The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

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??” You can clearly see from the videos that we did our first demos inside the Oculus samples scenes. A random tutorial found on Youtube.

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AR Insider

APRIL 19, 2021

The maker of the mega-hit game and Unreal Engine game development platform has landed another cool billion in a new round of funding. VZfit launches on the Oculus app store. The app allows users to workout and experience the world on Oculus Quest 1 and 2. See his books here. Let’s dive in… .

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

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.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Then, he donned an Oculus Quest 2, put a controller on the bike, and rode the bike while doing the VR game, with the real track mapped perfectly with the virtual track. Flying into the metaverse through books and culture. VR developers makes crazy experiment with a bike. A mask to breath in VR. Learn more.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

From the advent of the Oculus Rift in 2012, we saw Oculus attend the show for the first time in 2013 to show off their pre-production Rift headset prototype ahead of the DK1 launch, following their wildly successful Kickstarter campaign. CES 2013 however gave us the first glimpse of Oculus VR operating as a company.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Robo Recall was easily one of the most exciting games we got our hands on at Oculus Connect 3 earlier this month. “There was a lot in there that people liked, such as the action, the feel, the not too serious tone, it was very over-the-top like a comic book movie.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. I had very high expectations, considering everything I had read about it.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Fans of the Rift will remember when developer Epic Games took to the stage of the Oculus Connect 2 keynote that year to announce a tech demo for the then-unreleased Oculus Touch controllers, called Bullet Train. Tagged with: Bullet Train , Epic Games , FPS , oculus rift , robo recall , touch , Unreal engine.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

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.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

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.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

Scraper: A Novel About Punk, is a great book about a young rocker in the early 80s and his band. I wanted a well-known sci-fi author to help with the book. As I began writing down the characters, events, timeline and world makeup, I realized there is no way this could be covered in one book or one game. No relation at all.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Ryder has over 80 books to his credit , mostly in the Star Wars, Transformers and Indiana Jones space. The book ends right where the game begins and builds up the world, characters and story brilliantly. For Oculus, Vive, Steam and WMR, we are releasing on 11/21/18 and for PSVR on 12/18/18.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

There’s a lot going on at GDC every year, but with VR’s first big consumer year in the books last year, 2017 should be bigger than ever for our industry. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity 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).

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

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.), State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

I was at ILMxLAB developing a project on the life of Darth Vader (they’re going to release something next year, but I don’t know if it is the same I started working with)…let me put it this way: when you write a book, you create a fictional story.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When you’re “wearing” in Vernor Vinge’s 2006 book Rainbow’s End, contact lenses and computers woven into clothing serve up an assortment of competing realities and overlays. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

It is one of the most famous conversations from one of the worlds most famous books. AliceVR was built in Unreal Engine 4 and its use of lighting, shading, and effects are therefore what we’ve come to expect from this top-of-the-line developer tool. The above is a quote from the literary classic Alice in Wonderland.

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VRWorld

JUNE 22, 2016

As an industry, we need immersive experiences that will show what VR brings to the table and so far, there are two experiences one should go through: WeVR’s “theBlu” for HTC Vive and Crytek’s “The Climb” for Oculus Rift. For VR engines, we have CryEngine, Unity Engine and Unreal Engine.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. We have been working in Unreal for a long time, and we’ve certainly built a team around that. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal?

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VRWorld

JULY 20, 2016

Together with The Climb for Oculus Rift, it probably represents the path forward for VRX. The experience was created by taking over 300,000 images and creating a 3D mesh with textures, all powered by Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. As a movie, Everest was based on the book by Seaborn Beck Weathers. The first fully featured, 1.5

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Mark Zuckerberg talks about the future of VR and AR at Facebook’s recent Oculus Connect conference. At its recent Oculus Connect conference, where it was speaking to virtual reality fans and developers, Facebook made it very clear during its keynote “we are building AR glasses.” Is VR going to turn into AR?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

We prefer the Unreal Engine to build all of our expenses of this kind. You mentioned Unreal Engine. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. We have been working in Unreal for a long time, and we’ve certainly built a team around that. Is there a cost difference between using Unity versus Unreal?

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. Moss Book 2 has been released on Steam for PCVR headsets Supernatural has implemented single controller mode. Some news on content. Other news. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Oculus plans to introduce in-app purchases to App Lab experiences. Oculus App Lab has been introduced by Facebook to give a way to indie developers to publish their applications for Quest without the need of passing Facebook’s strong store curation. Plus, the Netflix app has been in VR since the times of Gear VR/Oculus Go.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. You talked about educating yourself through workshops; you can book Rori and their team at Accenture for workshops. So I say, first, don’t think uber-complicated; start off more simple. Taking that lens.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. You talked about educating yourself through workshops; you can book Rori and their team at Accenture for workshops. So I say, first, don’t think uber-complicated; start off more simple. Taking that lens.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Meta/Facebook/Oculus/Whatever has just released the new version of the SDK for Oculus Quest 2 and in it there are two important features: Application SpaceWarp is now available. This can improve the graphical quality of Quest apps Passthrough AR and MR apps are finally accepted on the Oculus Store and in App Lab. Image by Meta).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Owlchemy Labs will also develop “Inside [Job]”, the introductory experience to teach people who just turned on their first AndroidXR MR headset how to interact with it (it will be something similar to Oculus First Contact). And the fact that it had memory of everything it had seen or it had talked about, was considered impressive.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

He’s currently working on a book answering the question he closes with every interview he does, “What is the ultimate potential of VR?” I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. You could watch movies on it, and you could read books on it. it’s voicesofVR.com. It was great.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

He's currently working on a book answering the question he closes with every interview he does, "What is the ultimate potential of VR?" I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that's changing for me. You could watch movies on it, and you could read books on it. To learn more about the Voices Of VR and sign up for the podcast.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

He’s currently working on a book answering the question he closes with every interview he does, “What is the ultimate potential of VR?” I mean, I will say that with Oculus Quest that’s changing for me. You could watch movies on it, and you could read books on it. it’s voicesofVR.com. It was great.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Alan: Just blocked the sale of Oculus, because in German law, you can't have one product that forces you to get another to have it. And Oculus forces you to get Facebook to have Oculus. You look at Epic.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But then you look at Unreal. Oculus came up with a $300 VR headset that rivals anything in the market. Alan: Just blocked the sale of Oculus, because in German law, you can't have one product that forces you to get another to have it. And Oculus forces you to get Facebook to have Oculus. You look at Epic.

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