Cats and VR

JUNE 12, 2017

First of all I want to thank everyone at Oculus and Facebook for allowing me to be part of an amazing opportunity. So many individuals to thank but I will start with Ebony Peay Ramirez-Program Manager, Diversity & Inclusion at Oculus VR. I was a bit down but decided to go to Oculus. wait they can. So Mote It Be.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

I have already started playing with this little toy, and I will write my impressions very soon on this blog (probably Friday or Monday). 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. What about you?

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

While it might seem daunting, Oculus and Unity want to make that process a little easier. Now you can’t just go in cold having never even looked at Unity (a game engine by the way). If you don’t then Unity suggests some introductory courses first, such as an intro to Unity course and an intro to VR tutorial.

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Road to VR

MARCH 28, 2018

Oculus’ PC SDK version 1.19 This week, Oculus announced the addition of LMS to their PC SDK 1.19. The company deeply details the implementation in depth at their developer blog , and said that the feature “provides a performance boost and a slight quality improvement.” With 92.2%

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

Some people asked me how I did that and in this post, I’m sharing my knowledge giving you some hints about how to replicate the same experience in Unity. It won’t be a step-by-step tutorial, but if you have some Unity skills, it will be enough for you to deliver a mixed reality experience.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 19, 2018

Providing “access, support, and savings” to qualifying indie developers, the new Oculus Start program hopes to encourage and enable the development of great apps from those just getting started in VR. The program, which was introduced in a brief post on the Oculus developer blog , has begun to accept applications via this form.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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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. They don’t currently have any focus on utilising a form of Oculus’ Asynchronous Timewarp.

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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. image courtesy Oculus. 3D printable mixed reality mount, image courtesy Oculus.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

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 a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2017

Oculus is calling its latest rendering tech ‘Stereo Shading Reprojection’, and says that for scenes which are heavy in pixel shading, the approach can save upwards of 20% on GPU performance. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD.

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AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

How Daimler uses Unity across its automotive lifecycle. The division uses Unity to create a mixed reality pipeline connected to systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data, then deploy applications to multiple platforms, including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus devices, and smartphones. by Nick Davis. Production.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. So many memories, guys.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2018

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if the app passed minimum standards and a content review to determine it was a complete and polished experience. image courtesy Oculus.

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ARVR

JUNE 13, 2022

So if you have come across oculus you might have seen 2 types of boundary Stationary Boundary RoomScale Boundary Here I wanted to use RoomScale so I can wander around in my room in both worlds. So first I have to measure my room in the real world and start designing it in Unity. Placed it in right place and try playing it in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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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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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. The three-day event featured videos and special blog posts. On Tuesday, a post went live on the VIVE blog detailing what their digital GDC alternative offerings will look like. Now it looks like HTC and VIVE are doing something similar.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Today, I’m going to share with you the APK that lets you have passthrough vision with blue edges on your Oculus Quest 2. I so started to share the APK with them via e-mail, and now, after all these weeks, I have realized that it is worthwhile sharing it with everyone on this blog. Why am I sharing this app? Oh yes, the irony.

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Upload VR

JULY 30, 2024

And in fact, the Oculus Audio SDK, the predecessor to the Meta XR Audio SDK, had it in 2019. How the Meta XR Audio SDK's Acoustic Ray Tracing sees a scene in Unity. Details here: UploadVR David Heaney As the original Oculus Audio SDK saw few updates after 2019 many third-party developers moved over to Steam Audio.

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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. VRChat also aims to offer deeper user customization with integration with Unity. The company’s Unity SDK will also let you build your own worlds for others to explore, and it claims there are already “hundreds” available.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

In 4 days it will be the 4th birthday of my blog, and so in this period, I want to write some special posts to celebrate. Hello Daniel, I am very pleased to have you on my blog today! You have become quite famous in the VR communities for your amazing experiments with Oculus Quest hands tracking. That’s a tough one!

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. Leap Motion has also been the first important company I have interviewed in this blog. UltraLeap Unity SDK. Further References.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The company says in a blog post that anyone with the know-how will soon be able to develop new VR experiences for its location-based attractions using its upcoming SDK. Sandbox says however that developers can create using more modest setups such as an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 25, 2020

Videogame engine Unity has supported the XR industry from the early days of virtual reality (VR) through to the current crop of augmented reality (AR) hardware. This week has seen Unity update its XR platform, removing support for some devices whilst reaffirming official functionality for the latest headsets. . Affecting Unity 2019.3

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Last month, we had the pleasure of working with Unity and the Orlando Economic Partnership to help them unveil their Regional Digital Twin installation at the Partnership’s HQ. Though the project was small in scale, it was a welcome reminder of how far VR development has come since our Oculus DK1 days. Even so, the question remains?—?Can

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In a blog post published by the university, a team of researchers led by Ibrahim Baggili, Elder Family Endowed Chair of Computer Science & Cybersecurity and a well-known veteran in cybersecurity and digital forensics; master’s student Peter Casey; and Martin Vondrá? A full disclosure of their findings can be found here.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. Photoshop is doing the same.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

The Unity CEO opened the event with a keynote where he defined the word “metaverse” and stated that XR devices should reach similar distribution numbers of game consoles in the next 5 years (this means they won’t reach the volumes of smartphones anytime soon). More info (Galea on Road To VR) More info (Galea on my blog The Ghost Howls).

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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. Meta is keeping its update pace of the Oculus Quest software very high. 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

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Maybe Oculus planned to showcase Del Mar at GDC.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

But this has not been the case: with a brief post on its blog, Sony has announced that there will be a “next-generation” VR device that will work with PS5, but that it will simply not be released this year. Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Experience with 3D content creation is a plus, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work with AR design. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry.

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