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MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset. But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Facebook has always had the problem of distribution of its hardware (Apple has its stores, for instance, Facebook has not), and with this partnership, it immediately has the opportunity to showcase this and its future devices in all glasses shops thanks to Luxottica. Apple Event is tomorrow 14th September. Other relevant news.

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MAY 30, 2024

The first immersive experience resulting from Apple and Disney's partnership in spatial computing arrives today in What If. The hour-long experience is free for a limited time and a must-see for Apple Vision Pro owners. is the experience every Apple Vision Pro owner needs to see. on the visionOS App Store. In What If.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Rebuilt in Unreal Engine 5, Riven is 1997's sequel to the atmospheric puzzle game Myst. The new version of the game saw the inclusion of an option for puzzle randomization, so players could choose to see the game's puzzles through fresh eyes, and Cyan's developers even added hand tracking to the experience on Quest headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden. Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale.

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JULY 22, 2024

0:00 / 0:50 1× UploadVR trying out Depth API with hand mesh occlusion in the v67 SDK. The Depth API now has an option to exclude your tracked hands from the depth map so that they can be masked out using the hand tracking mesh instead.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Until now, building even a simple app for Quest headsets required using a full-fledged game engine like Unity, Unreal, or Godot. It provides rendering, optional passthrough, controller and hand tracking, support for flatscreen and immersive media playback, physics, and spatial audio. 0:00 / 1:07 1× Meta Spatial SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore. of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5% As an entrepreneur, I understand.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Thrasher is following its simultaneous Apple Vision Pro and Quest release in July with a December release on Steam. The intense audio and visuals in Thrasher look built to shine on all its supported platforms, though we've yet to go hands-on with the experience to see how it handles in person. It’s an unreal level of contrast.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Right now, here's our highlights for new VR games coming to Quest, PC VR, PlayStation VR2, and Apple Vision Pro this December. Store links - Quest Drakheir - December 5 (Quest) 0:00 / 1:46 1× Published by Gallantry Games, Drakheir: The First Hand Tracking ARPG is the very self-explanatory full name for this upcoming action RPG.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And it also makes me super-happy that no one is about Facebook and Apple… I was getting pretty bored in writing newsletters only about these two companies! The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality.

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MAY 17, 2024

Aided by the UEVR mod, the ceaseless work of Team Beef and the formal announcement of Flat2VR Studios, an assortment of high-selling Unreal Engine games are basically seeing robust VR support turned on inside the titles many people already own. The biggest trend in VR gaming of 2024, though, is the blurrying line between flat content and VR.

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JANUARY 16, 2021

We were all expecting this since AR and VR are a bit in a transitional moment and the biggest brands (like Facebook and Apple) have their events through which they’ll announce their new devices, but for me, this lack of news was worse than the expected. We had a few interesting news, but nothing truly disruptive.

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Voices of VR

MAY 29, 2024

An Immersive Story exclusively on Apple Vision Pro tomorrow, and I had a chance to take an early look and speak with producer and executive producer Shereif Fattouh as well as technical art director Indira Guerrieri about the process of creating this experience. ILM Immersive & Marvel Studios is releasing What If…?:

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Mark Rabkin showed a whole slide about Unreal Engine and announced camera access. I already had my travel plans figured out for Unreal Fest Seattle, where my company was giving several talks , followed by a Star Wars convention in Orlando, where we’d be exhibiting our open source recreation of the Galactic Starcruiser.

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JULY 26, 2021

We have seen that hands tracking has enabled new kinds of experiences that we hadn’t even thought of before (think about the great experiments by Daniel Beauchamp ), and I’m sure that the same will happen with passthrough AR, too; Facebook is building a platform that will work for all future headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facebook has showcased how thanks to the use of hand-tracking gloves, it has been able to let people touch-type in VR. With it, you can develop also Web AR experiences using a popular framework like MRTK, and also experiences that support hands tracking. Maybe there is hope for broken Rift CV1 cables.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

On that note, leading into 2025, the XR market is looking to shift, with interest shifting towards emerging technologies such as AR and MR, with accessible products debuting from firms like Meta and Apple. Alongside the haptic feedback distribution, TouchDIVER Pro leverages full hand tracking with a deep precision of 0.6

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Since this is the last episode in my series from Meta Connect 2024, then here's a list of all 20+ interviews and 12+ hours of my coverage from this year: #1468: Kickoff of Meta Connect 2024 Coverage with Orion AR Glasses Hands-on Impressions with Tested's Norm Chan & CNET's Scott Stein #1469: Analyst Anshel Sag on Meta Connect Announcements & Orion (..)

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

At a glance, this headset certainly seems a lot “clunkier” and bulkier than some of the other leading headsets we’ve seen lately, like the Apple Vision Pro. Siemens even announced earlier this year that this software will deliver a brand-new Unreal Engine-based solution.

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APRIL 20, 2020

If we sum these features to the other ones added in the past, like hands tracking, Passthrough Shortcut, or the multiple windows in Oculus Browser , we start seeing the first signs of a mixed reality operating system, with which you can interact with the controllers or with the hands in a natural way. Why does this matter?

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Store links - Quest Wanderer: The Fragments Of Fate - October 31 (PC VR, Pico, PSVR 2, Quest) Wanderer: The Fragments of Fate by Mighty Eyes is a remake of 2022's Wanderer , and it's been completely rebuilt using Unreal Engine 5. It's launching this month in early access, and you can find our initial impressions below to learn more.

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DECEMBER 28, 2023

With the Varjo XR-4 series, the tech leader aims to offer a more affordable and diverse alternative to upcoming headsets like the Apple Vision Pro. This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2. However, they are more affordable than you might think.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The hardware for hand tracking is already incorporated, though wasn’t activated at the time I started testing the system, coming soon as part of ongoing software updates. They feature a small joystick, X and Y buttons, Menu and Pimax buttons, side grip buttons, and frontal triggers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. Apple glasses are coming. The glasses are expected to run a new operating system, rOS (or reality OS), and Apple is exploring touch panels, voice activation, and head gestures as a means of control. Apple is really good at selling stuff.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

This is the first public hint that Google is back on track working on a new AR device , most probably glasses that should compete with Facebook and Apple. It has a retro look that makes it very nerdy, and it should be able to offer passthrough AR and hands tracking via Ultraleap. Tilt Brush).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple announces the release date of the Apple Vision Pro During the last few days, the rumors about possible release dates for the Apple Vision Pro have intensified , and someone talked about January, 27 as the day of the launch. The headset will be available for purchase in the U.S.,

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2024

It can work with any type of XR glasses, may they be mixed reality visors (a la Apple Vision Pro ), AR glasses (a la XREAL ), or smartglasses (a la Ray-Ban Meta ). The FOV is slightly smaller than Quest 3 according to Ben Lang Tracking : 6 DOF inside-out tracking guarantees the headset is aware of its position.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

It was our hope for Google entering the AR race together with Meta and Apple. Regarding all the rumors about the use of tracked controllers, Mark Gurman stated this in his latest report: “ I’m told that Apple isn’t planning its own Vision Pro game controller, nor is it actively planning support for third-party VR accessories ”.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

It is a bit like Android vs Apple : Android’s Plays Store is more open and cheaper, but the Apple Store offers better quality. On Unreal Engine, the Wave SDK for the Vive Focus has lots of issues. The Oculus Quest is like an Apple phone. You have to choose if you prefer quantity or quality. Extra features.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Apple is entering the XR field, and Facebook is currently dominating the VR market. Apple headset may be very lightweight. According to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the upcoming Apple visor should weigh around 3–400g, which is much lighter than current headsets on the market, including the Quest 2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Unreal Engine support is coming next year Interaction SDK : a set of facilities to develop applications with hands-tracking, that provides out-of-the-box tools for interacting with the UI and with objects in the scene. For instance, the virtual hands will be able to grasp objects in a natural way. Spark AR updates.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

If they keep building the device, when Apple halts production, there may be enough units in the warehouses to keep the sales happening until the next version of the headset is released. This headset may be priced around $2000, and according to this last report from The Information, Apple plans to sell around 4 million units of them.

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