The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

I wanted just to experiment with technology, not make a product I’m not going to do a step-by-step tutorial, but if you are a bit experienced with Unity, you can use the info I’m providing you to create something similar yourself. Initialization I launched Unity (I’m using version 2022.3 But how to do that?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

As the camera panned out, a person could be seen standing next to the avatar, wearing a VR headset and waving controllers through the air. To me, this video was one of the most compelling examples of how immersive technologies could work together to enable social interactions across realities. Image Credit: Normal VR.

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ARPost

JULY 3, 2019

AR technology is more and more in demand by consumers and marketing and advertising clients. This is one of the significant findings of a Unity Technologies survey among UK and US ad creatives. See Also: Survey: AR Technology Brings Concrete Benefits to the Services Industry.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2023

While various examples of this technology have been introduced to the landscape over the years, it’s only recently that experts have begun creating viable solutions ready for mass adoption. Today, companies from almost every industry are discovering the benefits of bringing immersive technologies into their operations.

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

The third day of AWE 2020 may go down in history as the most wholesome day in the history of XR technology. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. Ethics and Inclusion in XR Technology. For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls? Let’s jump in.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2019

They could be a great innovative tool to market your AR and VR applications (and even for the non-XR ones) … so let’s see how you can create them for you game directly from your Unity project! But are we sure that there isn’t a better way for Unity projects? The better way for Unity projects.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2025

Connecting Modern Businesses with Modern Innovation More recently, WEART initiated a working relationship with MAIZE, a company connecting modern businesses with innovative technology vendors. It also supports XR experiences built on Unity and Unreal Engine SDKs.

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2022

Here, we will look at two immersive art galleries currently open, one from Spatial and one from Liquid Avatar Technologies. ARPost hasn’t (yet) introduced readers to Liquid Avatar Technologies Inc. The company offers creator tools as well as a suite of solutions for users to “manage, control, and benefit from their digital identities.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Some days ago, I was looking at the code of HitMotion: Reloaded , the fitness game that we of New Technology Walkers developed some years ago for the Vive Focus Plus, and all the intricate system I had to make in Unity to have a cross-platform VR game … and I wondered: “Is all of this mess still needed today?”

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VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2017

So to assist those looking to take advantage of this desperate thirst for VR and AR developers, massively popular cross-platform game engine Unity has teamed up with celebrated online learning company Udacity to create their VR Developer Nanodegree Program as well as their all-new Learn ARkit Nanodegree Foundations Program.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! Let’s create a new Unity 3D project, and call it TestQuestHands.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2022

XR ergonomics expert Rob Cole published last year on this platform an article detailing Project Caliper , that is his experiments in building fully configurable controllers for SteamVR. The article soon gets viral, and many people would have loved to see these controllers go into production. So what was this new idea then?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Circuit Stream , the company he works for, offers a full platform of AR/VR training and learning services to help people master immersive technology. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. Table of Contents.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2019

Nreal exploded onto the MR technology field earlier this year and they haven’t stopped expanding. However, it comes with additional resources including a controller and a proprietary computing pack. One of the key benefits of the SDK is the spatial computing power, necessary for MR technology. Beta which launched yesterday.

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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 21, 2021

Sony unveils the new controllers of the PSVR2. One month after the reveal of a “next-gen VR headset for the Playstation” (whose name is not known, but I guess it will be PSVR2), Sony has revealed one important detail of its new VR system: the controllers. The controllers will be given to selected developers very soon.

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VRScout

JUNE 29, 2017

In providing developers a way to incorporate scanning technology into Unity, Leap Motion enabled a new breed of VR experience—one where participants used their own hands to interact with digital objects rather than controllers. The Interaction Engine allows users to hover near, touch, or grasp objects in virtual reality.

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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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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2020

Learn how industrial giant ABB is using Unity and augmented reality to transform field maintenance procedures into a completely paperless process. Kielar, to walk us through how they used Unity to develop a new digital field operator system. Make it easy to control what the user sees. by Nick Davis. odarczyk and Rafa?

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ARPost

OCTOBER 10, 2019

That’s something that musician and AR technology advocate, Will Copps , is looking to change. AR Technology and Spatial Sound. “I This has led him to AR technology. For a while, he tried to do it using GPS technology. However, two and a half years ago, he turned to Apple’s ARKit and Unity. Creating a Spatial Album.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

Meta to introduce new parental controls on Quest. After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2. More info (Quest 2 new parental controls?—?Road Road To VR) More info (Quest 2 new parental controls?—?Upload Top news of the week.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

unity @Oculus #OculusQuest #MadeWithUnity #XR #SpatialComputing cc: @mitrealityhack pic.twitter.com/wypOFEJcNx — Greg Madison (@GregMadison) January 17, 2020. 02 Transform any surface into a giant touch screen. Image Credit: Greg Madison.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

This is combined with eye-tracking technology from German firm SMI, which may have just been acquired by Apple. The game allows you to manipulate objects and battle foes with your mind, and is played entirely without handheld controllers. ” The company offers an SDK so Unity developers can integrate the system into a game.

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VRScout

JUNE 15, 2021

In order to develop his next-gen homage, Nathan employed the Unity game engine to transform the 2D arcade game into a 3D VR world. Jumping and moving mechanics were relatively simple to develop; Nathan built in a trigger that lets your Mario avatar jump in VR by pushing down on the right thumbstick of your Quest controller.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

I had the pleasure to sit down with Conor Russomanno, the CEO , and talk with him about the new product they’re building, dubbed Galea, that is being marketed not only as a disruptive innovation for BCIs but also as a product that has been specifically designed to work with XR technologies. What are the expected price and release date?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

I teach user experience design and assistive technology courses. As with all technology, XR is evolving. 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? Are most of them accessible?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Developers wasted no time creating unique experiences that effectively showcased the potential of Oculus Passthrough technology. Facebook today announced that everyone will have access to Passthrough technology in the next release, letting you build, test, and ship experiences using Passthrough capabilities. Image Credit: Facebook.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking on the Unity integrations, Ivan Rajkovic, CEO of SpectreXR, noted: We’re excited to expand hand-tracking support for OctoXR and enable even more Unity developers to create immersive and engaging interactive VR/AR experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In this article, I’m going to tell you everything I know about this new headset , plus I will give you my thorough hands-on review on its 6 DOF Controllers , that I have tried with the 6 DOF devkit. Vive Focus + 6 DOF Controllers devkit. Well, you are in the right place. The Vive Focus Plus. Well, for sure you are…. The dev kit.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 21, 2025

You can demo this technology with a PCVR headset through the Immersix application. The project is pretty cool: the VR game is about humanoid robots fighting between them, and the idea is to take the best players and make them fight using real robots they are controlling from within the VR headset. You can so watch it in VR.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2022

has been pushing the limits of haptic technology since the launch of its HaptX DK2 gloves back in January 2021. Touch is the cornerstone of the next generation of human-machine interface technologies, and the opportunities are endless.” The device also includes a variety of plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a C++ API.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) There are new leaks on Meta Quest 3S This week we had new leaks on Quest 3S, including many images of the headset and its controllers and some leaked information on the Quest documentation website. The new CEO has finally made the great decision to remove it. This is very intriguing.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. Others say that it may be professional applications. Meta is under heavy pressure.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In a video posted by CBS Los Angeles , we see Rams COO Kevin Demoff guiding a reporter through the VR tour of the jaw dropping venue using an Oculus Rift headset with Touch controllers (photos also show an HTC Vive being used).

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple Vision Pro has brought new ideas to the table about how XR apps should be designed, controlled, and built. His work has spanned between product design and the R&D of new technologies at companies like Apple, Snap Inc, and various other tech startups working on face computers. You can also look and speak in search bars.

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