The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon. Unity developers will get this joke Funny link. You don’t even know how this made me happy!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

how to fix) More info (Stormland: How to co-op) More info (Stormland tips) More info (Stormland’s virtual collectibles) More info (Stormland: behind the scenes) More info (Funny moment in Stormland). The super-interesting eye tracking device Droolon F1 by 7Invensun is now in preorder on Taobao , with Amazon listing coming soon.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Epic layoffs people and changes the price of Unreal Engine After the drama that surrounded Unity a few weeks ago because of its pricing change, it seems that Epic is not having its most epic (pun intended) moment ever, either. Learn more Some XR fun Should you buy a Quest 3 or a Virtual Boy? Wait, what???

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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. Mobile gave us location.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. Thanks Ivan Aguilar for the tip!). Meta is under heavy pressure. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon. Alan: When you say “tipping point,” what does that actually mean? Alan: All right.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We had, for DuPont Corian — which is a client of ours — we had an experience that showed bathroom vanities that you’re able to look at and place inside of your own space, similar to what IKEA is doing, and Amazon. Alan: When you say “tipping point,” what does that actually mean? Alan: All right.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

More info (VisionOS 2 features — Road To VR) More info (VisionOS 2 features — Upload VR) More info (iPhone 16 can shoot spatial photos and videos) Unity cancels its runtime fee Unity has finally canceled the abomination of the “Runtime fee” , which was meant to charge developers based on revenue in the last 12 months and lifetime installs.

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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

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. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. Michael: It would depend on your use case. Is it marketing? Is it training?

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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. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. Michael: It would depend on your use case. Is it marketing? Is it training?

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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. Amazon Sumerian. Unity is always my top one. As someone who grew up as a game designer and player, I definitely side towards Unity. there's just all these tools.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

So it includes industrial productivity hardware & software, advertising, AR commerce enablement, and developer/creative tools like Unity , Adobe Aero and Amazon Sumerian. A tipping point will be followed by accelerated adoption, similar to last decade’s enterprise smartphone adoption. manufacturing efficiencies).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

Thanks David for the tip). Thanks Eloi for the tip). Unreal Engine is adding Vulkan support for Oculus Quest and Unity fill follow later on this year. Amazon thinks using AR for its delivery agents. More info (What is Harmony OS) More info (Harmony OS timeline) More info (Huawei Cyberverse). 5G is a safe technology.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

If you are a Unity/UE developer, you may have issues with Quest developing at this moment after the update , because when you build the app, you may see only one controller, or the controllers behaving in a weird way. Amazon Prime Video comes to Oculus mobile devices. Amazon streaming services come to VR. News worth a mention.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Amazon sold me a moulded nylon grip for an AR-15 airsoft rifle… it was time to start work building my first development “Mule”. The name was of course inspired by “The Unity Cube” application (Image by Rob Cole). Why had they settled on this shape? Why not try something different, how about a gun grip? The Guncube.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Top news of the week. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

After so many years, finally VR is reaching its tipping point where one platform will reach the 10 million sold units, which is considered as a magic number for a healthy ecosystem. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. I am a Unity developer, and I can tell you that now Unity.XR

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