Road to VR

MARCH 23, 2020

Greg Madison, a UX designer at Unity and fellow indoorsman, opened up his playspace a bit by turning his apartment into a VR game platform, something he hopes to share soon with others. Madison says his Oculus Quest app will soon be available via the SideQuest distribution platform.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

App programming (Unity) We developed a simple intuitive application that would help employees understand and remember a sequence of actions. on HTC Vive, connected to a computer, for home training and presentations there is adapted for Oculus Quest. All actions are predetermined, each new step is highlighted.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Really, it works with all platforms: PC, Mac, smartphones, PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest , even Cardboards! the user has an Oculus Quest, that can’t manage all those people that must be rendered in the space). Why not a Unity exporter? Unity WebXR exporter is a powerful tool for all us Unity developers (Image by Mozilla).

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2018

The advanced VR simulation expands to new medical institutions as Oculus & CHLA continue their push towards experiential education. The results have proven so successful that Oculus & CHLA will be launching the revolutionary program across eleven new medical facilities and healthcare providers across the U.S.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

I’ve been working in XR for close to a decade, and my current role involves helping to bring an innovative art and design platform, STYLY, to a wider XR audience, as well as building a community of XR creatives and developing educational programmes for XR art. Why should a creator use STYLY and not a powerful game engine like Unity?

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2020

An upcoming online workshop by XR development educator Circuit Stream will teach developers the basics of building applications for Oculus Quest. But if you’re not ready to jump in that deep, Circuit Stream is holding a one-day ‘ Intro to Oculus Quest Development ‘ live workshop online next week on Saturday, May 16th.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. And now the battle is on standalone headsets: Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

The current status in terms of accessibility is that more folks need to be educated about accessibility in the VR space. The first step is to educate yourself. Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. What do you think is the current status of XR experiences? Are most of them accessible?

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VRScout

JUNE 30, 2019

Courtesy of VR education startup Axon Park , the ‘Unreal Engine VR Master Class’ will debut in VR this autumn. The company wants applicants to have experience in game development, particularly in Unity. Students do need to own an Oculus Rift or Rift S headset in order to attend the course, and there’s a tuition of $2,495 to consider.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

In just 3 short days from June 16 – June 18 you’ll learn how to build a VR experience from scratch using the Unity game engine. HTC Vives & Oculus Rifts for Project Testing. 8:00pm: Intro to Unity | Building your first VR Experience & Selecting your project. Start your journey as a VR creator!

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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. The idea of AI-powered dynamic applications excites me.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

The education. It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. In that period, the Oculus DK2 ordered by Gianni arrived, and he told me that I should go to his office to try that device, and my reaction at that time was like “Oculus what??”

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

. “Our research shows hackers are able to monitor people day in and day out – listen to what they are saying and see how they are interacting in virtual reality,” said Ibrahim Baggili, founder and co-director of the University of New Haven Cyber Forensics Research and Education Group ( [link] ).

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

In an unhinged rant worthy of Rudy Guiliani, Cramer explained the metaverse is made by Unity, before correcting himself and crediting Nvidia instead. VR Education now counts more than 100 commercial customers using its Engage platform, including recent additions Abbott Laboratories, KPMG, MongoDB, and the US State Department.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 3, 2017

To do this, an infrared 3D capture camera hangs on the front of your headset (either the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, or other devices) and dangles in front of the lower half of your face, reading your expressions. Developer kits cost $349 and also come with a Unity plugin SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

This week has mostly been in the sign of Oculus, with many news and updates from the brand controlled by Facebook. Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. This could have had also a ripple effect in VR, where the company had to be more careful in its actions, especially its deep integration between Oculus and Facebook services. Unity releases free guide on mobile development optimization.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. 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. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. For example, Unity is a critical component of the workplace-focused Vision Pro. The gamification trap… XR is always linked to gaming, whether business like it or not.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

The class focused on VR Development with Unity and was taught remotely by an instructor in LA with students split between two buildings on the MIT campus. Target Student Demographic : Expert-level Unity (or other game engine) developers who want to master Unreal Engine 4 for VR. Tuition : $2,495.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Valve Index and Oculus Quest were on sale again. This week the Valve Index and the Oculus Quest have been put back in stock. Oculus and Valve have probably taken out all the devices they had in the warehouses so that to ship them before Half-Life: Alyx and the sale has been a big success. Image by Oculus). Who knows….

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 23, 2017

This year’s show is sponsored by the likes of Oculus, HTC’s Viveport, and Unity. Keynote speakers include Nonny de la Peña, known to many as the godmother of VR for her early work in VR journalism, produced before anyone had even heard of the phrase Oculus Rift.

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Peter Graham

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

While it might seem daunting, Oculus and Unity want to make that process a little easier. Now you can’t just go in cold having never even looked at Unity (a game engine by the way). If you don’t then Unity suggests some introductory courses first, such as an intro to Unity course and an intro to VR tutorial.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Along with categories that you would expect, such as gaming and entertainment, I was excited to see a category for VR education and training. HTC – Vive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Use of VR in the Field of Education Vindevogel goes on to say that VR will be a useful tool in the field of education. According to Gajsek, “Anyone that decided to buy from the Oculus store or use Meta’s products essentially becomes a ’subscriber‘ in Meta’s user base.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 13, 2022

Its latest headset, the Pico Neo 3 , was a very good Oculus Quest 2 clone , that also brought some innovations, like the DP Cable to connect it to the PC for a true PCVR experience. And for these reasons, Pico has been bought by Bytedance in 2021 … a move that many compared to the acquisition of Oculus by Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

An ecosystem to create workshops and educational lessons inside VR , for a maximum of 50 attendees per room (but rooms can be cloned). Anyway, it is like if Oculus had partnered with Google here in the Wes t, so I envision that great things could come out from this collaboration; A partnership between HTC and HP.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

From healthcare, education, social, training, cinema, gaming, and more, VR has a lot of Killer Use-cases. The real killer application of VR I’m more excited about is core curriculum VR Education. It will likely happen first in Asia where governments and parents prioritize their children’s education over all else.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . Automatic Time Synchronization : LooxidVR facilitates time synchronized acquisition of eye and brain data , as well as VR contents and interaction data (Unity event logs).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Then it enhances this educational setting by including a realistic emergency scenario through holographic interactive contents. I stressed everybody in my team because I wanted to be able to place anchors in the world space with maximal accuracy and directly within the Unity editor. I also found limitations in the anchoring system.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

From healthcare and education, to attractions and concerts?—?we Imagine, as an example, we design an educational game that improves both test scores and long-term retention, but we only deployed it on PlayStation. we aim to improve all aspects of life by enabling a lifestyle of play. Even so, the question remains?—?Can

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

One of the areas where XR is seeing the most significant and rapid adoption, is in the world of education and training. Today, we’re going to be looking at some of the most inspirational case studies from the educational landscape, highlighting the benefits of XR for training. Meta Oculus and Aptiv. Microsoft HoloLens and GE.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Now the team that has been showcasing independent VR projects and hosting events around the world is kicking off a new program to support creators in collaboration with Oculus. Successfully funded projects will go into production in early 2017 and will be available on the Oculus platform. Kate Parsons. She obtained her M.F.A.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Not to mention the millions spent on marketing , especially in the US (Oculus was one of the sponsors of NBA, for instance).

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

He has always been a great innovator and I admire his work since the good old Oculus DK 2 times, when he published “Sightline: The Chair” Now he is continuing this innovation work by building a completely open metaverse called Neos , where thanks to object modeling and scripting, it is possible to create everything you want.

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