVIDIA, and AMD – but notably not Apple. It officially released in 2019. Even if the Unity integration supported OpenXR, there are other barriers to releasing VR apps to other stores.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The VR industry has skyrocketed immensely, with immersive headset shipments spiking 92 percent in 2019 and 70 percent in 2020. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. percent YoY for 2023.

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APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Let’s look at the latter: in 2019, we created a VR app for Huawei, a leading global telecom company. App programming (Unity) We developed a simple intuitive application that would help employees understand and remember a sequence of actions. Huawei wanted to facilitate training of their 4G and 5G network installers.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Although The Lion King (2019) might have garnered a tepid reception from film critics, there’s no debating that Jon Favreau’s photorealistic remake of the 1994 original film roars in the visual department. Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel lines up a shot using an HTC Vive, Image courtesy MPC, Technicolor.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And then, of course, there is SuperData , that someone has already renamed “SuperGuess”, that has released its estimates of VR sales for Q4 2019. Having sold 317K units in Q4, the Quest has so sold around 710K units in 2019. Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Vuforia won’t drop Unity support. Image by Oculus).

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DECEMBER 2, 2019

The team of curators consists of top-level decision-makers from Vulcan Productions, Kaleidoscope, and Unity. The submission deadline is December 9, 2019. See Also: Sportswear Brand evo Partners with Pixvana to Create XR Training Program for Seasonal Staff. What Are the Selection Criteria for the “Best in XR” Projects?

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MAY 9, 2023

It noted that plans to boost industry collaboration follow a $260 million USD contribution to the USC in 2019. Unity, The VRARA, and XR Cunningham also serves as VRARA’s Central Florida Chapter President. Backing over 1,330 students, the University is set to support the next generation of tech experts in the industry.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0 What is an HTC Vive Tracker? Whilst the first part of this article looked at the history of the HTC Vive Tracker and its three different versions, the second part will focus on some practical experiments with the latest HTC Vive Tracker 3.0. HTC Vive Tracker 3.0

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Epic Games is a prominent member of the Khronos Group working alongside a host of industry pros including Oculus, HTC, Valve, Microsoft, Google, AMD, NVIDIA, and Unity. ” The store will first launch with a set of games curated by Epic for PC and Mac, and then allow other games and “open platforms” throughout 2019. .”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well. 2019, after a false start, has been a very good year for VR , and we had the arrival on the market of very interesting VR devices that have driven adoption. Every year, I cast some predictions for the new year in AR and VR.

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MARCH 14, 2020

It’s why Japanese studio Psychic VR Lab created STYLY, an online, browser-based solution for those creators looking to delve into this immersive space without having to go down the Unity/Unreal Engine route. STYLY is a platform designed for artistic expression rather than making videogames.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Companies like Pico, HP, Valve, and HTC are already performing very well in this sector. The rise of enterprise.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 20, 2024

My early start with MR As you may know, I got started with passthrough mixed reality in 2019, far before Quest enabled the use of passthrough. What if you want to experiment with AI and MR and you don’t want to wait for Meta/Pico/HTC to provide access to the camera feed?

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JANUARY 2, 2020

In 2019, the company went on to launch both a Kickstarter and IndieGogo campaign to bring the device to consumers, with the combined funds tallying over $190,000. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc. The Feelreal mask is however based on the same tech as vaping devices, and uses basically the same liquid as e-cigarettes, albeit without nicotine.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Today we hear from Alvin Wang Graylin, HTC’s China President of Vive. Graylin is the China President of Vive at HTC leading all aspects of the Vive/VR business in the region. But likely it’ll be the second half of 2018 or 2019 for mass adoption of such apps to really take off. Alvin Wang Graylin.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. HTC has also been smart because every time someone says “Focus” during some VR event, he’s doing some hidden advertisement for its product. The never-ending story. Vive Focus has just a single 3 DOF controller.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Compatible with HTC Vive and other SteamVR headsets, Manus Polygon will be compatible with Unity when it officially launches in June 2020. The new range of Manus Prime gloves arrived in 2019, with three models for tracking users hand gestures.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Before 2019, headsets were largely tethered to PCs, and Qualcomm helped to ‘cut the cord’ and enable the next evolution of standalone devices. This began with devices from Lenovo, HTC VIVE, Pico Interactive, and Meta Platforms, so the growth we’ve seen for consumer use cases has been very strong since then.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. According to the new research by Digi-Capital, in 2019 there have been $4.1B Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Unity High Definition Rendering Pipeline is now compatible with Virtual Reality projects. Register to the newsletter.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

I’m sure that after April, 20th, the Meta Quest ecosystem will appear even richer than it is now , creating a wider gap with other companies that may think about competing with the Quest, that is Pico, HTC, and even Apple. Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

In 2019, the company started a new initiative to bring “Lean Six Sigma” processes to the entire Aptiv supply chain. HTC Vive and Penn State. With the help of the HTC Vive environment, Penn State has been able to create a comprehensive environment for training and educational immersion. Unity and the University of Miami.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

The only company not much affected by it is HTC, that manufacturers its headsets in Taiwan and not in Mainland China. HTC Vive releases Cosmos Elite, two models of Vive Pro Eye and creates some confusion. With a surprise move, Facebook has acquired Sanzaru Games, the company behind the best VR game of 2019, Asgard’s Wrath.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the supply chain of headsets has been hurt , so in Q1 2020 there have been fewer sales than in Q4 2019 (and this confirms my impression of the spike in Steam not being due to 1M new headsets) and this trend will continue also in this quarter. Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Sync.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

Image by HTC). HTC has revealed new info on the Cosmos. Every week, HTC is revealing new info on the upcoming Vive Cosmos. These are interesting specs, that make the Cosmos the best headset that HTC has ever released. At MWC Shanghai, HTC has made various announcements for what concerns virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

When I tried the RealMax in Nanchang in 2019 I felt its holograms were very transparent, but actually, in my tests in the office, I found them bright and colorful, even if a bit transparent. Since having a 3DOF controller with a 6DOF headset is weird (HTC and Lenovo know this well), RealMax has decided to add also support for Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s the beginning of 2019, and this means that this is that time of the year when we all make predictions for this year in AR and VR! Jokes apart, what has happened in AR in 2018… and what can you expect to happen in 2019? Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity).

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JUNE 6, 2023

Zappar’s Zapbox , DigiLens’ ARGO , Sony’s PlayStation VR 2 , the Magic Leap 2 , XREAL (previously Nreal) Air , and the Varjo XR 3 Focal Edition were all in the running, but the prize went to the HTC VIVE XR Elite. This is something we’ve been working on for a long time,” HTC China President Alvin Graylin said in accepting the award.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator. The device will be available next year only in the US, then at the end of the year in other countries (like the UK), making me think that a more global rollout may happen in 2025.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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