The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

My “old” passion rekindled in 2012 with the Oculus Kickstarter campaign and even prompted me to pitch the use of VR technology in sales at Audi for which I was then also fortunate enough to take over the project management. A while ago you announced a partnership with Pico and Unity. Can you tell us more about it?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 20, 2023

Many product development and design teams in the automotive, engineering, and construction industries are all beginning to experiment with VR design using the latest software and tools. In the US alone, the average salary for a “VR designer” is somewhere in the region of $60,000 to $90,000 per year, depending on experience and skills.

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ARVR

MARCH 8, 2021

For my first VR project, I decided to create a bowling game using the Unity game engine for an Oculus quest. The Exciting Applications of AR and VR in Automotive 4. OVR Grabbable: From the free oculus integration in the asset store, the ovr grabbable script was already pre-made, allowing user interactiveness.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

Automotive companies use VR environments to build new vehicles while embedding AR technology into their navigation systems. For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 1, 2017

Enhanced reality devices – especially AR — will be ubiquitous in another decade or so, and used in nearly every aspect of our lives and in nearly every industry, from automotive to medical care, education to neuroscience, engineering to shopping. Tagged with: automotive , GDC , shopping , Tim Sweeney , unreal engine 4.

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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. The Evolution of Consumer Data.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2020

For instance, many automotive producers were teasing the use of AR windshields in the future. Yes, the biggest companies were not there with a booth (Oculus will probably target the OC6, HTC the VEC, etc…), but it is the first time that I read the XR news from CES and I dont’ remain surprised.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Today it can work with Unity, C++ and C#, but will soon have support for Unreal, Babylon, and React Native. The Exciting Applications of AR and VR in Automotive 4. One of the great benefits of Mesh is the ability to create applications that work across iOS, Android, HoloLens, HP Reverb G2 and Oculus Quest 2.

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VRWorld

JULY 12, 2017

There’s no doubt that the announcements made on this conference might be the clearest direction where VR/MR/AR are heading as an industry, as it will happen after Microsoft Windows 10 Mixed Reality launches, as well as seeing the first sales results of next generation Oculus Rift headset. Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, 20th Century Fox.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

We were the first VR company to introduce a prototype at Sundance since Oculus unveiled an early version of their Rift in 2012. Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal? By having training so scalable, you can deploy training to wherever you can put an Oculus Rift and a laptop. Greg: Yeah, sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And today we're going to be learning how Holo-Light is redefining engineering across automotive, manufacturing, chemical, and myriad other industries using XR technologies. So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something= Florian: Yeah. Florian, how are you, my friend? You have ISAR.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

And today we're going to be learning how Holo-Light is redefining engineering across automotive, manufacturing, chemical, and myriad other industries using XR technologies. So I'm assuming you're streaming this down from the cloud, using probably Unity or something=. So with that, thank you and welcome to the XR for Business podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal? By having training so scalable, you can deploy training to wherever you can put an Oculus Rift and a laptop. Greg: Yeah, sure.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn’t experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week — which I was at — by Michael Abrash, who’s chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I’ve got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week -- which I was at -- by Michael Abrash, who's chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I've got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. How did that precipitate? Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

I hadn't experienced anything until the the early [Oculus] DK1. And there was some fantastic presentation, it was part of the keynote at 0C6 last week -- which I was at -- by Michael Abrash, who's chief scientist at Oculus. Alan: I've got my Oculus Quest sitting right in front of me. How did that precipitate? Justin: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We also speak with automotive manufacturers, around how they can start marketing and merchandising future car models that might not even be done yet, but through the use of these new technology experiences that let us create 3D models of the car, and sort of market that to potential customers before they might even arrive in the showroom.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

We also speak with automotive manufacturers, around how they can start marketing and merchandising future car models that might not even be done yet, but through the use of these new technology experiences that let us create 3D models of the car, and sort of market that to potential customers before they might even arrive in the showroom.

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ARVR

MARCH 29, 2021

This will be a fairly high-level overview of this process, so don’t expect lots of code snippets or details about various Unity settings. The Exciting Applications of AR and VR in Automotive 4. we want these to move with the player’s actual head in Unity. The Possibility of AR on the Urban Space 2. Enter The Monarchy 3.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. I'll give an example in automotive and aerospace. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. I'll give an example in automotive and aerospace. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. I'll give an example in automotive and aerospace. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. And where did we come from?"

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

There are plenty of products like the Oculus Go, which is just a few hundred dollars, that give you more of a robust kit than something like a Google Cardboard, where you can dip your toe in. I'll give an example in automotive and aerospace. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. And where did we come from?"

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 28, 2019

Oculus Quest and controllers (Image by Oculus). Oculus is updating its Rift S and Quest offering. This has been an interesting week of news and updates for Oculus’s flagship devices. And finally, Oculus has deployed a new update to remove the annoying “Static Flash” bug that was taunting Rift S users.

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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. Meta updates the SDK for Quest. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 12, 2017

Eonite is working on a Unity SDK which the company says will allow developers to bring real-time 3D scanned data from the user’s environment into the virtual world for mixed reality and AR applications, including support for persistent virtual content, shadows, and occlusion. “The tech they had blew me away [when I first saw it].”

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago -- I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago -- we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers - Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel -- and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. Of course Unity, Unreal, and these engines is already important to make you enabled, which we strongly recommend if you already have a commitment for VR/AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. And you also supported us on these times, because it was hard to find headsets as a developer, as a startup.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

And we actually tried to tackle this problem with the help of major headset manufacturers – Oculus, HTC, Leap Motion, Intel — and they supported us to create VR/AR labs around the world. And you also supported us on these times, because it was hard to find headsets as a developer, as a startup.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2024

But for sure it demonstrates that Apple was already considering immersive reality even before the Oculus Rift , and some people were already doing some internal R&D about it. This is very interesting in my opinion.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

I can’t guarantee that these predictions will come out to be true (I always joke about the fact that I miss many of the predictions about Meta/Oculus), but I think they will be worth reading anyway to understand what can be the trends to look for in this new year. Me wearing my branded Oculus Quest 2. So… let’s start!

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