XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 18, 2024

Mike Nisbet, Unity Engineer at SideQuest and Icosa Foundation Team Member , was excited about the possibilities that lay ahead with Google Blocks: “We’re thrilled to see Blocks join Tilt Brush in being released to the community, allowing another fantastic tool to grow and evolve. license, which it has been released under.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

HTC is doing just that throughout the next few months in a live webinar happening every Tuesday, from now until mid-May. Starting on March 31st and going to May 12th, HTC is streaming live developer talks that it would have otherwise given during GDC 2020. The company has also provided a description of each talk via its blog post.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like. The talk will cover how and why to roll out hand tracking affordances with Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. UltraLeap Unity SDK. Playing around with Leap Motion/Ultraleap SDK in Unity is pretty easy. The UltraLeap Unity SDK is the same SDK we have always appreciated all these years. Further References. Final impressions.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. Look no further!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form. without limitation, Oculus, Google, Microsoft, Valve, Steam, HTC)”, venture capital, or crowdsourcing. Oculus is aiming to reduce the barriers to entry into VR development for small teams. “If

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

To do this, an infrared 3D capture camera hangs on the front of your headset (either the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other devices) and dangles in front of the lower half of your face, reading your expressions. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Oculus recently revealed in a blog post that in the past months they’ve been working on bringing native mixed reality capture support to Oculus Rift, and it’s available today for developers to start creating mixed reality videos. .”

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

I have written a little blog post about my participation there. As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. It’s interesting that HTC is keeping the name Vive both for VR and Web3 solutions. I can’t tell you the last one because it will be a surprise! Top news of the week. Image by Epic Games). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

My trip is going well and this week I will start writing on my blog about my XR experiences here in the Red Country, while on my X/Twitter channel, you will be able to see some landscape and food pictures! I’m writing this newsletter across Hangzhou and Qingdao, which are two cities I personally love here in China! This could be huge.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That’s why I feel very honored to host on my blog OpenBCI , a famous company aimed at building neural interfaces that have not only a very high quality, but are also opensource. Will it be compatible with Unity and Unreal Engine for development? Yes, it will be compatible with both Unity and Unreal via the BrainFlow SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

DISCLAIMER: Before starting, I would like to acknowledge you that since some weeks Niels Bogerd has become a Patron of this blog. This way your gloves are powered and can communicate with your PC; Setup of the HTC Vive system. You can enter Unity and try some sample scenes that just let you grasp objects while you are not even in VR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 2, 2016

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. You can grab the source for the renderer at the Unity asset store here , and check out the full blog post detailing the release here.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. HTC releases its “metaverse phone”. NVIDIA blog on the Industrial Metaverse More info?—?Video

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

More info (FRL Official blog post) More info (Road To VR reporting and commenting the news) More info (Ctrl+Labs’s Dino Game Early Demo) More info (ETH’s experimental wristband). As it had promised on my blog last year , its cool Nreal Light AR glasses have finally arrived in Europe. Nreal Light is on sale in Germany. Some XR fun.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 5, 2017

Early on the Rift development kit supported Mac, but it became clear Apple computers weren’t optimized with graphics cards that could drive high-quality VR and VR support essentially stalled. That seems to be changing though as Apple begins supporting higher end graphics cards as well as external graphics processors.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Here below I’m posting for you the best offers I’ve found: for instance, HTC is discounting basically every piece of hardware (including Vive Trackers that can be useful for all the VRChat fans out there), while Pico is offering one of the best deals with €100-worth-of-content given for free with every purchased Pico 4.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. If you’re passionate about fine-tuning Unity components and creating groundbreaking VR experiences, we want you to be a part of our team, shaping the future of immersive technology. SteamVR 2.0

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen. In a blog post entitled Prototyping future AR in VR , Vermeulen breaks down the VR headset he uses to create his unique AR experiences. The primary component is a ZedMini camera hooked up to an HTC Vive headset, that allows for AR pass-through while he is in VR.

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JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. There are also additional guides for those wanting to integrate mixed reality support into Unity , Unreal , and native. Tagged with: mixed reality Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Image courtesy HTC. HTC have finally revealed the price and release date of the anticipated Vive Pro , opening preorders globally at Vive.com and other retailers. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Magic Leap announcements. image courtesy Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Disclaimer: HTC provided three of their Vive Tracker 3.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (Nathie going around the streets with the Vision Pro on) More info (Vision Pro guy with a robot dog) More info (A girl staying in the pool with the Vision Pro) More info (Photos and videos of other people wearing the headset in public places) Unity has released the tools to build for the Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

You can imagine that after it has been released through two official blog posts, an enormous backlash from the community started to happen. To support this blog you don’t need any Facebook account, but suffices a Patreon one! So far for the announcement by Facebook. The same on Twitter. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. million late last year with help from the likes of HTC, certainly seems to be doing that. VRChat also aims to offer deeper user customization with integration with Unity. VRChat will be releasing on Steam in Early Access on February 1st 2017.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

XR headset manufacturer HTC VIVE has debuted its VIVE Ultimate Tracker, which will offer users multiple vantage points for body tracking, Shen Ye, Global Head of Product, HTC VIVE announced in a blog post on Wednesday. Building on the successes of the HTC VIVE Tracker 3.0, ” HTC VIVE FOTA 6.0 Named FOTA 6.0,

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This is the same confusion that created issues for HTC in the past with the Vive Pro, for instance. Like last week, also this week in this final paragraph I won’t ask you to donate for my blog, but to the poor people that are facing the consequences of the war. The new guide about how to write content about the metaverse Funny link.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. This means mainly two things: Livestreams and blog posts where the companies make the announcements that they would have made during the event. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 4, 2018

When looking for problems related to Vive Focus on Google, I always only find my own blog as an answer. With the Vive Focus, I already made a Unity Plugin to preview live in the headset what you are doing inside Unity. What was your greatest challenge while developing for the Vive Focus? There’s almost no documentation.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. Although gaming is certainly a great use case and example of what immersive VR experiences can deliver, the possibilities are endless,” said Vindevogel.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 27, 2022

The Metaverse Standards Forum has already gathered many important players of the XR sector like Unity, Unreal Engine, Meta, Microsoft, Lamina 1, NVIDIA, and even other relevant companies like IKEA and Adobe. NVIDIA Blog). Image by HTC Vive). HTC launches Vive Flow Business Edition. More info (Metaverse Standards Forum?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). HTC Vive celebrates the holidays giving 100% rev share to developers. More info (Unboxing video on Upload VR).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

Today on my blog I’ll host a guest post by Matias Nassi , a great XR developer from Uruguay. We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. You may be saying “Come on!

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