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The C64 was so popular that it was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the biggest selling computer model of all time, with an estimated 12.5 He then offered to send me the Unity Project files! Real Commodore 64 – Virtually works really well with the Oculus Quest. I am a total C# and Unity noob so I learn as I go.
He has also recently written together with Irena Cronin “The Infinite Retina” , a great book about the technologies of the future, like XR, AI, and autonomous vehicles. But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.
You have written a book on the topic “Inclusive Design for a Digital World” What can people find inside it? The book is meant for those who are new to accessibility and looking to learn more about it. Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. The first step is to educate yourself.
It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??”
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.
I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. Very Silently, Oculus has changed the specifications of Oculus Link , which now doesn’t require anymore a USB 3.0 port and cable.
In September, the new Facebook Avatars will come and substitute the current Oculus avatars. My friend Giambattista De Giorgis has published a book about learning how to develop AR/VR applications in Unity. How it does feel publishing on Oculus App Lab Funny link. Other companies should take note…. Some XR fun. Funny link.
In an unhinged rant worthy of Rudy Guiliani, Cramer explained the metaverse is made by Unity, before correcting himself and crediting Nvidia instead. Billion in its latest round of financing, is available on PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox Series X/S, iOS, and Oculus Quest. See his books here. Rec Room Launches Android App.
All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either. More info (Ilysia?—?Beta Other news.
Celebrate the 100th birthday of one history’s most influential figures in this immersive VR experience for the Oculus Go. Various other objects, such as Mandela’s infamous pass book, were implemented using real-life photographs or scanned archives. Walking in Mandela’s Footsteps is available in the Oculus Go for $1.99.
The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. Vitillo submitted a fully functional application which simply presents the user with a cube in a blank environment—and Oculus accepted it. See his books here.
Haggai Goldfarb Consulting for “ Project Origami: The Magic of Flight ,” a panoramic video experience coming to the Oculus browser. Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. eyeora VR , a virtual events company working with mobile devices as well as Oculus and Pico headsets. The Book of Distance.
The PSVR tethered headset remains the market leader, and will not go quietly into the night when challenged by the Oculus Quest 2. The product allows users to create 3D content on top of CAD models without a game engine like Unity. See his books here. Currently, there are over 1.5M Snapchat lenses.
All last week Oculus announced their VR news through the Facebook Game Developers Showcase. See Also: VR Headset Comparison of Vive Cosmos vs. Oculus Rift S. Another difference between VIVE’s digital GDC offering and that of Oculus is a surprise. The talk will cover how and why to roll out hand tracking affordances with Unity.
After the free September 9th update, the VR game will expand to allow 2 players wearing Oculus Quest 2 VR Headsets to freely roam in 100 square feet of shared playspace. The fund’s top five holdings are Nvidia (8.93%), Microsoft (4.91%), Roblox (4.85%), Tencent, majority shareholder of Epic Games (4.80%) and Unity (3.99%).
The virtual portion of the experience is powered by The Void’s proprietary VR hardware and built entirely on the Unity game engine, one of the first engines to offer Oculus Rift integration and remains of the most popular among VR devs. The Void – Ghostbusters: Dimensions opens to the public on July 1st.
Logitech currently lists VR Ink Pilot Edition support for Flyingshapes, Vector Suite, VRED, Mindesk, Gravity Sketch, MARUI (Maya plugin), IrisVR, and Tilt Brush, with integrations for Unreal Engine and Unity so that developers can adapt more applications to the stylus.
They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. Learn more SimulaVR has delayed the release date of its headset to the end of 2024 Learn more News from partners (and friends) Get this book about Spatial Design Dominique Wu has written a book about how to properly design an XR application.
” review of standalone headsets (you can find in other posts the ones related to Oculus Go and HTC Vive Focus ). There is everything you need, but not the same wonder that you have when you open the box of a product made by Oculus. it is bigger than the Oculus Go but smaller than the massive HTC Vive Focus. I was amazed.
Last year, it was still called Oculus Gaming Showcase, and it featured important updates on games like Pistol Whip, The Climb 2, I Expect You To Die 2, and Resident Evil 4 VR. Ruth Bram, Executive Producer at Oculus Studios, will be the host of the show. Pico Neo 3 , Vive Focus 3 , Oculus Quest 2 ) only offer Wi-Fi connectivity.
This price is ridiculously low: it is less than what a nreal glass costs, a lot less of a HoloLens 2 and perfectly in line also with the prices of VR headsets like Oculus Quest 2 and Pico Neo 3. Lone Echo 2 will be available for Rift S (yeah, the forgotten headset) and Quest + Link from October, 12th for $40 as an exclusive Oculus release.
They should guarantee better tracking both for the headset and the controllers; The controllers are smaller and seem a mix between the Oculus Touch and the WMR 1 controllers. I don’t see this device stealing the scene from Oculus, since Oculus is cheaper, but I’m quite sure this new headset will be able to grab a good market share.
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.
Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Elliot Cole. Tyler Hurd.
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.
Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. Someone is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Indie developer Thaytan is working on a Linux driver for the Oculus Rift. Unity details its MARS solution.
While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. Given my previous experience, I asked my Chinese assistant to avoid the hotels and to book me some apartments. Oculus Quest Me and my Quest 2 When I’m at home, the Quest is the headset that I use the most.
To make you understand how these features are incredible, Qualcomm has stated that “the [XR2] reference design has 2x the CPU and GPU performance, 4x more video bandwidth, 6x higher resolution and 11x AI improvement compared to our current widely adopted XR platform [the Oculus Quest ]”. Do you want to read a good book on AR/VR?
Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. This echoed some of the advice given by VIVE’s Bjorn Book-Larsson in last week’s talk on developing for VIVEPORT. “ Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.
I’m by no means a digital artist who spends every day with a Wacom tablet, but I’ve used my fair share of tablet PCs with active digitizers (including the Surface Book as my primary laptop), and VR Ink’s drawing and pressure sensitivity felt very comparable.
More info (What The Bat) More info (Moss: Book II) More info (Among Us VR) More info (Gambit) More info (Nerf Ultimate Championship) More info (Final Fury) More info (All the news from the Upload Summer Showcase). The trailer is hilarious and the game is pretty original, so I loved it. Alex Kipman leaves after the misconduct allegations.
A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the OculusUnity SDK. Probably you all recall the iconic Apple commercial inspired by the book 1984 that helped a lot the company in becoming popular. Other relevant news. Image leaked from Meta firmware).
His lab was even visited by Zuckerberg before he decided to acquire Oculus. Initially, the interview should last 30 minutes, but he was saying so many interesting insights, that I went on until the end of the time I booked with him. An iconic image of Jeremy Bailenson wearing an Oculus Rift DK2 (Image taken from Medium).
To boot, Labo VR actually has Unity support , meaning third-party developers can create games and experiences for it; the fact is the headset and slot-in Switch form-factor just isn’t built for long-term play like a standalone or PC VR headset though.
The anxiety coming from this question is one of the reasons why I jump into learning Unity 3D and C# instead of learning Javascript. And after taking basic Oculus Quest development course, learning about WebXR, and trying new titles on SideQuest, I thought through this question again with a bigger picture in mind.
T he event will be presented by Oculus Studios Executive Producer Ruth Bram like last year, but introduce new pre-event and post-event sessions. Zapbox features a 100° FOV and is going to launch with a Unity SDK to create content for it. A wand with a dedicated pattern on it is used as the 6DOF controller.
More info Meta updates Oculus Spatializer Meta has released an update to its Meta XR Audio SDK which introduces a new “Universal HRTF” function that will make the spatialization of the sound around the user even more realistic than before. The podcast is quite long to read, but it has been worth my time.
Adding to the Book of Face’s massive plans for mixed reality technology, they have made good on their promise to make a 360 camera open source and available to anyone. More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016.
Consequently, I grew up surrounded by Native American paintings, rugs, books and artifacts and my family’s enthusiasm for Native American culture managed to rub off on me. We used Unity to render the 2D version, too. We enjoyed working in Unity to create both the VR and 2D in real-time.
This also let me write various articles about it, like this one on Vive Focus streaming , this one on Focus instant preview for Unity or this other one highlighting the updates of the v2 runtime. When I published this photo of the Oculus Go and Vive Focus together, a lot of people got surprised by its dimensions. Oculus Go).
Interestingly, a press release for the app labels it as “Augmented Virtual Reality”, a term first coined to Oculus Chief Scientist Michael Abrash when he spoke at Oculus Connect 3 earlier in the month. Tapping specific panels will bring up videos too.
He’s worked on the tech since before the Oculus Rift was invented and, with his team, since released some of the best games for it. Cass Everitt (Oculus), Joe Ludwig (Valve), Nick Whiting (Epic Games), Devin Reimer (Owlchemy Labs), Yuval Boger (Sensics, Inc.), Chris Pruett (Oculus). Room 3022, West Hall.
With regards to talent, Snapchat has been acquiring there in a big way as well, hiring people from Oculus, Hololens, Qualcomm, as well as a few designers who have created glasses for names like Michael Kors and Lady Gaga. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android.
This is a very good thing in my book. They also recommend building apps with Visual Studio 2017 and Unity’s Mixed Reality Technical Preview build (although it looks like you’ll need to contact a Microsoft Account Manager for access to that.). No cameras, no trackers, no Steam, no Oculus Home.
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