Road to VR

JUNE 20, 2024

Meta appears to be readying a tool that will allow Quest users the ability to force software updates via a tethered connection. Luna also shared a screenshot and link to an informational page detailing the ostensibly web-based update tool, which appears to be 404’ed at the time of this writing.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Social VR platform Rec Room announced it’s released a new creation suite that allows you to publish content directly to the Rec Room platform from inside Unity, essentially letting its users create content using a host of industry standard tools. Now in Beta, Rec Room Studio is said to support: Importing assets and textures.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 3, 2022

The company says it will use the funds to further build out its avatar creation tools and eventually allow developers to earn money through the sale of in-game assets and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The post Avatar Creation Tool ‘Ready Player Me’ Raises $13M to Provide Metaverse-wide Avatars appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

It is a real pleasure for me to be interviewed for your blog. I know that your team has created a tool called Holo-BLSD. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. A self-instruction tool can solve many of these problems if it is indeed effective in achieving the same learning outcomes of a traditional course.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2024

With Meta’s Acoustic Ray Tracing, the company says in a developer blog post it can simulate sound reflections, reverberations, and things like diffraction, occlusion, and obstruction—all critical to making spatial audio closer to the real thing. You can find out more about Meta’s Acoustic Ray Tracing here.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unity announced in recent a blog post that support for visionOS is now out of beta, which lets paid users create three main types of XR experiences: mixed reality apps, fully-immersive virtual reality apps, and 2D windowed content that is resizable and repositionable by the user. Unity has officially launched 1.0 The post Unity Releases 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2. Even if Meta still doesn’t admit that its headsets are used by a lot of small kids (these measures are marketed as tools parents can use with teenagers), these measures are targeted also at them.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2021

In a blog post released by NVIDIA earlier this week, the company revealed that a small portion of the virtual keynote was hosted by a digitized version of Huang. We started Omniverse with the idea of connecting existing tools that do 3D together for what we are now calling the metaverse. Well, at least part of it was.

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VRScout

MARCH 23, 2022

Existing members of the Oculus Start and Oculus Launch Pad VR developer programs will have access to a wide variety of tools and support catering specifically to Horizon Worlds. Check out the official blog for more information. If you’re not already a member of Oculus Start you can learn more about how to sign up here.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Players take on the role of “The Gardener,” a green-thumbed wanderer equipped with a variety of powerful tools, including the Stilts. You’ll also have access to a handful of garnering tools that you’ll use to spawn new flora. For more information check out the official blog post.

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VRScout

AUGUST 18, 2020

Earlier this morning Facebook confirmed in an official Oculus blog post that, beginning October 2020, those using an Oculus VR headset for the first time will need to log in to their devices with an official Facebook account for full functionality. Existing users will need to merge their Oculus accounts in two years.

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VRScout

JUNE 1, 2022

It was back in October of 2021 that Meta (formerly Facebook) first revealed its Presence Platform , a collection of tools that allow VR developers to craft immersive mixed reality environments, interactions, and voice experiences. Upon completing the setup process, a strange-looking tool will emerge from the floor. Image Credit: Meta.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Earlier this week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates took to his official blog GatesNotes to lend his thoughts on a variety of hop button topics from climate change and misinformation to COVID-19 and remote coworking. ” “Most people don’t own these tools yet, which will slow adoption somewhat.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The collaboration is also about improving content creators ability to make high-quality stereoscopic content through the use of advanced tooling, including employing AI. It is not clear what this means, but whatever they could release that could help also other content creators would be beneficial for the community.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

So far, the company hasn’t provided any clues beyond the usual boilerplate: “As in years past, well share the latest and greatest in Meta Horizon updates, peel back the curtain on tomorrows tech, and give XR devs the tools they need to help build for the next computing platform today,” Meta says in the blogpost announce.

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VRScout

JUNE 17, 2021

You’ll find this incredibly useful tool located in the Experimental Features tab. To deactivate, you can manually disable the tool, redraw your guardian boundary, or simply restart the headset. For more information on all of today’s updates, check out the official blog post. Feature Image Credit: Facebook.

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VRScout

MAY 11, 2022

. “Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for creators to build amazing worlds, and we’ve heard from the Horizon Worlds community that the tool you want the most is a collection of pre-made items you can use anytime you want,” said Meta in an official blog post.

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Road to VR

APRIL 12, 2020

While the tools for building WebXR apps are designed to be familiar to web developers, many VR developers use game engine tools like Unity to build their apps. As neat as WebXR is, the tools to build this kind of content are still evolving. WebXR is an open standard which allows VR apps to run directly from web browsers.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Microsoft’s new tool detects digital manipulation in real-time based on nearly invisible imperfections. More specifically, its use as a tool for spreading disinformation and fake news by manipulating the image of prospective candidates. Believe it or not, this is not former US President Barrack Obama. How exactly does it do this?

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VRScout

JULY 20, 2021

In the original game, players take on the role of Jack as they assist Liv in unraveling a deep space mystery by overcoming a variety of unique challenges using an assortment of advanced tools. For more information check out the official Oculus blog post here. Feature Image Credit: Ready at Dawn.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 21, 2025

Ah, and before I forget: in the next couple of days, Im going to publish a very interesting interview on this blog! Meta claims these generative AI tools can dramatically reduce the time needed to build virtual worlds from weeks to as little as hours. Stay tuned! I will leave you the link to do that below.

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VRScout

MAY 24, 2022

Basically, just providing some tools to make all this smoother and easier for these users.”. For more information on all of today’s announcements check out the official blog post here. Image Credit: Niantic.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2019

ARCore, Google’s developer platform for building augmented reality experiences for mobile devices, is unveiling today a new tool called Depth API, which not only lets mobile devices create depth maps using a single RGB camera, but also aims to make the AR experience more natural, as virtual imagery is more realistically placed in the world.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2020

More info is also coming for Quest titles The Room VR: A Dark Matter from Fireproof Games, Lies Beneath from Drifter Entertainment, and Phantom: Covert Ops from nDreams, the company says in a blog post.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

According to a new blog post, however, Meta rebranding is already well underway. Moving forward, the Oculus Quest and Oculus Quest 2 will be referred to as the Meta Quest and Meta Quest 2 respectively. Naturally, we assumed it would take some time before the company could begin rebranding. ’ Feature Image Credit: Facebook (Meta).

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

In this blog, we will cover some highly popular software development tools used for AR app development. We have a plethora of AR app development tools available in the market. You should consider the following parameters before choosing a suitable tool for your AR app development. Criteria For Selecting the Best AR SDK.

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EON Reality

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The integration of these advanced XR and AI tools enables us to offer a uniquely empowering learning environment, where our students can excel amidst change and innovation.” Learn more about it by watching the latest episode of EON-XR Spoken blog.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2021

Announced yesterday in an official Oculus blog post , the Oculus Air Link expands on the existing Oculus Link software introduced back in 2019. For more information on these latest announcements, check out the official blog post here. It doesn’t end there, however. Feature Image Credit: Facebook, Oculus.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2022

Meta this week released a new demo app called First Hand to showcase the kind of experiences that developers can build with the company’s controllerless hand-tracking tools. But what’s better than a good hands-on example?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

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. you are the guy of the cube… The Trailer of The Unity Cube. Oh yes, the irony. You can check out the tutorial here below for more detailed instructions.

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ARPost

MAY 31, 2022

It will continue to remain its own company while bringing Niantic tools and experiences to Web3. 8th Wall’s portion of the Niantic session revealed three big changes to the platform : Two new tiers for monthly subscriptions; New monetization tools; New discoverability features. New Monetization Tools. New Discovery Tools.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2020

As a cross country runner, I understood that these glasses did not have to have millimeter-level accuracy for the avatar animation or all-day battery life (which tends to make more general platform glasses too bulky and convoluted to use for outdoor applications) in order to be a hyper-effective training tool.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Apple shared the news through a company blog post: “Starting today, customers in the United Arab Emirates can pre-order Apple Vision Pro, Apple’s revolutionary spatial computer, by visiting the Apple Store online or the Apple Store app. From November 15 th , the Apple Vision Pro will also be available in Apple shops and for delivery.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2020

In place of GDC this year, which was postponed due to the coronavirus , Facebook is announcing some of its news via the decidedly more sterile environment of the Oculus blog, starting today and going until Thursday, March 19th. Today, the company unveiled its next major update to the Oculus Quest system experience. Image courtesy Facebook.

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ARPost

MAY 27, 2022

For one thing, a number of sources – including OCAVU’s recent blog post “ How AR Can Help Save the Planet ” – say that 3D modeling and XR try-out in commerce reduces emissions by reducing returns by providing shoppers with better product information. Environmental Experiences on Quest (and Beyond).

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2020

Oculus has updated its UE4 Quest development tools so that developers can spend less time waiting and more time testing and iterating on their VR applications. ” The blog post also explains how the function can be used in native development environments. Image courtesy Oculus. times, from 3 and a half minutes to 66 seconds. .”

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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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