The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

with downloadable courses priced at $1.99 I’m actually pretty intrigued by it: it has very original visuals Walkabout Mini Golf: Pocket Edition for iPhone is launching on October 10th at $4.99 each Sports brand ASICS has unveiled DISC , a new e-sport VR game that brings frisbee-style action to Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! If you want this joke to never end, please download it and then give it 5 stars! in the reviews! Check it out!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There are some visible UX problems, too: for instance, every time I tried to enter a new world, a popup asked me if I wanted to download it, and I had to hit the download button. After that, the download started, and when it finished, it asked me for confirmation to go there, and I had to click another button to confirm.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Roblox was already on App Lab, where it had more than one million downloads, and now is going to be available on the official Quest store Asgard’s Wrath 2, coming on Quest Store on December 15th, 2023. The main important news regarding games has been IMHO: The launch of Roblox on Quest Store.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Back in 2016, we posted an infographic about 3D models and VR.

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

In celebration of the upcoming “Star Wars Day” (May the Fourth), the game is now available for download on the Gear VR website and App, and will be available at a limited-time discounted price of $2.99 Built in Unity , the title has added a new single-player AI mode and supports multiplayer matches. USD (regularly $4.99

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. I have detailed it in this post , and it was very cool because it let you create WebVR experiences directly from the tool that we develop always use, that is Unity. This means that, even with many limitations, you’ll be able to create WebAR experiences from within Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). ’s config onto a 2.0 tracker at all. Image by Rob Cole).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Now, thanks to this move, you don’t have to care about anything at all: you can find on AWS a machine already configured with Cloud XR , already with the right specs of GPU, drivers, CPU, etc… It will be available on Amazon EC2 P3 and G4 instances which already support NVIDIA V100 and T4 GPUs. Anyway, let’s see.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

What I don’t like is the limited functionalities (they just shoot photos and short videos and add effects) and the mediocre usability (to add the 3D effects you have to upload the video to Snap’s cloud and then download it back). Oculus and Unity partner for a course on VR. Droolon F1 is now on sale in China.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

It’s a somewhat unnatural experience to sit down in Photoshop or 3D Studio Max or even Unity or Unreal and build 3D objects with a mouse and keyboard because the actions you’re doing with your hands don’t map very clearly to the actual actions in the world. They’re doing some amazing things. “The

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. The SDK is also very well documented and it is easy to find the solution to your problems also in Oculus and Unity forums since the Oculus dev community is far from being little.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I've been a Unity user forever. Alan: And then they ask their tech teams and they're like, "does anybody know Unity?"

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Location-based games are already popular, with over a billion downloads of Pokemon Go in the three years since it launched, and over 20B kilometers walked playing the game. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Its wizarding successor grossed $12M in its first month.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

And this time, you will finally be able to download one of them. Blogger Tom Ffiske, that writes on Virtual Perceptions, has decided to write a very good book about AR and VR technologies and it is becoming pretty popular on Amazon. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. My favorite from this week?

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Ah, and last but not least: there is a mega-sale on the Epic Store now, and also GTA V is free to download. SideQuest reaches 1M downloads. Discover (and buy) the book on Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

But this week we had the announcement that at least one of these limitations is going to lift off: Oculus is going to add downloadable content (DLC) or in-app purchases (IAP) to App Lab experiences “later this year”. Or us of New Technology Walkers , that in our fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded ( download it !)

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. So that's always a lot of fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. So that's always a lot of fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. But there's actually some things you can buy on Amazon, and so those you can get for a couple of thousand, but it's not a full motion simulator. Alan: Amazing. So that's always a lot of fun.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Poke around and download apps, and you’ll see all the problems that are there. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. Things like Unity developer or 3D modeller and stuff like that. Matt: Thanks.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Poke around and download apps, and you’ll see all the problems that are there. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. Things like Unity developer or 3D modeller and stuff like that. Matt: Thanks.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image from Amazon). The first one is called Almalence and is a Unity plug-in (already available on the store) that should improve the clarity of images inside the Vive Pro Eye. Download it from Oculus Store (it’s free), play it and thank me later. If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! The hype is rising….

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 24, 2019

The tools are pretty [new], and Unity and things, you need to invest a fair bit of time and effort to build something. Poke around and download apps, and you’ll see all the problems that are there. You can mess around with Amazon Sumerian. Things like Unity developer or 3D modeller and stuff like that. Matt: Thanks.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Tyler of VNN has decompiled the Unity code of The Lab (something that is pretty easy to do) and in the DLLs has found all the code of a shooter game that features various characters from Half Life. It is highly probable that an HLVR game will be developed in the Source game engine, so a Unity game is not a possibility.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

I’ll mention a bunch more: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm, Intel, Unity — you’re looking at these massive companies now, and they’re all betting big on VR and AR. Alan: You nailed it there, because you mentioned two big companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 12, 2019

I’ll mention a bunch more: Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Qualcomm, Intel, Unity — you’re looking at these massive companies now, and they’re all betting big on VR and AR. Alan: You nailed it there, because you mentioned two big companies.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do. Cameron: Absolutely.

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VRScout

JANUARY 16, 2018

Flutter VR was one such title we looked at just before Christmas , where players are transported to a forest where they can unwind after a stressful day by observing and cataloguing a range of pretty moths and butterflies, guided by a friendly capybara and the sights and sounds of the Amazon. And that’s what Orbu does.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do. Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. But at the same time, for those companies that do have that and really want to bring things in-house, what are some of the tools that you're seeing -- besides ARKit, ARCore, and Unity -- that are standing out to you? It's not something that every company will do. Cameron: Absolutely.

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