The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

Welcome to 2020! I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! It is embedded into Oculus Unity SDK. Prerequisites.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It excerpts Unity’s latest report “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR,” with commentary from industry executives, including AR Insider Editor Mike Boland. Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR. Here’s why 2020 is shaping up to be a year to remember for XR. Authors’ opinions are their own. .

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Lynx R-1, the upcoming standalone MR headset, has been delayed to late 2020, but a new update from the company says they’re targeting a lower price and now including Ultraleap hand-tracking. The post Lynx MR Headset Delayed to Late 2020 but Aims for Lower Price, Ultraleap Hand-tracking appeared first on Road to VR.

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2020

If you want to embrace this new technology in 2020, one way to do so is to create an augmented reality mobile application. Unity Support. Unity is an advanced game engine used in the development of augmented reality apps, especially gaming. So, if you are in this business, try to pick an SDK that is compatible with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

pic.twitter.com/Y61OzWU7D8 — Daniel Beauchamp (@pushmatrix) June 30, 2020. Expert mode pic.twitter.com/X67sV5GHNY — Daniel Beauchamp (@pushmatrix) May 12, 2020. pic.twitter.com/ioNJKfY3S0 — Daniel Beauchamp (@pushmatrix) June 9, 2020. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

XR Immersive Enterprise 2020 is coming up in early May. See Also: Important Changes to The XR Intelligence 2020 Calendar. We didn’t have to shake the tree very hard to find someone that we were excited to talk to but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with the good folks at Unity. What Is Unity?

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VRScout

APRIL 9, 2020

One of the coolest parts of developing with Unity or Unreal Engine is the ability to instantly hop into your VR headset and view 3D creations at scale. b3d pic.twitter.com/81U3kLXm03 — Louis du Mont (@louisdumont) March 31, 2020. Users will soon be able to view their 3D scenes in VR. Additional features on the way.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Now, Microsoft says Spaces is nearly ready for a general release to all SharePoint users, which is slated to happen at some point in the first half of 2020. Critically, users don’t need coding skills, or experience with game engines such as Unity of Unreal to make a simple VR environment.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

I think that this CES is the emblem of the whole 2020, that probably won’t show big disruptions in the XR field, but will make AR and VR grow linearly, exploiting the successes of VR in 2019 (when Quest and Valve Index went sold-out). pic.twitter.com/HXkmJmSh5u — KAJI / MESON CEO (@kajikent) January 7, 2020.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Unity’s Latest Trends Report Declares 2020 will be a Breakthrough Year for XR. The perception of gimmickry has given way to real business value,” says Maria Fernandez Guajardo, Facebook’s Director of Enterprise AR/VR, adding that 2020 is going to be a critical, if not glamorous, time for enterprise VR. Look no further!

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2020

At the Digital Entertainment World Expo this year, Tony Parisi, Head of AR/VR Ad Innovation at Unity, listed the following formats from most to least effective across mediums: Live event content activation (as most effective) VR/MR experiences AR apps AR ad Mobile video. Attention is a resource, and we only have so much of it.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2021

Real Commodore 64 – Virtually is actually based off an earlier version that Gomberg built for the Oculus Go back in 2020, which itslef was based on a Commodore 64 project by Jonas Minnberg called Machineroom. He then offered to send me the Unity Project files! I am a total C# and Unity noob so I learn as I go.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

unity @Oculus #OculusQuest #MadeWithUnity #XR #SpatialComputing cc: @mitrealityhack pic.twitter.com/wypOFEJcNx — Greg Madison (@GregMadison) January 17, 2020. While many of us spend almost all day in front of a table, there are no apps/games taking advantage of this providential armrest.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Our team has been working non-stop throughout 2020 to further push the envelope of what is possible in XR and VR. In terms of compatibility, the XR-3 plays nice with major software such as Unity, Unreal Engine, OpenXR, Autodesk VRED, Lockheed Martin Prepar3d, VBS BlueIG, and FlightSafety Vital just to name a few.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2020

At the time, the company had only added support to the Oculus Unity integration, meaning that developers building apps in Unreal Engine didn’t have access to the feature. 2020 color space for Oculus Quest, and Rec.709 Color space documentation specific to Unity , Unreal Engine , and the Oculus Mobile SDK has been added.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

This post is adapted from ARtillery Intelligence’s report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. At the precipice of 2020, that leaves the question of where we are now? Apple Glasses Don’t Arrive in 2020. VR Has an Evolutionary (not revolutionary) 2020. billion in 2020. billion in 2020.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Until recently, Rune Skovbo Johansen worked at Unity as a senior software engineer, working on Eye of the Temple as an indie developer in his spare time. Now developer Rune Skovbo Johansen says the full game is aiming to release on SteamVR headsets sometime this spring.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2021

With nearly all major XR events cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic, it’s been a somewhat odd year for the industry. Like many other industry conferences, AWE 2020 had to be moved to an online event last May due to Coronavirus concerns. AWE is a long running XR-focused conference held annually in Santa Clara, CA.

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VRScout

APRIL 7, 2021

Originally revealed back in September 2020, HP’s professional-grade VR headset offers a variety of enhancements over the basic G2, including an eye-tracking & pupillometry sensor from Tobii, heart rate sensor, and face camera.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

As I’ve written in the VR predictions for 2020 , I guess that the device will be discontinued this year. And this may be the reason for the removal: from my experience as a consultant, there is still space for 3DOF headsets in 2020 (for marketing, education, etc…), so there are companies interested in buying big batches of 3DOF viewers.

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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

MARCH 25, 2020

Starting on March 31st and going to May 12th, HTC is streaming live developer talks that it would have otherwise given during GDC 2020. SEE ALSO Watch All of Facebook's GDC 2020 Developer Talks Here. Developer Console: What’s Coming in 2020. Developer Console: What’s Coming in 2020 . Why live talks? Development.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

pic.twitter.com/hC6gseSijr — Daniel Beauchamp (@pushmatrix) April 7, 2020. Well, being our solution something working at Unity level (so at a very high level), it couldn’t be optimized, so its framerate was not enough and it also consumed a lot of resources we couldn’t use in our application. Having a grate time.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. There are nearly two billion augmented reality-capable mobile devices on the market today, with a projected 598 million active AR users by the end of 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

The Worlds are built on various platforms — everything from VR and Unity, to browser-based spatial video chat and Zoom. Many people who attended the Virtual Burn in 2020 said they found community and a sense of belonging. What were your stats for 2020? Here are some numbers from the 2020 Virtual Burn.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

That leaves the question of what 2020 will bear. To synthesize where we are and where we’re going, our research arm ARtillery Intelligence recently presented findings from its report, Spatial Computing: 2019 Lessons, 2020 Outlook. They likely won’t come in 2020 as many initially believed. Apple’s AR Fate.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Setup Download Unity Unity 2020.3.8f1. In your echo3D console , download and import the Unity SDK Zappar Download and import Zappar for Unity here. Go to Build Settings > Player > Resolution and Presentation and select the Zappar player (Zappar for 2020+, or Zappar 2019 for anything older).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

The company says in the SDK’s developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus Go has officially been dropped. Starting at $200 for the 32GB version, and later knocked down to $150 in January 2020, it still represents the cheapest way to get into reasonably good VR.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2021

Joy Way, the developers behind high-flying parkour shooter STRIDE (2020) , released a new look at a game prototype that aims to fuse rhythm, shooting and slicing. ” The unnamed prototype was first seen back in December 2020, which we’ve linked at the bottom of the article. There are 2 different teams working on the games.”

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Road to VR

MAY 14, 2020

This is a permanent change and applies retroactively to revenue from January 1st, 2020. Unity , the other popular game engine for VR content creation, ranges in price from $40 to $150 per month per seat, depending on project scope. Unreal Engine is also free for personal use, free projects, and linear content creation.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2019

The rest of us will just be waiting for the MR glasses to hit the consumer launch in early 2020. Further, MR content for the glasses will be viewable through a tablet until the glasses ship. MR technology developers can apply for the full development kit.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

Update (March 20th, 2020) : GDC Summer is slated to happen between August 4th – 6th, taking place in the original conference site at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Before the postponement, a litany of companies stepped back from GDC 2020 such as Epic, Microsoft, Unity, Sony, Electronic Arts, Facebook, and Kojima Productions.

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ARPost

JUNE 12, 2020

As of May 2020, there is still a lag in ARCore development. There are similarities between these tools: both are Unity framework-compatible; both are similar in the capability of sensing changes in lighting and accessing motion sensors. ARKit yields 4,000+ results in the GitHub repository in comparison to ARCore’s 1,400+.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

pic.twitter.com/67dQvrNL13 — TonyVT SkarredGhost (@SkarredGhost) September 9, 2020. If you are a Unity developer like me, you can use the awesome Unity Recorder package to shoot videos of your experience, both 2D videos and 360 videos. The magic of #VirtualReality #VR ! Surreal Capture.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. In August 2020, Charles Rivers Analytics received a MegaGrant from Epic Games, allowing the SDK to become fully integrated into the company’s game developing eco-system. This open-source SDK is only the beginning for us. Supported Devices and Future Releases. Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

There are many people in the VR communities that doubt that this can actually be possible , especially because Amazon claims that this should be available already in 2020. I think that Amazon in 2020 will just provide some pilot centers (maybe close to some partner companies) and then will actually perform the rollout in the next years.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Oculus is stopping selling the Go, will stop accepting apps for its store in December 2020 and will just keep supporting the headset until 2022, when it will be definitely discontinued. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Do you want to learn Unity for your next big AR/VR app? Take your course on Unity now!

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