The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

My only fear is that they are promising a bit too much and so they will have to compromise on something when reality will hit (e.g. The new Unity Personal will also remove the famous Unity splash screen Successful games using Unity Pro or Enterprise can choose if paying per install or by a 2.5% of our revenues with Unity.

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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. The Peripheral is a new series on Amazon that has VR at its center. Learn more.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. Learn more Just Hoops in MR My friends at Just Hoops added a new mixed reality mode for the game on Quest 3! Who We Are Push the boundaries of the virtual reality industry with us as we create a cross-platform, VR video streaming metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Looking at the chart of the sales on Amazon US, it is possible to see that the headset had five times the peak sales volume during the 2024 holiday season as it did in 2023. This is impressive. The numbers are still not comparable to those of Quest, but they are still very good.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. XR streaming is already a reality on other cloud platforms. Likewise, AutoDesk offers its XR cloud services through a partnership with Amazon. CloudXR From NVIDIA. Not all XR companies offer their own cloud services.

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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. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

But things on the consumers’ side may not be going as well: according to some data scrapped from Amazon, the Quest 2 outsold the Quest 3 by a factor of 3:1 in the last 30 days. More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. This is scheduled for a Q4 release.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

Some of the most important Fortune 500 companies will be represented at the event, including Boeing, Canon, Shell, Amazon, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Augmented Enterprise Summit When: October 24-26 Where: Houston, TX; virtual As its name suggests, this AR/VR event is aimed at enterprises.

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Amazon has basically sent many brick and mortar traditions out to the retirement home. Due to the pushes by Amazon, even ancient traditions like going to the store on Black Friday have gone the way of Denver the Last Dinosaur. Well, Amazon is finally placing its hat into the kooky world of VR and AR with its new development platform.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Augmented reality for maintenance and repair 4. Top 10 Movies that Got Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality Righ Online communities are one of the best places to collect as much information as possible about a particular industry. The top 3 experiences will win Amazon Gift cards. Join XR Hub today ?—?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This is a remarkable result in a niche like virtual reality. It is also possible to create your custom spaces to use in Mesh either with a no-code editor or by using Unity to create more personalized and complex scenes. It looks me a very interesting solution, and I can’t wait to give it a try with my colleagues.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

Or we can put on device on our head (a head-mounted display or HMD) that completely occludes us from the real world allowing us to enter a completely simulated environment which we can walk around and interact in because the computer is sensing our physical actions: this is Virtual Reality or VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

Users can leverage SwiftUI to create immersive experiences in Vision OS and build app 3D content with RealityKit and Reality Composure Pro. Plus, Unity offers a range of authoring tools to users who want to get involved with VisionOS. There’s also the option to use ARKit to integrate content with in-person surroundings.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Read Graphic Designer Job Description Read Unity Developer Job Description Read Full Stack Developer Job Description Some XR fun Hitman 3 VR has some ridiculous moments both in the old PCVR version and in the new Quest one Funny link (PCVR version) Funny link (Quest version) The most immersive VR racing simulator rig is here.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Two days ago, I’ve given you my predictions for virtual reality in 2021 (read it, in case you missed it). Now it’s time to make some forecasts about its companion technology, that is augmented reality! There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla).

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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.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead. VR technology is still not ready today to fulfill this need. 2022 could be the key year for XR.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 23, 2022

But while there are quite a few tools out there to create virtual environments, there aren’t a lot of tools for creating virtual objects. He noted that the company itself needed a tool like this because even with the millions of packages that Amazon itself ships, it still didn’t have enough images to train a robot.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Here we can see the same problem VR supermarkets have: people dream about shopping in VR like in real life, but at the end of the day , scrolling Amazon and buying stuff in 2D is much more efficient. The framerate in the artistic district was poor , and probably the space should have been optimized more, or split into smaller worlds.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The “TendAR” augmented reality experience creates a virtual fish for players, capable of interacting with the real world through the user’s camera. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Unity helped with everything from matchmaking in VR, to voice communications for the development of the new game. Fictioneers and Unity.

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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. I managed to interview its CEO, Dalia Lasaite, and talk with her about the 3D models market trends and the relationship between the 3D modeling ecosystem and the virtual reality ecosystem.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Discovery Grid’s transition marks one of the first major moves by an established virtual world from OpenSimulator to the newer O3DE platform. O3DE initially began as Amazon Lumberyard , built on top of the CryEngine game platform technology. Plus, Unity and Unreal both have free options. What is O3DE?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Let’s see what will happen… and in the meantime let’s eat lots of popcorns. More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic).

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

IEEE VR + 3D User Interfaces March 25-29th, Shanghai 2023 marks the 30 th anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User interfaces. There’s also a dedicated community space for networking. 3.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

With partners like Unity, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Intel, the GDC event showcases some of the latest technologies in the XR world from the biggest businesses. This year, leading names like Deborah Oyeyinka from Unity Technologies , and Kristofor Mellroth of Xbox are set to attend.

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

Award-winning independent game studio HappyGiant and Tippett Studio today announced their ground-breaking augmented reality game HoloGrid: Monster Battle has made the transition to virtual reality , and is coming out on the next-generation Samsung Gear VR. USD (regularly $4.99 USD (regular price $4.99).

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2020

Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Virtual Reality: Do We Live In Our Brain’s Simulation Of The World? Photo by Rahul Chakraborty on Unsplash By far the most popular is the Amazon Alexa with about 69% share of the U.S. Designing for a modern 3D world: A UX design guide for VR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

It uses eye tracking in various fields and has released a product for Virtual Reality called aGlass. The aGlass consists in two circular add-ons that you insert on the lens of your headsets, and then after having attached some USB connectors here and there, offers you awesome eye tracking for your virtual reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In 2022, the Immerse Global Summit featured speakers from some of the world’s best-known brands, including Amazon, Meta, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and Unity, and demonstrations of some of the most exciting metaverse technologies. Unity shared how digital twins were helping its customers unlock new levels of innovation.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image from Amazon). This comes after the news that Sansar will now pivot more towards hosting events in Virtual Reality. The company claims being committed to Sansar, but this virtual world, like many others, is struggling. The hype is rising…. More info (Boneworks launch date) More info (Boneworks on Quest).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This allows users to create more advanced spatial experiences for the augmented reality landscape, with hand gesture recognition and spatial audio. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

This allows users to create more advanced spatial experiences for the augmented reality landscape, with hand gesture recognition and spatial audio. Foremost cloud leaders like AWS and Microsoft offer access to spatial computing solutions, such as Amazon Sumerian, for 3D scene creation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

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. It is called The Immersive Reality Revolution and I advise you all to buy it now! This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. Learn more.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. “Cyberspace” was coined by SF author William Gibson.

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