The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Tethered VR will stay as a niche Hero view of PSVR 2 (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment) Tethered VR has been superseded by standalone VR: there are many more standalone VR users than PC VR ones. Of course not. When I tried to use ChatGPT to create Unity scripts, it managed to write something good, but often I had to correct it.

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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

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

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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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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Upload VR

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 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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2021

Of course, I can be an “influencer” (I HATE this word, actually) only because there are so many of you that support me each day by reading what I write, commenting, and resharing it. But today I don’t want to talk only about that.

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

This is of course an application I’m doing myself very soon because I want to create content for this device. Of course, Meta has plenty of stock of these components, but this means that it has already started the process to sunset the headset. This Apple-owned development device needs to be returned upon request.

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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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2021

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Of course, developers have not to abuse this feature, or it can become annoying in the long run. It looks more colorful and this is great, but of course, I would like to verify its usability. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

The situation has now changed and the sales that will happen in the next weeks will tell us if that was the case, or it is just that this console is too expensive for taking off (and in this case, Sony should consider offering a discount). All without leaving your editor.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2022

And of course, could I do that without telling you about my experience? Of course not… Sony 3D Display. The first display I have been able to try has been at the Sony booth. Of course, if I moved too much on the left or right, the 3D wasn’t working anymore and I could see things just in a weird 2D.

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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

MAY 30, 2022

And Sony will give a “Sneak peek” of PSVR 2 games at its upcoming State Of Play event on June 2nd at 3 PM PT. It seems that Sony is hoping for a Q4 release in time for the holidays, but analyst Ming-Chi Kuo thinks that delays will bring the release to Q1 2023. We don’t know much about this upcoming content, though.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 14, 2021

According to the report, analyzing the orders made to the lens manufacturer, the two new headsets by Sony and Facebook should be released in 2022. Do you remember that leaked email when Zuck told that he wanted to control all the technological stack Facebook works on and he wanted to acquire Unity? slightly different colors).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I’m trying to keep expectations in place not because I want to be negative about VR (I’m a strong believer in the tech), but because in the past I’ve already seen that trend of setting unrealistic expectations and then writing “VR is dead” the day after when the market of course haven’t reached those results.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

Every year since when I entered VR, someone says that “this will be the year of VR” and then of course this never happens. And in fact, some weeks ago Sony has made everyone understand that it has delayed the launch of the PSVR 2 because the market is not there yet. It is cool, but pretty old now (Image by Sony).

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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

APRIL 4, 2022

Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. It was of course a technical talk and there has been no reveal of new features of the headset. News worth a mention. boost over a non-foveated-rendered frame and a 1.1–1.4x

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. More info Sony Mocopi seems to be good for full-body VR Thrillseeker, the superstar VR Youtuber, is experimenting with Mocopi, the lightweight full-body VR kit by Sony.

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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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ARPost

JUNE 6, 2023

Best Collaboration Tool Sony Electronics Head of XR Business Development Thaisa Yamamura was “honored to present” the Auggie Award for Best Collaboration Tool. She also presented the winner with a 15.6in Sony Spatial Reality Display. The award went to Verizon for The Future of Training , an XR upskilling program.

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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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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A series of announcements from Amazon, Crytek, Epic Games and Unity Technologies showcase an evolution among their respective game engines into VR world creation toolsets. For example, Lumberyard from Amazon is released for creating games and VR experiences, while both Unity and Epic reveal in-VR tools to speed up the development process.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. Streaming services Netflix and Hulu have been in the VR space for a while (Netflix announced their app for Gear VR all the way back in the fall of 2015), and Sony-owned Crackle is attempting to catch up.

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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

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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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

In the end, I still believe in the old predictions of Unity CEO John Riccitiello: Look at this graph shown by Mr. Riccitiello in 2017: the purple line is the one of the analysts, while the white one is the one forecasted by him. Sony has already clarified that it won’t sell the PSVR 2 together with the launch of the PS5.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Sony was completely absent, so no PlayStation VR2 demos, while Pico had no public presence. Hearing talk of unity is one thing but actually seeing it done well is another, and I'd call the Home Of XR Megabooth a clear success. Granted, it's a 4D ride and not a game, but indie developers simply can't compete with that for publicity.

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