Upload VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

First Contact Entertainment reveals Firewall Ultra is one of the first PSVR 2 games running on Unreal Engine 5. Asked about Early Access Unreal Engine 5 VR development for Firewall Ultra , First Contact detailed the challenges involved: It’s fair to say, it’s uncharted waters.

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JUNE 4, 2024

irp] The remake is said to blend the original’s intricate puzzle-solving with modern technology, offering stunning visuals and a fully explorable 3D world—which is in part thanks to being built in Unreal Engine 5. You’ll also find it on Steam for flatscreen, which comes with launch-day support for PC VR headsets.

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ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

Since then he’s been independently working with creator platforms like Unity and Unreal. In our phone interview, Remy revealed a couple of other potential Vector Gear features that didn’t find their way into this article (including a potentially revolutionary audio system). The rest of the roadmap is pending. Innovation Never Sleeps.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The last piece of info I was able to find is the usually detailed article by Karl Guttag about the glasses. But even more than all the juicy technicalities, I’ve found the end of the article pretty concerning: I understand that Meta was demonstrating, in a way, “If money was not an obstacle, what could we do?”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

One of my biggest highlights has been that my article about Social AR has been featured in the famous New World Notes blog that I usually read… I’ve felt very honored about this! This week has been quite cool for me. The game is expected to come at the end of the year, exclusively for Quest 3.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

We all like to shoot videos and screenshots of the VR experiences we play : sometimes to me it is a necessity because I need content to insert inside my articles for my blog, but in general, we all love to save some great moments we had in VR, in the same way we feel the need to take a picture when something interesting is happening in real life.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

It’s an article worth reading, which highlights the pros and cons of the device. Some articles on the metaverse. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. She found interesting the design with the detachable lens on top of very thin frames, but the overall look is still too dorky.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

Some articles on the metaverse. Here you are my shortlist of the interesting articles about the M-word that I’ve read this week: According to a report from The Information, the prices of virtual lands have plummeted. While I think it’s a bit reductive for the real potentialities of the metaverse, the article is still worth a read.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Called Apollo 11: Mission AR, the interactive demo is streamed wirelessly in real-time from networked PCs running the company’s game engine, Unreal Engine. We’ll update this article as soon as we hear back. Released in early September, Unreal Engine 4.23

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. More info (Lumus Maximus glasses) More info (In-depth article on Lumus Maximus by Karl Guttag). Here you can find the link: [link] Thanks a lot []-). Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2022

In this post, we’ll discuss the evolution and iteration of implementing hand tracking in Myst —and in particular, adding more support for it in Unreal Engine 4.27.2. Guest Article by Hannah Gamiel. Continue on Page 2: Engine Modifications Made in Unreal ». The ‘point’ method doesn’t work for all navigation usages.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2017

Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games. A trailer (heading this article) reveals the forthcoming headset support, but otherwise appears to show more or less the same game we saw on PSVR. SEE ALSO 'Batman: Arkham VR' Review.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

RecRoom without kids For us developers, there will be a dedicated Unity SDK at launch , with the Unreal one following a few months later. One of my sources tried this feature in a prototype porting of Rec Room and said that it is like playing it in single-player mode, it feels as silent as a library.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

I started with some really mediocre articles, but again, for some weird reasons, people started reading me. I so started investing more time on my blog, and learning from the articles of other “real journalists” how I should have written my posts. Also reading books helped me in improving my writing skills.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

One of them is today’s article, where I interview one of the people whose work has inspired me the most this year: Daniel Beauchamp. Now I leave you to his words and his videos: I’ve embedded many videos in this article, so that you can admire his most famous works. Can you introduce yourself to my readers?

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

This article is the latest in AR Insider’s editorial contributor program. A great alternative to Unity is Epic’s Unreal Engine by the way. You will notice that the video at the top of this article will show the women’s shoes in much better quality than the one below. Find out more or contact us to participate here.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Let’s talk about the M-word: JingDaily has published a very long and detailed article about the ecosystem of virtual idols in China Decentraland has just created a marketplace for the emotes of avatars. It reports that CMO may earn up to $1.5M/year year to help big corporates in metaverse efforts.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

As a full disclaimer, this is a paid article that I’m writing for a recent collaboration I started with NVIDIA to help them promote GTC , NVIDIA’s flagship event, that this year will be held online on March 21st-24nd. You can discover more about the GTC and some of its cool XR sessions in the remainder of this article.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

There are some interesting pieces of information about the glasses inside the article. The newspaper describes the glasses as the hardware through which Tim Cook will leave his legacy because they are a new product line fully built under his management.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

In the video heading this article, you can hear how much information can be derived about the physical shape of the scene from the audio alone. NVIDIA has dreamt up a solution which takes those calculations and runs them on their powerful GPUs, fast enough, the company says, for real-time use even in high-performance VR applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

The most viral XR article of the week has been an interview that Mark Zuckerberg had with The Verge. The claim reshared by many people from the article is that “five years from now […] people will primarily think about us as a metaverse company, rather than a mobile internet company”. Top news of the week. Image by Facebook).

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Guest Article by Enrique Tromp. Three years ago I had the opportunity to discuss the importance of delightful interactions in VR applications in this Road to VR guest article. We hope to soon port it to other platforms as well (Unreal, Web…?). You can follow his latest work on Twitter @entromp.

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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. Patrick Wyatt, a C-suite veteran, has been appointed the company’s new CPO and “will be the primary lead for Varjo’s software and cloud development initiatives.” CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2018

Along with the updates to their tracking technology, Leap Motion is also releasing improvements to their developer tools, including newly updated Unity and Unreal Engine integrations, and deprecating some older APIs. The company details the developer-level changes on their blog here.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Unreal SDK. Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Unreal, has made a fast appearence at the event, saying that finally it will be possible to develop for HoloLens also using Unreal Engine. This is the part of the article where you cry. Full specs. Price and release date. The bad news is the price.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

In its personal crusade against Microsoft, optics expert Karl Guttag has listed in 4 articles all the defects of the HoloLens 2. An article by my Patron Ilias Kapouranis analyzes Single Pass Stereo rendering and it shows you that it is not a silver bullet that can reduce your rendering times by 50%. A very interesting read.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. More info (Kickstarter page) More info (Article on Upload VR). More info (Read the article plus the comments to my tweet). The change made by one user in its program (e.g. New kind of AI inside”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Every week I share with you the very rare articles that say something interesting about the metaverse, and this week I want to propose two posts by the smart PhD Kim Nevelsteen that talk about the definitions of “the metaverse” according to science and what XR experts think about it. Yes, you’ve read everything well. It has 4.5DOF.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

and you found this article for whatever reason, first of all, welcome to the club! It’s impossible not to talk about the M-word, so let me point to you some articles that could deflate a bit the hype about it: The Chinese giant Baidu (the Chinese counterpart of Google) is investing in building an open Metaverse ecosystem.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2019

If you’re interested in learning more, check out our deep dive hands-on article here. The idea is to give you a higher pixel per degree (PPD) where it counts the most—the center of your eye—while keeping a reasonably large field of view (FOV) with the larger, albeit lower pixel-dense context display.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Welcome to the November 2022 edition of VR Modding Monthly, a monthly article to keep you up to date about all the exciting things going on in the wonderful world of the Flat2VR Modding community! Universal Unreal Engine VR Injector Mod. What Unreal Engine games are you most excited to play in VR when Praydog’s mod releases?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The article talked about a headset shipping without controllers and aiming at the sweet price point of $200. As for the review, since I’m crunching these weeks, probably I will just write a quick hands-on article and delay a more detailed review for next month.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Or Unreal if that’s your language. There’s an article in Fortune magazine where the CEO of Walmart who was interviewed says, “Lives were saved that day because so many of our associates made proper decisions, and they made those decisions quickly because they’d been there before in VR.”

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 1, 2021

Yeah, I’m more of an Unreal Tournament guy. I hope you liked this review, and if it is the case, don’t forget to subscribe to my newsletter to receive my next article straight in your inbox! But if you are a fan of rhythm games, this doesn’t hold also for you, and you will probably love how AGAINST unfolds.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Welcome to the November 2022 edition of VR Modding Monthly, a monthly article to keep you up to date about all the exciting things going on in the wonderful world of the Flat2VR Modding community! Universal Unreal Engine VR Injector Mod. What Unreal Engine games are you most excited to play in VR when Praydog’s mod releases?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

Current gaming engines like Unity and Unreal are not designed for this. And I guess that reading this article, you are as impressed as me. He added that he is proud that RP1 is solving also the delivery of non-pre-compiled experiences since the future Metaverse will be too big to download.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

This is also confirmed by the Wired article, where the journalist states that he has been able to see the conference in preview before the general audience. In the article on Yivian announcing the news, there are many people from Pico saying the usual boring press statements. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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