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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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Microsoft Ignite was a three-day conference that took place virtually on YouTube, Microsoft.com, and in Altspace from March 2-4. Surprisingly, there was little at the conference directly related to HoloLens , Microsoft’s mixed reality headset. The Future of the Cloud, According to Satya Nadella. Satya Nadella.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 20, 2018

Currently, in the augmented reality space, it seems the Microsoft-created C# has won out as the overall top language of choice. Of course, this is at least partially due to its heavy adoption by Unity, the most widely used engine for AR development.

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

Huge companies like Facebook and Microsoft are throwing vast sums of money at their attempts to build, and therefore define, the metaverse. Some university courses that you might consider would be the Master of Human-Computer Interaction degree offered by Carnegie Mellon University or the M.S. design, mixed reality (M.R.),

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Or maybe “relaxed” is not the right word to use, considering the little drama on Microsoft’s headsets. Top news of the week (Image by HP) Microsoft officially drops support for its Mixed Reality headsets Microsoft has just released the infamous Windows 11, version 24H2 update. I think this speaks a lot.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Cubes are easy to do. The cube became blue!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Top news of the week Meta is shipping the Quest 3 The news of the week is of course that Meta is shipping its new Quest 3 headset and its many accessories. Very soon I will unveil what I’ve been working on all these weeks, and I hope to have your support for that! All journalists are writing reviews about it, and they are all pretty positive.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Of course, some coordination with team members was necessary to not lose immediately , this game requires some strategy. This is not the devs’ fault, of course, and it is common to many VR games. Microsoft Maquette. Microsoft Maquette is the ultimate VR tool by Microsoft to prototype fast in VR. The Great C.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Of course, companies don’t need to have a keynote to say something interesting.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

More info (Logitech MX Ink now available) More info (My hands-on with the device) The end of HoloLens 2 Microsoft has officially announced the end-of-life of the Microsoft HoloLens 2: the company is now selling the last stock and will slowly discontinue the headset. with downloadable courses priced at $1.99

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Of course, they have been leaked as well , so now we can all sleep during Meta’s event. IVAS is the modified HoloLens that Microsoft is experimenting with the US Army and thanks to this partnership it could show better and more useful data to its soldiers.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2020

AR VR Academy has an open-sourced curriculum for its students. Their goal is to help anyone learn about these technologies, regardless of their prior experience. ARVR Women. One of the most inspiring and innovative AR and VR communities is AR VR Women – the platform that unites women from the immersive technology industry.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Of course, this doesn’t mean that VR is mainstream yet, because we have to verify what have been the actual sales numbers and also what will be the retention of these new users in 3–6 months. I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR….

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Upload VR

JUNE 21, 2022

The effort to “foster the development of open standards for the metaverse” is hosted by the Khronos Group and already joined by the likes of Microsoft, Meta, Google, Adobe, Epic Games, Unity, and NVIDIA among many others, and membership even includes other standards developing organizations such as W3C.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. Those wishing to receive a certificate at the end of the course can pay $29.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

For larger companies looking to connect their entire team with HoloLens 2 headsets, Microsoft is offering a package that includes Dynamic 365 Remote Assist on each MR headset at the cost of $125 per user – per month. If you’re a developer working on your own, Microsoft offers the HoloLens 2 Development Edition.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

In my opinion, Magic Leap 2 is a superior device to HoloLens 2 (see my hands-on here ), so I think that with these prices, it can have good success in the enterprise market, starting to gain shares with regard to Microsoft. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. Of course, this is good news for all the VR gaming ecosystem.

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ARPost

MAY 16, 2023

Bar-Zeev has worked in XR since 1992 including co-founding Google Earth, serving as a consultant for Linden Labs, a principal architect for Microsoft, advisor for Tilt Five and Croquet, and president of the XR Guild. Of course, virtual models of larger objects can be scaled down, but some users wanted larger models.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The same element can so be compatible both with Unreal Engine, and Unity, but also Roblox and Minecraft. Of course, Unreal Engine 6, like all the metaverse vision, is going to take many years to happen. But it’s good that Sweeney remains a believer in the metaverse even if now it is not the trend of the moment anymore.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Of course, after the announcement, a lot of questions started coming to my mind , especially regarding the use of these new graphics cards with regard to VR and AR. Of course, they haven’t revealed to me any secrets, but it has been interesting reading some details anyway. RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Competition For Magic Leap, Microsoft, And Varjo? Targeting enterprise customers and applications will put Vision Pro in direct competition with the existing trifecta of enterprise AR headsets: Magic Leap 2 , Microsoft's HoloLens 2 , and Varjo's XR-3 series.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Of course not. Of course, while I am super-enthusiastic about the potentialities of this technology, I am also very scared by the problems with privacy and manipulation. When I tried to use ChatGPT to create Unity scripts, it managed to write something good, but often I had to correct it. Photoshop is doing the same.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! More info Is Apple working on the Vision Pro since 2007? in the reviews!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Of course, there would be privacy concerns in enabling the passthrough to everyone, and yes, the current world vision is mediocre (black&white and distorted). Of course, Oculus Connect 7 is the one that interests us the most. Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Why does this matter? This is massive.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Case in point: KennyWdev and Joshua Liew’s imagined AR battle system for Microsoft HoloLens, aptly named PokéLens. A slight jumpiness of virtual characters can be seen in the video, something Microsoft says can happen “as tracking adjusts holograms to match an updated understanding of your environment.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Ok, of course, I’m kidding, but, you know, the possibility of saying the wrong name is so high that my proposal actually starts making sense… Top news of the week (Image by HTC Vive) HTC reveals inside-out-tracked Tracker With a totally unexpected move, HTC has revealed a new kind of Tracker.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Meta announces at Connect Quest Pro and a partnership with Microsoft. There have been a few key announcements at Connect: Meta has launched Quest Pro , its new premium headset, for $1500 Meta announced its focus on a new vertical, productivity Meta has partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to tackle the XR enterprise world.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? But of course, I hope for a full reveal . This makes us clearly understand that gamers are still not really into VR, and confirms the thesis by Microsoft that is not adding VR to Xbox. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Although, the US Army hit a roadblock in August when it slashed funding towards developing a Microsoft-powered XR training solution. Unity runs a yearly Humanity Grant programme promoting XR projects that change the world for the better. During 2022 the media giant already experimented with XR content.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) Meta launched Quest 3 The main piece of news of the week is of course the launch of the Meta Quest 3 at the Meta Connect. The last big feature is of course mixed reality: Zuckerberg defined the Quest 3 as the first consumer mixed reality headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Of course, you can’t expect from it multiple depth planes or things like that. Of course the actual battery time may vary depending on what you are doing with the device. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. Computational Power.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A Multi-Device Networked Multiplayer Shooter Game Post-Mortem HoloLens Live Image We were tasked to make a multi-device networked multiplayer game for the mini-capstone in Game Development Advanced Programming Post Graduate Course at Sheridan College. Networking implementation using Photon Unity Networking. Unity v2019.2.0

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

But it did this in a funny way, by mocking its own campaign for the fact that of course, you can’t taste a beer virtually. Microsoft IVAS program is not doing great. The special IVAS program that Microsoft is carrying on to develop a special version of HoloLens 2 for the US Army is not doing that well. Other news. Learn more.

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