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NVIDIA announces Unity connector for Omniverse at GTC 2022

The Ghost Howls

A few weeks ago, while reading the news about SIGGRAPH, I saw NVIDIA teasing the release of the Omniverse connector for Unity , and as a Unity developer, I found it intriguing. Unity connector for Omniverse. At launch, Omniverse has been made compatible with Unreal Engine, and support for Unity was lacking.

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The XR Week Peek (2022.05.16): Meta teases Cambria, Google shows new AR features, and more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.06.29): Oculus kills the Go, Google buys North, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

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. Google is going to buy North. Google adds depth APIs to ARCore. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Take your course on Unity now!

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My experience at SXSW 2022: expect the unexpected

The Ghost Howls

As I liked to say when talking about it, the real event is cool, but in the virtual one, you could finally be on a flying car… that is exactly what 30 years ago everyone was expecting from 2022. I’ve personally met and had a chat with people from Unity and Epic Games, Roblox, The Sandbox, HTC Vive, Microsoft, Rec Room.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.06.14): Facebook buys BigBox VR and plans to sell 18-20M Quests in 2022, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

According to the report, analyzing the orders made to the lens manufacturer, the two new headsets by Sony and Facebook should be released in 2022. The Quest 2 is expected to have 8–9M units sold in 2021 (and this is compatible with the estimated sales data we have now), while the new device should sell 18–20M units in 2022.

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Unity CEO: VR Will Get Huge, But Devs Need to Survive and Avoid Hype Until it Does

Road to VR

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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The XR Week Peek (2021.12.27): a great Christmas for Quest 2, Rec Room is worth $3.5B, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. The headset is expected for Q4 2022 , with no preorders available. This is great. Image by CES).

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