The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

“Camera”, that can be used by the app to silently film the user), while all the other ones are considered “normal” (e.g. Unity and Android Permissions. What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity? Thanks, Unity). Vive Focus and Android Permissions on Unity.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Escape Code is a 360-degree short film directed and animated by Josh Hassin and the San Diego, CA based studio, Look Mister that seems inspired by many of these ideas. The entire short film, embedded below, was created in Unity and is driven by a synthwave soundtrack scored by Emmy award winning composer RAD LAZER (aka Rafter Roberts).

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. GRX Immersive Labs for “ POV: Points of View ,” an immersive Sci-Fi thriller that cautions viewers that “control begins where privacy ends.”. VR Film of the Year. Nowheremedia for “ Kusunda VR ,” a voice-driven VR film built around an endangered language.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In a trio of announcements, Apple revealed that Valve would be bringing SteamVR and HTC Vive to the new iMac, Unity and Unreal Engine were coming to Mac, and Final Cut Pro X would finally support VR video editing. It was a strong nod to VR creators. And Final Cut Pro X runs butter smooth on the new iMac, so there’s that.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

Rec Room Studio is a powerful feature set that will let you create and publish rooms using the Unity Editor. During the event, Rec Room gave us a little tease of their next Rec Room game, an asymmetrical multiplayer adventure where four players work together to defeat a player-controlled monster and escape its lair.

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VRScout

AUGUST 7, 2017

Aside from being able to use the objects or characters that you create for other applications, like bringing them into Unity and using them for VR games, we’ve been wondering if we’ll one day also get the chance use Blocks for 3D animation. Step Two: Controlling the Model. Image Credit: Google VR.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

A choice of two screen options: 2880×1600@90 Hz LCD, or 2160×1200@90 Hz OLED including diffusion film for reduced SDE. Front IR window for optional embedded Leap Motion controller. Supported by all major game engines including Unity, Unreal and more. Removable face-plate. Integrated 9-axis orientation tracker.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

While VR video portals like Jaunt , Littlstar , Samsung VR , and others offer a single destination from which to stream many different 360 and VR videos, another popular way to distribute VR video has been as a standalone app, offering more complete control over the experience by the creator.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

These are the days of the Venice Film Festival, one of the most important movie festivals in the world. It is what makes it successful, and what gives it an edge over software that appears having a stricter control like Facebook Horizon. Unity editor scripts are very useful to produce some automation for you.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

There are also two simple 6DOF controllers through which you can interact with the augmentations. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. I have detailed it in this post , and it was very cool because it let you create WebVR experiences directly from the tool that we develop always use, that is Unity. This is so cool!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 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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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

was created before there were hand controllers for VR. Still, we wanted to create an interactive character-driven experience, so we focused on what we could do without hand controllers. hand controllers had arrived and we eagerly integrated them into the experience. VR hand controllers are loaded with buttons and triggers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2017

We got to meet some of the studio’s staff and try the experience for ourselves at a Unity press event in San Francisco. The event brought together many of the VR experiences that were selected to appear at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Hue is experienced on an Oculus Rift using its Touch controllers.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

I had a chance to walk the showroom floor of VRLA 2017 with Root where he took me on a guided tour through the history of VRLA, his thoughts on AR, using VR for film production, the future of privacy in AR/VR, as well as why he is interested in seeing where eSports in VR is headed. VRLA is happening this year on May 4th and 5th.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Later during testing, I received the SteamVR “lighthouse” faceplate , letting me enjoy the precision of sub-mm room-scale tracking, whilst enabling the use of Valve Index, HTC Vive, and Pimax Sword controllers, as well as Vive and Tundra trackers. Within minutes, I was happily drawing squiggles. My three 2.0

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

Facebook-owned Oculus has slashed Rift + Touch controller bundle prices from $800 to $600, which positions the Rift at a mere $100 more than the console-powered Playstation VR. For the recent Rogue One film, director Gareth Edwards used virtual reality to stage several several scenes. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2017

The Vive controllers did a great job tracking my arm movements accurately as they were transformed into fins in the virtual world. We evolved into tadpoles and the second we realized we could control our fins, we instinctively tried to high five and reach out to each other.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. High-quality models are the best choice for visually compelling industries, like film and video production, advertisement. There is a market for every type of model.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2017

Kevin Mack is a digital fine artist and prolific visual effects designer known for his work across films such as Fight Club (1999), A Beautiful Mind (2001) , The Fifth Element (1997), and What Dreams May Come (1998) for which he won an Oscar. Even the platform below your feet shifts in color and shape.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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Cats and VR

MAY 1, 2017

Launched in December as a physical goods mobile AR game, HoloGrid: Monster Battle VR is one of the first Gear VR games to incorporate the use of the platform’s new GearVR Controller and add Oculus Gear VR Avatar support with VOIP so players can talk to their opponents during games.

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Road to VR

MAY 27, 2016

She says that consumers need to advocate for data access, privacy notice consent, privacy controls, and for people to be more aware of their privacy rights. In Alex McDowell’s presentation at Unity’s VR/AR Vision Summit, he argued that VR represents a return to valuing multiple perspectives.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. Unfortunately, I have not been authorized to film stuff, so you have to trust my written words. The haptic system works thanks to a lot of tiny vibrating motors installed in all parts of the vest. Space Junkies is like that.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

Itsme is currently closing their seed investment round and preparing SDKs for Unity and Javascript to let developers use avatars directly in their projects and products. For game and app developers this is a huge time saver as it plugs into the Unity engine and lets players craft their own characters. Selfie Avatars: Loom.ai.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ray tracing tools from NVIDIA, Epic Games, and Unity Technologies also use ray tracing processes to boost efficiency rather than monitoring all of the light trajectories from their respective sources. The most frequent use cases for ray tracing take place in film, television, and video games.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

360 Virtual Tour Though a 360-degree tour can be any that allows you to look around at all angles, the traditional definition of this tour is one filmed with a camera. The tour is either created through a sequence of camera shots merged together, or one continuous shot filmed on a 360-degree camera.

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

JULY 26, 2023

Doing so will also provide greater interoperability with additional platforms such as Unity and Xcode, among others. This ranged from user interfaces (UIs), filming, controls, and hardware optimisation. He continued, “Without controllers, you open the space to a lot of people who are not used to having controllers as well.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

It was great to see that the device would be controlled using our hands, instead of external controllers, meaning that it is far more intuitive for people to use and should ensure success when the product is released. The reveal that Apple will be using Unity to bring 3D applications and games to Vision Pro was exciting.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Medium is a free program that works with the upcoming Oculus Touch motion controls in which you can sculpt art. There are 10 basic tutorials to teach you the controls, the menus, and all the ins and outs of using the basic clay tool. You see a digital version of the Touch controls in the virtual space you stand in.

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MARCH 3, 2017

Starting off the highlights, we have an escape the room experience that’s tied into an upcoming feature film. Belko VR gives players an interactive experience based on the upcoming film The Belko Experiment. Recommendation: A free and cool way to garner excitement for the film. Quiz Night Tonight!, from Mardonpol Inc.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Motion Capture software, or “Mocap systems”, are particularly valuable for content creators looking to enhance XR experiences with realistic avatars, motion, and gesture controls. Mocap solutions are primarily used for the creation of XR content. Plus, users can also leverage drag-and-drop plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

APRIL 29, 2021

Way back in the dim and distant era of 2009 I was exploring a lot of tools to help me build virtual environments with avatars and characters that could be animated, typically in Unity. Then in the Sequence controller, the film events list I swapped the target actor from the original to mine and away we go.

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JULY 19, 2017

Control software with your mind. This introduction to Bridget explains how OpenBE powers her brain, summarizes the Bridge Engine SDK, and demonstrates the Bridge headset and controller. Rainbow Crow, inspired by a Native American myth, has been showcased at Tribeca, Cannes, and Annecy film festivals. and “Asteroids!”

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. And it was for me as well; I’ve been a Unity user forever. It’s amazing.” ” Paul: [laughs] Right.

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