The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

Like with all the other events organized by HTC China, the keynote has been held by Mr. Alvin Wang Graylin , mostly known as “Mister President”, that is famous for the passion with which he performs inspiring talks. An official launch will come in Q3 2020, at first in China and then in the rest of the world.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

It’s been a true emotion to launch the game in Shenzhen, China as probably the first mixed reality fitness game. It has been really special to announce our content directly in China! Tutorial on how to easily make a cross-platform application in Unity. The main menu now, that fits completely in the environment we modeled.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2017

Unity Technologies presented their Special Keynote at GDC 2017 in San Francisco on February 28, announcing the release date of Unity 5.6 alongside a bulletin of other updates, including a glimpse of Unity 2017. Riccitiello explained that this installment marks the last of Unity 5. The Unity 5 cycle culminating in 5.6

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 29, 2018

Back at CES, Oculus announced that Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi would exclusively bring its own branded version of the standalone Oculus Go headset to China. Xiaomi will exclusively sell and control the headset in China while the Oculus Go will be sold in other regions. Image courtesy Xiaomi, Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Some interesting stuff about the M-word: I’ve found two articles shared via WeChat that talk about the attitude that China has towards the metaverse and the plans that the most important Chinese cities have to grow in metaverse-related topics. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. See Unity running on Quest. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2019

I was porting our Unity game Hit Motion: Reloaded to the new Vive Wave SDK 3.0.2 How to make controllers’ buttons to work in Unity with Vive Wave SDK 3.0? Because yes, we are in Unity, and that line is referred to the native C++ SDK. in Unity appeared first on The Ghost Howls. Header image by HTC).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Here you are the integral interview that I had with Kelly Peng, asking her everything from Kura to the differences between the US and China (Kelly comes from Xi’an), not to mention her life as a startupper. The entrance to the big WCVRI VR exhibition in Nanchang China, in 2019. Video interview With Kura’s Kelly Peng.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In an interview with VRScout, Nikk Mitchell, CEO of FXG who at the time of this article is currently quarantined at his home in Hangzhou, China and unable to physically be at the FXG headquarters said, “Thanks to VR, I haven’t been alone or bored.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

The Pico Neo 3 was already sold as a consumer device in China, but recently my Chinese assistant Miss S reported that there was a big marketing push on Pico headsets on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok (always owned by Bytedance, of course). Bytedance and China. The logo of ??, the Chinese version of TikTok (Image by Bytedance).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The leak came from China and talked about the Pico 5 product line going to feature the Pico 5, Pico 5 Pro, and Pico 5 Pro Max (yes, like the iPhones). The new Unity Personal will also remove the famous Unity splash screen Successful games using Unity Pro or Enterprise can choose if paying per install or by a 2.5%

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. Huawei this week has announced a new pair of smart glasses, available in China for around $270. But it said that it needs at least 6 years to make it become reality. Some news on content.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

They are the business counterpart of the Pico Neo 3 , the consumer headset that Pico is selling in China for around $400, hoping to kickstart a consumer VR ecosystem there. This is great news for us developers, because it means we can develop a VR app for Quest, Pico, and Focus using exactly the same SDK provided by Unity!

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The China-based company announced the Nreal Light smart glasses in May of 2019. They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date. They’ve had huge success in China, but China is a pretty unique market. Let’s play catch up with Nreal over the past two years quickly, just in case.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

In an unhinged rant worthy of Rudy Guiliani, Cramer explained the metaverse is made by Unity, before correcting himself and crediting Nvidia instead. HTC, a strategic partner and shareholder of VR Education, has also started selling its ENGAGE-based product, VIVE Sessions, in China. link] Dissections in VR are FREE.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 29, 2022

Nreal launches in China and partners with Gentle Monster. Both Nreal Light, renamed Nreal X for China, and Nreal Air have been announced, priced at 4299 yuan and 2299 yuan, respectively. More info (Nreal launching its glasses in China) More info (Nreal partnering with Gentle Monster). Let’s hope this happens.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

The Chinese giant so enters the AR marketing field as well , with a service that is very similar to the one already offered by Snap, creating a new front of the battlefield between China and the United States. Unity Learn Premium is permanently free. Do you want to learn Unity for your next big AR/VR app?

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Using 3D animations from 4DViews , China-based developer 应高选 created this with his iPhone 6s and Unity. Showing some gaming applications to the always cool portal-trick, Helsinki-based creative developer lingoded is by his own admission “searching [for] the next big thing” as he works with ARKit and Unity.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 15, 2021

Rokid, a Hangzhou, China-based startup, says its Vision 2 headset includes “the world’s leading diffractive optical waveguide technology with a light transmittance of 85% and 40° field of view (FOV).” To achieve its glasses-like form factor, Rokid Vision 2 doesn’t include onboard computing or power.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Building on the momentum set into motion by the inaugural event, Unity Technologies is hosting Vision VR/AR Summit Asia in Beijing. Unity revealed that representatives from Google, Samsung Gear VR, PTC Vuforia, Sony PlayStation VR, and Microsoft HoloLens will be on hand to discuss new developments in their individual technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Meta’s offering could so become this one: Quest 3 Lite, 64G, $199 Quest 3 Lite, 128G, $299 Quest 3 Lite, 256G, $399 Quest 3, 256G, $499 Quest 3, 512G, $649 And there is more: Meta is working on a partnership with Tencent to distribute the Quest 3 Lite also in China and compete with Pico in its own home. I truly hope this rumor is true.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Unity was reluctant to put a final date on the launch of Editor VR when it was last shown at Unite 2016 in November, but we now know it will be with us very, very soon. All of the features we’ve seen on-stage so far are expected to be included in the experimental release, though we’ve reached out to Unity to confirm this.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. China will try to change gear. The beautiful city of Qingdao, in Eastern China (Image by ThatsQingdao).

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Next Reality AR

AUGUST 3, 2018

New SDKs are also available for Android, iOS, Unity, Unreal Engine. In addition, Google has enabled support for select Huawei and Xiaomi handsets for the China region. Available as of Friday on Google Play, version 1.4

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Last year, the inaugural VR On The Lot brought together major players from Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Europe, and China for a two-day exploration of the intersection between entertainment and technology. Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

At WCVRI, China shows its strategic interest for VR. And while China always moves chaotically, I think that the push of the government is helping its VR companies. While HTC is struggling on the hardware side, I think that it is moving very well to create a good software ecosystem, at least in China. HTC launches Vive XR Suite.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Pico is facing in China internal confusion and mediocre sales. A report coming from China reveals interesting information about Pico. sales, while in China now it has sold less than 50K units. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. More info (Pimax Portal announcement?—?Road

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

It is easily accessible in the Unity SDK as a standard WebcamTexture, so if you like hacking things, I guess you can have a lot of fun developing things for it! In China, it is also considered a consumer headset, and in fact, it has not only one, but two stores pre-installed: the Pico store and Viveport. User Interface.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

The product allows users to create 3D content on top of CAD models without a game engine like Unity. At Mobile World Congress Shanghai on Monday, the China-based startup announced that its Nreal Light augmented reality glasses will launch in the US in the second quarter of 2021. Currently, there are over 1.5M Snapchat lenses.

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MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

As I had already occasion to try with the Dexmo Gloves in China, the straps can be a big nuisance: if you close them loosely, the gloves move slightly during the usage and this is annoying; if you close them too tight, they become uncomfortable on the long run, leaving visible signs on your fingers. My hand with the SenseGlove installed.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Companies like Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Epic Games, Unity, and others are facilitating the rise of serious gaming technologies. Furthermore, global telecoms such as Verizon, China Mobile, T-Mobile, and EE have begun scaling up their networks. Telecoms and Network Operators.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio. Some news on the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

I have made some Youtube videos with really terrible quality My bonds with China have brought me some critics. Internet is beautiful. The VR Fast was also fast in dying.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. Lenovo has for instance just announced in China the Legion VR 700, a device that looks inspired by the Pico Neo 3, which was already a copy of the Meta Quest 2.

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