The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Apple claims the M4 has a 50% more powerful CPU an d 4 times more powerful GPU than the M2 chipset mounted on the Vision Pro, so an M5 chipset may give the new Vision Pro unprecedented performances for a standalone MR headset. with downloadable courses priced at $1.99 It has been developed with the studio “m ssing p eces”.

Apple 293

Apple Unity Ukraine AR 293

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. Long story short, all games that manage to have more than a certain number of downloads and revenues are subject to a per-install fee.

Unity 363

Unity Apple Unreal Ukraine 363

Upload VR

JUNE 25, 2024

VR Download will now stream on Thursdays at 9am PT, and VR Gamescast will stream on Tuesdays at 10am PT. What Is VR Download & Gamescast? If you're unfamiliar, VR Download is our weekly show about XR hardware, technology, and industry trends, while VR Gamescast is our weekly show about VR and mixed reality gaming.

Trends 103

Trends Unity Industry Hardware 103

The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

There is a lot of hype around the Apple Vision Pro. Video review I made a video of mine where I show you my full hands-on experience with the Quest Pro application that emulates the Apple Vision Pro menu and then give you my detailed opinion on it, highlighting the pros and cons. Eeeeh… not exactly. Let’s see why.

Apple 344

Apple Eye Tracking Hand tracking Controllers 344

Upload VR

JULY 5, 2023

You can try Apple Vision Pro's eye tracking based interface on your Quest Pro with this sideloadable recreation. Supernova Technologies built the recreation with its Nova UI framework for Unity to promote the middleware. You can download Nova's visionOS demo APK on GitHub and sideload it on your Quest Pro to try it yourself.

Apple 128

Apple Eye Tracking Hand tracking Unity 128

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6. Unity 6 is bringing many new features that are helping with cutting-edge technologies like XR and AI. It should cost 15000 yuan, which equates to circa $2100.

Unity 280

Unity Europe Hand tracking Tips 280

Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Quest headsets have long been great for playing immersive games, but not so great for the kind of basic ‘desktop productivity’ that Apple’s Vision Pro excels at. That’s been supported by heaps of tools that developers rely on to build, iterate, deploy, and update those apps—all made for developing flatscreen apps.

Tools 301

Tools Unity Video Immersion 301

VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

Discover and play indie VR/AR content without having to make a single download. Thanks to the rigorous submission processes used by major platforms, however, many independent XR content developers are finding it difficult to publish their experiences in marketplaces such as the Oculus or Apple App Stores.

Education 518

Education Tools Entertainment Unreal 518

XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking on the Unity integrations, Ivan Rajkovic, CEO of SpectreXR, noted: We’re excited to expand hand-tracking support for OctoXR and enable even more Unity developers to create immersive and engaging interactive VR/AR experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

Training 241

Training Hand tracking Unity Hardware 241

The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Many people are analyzing the Apple Vision Pro… including the ones at Meta Here you are with the usual huge roundup of news about the Apple Vision Pro (a roundup in a roundup). This week both Zuck, the CEO of Meta, and Boz, the CTO of Meta, expressed their opinions on the Apple Vision Pro.

San Diego 342

San Diego Apple Hand tracking Simulation 342

Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

Apple 145

Apple Eye Tracking Hand tracking Video 145

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For instance, it is offering a $1500 bundle that includes a VIVE XR Elite headset ($1,000 MSRP), 3 Vive Ultimate Trackers, 1 Wireless Dongle, a Dance Dash download key, and TrackStraps to attach the trackers to your body. This would show the level of polish of the upcoming Apple headset.

Unity 321

Unity Arizona Ukraine HTC 321

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

New rumors on Apple and Meta devices. I know it may sound weird to you, but we have new rumors on Apple headsets and also about the future Meta Project Cambria and Quest 3. Regarding Apple, the super-reliable analysts have stated that the headset may feature three displays because just two are for losers. Other relevant news.

Apple 305

Apple Simulation Las Vegas Haptic 305

The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. It got thousands of downloads. Cubes are easy to do.

How To 504

How To Unity Video Course 504

AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

It may, however, not be as obvious that the difference in your approach may vary significantly between designing 3D AR experiences for consumption on a webpage (web AR) compared to AR in a downloadable app. Today, Unity is powering the majority of AR apps out there as it is known for its ease of use.

Tips 326

Tips AR Unity Tools 326

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2024

I guess the competition imposed by Apple and Google forced Meta to speed up the process to ensure to have a richer ecosystem in which its developers are happy (and so do not migrate to other platforms). I did this procedure with “The Unity Cube” , my most famous application. Let’s see what to do, case by case.

How To 333

How To Unity Gaming Data 333

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Apple is still working on a cheaper Vision Pro Meta is not the only company working on a cheaper device. Apple is doing the same with its Vision Pro, hoping to release in the next years a headset with a price that makes it affordable for more people. More info — Use Google Translate!

Unity 328

Unity Ukraine Microsoft Samsung 328

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

The ARCore solution from Google supports developers in creating simple but effective AR applications, which customers can download from the Google Play store and access on any Android device. Within the Unity ecosystem, organizations can find solutions for XR development, RT3D design and more.

Unity 99

Unity Microsoft Augmented Reality Google 99

The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

It was able to provide an SDK and various templates to make companies create easily robust AR experiences that ran directly from the web, without forcing the user to download an app, as it happens for AR applications made with ARCore/ARKit. Apple chips may be its secret weapon for XR. literally can’t wait. Meta has been warned.

Magic Leap 383

Magic Leap Apple Ukraine AR 383

Upload VR

JANUARY 12, 2024

Right as CES 2024 got underway, Apple told the world to " get ready " after confirming the Apple Vision Pro release date. Unity Lays Off 25% Workforce, 1800 Staff Facing Redundancy Unity, the leading game engine for VR developers, has announced a fresh round of layoffs affecting 1800 employees.

Unity 104

Unity Apple Tips Sony 104

The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2023

After this update, Cix Liv and other VR people (like the usual Brad) said that the rumor in town is actually not that Bytedance is closing Pico, but that Pico will focus mostly on MR to chase Apple with its Vision Pro and will shut down its VR business. Let’s see if this will prove to be true.

Trends 256

Trends Ukraine Unity San Francisco 256

The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then the wish to compete with Apple may not become a reality: when the Vision Pro was announced, Samsung didn’t expect such cool features from it, so it delayed the announcement of the headset to have the time to increase its capabilities. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers!

Samsung 313

Samsung Google Magic Leap Microsoft 313

ARPost

JUNE 15, 2020

Unity Support. Unity is an advanced game engine used in the development of augmented reality apps, especially gaming. So, if you are in this business, try to pick an SDK that is compatible with Unity. Apple ARKit. ARToolKit has plugins for Unity, which we mentioned earlier, and also works with OpenSceneGraph.

AR 382

AR Augmented Reality Unity Austria 382

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Mark Gurman in his latest update confirmed that Apple will announce its Reality Pro headset in Spring , give more details about its development practices during WWDC, and then release the device during the autumn. The new report regards other devices in the work at Apple. But this is something that we already knew.

Microsoft 324

Microsoft Survey Apple AR 324

Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

Gesture Control 249

Gesture Control Hand tracking Augmented Reality Machine Learning 249

XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 18, 2024

To power the avatar system, Microsoft introduced Mesh, a suite of no-code tools and integrated Unity features that will allow enterprise customers to create bespoke immersive spaces. Microsoft has launched immersive Office 365 software solutions and Co-Pilot for Apple’s XR marketplace.

Microsoft 104

Microsoft Tools AR Immersion 104

Peter Graham

MARCH 6, 2020

Powered by Unity’s MARS extension, the app features a Story Mode and a Sandbox feature. can be downloaded from the Apple App Store and Google Play for $3.99 The former guides kids sequentially through the alphabet, allowing them to listen and trace the letters whilst the animated characters appear in AR. .

AR 70

AR Google Apple Education 70

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 31, 2023

More on OctoXR SpectreXR delivers its hand-tracking SDK solution via its Octo framework, ready for Unity developers to design custom interactable immersive content. There may also be integration for Apple’s Vision Pro because SpectreXR leverages Unity, the same SDK behind Apple’s interactive XR content.

HTC 69

HTC Hand tracking Unity Immersion 69

The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. For who wasn’t doing AR at that time: Metaio had an amazing SDK for phone-based AR, but then it got acquired by Apple and it disappeared from the market. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

Virtual Reality 430

Virtual Reality Unity Course AR 430

The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

That day be sure to download it from SideQuest and please also make some noise on social media to support us indie VR developers! But they also killed the Rift S the same year they launched it, so… In the same report, K uo also forecasts that Apple is going to launch its first headset in the second half of 2022. Other relevant news.

Apple 474

Apple Augmented Reality AR Virtual Reality 474

The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio. Some news on the metaverse.

Magic Leap 493

Magic Leap Unity Machine Learning Video 493

ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

In recent weeks, some big news has been coming down the pipes but it isn’t the kind of news that you can put on your face or download onto your phone. Curated by the analyst, writer, and venture capitalist Mathew Ball and partners, the index includes companies like Cloudflare, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Unity. Follow the Money.

Groups 441

Groups Hardware Wearables Augmented Reality 441

The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

1, 2027 for commercial customers, Windows Mixed Reality will no longer be available for download via the Mixed Reality Portal app, Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR, and Steam VR beta, and Microsoft will discontinue support.” And that “ As of Nov. 1, 2026 for consumers and Nov. Last week, people said January.

AR 324

AR Microsoft Sony Ukraine 324

Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. Both are free to download and try. It is covered in 4 weeks in about 11 hours total.

AR 125

AR Unity Virtual Reality Course 125

VRScout

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Finding each AR easter egg will require you to download an app that you can access through the catalog, and scan each page to see what pops out. When building the AR piece of the gift guide, Huge used Unity and Apple’s ARKit for each individual experience. Immersive media has grown over the last couple of years.

AR 284

AR Retail Augmented Reality New York 284

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

We also examine his company’s Nex Playground mocap gaming solutions, its Unity-based motion developer kit (MDK), and its partnership with Sky Live. This took place around the release of Apple’s A12 Bionic chip. Apple had also released CoreML, which basically simplified how machine learning models ran on mobile devices.

Industry 67

Industry Immersion Gaming Motion Capture 67

The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Just a quick rewind for everyone: ARCore is Google’s answer to Apple ARKit, a framework that lets people enjoy augmented reality from their smart p hones without using external hardware or markers. If there is no download button, you can’t use that model; Select OBJ format; Open the downloaded archive and unzip it.

AR 260

AR How To Augmented Reality Google 260