The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2021

So let me show you how you can develop an AR app for Oculus Quest 2 using Oculus Passthrough APIs in Unity. In this tutorial, you are going to replicate the fantastic The Unity Cube experience, this time in AR! Open Unity (I’m still on Unity 2019.4 Open Unity (I’m still on Unity 2019.4

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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

JULY 3, 2021

Digital artist and animator Chris Bradley has loved driving remote control cars since she was a kid. Bradley took a moment to talk to us more about building realistic RC cars in VR, saying, “ VRChat is based on Unity, which has a great physics engine built-in. Of course, you can’t control an RC car without an RC car controller.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Meta released an XR UI kit for Unity, which some Quest developers have been requesting for years. But until recently , the only way to build XR apps for Meta's headsets was with a game engine, such as Unity or Unreal, and Meta didn't provide any kind of UI framework for either. Meta has finally released a solution to this.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Who needs an old-fashioned controller when you have a perfectly good set of arms and legs? AXIS (Active XR Interface System) is a full-body controller that uses a combination of wireless sensors attached to key points on the body to deliver high-quality motion capture. Standard mode uses nine sensors and one primary hub. .

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 24, 2021

For sure you remember that together with my tutorial on how to develop and submit an application for App Lab , I have actually submitted to App Lab my majestic “The Unity Cube App” , an application with just a cube and some avatar hands (Yes, I’m a troll). Unity and its automatically added permissions.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2023

As a result, platforms have begun to emerge to provide innovators with new ways of creating their own VR experiences. Unity, one of the world’s market-leading development platforms, is among the better-known solutions built to enable the creation of 3D, immersive content. What are the Tools Unity Can Provide for VR Development?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6. Unity 6 is bringing many new features that are helping with cutting-edge technologies like XR and AI. It’s good to see that this startup is still making progress.

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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! How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity – Video Tutorial.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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. First, let’s start with installing Unity hand-tracking. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Let’s start there—let’s download Unity and set it up for hand-tracking.

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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. Normcore , their multiplayer networking plugin for Unity, allows for the addition of voice chat-enabled multiplayer VR functionality for games and experiences in minutes. Image Credit: Normal VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2025

Moreover, with the transition from controllers to haptic gloves comes increased immersion and control over an environment, allowing workers to interact more directly with and react to an immersive space. It also supports XR experiences built on Unity and Unreal Engine SDKs.

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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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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

JANUARY 14, 2025

The Quest Pros controllers, the Touch Pro, are still available for purchase , though, because they can still be connected to the other Quest headsets. This means you can not buy a Quest Pro on the Meta website anymore : if you go to its store page, you find a statement that suggests you buy a Quest 3, instead.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2025

But it launched with a 3DOF controller and hit the market too late to change Daydream’s fate. By partnering with Unity and focusing on open standards like OpenXR, we’re providing a clear path for immersive experience developers to easily take advantage of our platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 2, 2021

In this post, I’m going to tell you how to implement hands tracking in Unity for the Vive Focus 3, how to enable it on the device, and what are its performances, also compared to the ones of the Oculus Quest 2. How to integrate hands tracking in your Vive Wave Unity project. Return to Unity, go to Window -> Package Manager.

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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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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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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is called “First Hand” because it has been roughly inspired by Oculus First Contact , the showcase demo for Oculus Touch controller released for the Rift CV1. 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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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2021

He then offered to send me the Unity Project files! You’re able to walk around and explore your room using the right joystick on your Quest controller; the left joystick controller is what you’ll use to play games on your Commodore 64. I am a total C# and Unity noob so I learn as I go. This was the most thrilling part!”.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2022

To assist him, an observer in the real world uses a Playstation controller to send signals to the four main muscle groups in their neck to turn the user’s head and guide them to the fire extinguisher. The pilot can control the neck movements of the VR user using the drone, allowing them to sync their perspectives.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Meta's Interaction SDK now supports Unreal Engine, and the Unity version now supports non-Meta headsets. Meta Interaction SDK provides standard common hand interactions and elements that support controllers and hand tracking. 0:00 / 0:07 1× Previously, Meta Interaction SDK was only available for Unity.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

You can now switch to hand-tracking by simply putting down your Touch controllers. The most noteworthy of which, a new hand-tracking option that — when enabled, allows you to automatically switch between your Oculus Touch controllers and hand-tracking mode. The Oculus Quest just keeps getting better.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It’s also game engine friendly, which means you can port your project into something like Unity. Your Touch controllers are used to access a menu of pre-made parts and functions. If you don’t own a Quest, you’re still able to view projects on a web browser, allowing you near-constant access to the project and team.

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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

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

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. You can think of visionOS itself like a Shared Space where apps coexist together and you have less control. Whereas Full Spaces give you the most control and immersiveness, but don’t coexist with other apps.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

For some weird reason, in the OS the class controlling the Guardian is also the one controlling the access to the cameras’ stream, so if you disable the Guardian, you can’t have MR anymore. These are the only settings about the passthrough you can change inside Unity. But how do the two solutions compare?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Controller : Weight : 23g Tracking : 3DoF Connection : Bluetooth Controls : Touchpad, Click, Haptic feedback. Even the controller, with its nice rounded design, looks cute. On top of it, you can see the controller. Notice that in this photo there is not the controller on top of it. Design-wise, they are very cool.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

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

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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