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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Some are easy like VivePort, which is basically a Steam build with the Steam stuff removed, but then on the other hand you have Sony’s eldritch submission process and things like Quest performance optimizations. Going deeply technical, how you managed your workflow for handling so many different Unity projects?

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft lays off 10,000 employees and shuts down its mixed reality projects This is seriously a bad period for the tech industry in general, and of course also for mixed reality. 10,000 employees will lose their job before March : this is a human tragedy on its own.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Image by Sony, from Road To VR). Sony announces PS5, it supports PSVR. With an online livestream of around 1 hour, Sony has finally unveiled the design of the PlayStation 5. But Sony has confirmed that while we wait for it, the PS5 will be able to work with the current PSVR device. Unity details its MARS solution.

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

The team had their interest in VR piqued around 2012, at an internal conference for Sony developers. An early prototype of PlayStation VR, codenamed Project Morpheus | Image courtesy Sony. Was there a temptation to jump into engines such as Unity or Unreal to jumpstart development? Was that about par for a play through?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Of course, existing WMR users can still use the devices if they do not upgrade to a version of Windows that does not have the software anymore. More info Quest Pro can now track your tongue In version 60 of its SDKs for Unity and native code, Meta has added the functionality of detecting how much you are pulling out your tongue.

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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

AUGUST 3, 2020

Of course, all of this holds only on the technical side: if Oculus for instance wants to prevent the applications on the Oculus Store to work with Vive, it can anyway block it. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Some news on content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 7, 2016

And then of course there are some crazy hard shots that I hope people will just record themselves nailing for the pure glory of it. Ben Throop: The first prototype of the mechanic was in June 2014 at the Boston VR Bender game jam that Owlchemy, Valve, and Unity put on. Has developement finished?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2020

These people, of course, love MacOS, and they would find it great to be able to use a VR headset for improving their creative creations. Sony reveals finger tracking technology for controllers. More info (Preview facilities in Unity) More info (Dynamic FFR). I wonder why these corporates are blind to these requests.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Of course, Mister President Alvin Graylin will be there, too (Image from VRTUOLUO) Why should people attend this event?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. But that’s just how Unity works, and this post isn’t about Unity, so let’s move on. You may be saying “Come on!

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MAY 22, 2023

Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.” operating system or later.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Examples include Amazon Sumerian, Adobe Aero and of course Unity. It’s already powered AR experiences for Sony Pictures, Miller Lite , Porsche and others. One of the subsegments of the spatial computing universe that we think holds the greatest opportunity is “building blocks.”

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Of course I’m talking about a potential AR glass, the iGlass , that could so exploit the computational power of the phone without needing a cable to be connected to it. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. This is a very fascinating hypothesis, but honestly, I don’t know if I believe it. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. The device is, of course, an enterprise one (the vest costs around $500), but the company aims at releasing a more affordable enthusiast version before the end of the year. Then we’ll follow how the situation will evolve.”

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AUGUST 10, 2022

The event will also tackle the challenge of developing the Metaverse with a list of workshops, panels, courses, and others to discuss the merging of physical and digital content.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

Sony arguably lost its footing as the console king when it launched the PlayStation 3 at $599 in 2005, and now here was a system that wanted considerably more cash for an experience that would still be foreign to many and a big financial risk for people to support. Surviving on Steam.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Porto, Portugal-based company and attendee of the Immerse Global Summit 2022 Miami will announce further partnerships in due course. Furthemore, the platform is compatible with most gaming engines, including Unity, Unreal Engine, and others. This also includes Amazon Polly, Mixamo, Apple’s ARKit, and many more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 8, 2022

.” She also cited a paper noting that students also retained information 40 percent to 50 percent more than with traditional learning methods, even eight months after the virtual course. IGS and the Future of XR Training. ” The IGS 2022 Miami took place from 5 to 7 December at Miami Beach’s iconic Fontainebleau Hotel.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

As a spectator, I was able to teleport around the golf course and view the action from wherever I decided to point my headset. Todd Hooper: We have an SDK for Unity and Unreal 4. We are Sony partner and will be talking more about Sony later. Most games are GPU-bound not CPU-bound so so far that hasn’t been a challenge.

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JUNE 12, 2024

Partnering with Sony, it developed Everybody’s Golf and even created a PlayStation VR version in 2019 , which saw the company make its first steps towards VR. It offers a slate of fantastical golf courses where you can hit the golf ball around in virtual reality, swinging the Touch controllers like real golf clubs.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. The AIM controller was a very cool peripheral built for Sony’s PSVR system.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

Of course, CES is going to be the main topic of this weekly roundup, but there have also been interesting news not coming directly from there. There have been anyway two huge companies, NVIDIA and Sony, that released XR-related announcements during their respective keynotes. Lets go discover them! (PS HDMI has announced a new 2.2

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Image by Sony). Sony officially states it is going to launch the PSVR 2. PlayStation VR has been the most successful headset until now (if we exclude the crappy mobile viewers), but now it is pretty dated and people were wondering what Sony was going to do. Some people started to think that Sony could have abandoned VR.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

link] Pimax Play updates Over the course of several months, my Crystal received a number of software updates, after undergoing testing by the Pimax Crystal Beta testers (a group of early adopters). I did try using the application with several OpenVR games which of course did not work!

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MAY 10, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. Doug Eggert: We expect the trend of integrating tracking technology into XR devices will accelerate over the course of this year and beyond.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

Although, with more recent commercial headsets like the Meta Quest Pro and Sony’s PSVR 2, the technology is finding a home in affordable immersive products. Doug Eggert: We expect the trend of integrating tracking technology into XR devices will accelerate over the course of this year and beyond.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

Some people wondered if the avatar moved in realtime with the real Alex, but the answer is no, of course, he was pre-recorded. Of course, there is news on Quest also from this week. Sony announces new games for PSVR. All of this running thanks to the power of the Azure cloud.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 3, 2023

More info (Meta Quest+ gaming service) More info (Cross-buy available for Meta Quest+ games) Unity announces AI tools when Valve stops AI games This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for games (VR and not) made with the support of artificial intelligence. Muse looks a lot like ChatGPT integrated inside Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

This week, a rumor spread among XR communities: next-gen PSVR will be announced at a press conference to be held by Sony on February, 5th. The reason is that Sony has already announced that it will launch PSVR 2 only after the PS5 , to not confuse its buyers by selling too many things together. But of course, I hope for a full reveal

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? So, of course, we use game engine technology to validate design, and to get a project that is greenlit; say, "Look at this beautiful car." And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5?

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5? So, of course, we use game engine technology to validate design, and to get a project that is greenlit; say, "Look at this beautiful car." And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. And of course, what's coming up with Unreal Engine 5?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Of course, it is completely based on hand tracking… and on the classical Owlchemy humor Sony Pictures Virtual Reality and XR Games announced Starship Troopers: Continuum , an online multiplayer shooter that brings you into the world of the popular movie. with downloadable courses priced at $1.99

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. I know that I’m saying something unpopular, but I understand Microsoft’s decision. Funny link This is too funny to watch!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

PSVR 2 Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) I had big hopes for PSVR 2. I’m pretty sure that Sony is waiting the next few months to make some moves, there’s still the Black Friday and the Christmas Holiday that have to happen, but at the moment I do not see this device as disruptive to our ecosystem.

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