The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since I have worked on some VR concerts myself (and one even got featured on the Unity blog), I thought my opinion could be valuable for someone… at least for the Stageverse developers that so have some feedback about what to improve. but I thought it could be interesting to write some short first impressions about it.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

During the first-day of the Unite 2016 conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, Unity Technologies unveiled a number of new updates and features to help support VR and AR creators around the world developing interactive 3D, VR and AR experiences. Recruiters can also post jobs and target a pool of highly-sought Unity talent.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2017

Unity Technologies presented their Special Keynote at GDC 2017 in San Francisco on February 28, announcing the release date of Unity 5.6 alongside a bulletin of other updates, including a glimpse of Unity 2017. Riccitiello explained that this installment marks the last of Unity 5. The Unity 5 cycle culminating in 5.6

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Later on, we invented 360 videos, that is a sphere around the user where it is projected everything that a user can see from his position : he can rotate his head and still see coherent visuals. Also Youtube offers the ability to load ambisonic sounds together with 360 videos. A real ambisonics microphone.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. Unity, which allows developers to create highly customizable experiences for VR and AR, leads the pack. “It’s not as bulky.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. Best 360 Video – MIYUBI (Felix & Paul Studios, in collaboration with Funny or Die). The event is a chance for the 3D visuals company to focus on its support for the VR/AR industry and encourage creators to develop using its tools.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate. Subscribe on iTunes.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

The former listing seeks a candidate with “direct experience with implementing and/or designing media file formats,” as well as “experience with VR and 360 video.” ” The latter is looking for someone with “Direct experience with implementing and/or designing VR or 360 video playback systems.”

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Apple is positioning the new iMac Pro—available this Thursday starting at a cool $5,000—as an ideal machine for VR content creators (both 360 video and real-time). Apple earlier this year also said that it planned to update Final Cut Pro X to support 360 degree video editing.

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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

JANUARY 27, 2020

Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. There will be an XR plugins manager, and some of them will be managed by Unity together with its partners (e.g. So sad for me, considering the 5 years I’ve spent using Vuforia in Unity… so many memories…. More info (Announcement by Unity Technologies) More info (Comment by Upload VR).

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Over the years, they considered 360 video marketing, VR entertainment booths, and training simulations before settling on XR tools to aid with research. For example, they made an immersive environment in Unity to test custom furniture models. XpertVR was founded by Drew MacNeil and Evan Sitler.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Now that Otoy’s Octane Renderer has shipped in Unity, they’re pivoting from focusing on licensing their rendering engine to selling cloud computing resources for rendering light fields and physically-correct photon paths. Here’s the launch video for the Octane Renderer in Unity: Support Voices of VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

Since it is my last post about AWE, let me cast a ray of visibility on some companies I have met there, but about which I do have not enough material to write a full article: Gamedriver : an interesting solution to create automated tests for your XR application in Unity. I hope you have enjoyed all these articles of mine about AWE!

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Apple also says that both Unity and Unreal Engine—the leading VR content creation tools—will support their VR SDKs on Mac, allowing developers to create VR content on Apple’s machines.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

The OZO Player SDK comes as both a native SDK and a Unity plugin for those already building VR apps with Unity. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2018

You have just to add to the manifest of your app this simple line: <meta-data android:name="no_controller_pairing" android:value="true" /> In Unity, this means opening the Manifest.xml of your Vive Wave experience and adding the above line in the position where there are the other meta-data lines.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 9, 2024

This operation is similar to the “stitching” done with multiple flat videos that have to be merged into a 360 video. Performing similar reasonings on all the images , the system gradually reconstructs the whole 3D shape of the space.

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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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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. in funding.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. Watch this cool 360 video about playing the Star Wars theme! (A ???! These days are pretty hot here, but this doesn’t stop me from enjoying virtual reality. Some XR fun.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

While Guided Meditation VR is rendered in real-time on tethered headsets which are backed by a PC with plenty of processing power, the mobile Oculus Go version of the app , relies on 360 video captures of the virtual environments instead. But then along came a new method for playing back 360 video content on Oculus Go.

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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

JUNE 25, 2018

The formats can transact programmatically through existing ad networks, and are compatible with existing banner and video formats, enabling any advertisers to buy VR and AR media. Thousands of advertisers can now buy VR/AR campaign via Oath’s ad exchange, without a special setup.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

Presenz also offers a Unity plugin so that you can import this render file in Unity and so mix the resulting volumetric video with some real-time interactions that you add in the game engine. InVR is another nice company making 360 videos and volumetric videos. Me and Simon of One Bonsai. Altheria Solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Unity High Definition Rendering Pipeline is now compatible with Virtual Reality projects. This means that now with Unity you can create visually stunning VR experiences that before you could obtain just by using Unreal. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

Members of the VRM consortium, which will officially launch in February 2019, include Unity Technologies Japan Click To Tweet. The consortium brings together several Japanese companies, which – from February this year – will coordinate activities with the aim to develop the Virtual Reality business.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

This is very useful for instance to share videos and photos, since you can connect your headset to your Google account. There is Youtube : it works incredibly well to watch 360 videos and VR videos in general. Unity Development. Unity Development for the Mirage Solo is not difficult.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2016

Just as Unity and Unreal are able to create 3D sound environments for interactive games, Dolby Atmos has an ProTools plug-in with a 3D interface that allows you to mix 3D audio objects for narrative, 360-video content. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It was developed principally by a single developer, Guy Godin, who programmed the app in native code instead of using high-level engines like Unity and Unreal that most developers turn to. Virtual Desktop has been one of VR's go-to utilities for many years.

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VRScout

MARCH 18, 2017

To that end, Pico announced their SDK during GDC, which includes a Unity plugin. We also have a first-party studio who made our demo here [GDC], and we’re working with non-game partners as well—video partners to bring non-game experiences and 360 video, as well as games.”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I wonder if something similar could be employed for 360 videos…. Then she has announced that in 1–2 months the startup will showcase the first prototypical version of the product in public live streams and in private demos to investors, customers, and partners. VR can be used in financial planning.

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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.

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VRScout

MAY 30, 2017

Releasing a simple 360 video as a marketing ploy is old news these days, so it’s refreshing when companies embrace VR to enhance their experiential brand activations in unique ways. RIDE A VIRTUAL WATERSLIDE WITHOUT GETTING WET AT TOPSHOP.

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