The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 11, 2021

At Facebook Connect 2021, Meta has announced Application SpaceWarp, a new solution to boost the framerate of Oculus Quest 2 applications up to +70%. These days I have finally managed to try it, so I can tell you everything that I have learned about it: What is it How does it work How to implement it in your Unity application Pros and cons.

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Road to VR

APRIL 6, 2021

The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. Vitillo submitted a fully functional application which simply presents the user with a cube in a blank environment—and Oculus accepted it. Behold, The Unity Cube!

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR , where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. As a Unity developer, I think that it is a very important enabling solution. How to get started with WebXR in Unity – Video Tutorial. Requirements.

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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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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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Road to VR

APRIL 30, 2020

Oculus has introduced three changes to significantly speed up the iteration process for developers building Quest applications with Unity. SEE ALSO Dev Shares Crash Course on VR Game Optimization for Oculus Quest & Mobile Hardware. Two of the three changes are available with Unity 2018.1 Image courtesy Oculus.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Watch YouTube with friends, mix your favorite music, or go head-to-head in a variety of classic board games. Another month, another round of free games and apps for the Oculus (Meta) Quest 2. Couch is available free on Oculus (Meta) Quest via the App Lab. Never Board is a board game lover’s dream. SHAPESXR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The headset is already selling well, and it is currently the most-sold gaming console on Amazon. 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.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Already have some basic game dev experience and looking to get into VR? Then you may be interested in Oculus and Unity’s new intermediate level VR game development course, which is not only free, but can get you some valuable feedback from Oculus on your creation.

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VRScout

JUNE 15, 2021

A former member of the VR Lab at NASA’s JSC is working on a VR rendition of the classic Nintendo game and it looks absolutely incredible. When you think about which classic arcade games would make for amazing VR experiences, Donkey Kong immediately comes to mind. Image Credit: Paul Nathan. Image Credit: Paul Nathan.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2021

The virtual Game Developers Conference Showcase was held from March 15-19. The event wasn’t exclusively devoted to VR gaming, but a number of VR gaming companies and independent designers use Unity’s game engine. Last year, many game development groups held events independently. Unity visual scripting.

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Upload VR

MARCH 7, 2025

Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. The news comes shortly after we reported on developer frustration that Meta's Unity and Unreal integrations, which are described as using OpenXR, block other PC VR headsets. For Unity, the company says that version 1.14

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

Oculus Quest hand-tracking turns one apartment into an XR playground. XR wizard Greg Madison, an interaction designer for spatial computing, has made science-fiction a reality by turning his own home into a mixed reality playground using the Oculus Quest. 02 Transform any surface into a giant touch screen.

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Upload VR

MARCH 6, 2025

Meta's Unity and Unreal "OpenXR" integrations block other PC VR headsets, and developers aren't happy about it. But companies like Meta and Pico still also offer their own integrations for Unity and Unreal. This is why many PC VR games still use SteamVR's legacy OpenVR API, rather than any OpenXR implementation.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Today I publish a very specific post to help Oculus developers in a particular situation I’ve been myself in: how to publish an update to an App Lab experience of yours when the “Production Channel” is missing in the Oculus Developer Hub interface and the web uploader has been deprecated. My story with this problem.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

After Venice VR Expanded has come to an end, I have finally had the time to experiment with Oculus Quest AR Passthrough. the enemy of your game finds itself inside your kitchen table), your brain can’t understand well its position, and when you move your head, you see the virtual elements moving in an incoherent way.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard. This inflection point has accelerated our efforts to enable OpenXR in Unity,” writes Matt Fuad , Sr.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2019

They could be a great innovative tool to market your AR and VR applications (and even for the non-XR ones) … so let’s see how you can create them for you game directly from your Unity project! But are we sure that there isn’t a better way for Unity projects? The better way for Unity projects.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 29, 2020

Original image by Oculus). Oculus kills the Go and opens to content on Quest. In the end, the time of the Oculus Go has come. Devices like Oculus Quest , Pico Neo 2 , and Vive Focus Plus have proven that 6DOF VR is more interesting and has far more retention. Image by Beat Games). Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2024

The latest version of the Unity game engine—which is the basis for the vast majority of XR games made today—is now available to developers as a preview. Unity 6 Preview (formerly known as 2023.3 Unity’s Foveated Rendering API also supports eye-tracked foveated rendering for headsets like Quest Pro and PSVR 2.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

This game has had a very long and interesting story (maybe one day I’ll write a long post about it), and it has lived various transitions, with the last one being from a passthrough AR game to a standard VR game. It was an AR game that could be played on a VR headset , in 2019. The setting.

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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. Also, install the Oculus app and the Oculus Hub on your computer.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Learn the ins-and-outs of Unity development and have your project reviewed by Oculus experts. What about a compelling immersive game or experience for VR headsets? The roughly 20-hour course is broken down into 11 individual lessons, each taught by expert developers from both Unity and Oculus.

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VRScout

MARCH 30, 2020

Fitness-focused VR developer YUR today announced the release of YUR.watch, a virtual smartwatch device compatible with a massive selection of existing PC VR titles, as well as several Oculus Quest releases. The post YUR Launches Fitness Tracking VR Smartwatch For Oculus Quest appeared first on VRScout. Image Credit: YUR).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it’s fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development going forward. Since Unreal Engine 5 itself isn’t ready for prime time, Epic Games is continuing to update the production-ready Unreal Engine 4. Unreal Engine 4.27

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Finally I have been able to try Viveport Streaming , the solution that lets you use your Vive Focus Plus to play PC VR games via Wi-Fi streaming. I made various tests and so I can not only review it, but also compare it with its competitor solution, the Oculus Link. After that, you can select the PC VR game to play and then play it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today I made two little big discoveries about the Oculus Quest 2 that together mean that you can use this headset as an AR device whenever and wherever you want. Some people even used this feature to play standard games all via room-scale. Yes, this is the passthrough version of The Unity Cube! Let me explain everything to you!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today I’ve played around with Oculus Quest , trying to hack it a bit via command-line tools (ADB), hoping to activate some cool features. I am very passionate about mixed reality and I am incredibly happy of having developed a Unity plugin to let every developer create AR/MR apps on the Vive Focus Plus (you can find it on GitHub !),

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VRScout

MARCH 2, 2020

Released last November for the PlayStation 4, Hideo Kojima’s next-generation walking simulator Death Stranding proved to be one of the most interesting as well as divisive games of 2019, earning mixed reviews from both players and critics for its unique albeit often-frustrating gameplay. Image Credit: Taylor Caudle aka King Ceryn.

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Road to VR

MARCH 23, 2020

Playing VR games is a great way to stay active, both mentally and physically. 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. Enter his ‘Gamefied Real Estate’ project.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Recently released on the Quest store, Cubism is a spatial puzzle game with a slick minimal presentation. Designed by a solo indie developer Thomas Van Bouwel as a side project, the game impressively holds the highest user rating among all Quest apps with more than 100 reviews, according to our latest ranking.

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VRScout

JUNE 8, 2018

In a way, it’s a window into VR, allowing the user to be live composited with the output from a game to create this combined virtual video scene. But for years now, only Unity developers have been able to add mixed reality capture support to their VR games and experiences. Image Credit: VRScout.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

NVIDIA also announced that its cloud streaming service Geforce Now is coming to Quest, Pico, and Apple Vision Pro, so MR users will be able to play flatscreen games on a giant virtual screen in front of them. It was even the third most-sold device of any kind in the whole Video Games category. This is impressive.

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Road to VR

JULY 13, 2020

Oculus has updated its UE4 Quest development tools so that developers can spend less time waiting and more time testing and iterating on their VR applications. The changes are similar in scope to recent improvements to Unity Quest development. Image courtesy Oculus. Image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2022

PlayStation announces four games for PSVR 2. I remember Robert Scoble mentioning that Apple may propose its headset as a content-consumption device and not a gaming device, and this leak seems to confirm his theory. (Image by Sony Interactive Entertainment). Other relevant news.

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