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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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

AI, music, and VR creation tools collide in this beautiful 360° video. But I didn’t want to switch to a 2D workflow once I imported into Unity, and so I used Virtual Desktop’s display overlay to work in Unity on a virtual big screen. As part of the grant program, I would make several immersive 360 videos for the album.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. THE INVESTMENT & FUNDING WRAPUP.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

THE STANDALONE MOBILE HEADSET THAT HTC IS KEEPING IN JAPAN. Remember, HTC is the Taiwanese-based hardware manufacturer and the HTC Vive Tech Corporation is a subsidiary that partners with American-based software company Valve for content via their huge Steam library. AIRLINES TESTING AUGMENTED REALITY TO READ YOUR EMOTIONS.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Escape Code is a 360-degree short film directed and animated by Josh Hassin and the San Diego, CA based studio, Look Mister that seems inspired by many of these ideas. The entire short film, embedded below, was created in Unity and is driven by a synthwave soundtrack scored by Emmy award winning composer RAD LAZER (aka Rafter Roberts).

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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. Vive Video 6 DOF Lite is now available. Other relevant news.

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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. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Unity High Definition Rendering Pipeline is now compatible with Virtual Reality projects. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers. Very good pieces of advice on how to create trailers.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. This is very useful for instance to share videos and photos, since you can connect your headset to your Google account.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Someone is Always Ready to Help THIS version of the HTC Vive…. You don’t even need a 360 camera– you can capture a spherical photo with a panoramic photo app.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

At the 2017 Game Developers Conference this week the company will showcase interactive streaming of a game inside the HTC Vive. Genvid’s technology is already available in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, but a plug-in for Unity is also being released. This isn’t the only avenue of VR streaming being explored right now.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

These are realistic places you can explore in your Oculus Rift or HTC Vive. You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. Or you can get photoreal capture of live subjects and live environments, but you’re stuck with the tyranny of 360 video.

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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. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2017

Blortasia is his second public VR art piece, arriving a few months after the pre-rendered 3D 360 video Zen Parade for Gear VR. Enter Blortasia. Even the platform below your feet shifts in color and shape. To learn more about the nuts and bolts of the experience, I spoke with Kevin Mack about how it was made.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

One of them was the Immersive Visualisation Room, which had a 5 x 5-metre space where users display 360 videos, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides. In 2023, Igloo Vision showcased its various immersive spaces.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Leveraging its Igloo Core Engine (ICE), the company has curated a host of content in its viewing spaces, including building information modelling (BIM), metaverse worlds, 360-degree video, game engine demos, and many others. The award-winning operating system is also layer-based, providing clients with fully bespoke configurations.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Todd Hooper: We have an SDK for Unity and Unreal 4. We also have a way to do 360 video capture so you can render that and consume it on a mobile VR device as well. Most games are GPU-bound not CPU-bound so so far that hasn’t been a challenge. Road to VR: How does a developer make a game work with VREAL?

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Digitalnauts

MARCH 23, 2022

I managed to see “most” XR projects and companies and what they were showcasing (including some 360 videos, lidar scan with an artistic touch , AR and VR as well).?It “ “ There were also a few fully immersive exhibitions powered by amazing tech (Spatial, Unity, MeowWolf, Dell, DC, Porsche…), which was great to see.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

During all these months, I had the occasion of reading on Linkedin about all his cool prototypes and enterprise solutions that he and his colleagues have developed inside the company, ranging from 360 videos to hand-tracked training solutions with the Quest, not to mention XR entertainment solutions for airplane passengers.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

” And once we showed them that, like, “hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you’re actually recording,” it was a huge game-changer. Is that correct? Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

” And once we showed them that, like, “hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you’re actually recording,” it was a huge game-changer. Is that correct? Alan: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And once we showed them that, like, "hey, you can actually connect your Evo through Wi-Fi to an Oculus Go headset or to an HTC Vive and you can adjust your exposure and your camera settings, live in-headset and see where you're actually recording," it was a huge game-changer. But that would be even more so as we get eye-tracking involved.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 10, 2020

The demo app is comprised by something like 15 videos, all very short, for a total duration of maybe 3-4 minutes , so it is very short, but the size of the downloadable ZIP file was around 8GB. The dimension of the player + the videos is so little compared to other 6DOF video experiments, but anyway it is quite big.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Later this year, we’ll expand our Vulkan support on Quest to include Unity and Vulkan validation layers for easier debugging.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

If this happens , Facebook is going to disrupt completely the market, because it would be a headset offering so much for so little price, destroying the competition with Pico and HTC. HTC ecosystem conference brings news in eye-tracking and positional tracking solutions. But this is just a speculation at this time. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Can you maybe explain to listeners who have never heard of Unreal — maybe they’ve heard of Epic Games and Fortnight, and they think “video games” or something like that — can you explain how the game engines, or the development engines, are being used to develop this type of content? Just just a quick overview.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

Can you maybe explain to listeners who have never heard of Unreal — maybe they’ve heard of Epic Games and Fortnight, and they think “video games” or something like that — can you explain how the game engines, or the development engines, are being used to develop this type of content? Just just a quick overview.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.".

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.".

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.".

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Augmented Reality Virtual Reality Technology Training 60

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

This got some press, because HTC VIVE released a press release with Bell, saying that their latest helicopter was created 10 times faster using VR, and you guys were the company doing that. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.".

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 21, 2018

So, I guess that HTC has understood that it has a problem and is working hard to close this gap. And then on the Focus, there is the preview utility developed by me to test the content you’re creating in Unity without building it!

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I’ve been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building — there’s VRTK for Unity… there’s just all these tools. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Michael: And this is why I've been working on starting this dojo, or this VR maker space; because the tools for building -- there's VRTK for Unity. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity. They're going to sell you 360 video. Amazon Sumerian.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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