The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2018

That’s why all standalone headsets (like Oculus Go and Lenovo Mirage Solo ) do this same operation of the Focus. In case you don’t know, the Manifest.xml can be located in the AssetsPluginsAndroid folder of your project.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Earlier this year Oculus CTO John Carmack revealed a new video playback technique designed to bring high-resolution video to mobile headsets like Oculus Go. But then along came a new method for playing back 360 video content on Oculus Go.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

With Spaces , Microsoft is aiming to provide point-and-click simplicity by letting users create immersive environments on the fly by using media such as 3D assets, 360 photos, and 360 video—all of which is stored in SharePoint folders. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

We introduced [the OZO Player SDK] available for Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear VR, Google Daydream, and Cardboard (iOS and Android),” Sayed told Road to VR. The OZO Player SDK comes as both a native SDK and a Unity plugin for those already building VR apps with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2019

More info (Road To VR review) More info (Ars Technica comparison with other devices) More info (Polygon review) More info (Playing Oculus games with the Knuckles) More info (Orders backlog) More info (Valve Index fitting guide) More info (Wireless Index) More info (All games compatible with Index) More info (Gabe Newell talking about the Index).

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Road to VR

MAY 18, 2017

While the company contends that 360 video is the most popular type of content people are consuming in VR right now, they’re adding more ways to categorize so that users can easily browse the store for all types of content, bringing Daydream Home more in line with digital marketplaces like Oculus Home and Valve’s SteamVR UI.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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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. in funding.

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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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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 ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. I was amazed.

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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. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

I found very interesting that they are trying to create full-body VR content for the Oculus Quest. I have instead tried another demo for Oculus Quest called Anamika, where you impersonate a four-armed Indian goddess. InVR is another nice company making 360 videos and volumetric videos. Me and Simon of One Bonsai.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The rover has also started sending the first images, and I imagine that NASA will also use them to create cool 360 photos of the red planet…. More info (NASA’s livestream in 360) More info (Event on ENGAGE) More info (Images from the rover that could become a 360 photo). Oculus is selling refurbished Quest for $199.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

We talked Unity, open standards, the metaverse, and more, but the general thread pointed to OTOY as one of THE pivotal companies in the VR space. The Big Unity Announcement. At Unity 3D’s conference in L.A. last week, OTOY announced their technology would be natively integrated into the Unity engine. What is OTOY?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

When I accessed the “Movies & TV” app it even auto-loaded a 360 video section. When I picked a video it auto-launched all around me without having to load up another 360 video player app of any kind. No cameras, no trackers, no Steam, no Oculus Home. It’s just Windows in VR.

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Cats and VR

MAY 26, 2017

Nick Ochoa-Founder Of Magik Gallery-" Virtual Reality is more that a gaming platform, more than a 360° Video distribution platform, VR is a canvas and what you can create is very vast and infinite. Also mad props to Oculus and Naomi from the Medium team out there showing mad love in support of the event.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium). We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. I learned how to do the coding.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.

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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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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

In addition to her 360 video for Stonemilker, exhibit-goers can check out Black Lake, Mouth Mantra (get inside Björk’s mouth!), Wires are a VR buzzkill, but the untethered VR headsets are powered by smartphones – which are graphics-processing lightweights compared to the robust PCs behind the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive.

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AllThingsVR

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

OTOY Is Building One of VR’s Most Important Technologies Right now, OTOY’s focus is on mobile VR and 2D 360 videos. However, I was told that next year OTOY will be focusing on rolling out positionally tracked light fields for all the major headsets (PSVR, Vive, Oculus).

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

These developers make impressive 360 videos like their Strictly Come Dancing footage, immersive experiences like the enjoyable Home , and artistic experiments like the one it created in partnership with popular singer, Björk. .”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 8, 2022

The solution involved creating a 3D, configurable version of the incredible Arksen 85 yacht, powered by Unity. Footage for the marketing experience was shot using Meta 360 video camera systems, and is designed to make users feel as though they’re sitting in one of the seats inside the train. Huspi and the Chornobyl App.

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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 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and– including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360’s too hard. Alan: Yeah. You see Adobe.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And we had some great partners along the way, that helped us kind of co-develop and beta test this and-- including our friends over at Oculus, who are really making a strong push for 180 3D these days for their headsets. You see Facebook with Oculus. Alan: Yeah, 360's too hard. I've spent a week just exporting this video.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator — millions of dollars simulator — to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don’t know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. And very much VR has been like AI.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

But what was it like kind of going through these growing pains of going from a million dollar simulator -- millions of dollars simulator -- to now we can buy an Oculus Quest for 500 bucks? So this was before Oculus. So you don't know anything about coding, Unity, Unreal. So the traditional way to do it is to use Unreal or Unity.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. We can share our work to your Oculus Go headsets, if you just let me know the address. ” because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. We can share our work to your Oculus Go headsets, if you just let me know the address. ” because an Oculus Go costs $200.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 24, 2020

Cortney Harding talks with Alan about how emerging tech, like VR and 360 video, can help us all be a little kinder to one another. We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. Alan: [laughs] We're actually going through this.How can we get the hand tracking in Oculus Quest? I'm really excited for that.

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