The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice. Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR. Controllers are to come in 2025, the year the headset will ship. The chipset is the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen2.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2018

In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. A WebVR exporter for Unity??? Unity on one side, a WebVR experience running on Firefox on the other one. So, how to do you export a WebVR project from inside Unity? I want it!

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The device employs a variety of features completely unique from that of conventional VR headsets, including a 3D audio system, immersive haptic feedback, and a distinctive control system. As for controls, players interact with the in-game world using a pair of sensors mounted to the base of their feet.

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VRScout

APRIL 2, 2022

Arkio is a slick collaborative VR tool that lets you create 3D buildings, virtual cityscapes, remodel rooms such as your kitchen or bathroom, review existing 3D models, and create Unity scenes that include triggers and colliders, all in VR with up to 10 other collaborators. . Working in Arkio is simple.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2021

The C64, as it’s referred to by many enthusiasts, had a screaming MOS 6510/8500 1MHz processor with a paltry 64 KByte of memory. He then offered to send me the Unity Project files! From there you can use your left Quest controller to pick up a disk and insert it into your C64 drive. . This was the most thrilling part!”.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Today I want to propose you a quick solution for one big problem of the Vive Focus apps: the controller pairing popup always appearing in front of your eyes. If you don’t do it, the controller becomes simply unusable, because there is no relation between what you are pointing at physically and what you are aiming virtually.

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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 so that to make it ready for launch on the Vive Focus Plus , when something made me panic: no button on the controllers was working ! How to make controllers’ buttons to work in Unity with Vive Wave SDK 3.0?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve tested it with my Leap Motion Controller, the Oculus Quest, and a lot of scotch tape and I was very satisfied by the results.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

For now, you can refer to the official Quick Start Guide. You may install Hubs on a private server because a company wants to keep control of all its data, but different entities (education, military, etc.) Why not a Unity exporter? Unity WebXR exporter is a powerful tool for all us Unity developers (Image by Mozilla).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link].

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I am very passionate about mixed reality and I am incredibly happy of having developed a Unity plugin to let every developer create AR/MR apps on the Vive Focus Plus (you can find it on GitHub !), It is curious that even after the launch, those devices keep many references to their previous internal names. Camera access.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 21, 2025

The connector is slightly larger than a Lightning one, and the cable has a dark blue color that they referred to as graphite dark blue. The game should work in the same way both if you are just playing as a virtual robot and if you are controlling a physical robot, so if you are good in the first scenario, you are also good in the second one.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

The Pico G2 4K Enterprise is packaged quite well: nothing special or mindblowing, but an ordered box with the headset, the controller and the accessories inside. On the right, you can see the 3 buttons that let you interact with the headset even if you don’t have the controller. Controller. Top view of the controller.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

These world-locked frames of reference allow you to create and permanently place virtual content in a physical space. With Interaction SDK Experimental, Facebook is making it easier for you to integrate hands and controller-centric interactions while in VR. Also announced was developer access to Spatial Anchors. Image Credit: Facebook.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Setup Download Unity Unity 2020.3.8f1. In your echo3D console , download and import the Unity SDK Zappar Download and import Zappar for Unity here. You can also drag the echo3D prefab onto the Zappar Tracking object in the Hierarchy to make it a child of the tracker for more control (if preferred).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). As a developer, I gave a look to their Unity SDK, that you can find on GitHub here.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Your app should not refer to an HMD touchpad when running on Oculus Go. 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. HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

For reference, the Quest Pro features 10 cameras; five inside and five outside. This isn’t counting the cameras on the new Touch Pro controllers. Hand-tracking Works with Snapdragon Spaces (Unity/Unreal) 2.5X

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The puck of the Nimo runs on top of a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR 2 (Gen 1) and it is used both as a computation unit and as a controller. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. It looks like a cool gadget. Meta is investigating the topic.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

Unity and Android Permissions. What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity? Unity makes things easier for us, so whenever we use some Unity class that clearly needs a permission, Unity adds this permission automatically to the manifest. Thanks, Unity).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Today I host another amazing article by the VR ergonomics expert Rob Cole , which has already written on this blog amazing posts, like the series about the ergonomics of the Valve Index or the viral article about the amazing Caliper VR controllers he worked on by himself. Image provided by Rob Cole). Second-generation base station (2.0)

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

Each company, even if a supporter of OpenXR, still has control over where their content is made available and which platforms support which headsets. A reference guide published by Khronos Group gives a high-level technical overview of the API’s structure. OpenXR 1.0 is now available on GitHub. The post OpenXR 1.0

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR , which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the next couple of months. SEE ALSO Unity's VR Editor Lets You Create VR Content Like a God.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Kimball said that the Unity and Unreal engine integrations for Magic Leap do much of the core balancing optimizations (between the available A57 cores and Denver 2 core) for developers already. The headset also has a 6DOF controller, but it isn’t shown in this demo.

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ARPost

JANUARY 17, 2023

These devices, typically used for virtual screens or screen mirroring from a paired device, often include spatial controls like ray casting but are arguably not “true” augmented reality and are sometimes referred to as “viewers” rather than “AR glasses.”. Most waveguide AR projects still reproduce a flat image.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2020

This was not much clear; We didn’t always know who should we refer to if we had problems with something; There were not clear times on when having calls to perform a status update, stand-up meetings, etc. And all of this using Unity, the tool that I already use every day. What were the milestones of the project? For what day?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Tilt Five support a controller, that looks like a gas lighter, through which you can either point and click elements on the game, or you can also just use it as a standard gamepad. The board and the controller necessary to play Tilt Five games. Box with tilt Five glasses, controller, and board (Image by Tilt Five).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

If we sum these features to the other ones added in the past, like hands tracking, Passthrough Shortcut, or the multiple windows in Oculus Browser , we start seeing the first signs of a mixed reality operating system, with which you can interact with the controllers or with the hands in a natural way.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. The solution allows IT specialists to “easily control and manage their entire RealWear device fleet from one easy-to-use interface.”

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ARVR

MAY 6, 2021

In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. Building our butterfly avatar’s flight capabilities in Unity based on our simplified flight model A note to readers: as before, I’m embedding some short video clips of the avatar’s flight capabilities in action?—?but

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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. OZO Player SDK architecture.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

I’d say the biggest chance is having the positional hand controllers , which helps with design of interfaces immensely. Robo Recall remains in my opinion one of the best VR games because it has been designed from the ground up for VR and for Oculus Touch controllers (Image by Oculus). Can I also code using C#?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 29, 2021

ESC = Electronic Stability Control , GNSS = Global Navigation Satellite System , A/N]. Following this announcement, we partnered with Unity and Audi and for a US roadshow that brought us from Los Angeles to San Francisco. A while ago you announced a partnership with Pico and Unity. Can you tell us more about it?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

The Reverb was already a very good headset (as you can read in my hands-on impressions ) with good comfort and an astonishing resolution, but it had some problems with the display (mura, red smearing) and with the controllers (classical mediocre WMR tracking). built in to headband Controllers ?—?6DOF pounds (0.55kg) Cable Length: 19.5

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 9, 2023

Luckily, a few days ago, I found a post on Upload VR telling that the team behind the Nova UI plugin for Unity created a demo in this sense to promote its package on the Unity Asset Store. But in this case, your eyes are the controllers, so they have a practical effect on selecting objects.

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Upload VR

JUNE 7, 2023

Rec Room is made with the Unity engine, which Apple Vision supports via "layering" onto its own RealityKit engine. The App Store on visionOS supports both spatial apps and compatible iPhone and iPad apps, so it's unclear if this refers to the VR version of Rec Room or the iPhone/iPad version on a floating virtual screen.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

He’s referring to a conversation he had with Jason Rubin—Head of Content at Oculus—way back in late 2014. “We Shu was there with the tech team,” Weerasuriya said, referring to Shuhei Yoshida, President of Sony’s Worldwide Studios, “they were showing the very first iterations of ‘Morpheus’ which of course became PSVR.

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