The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The article is a summary of the most interesting information that came from our chat… including the mind blowing moment when I realized that with this technology, people in Unity and Unreal Engine could work together on the same project :O. How to use Unity with Omniverse. NVIDIA Omniverse. Unity connector for Omniverse.

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VRScout

MARCH 19, 2018

Edgar Martín-Blas, CEO of Virtual Voyagers , told VRScout he’s been excited about the capabilities of eye-tracking, hand-tracking, nine hand gesture recognition, and “the possibility of controlling the content with a mobile app.”. Anyone can access the Magic Leap Creator Portal and sign-up for free.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Unity vs Unreal: Which is the best option for companies creating content for extended reality ? Unreal, or “Unreal Engine”, on the other hand, excels at enabling the creation of visually stunning graphics. However, each option has its own unique pros and cons to consider.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I finally managed (with some delay) to find the time to try First Hand, Meta’s opensource demo of the Interaction SDK , which shows how to properly develop hand-tracked applications. This makes sense considering that controllers shine with different kinds of interactions than the bare hands , so the applications must be different.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

Oculus has recently published a guide to teach developers how to capture mixed reality with two important tools (besides a VR headset): a green screen and an external camera. image courtesy Oculus. Valve later incorporated the same green screen setup in their official announcement of the HTC Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2018

The Taiwanese company has made people see demos of the Vive Focus features showcased at the Vive Ecosystem Conference : Gesture Detection, VRidge streaming, etc… One of the features that were announced was the possibility to use your phone as the controller for your VR headset , so that you could for instance play the guitar in VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Google’s existing VR SDK audio engine already supported multiple platforms, but with platform-specific documentation on how to implement the features. Google are providing integrations for “Unity, Unreal Engine, FMOD, Wwise, and DAWs,” along with “native APIs for C/C++, Java, Objective-C, and the web.”. Image courtesy Google.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Similarly, motor-impaired individuals may be able to gain more control over prosthetics and other pieces of assistive technology. You can control experimental variables more easily in VR and set up scenarios that wouldn’t be possible in a lab or even the real world. Will it be compatible with Unity and Unreal Engine for development?

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

First Contact Entertainment reveals Firewall Ultra is one of the first PSVR 2 games running on Unreal Engine 5. Asked about Early Access Unreal Engine 5 VR development for Firewall Ultra , First Contact detailed the challenges involved: It’s fair to say, it’s uncharted waters. There is literally no guide as to how to do it.

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ARVR

JULY 22, 2020

Training Professionals: Take Control of Your VR Content [link] Many training professionals want direct control over their virtual reality (VR) training content. You cede direct control over your content to the developers. Developers build everything in Unity or Unreal, including all training modules.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Different Controller: The Oculus Go Controller and Gear VR Controller share the same inputs: both are 3DOF controllers with clickable trackpads and an index finger trigger. If your app displays a visible controller, you should change the model displayed depending on whether you are running on Gear VR or Oculus Go.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Oculus recently published a new guide on how to optimize VR experiences along with some of the common pitfalls for devs to watch out for when tracking down and solving VR performance issues. VR developers are obsessed with keeping their Rift experiences performing above 90 frames per second (fps), and there’s a few good reasons why.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We will be using this simple application as a foundation for the following posts in which we will start adding more interesting stuff like rendering motion controllers, rendering simple objects into a stereoscopic view so they can be seen properly in VR, and adding some simple interactions. So, let’s start! Motivation.

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Road to VR

APRIL 5, 2019

Dubbed ‘Oculus First Steps’, the tutorial essentially has the same objective as the one that teaches you how to the use the original Oculus Touch controllers, although it’s decidedly a bit more magical (and possibly even Disney inspired). The last Touch tutorial was all business, so this one comes as a welcome change.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 7, 2021

These blocks will force you to become more creative because the ball won’t follow just a standard path anymore, but you have to think of how to use these special tools to bend the physics at your will. Thanks to the use of Unreal Engine, the environment has a very good shading quality and the modeling is also quite nice.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This option gives you the most control over the game, but it also requires the most time and expertise. Use a game engine: Another option is to use a game engine such as Unity, Unreal Engine, or Godot to build your game. Some ways to promote and market your game include: Related Blog: How To Develop Mini-Game App?

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

And that comes with the sort of mechanics you’d expect: loadouts, attachments, perks, reloads, ADS aiming, recoil control, etc. Even as I move my hand around, my virtual hand wouldn’t respond to the motion at all, leaving me with the very awkward sensation that one of my arms was an extra appendage that I had no control over.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development. To make something with staying power, we need to identify what makes the medium unique, and figure out how to leverage that. Nick Whiting.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

How to Make an AR App?—?Tips, This is why today, we would like to share with you some tips and other information on how to develop AR apps. Let’s start by taking a look at how AR works. How Does AR Work? Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. How VR could bring transhumanism to the masses 2. smartphones.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Putting it on—with the help of two people by my sides—I felt like I was preparing for a medical procedure, as the pair showed me how to carefully guide my fingers into the right places, pull out some fabric slack, and then tighten the glove to my hand with a ratcheting mechanism to ensure a snug fit.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 11, 2025

The company also studied how to use the puck to interact with the AR experiences: they have used it as a controller, but also as a device to make a person you are having a call with appear as a hologram, like in Star Wars.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2019

because you will soon encounter a weird red material that has gone out of control in the enemy base , and that is related to the secrets that you have to uncover. The game is all controlled through the Touch controllers of the Oculus Quest. You really feel inside a military place controlled by a soviet regime.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Nucleus connects via special plugins called “Connectors” to standard applications that are used to work on 3D scenes, like Unreal Engine, Adobe Substance, Autodesk 3ds Max, Blender, etc… Normally to work on a 3D scene, you need a full team working on its various aspects (e.g. If you know one, you don’t know how to use the other.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Last week we had a first look at the controllers, while this week we had quite a confusing leak about its product line, which, if confirmed, would show an ambitious plan by the Chinese company. Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. And this 2.5%

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. This means that now with Unity you can create visually stunning VR experiences that before you could obtain just by using Unreal. Very good pieces of advice on how to create trailers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 22, 2021

We created fundamental technologies like Direct Mode, Context Priority, and Variable Rate Shading, which provided fine-grained control for VR rendering. Why is a solution like Omniverse important? Our XR core technology stack started with the NVIDIA VRWorks SDK — a set of tools to accelerate and enhance all VR applications.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

For instance, the BMW group used RT3D solutions create a combination of AR and VR applications designed to train frontline workers, manage the assembly line and improve quality control. Using clunky controllers often detracts from the immersive interaction, and can make learning how to use a new technology more complex.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unreal Engine eXtended Reality (XR) Technology Platforms | Source: [link] How to Select Extended Reality (XR) Toolkit? ? SteamVR is the ultimate tool for experiencing VR content on the hardware of your choice like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Windows Mixed Reality headset, or any other supported VR headset and controllers. ?

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The umbrella term that covers all of the various technologies that enhance our senses, whether they’re providing additional information about the actual world or creating totally unreal, virtually simulated worlds for us to experience. How To Use the ARLOOPA App: A Step-by-Step Guide (2020) 3. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

And that’s how it started: we created a movement model, trying to figure out how to break certain boundaries in VR. It was just this little room with the movement model with a controller and two balls that were basically your hands. Was there a temptation to jump into engines such as Unity or Unreal to jumpstart development?

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Leapmotion

MARCH 31, 2016

Now officially integrated in Unreal Engine 4.11 , getnamo’s independent plugin for Leap Motion makes it faster and easier than ever to integrate Leap Motion Orion into your VR projects! Visit developer.leapmotion.com/unreal to get started. Unreal Engine 4 and Open Source. There is no return from that.”. This a core tenet for me.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 5, 2023

This directional input device allows users to walk, run, and crouch within a VR environment without controller inputs. For example, we have a company that uses them for training, on how to maintain an oil refinery or a drilling platform. Last Month, Virtuix debuted the beta version of its unique Omni One treadmill.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. Built atop an open source set of APIs, the platform was a refreshing take on how to deliver immersive technology.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Ultraleap Hand Tracking – Ultraleap Leap Motion controller.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. If we send you one, would you noodle about with it after hours and see if you can get Unreal Engine running in it”?

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes. I’ve found that gamers are much more likely to natively know how to explore and watch an interactive experience.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

One of my favorite games of all times is Unreal Tournament because I just love to shoot and kill without thinking too much… or better, without thinking AT ALL. Playing with it is great, it is a bit like playing Unreal Tournament. and I immediately learned how to move (so it is not as hard as with Echo Arena) and how to shoot.

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