The Ghost Howls

MARCH 11, 2025

More info (Samsung Project Moohan may launch in Q3 2025) More info (Samsung headset may use displays from Sony) Other relevant news (Image by Wooster Games) Animal Company has been the most grossing game on the Meta Store If you think that Gorilla Tag is the game that is earning the most money on the Horizon Store, you are wrong.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2024

Lushfoil Photography Sim , a serene photography game built on Unreal Engine 5, is expected to get optional PC VR support following its initial release. ” A demo version of the game was released this week as part of Steam Next Fest.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2018

In response to the rising number of mass shootings in the United States, the Department of Homeland Security developed and released a WebVR training simulator last year called EDGE (Enhanced Dynamic Geo-Social Environment), which helped prepare first responders for the stressful moments of responding to an active shooter scene.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2024

Meta announced its released a new Acoustic Ray Tracing feature that will make it easier for developers to add more immersive audio to their VR games and apps. “Our acoustics features can handle arbitrarily complex geometry, ensuring that even the most intricate environments are accurately simulated,” Meta says.

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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. Never Board is a board game lover’s dream. Try the in-game tutorial. NEVER BOARD. Not sure where to start?

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

For an extra sense of immersion, the headset also features a vibration feedback system capable of simulating everything from gunshots and footsteps to a variety of other environmental noises. As for controls, players interact with the in-game world using a pair of sensors mounted to the base of their feet. Image Credit: Diver-X.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The article is a summary of the most interesting information that came from our chat… including the mind blowing moment when I realized that with this technology, people in Unity and Unreal Engine could work together on the same project :O. Omniverse is the collaborative and simulation tool by NVIDIA. NVIDIA Omniverse.

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VRScout

AUGUST 20, 2021

The VR medical company PrecisionOS along with support from Epic Games MegaGrant and Oculus , have launched a VR training module designed specifically for the global nonprofit humanitarian organization SIGN Fracture Care. VR training lets surgeons in low-resource countries go through the motions before performing on patients.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2019

Epic Games today announced at GDC that the company is set to turbo-charge their long-running developer grant initiative with ‘MegaGrants’ and the largest pool of funds yet, $100,000,000. Developers can also apply for a grant to help transition existing or in-development games to UE4. Interested?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Announced as “The Official Blancpain GT Series Game” , the sim brings many technology upgrades over Assetto Corsa (2014) , thanks in part to the move to Unreal Engine 4. In the description on the game’s Steam page , VR support is also confirmed. Image courtesy Kunos Simulazioni.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

From Skydance's Behemoth to Alien: Rogue Incursion, December's another busy month for new VR games. To say it's been hectic for new VR games recently would be an understatement, and November certainly didn't let up. It's a sandbox adventure where you play as a cutesy feline, exploring Granny's house and creating mischief along the way.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2018

Feel Three, a 3DOF motion simulator for VR, went live on Kickstarter yesterday. The simulator is built on a half-sphere base, which sits atop a number of motors and special omnidirectional wheels, called ‘omni wheels’, that give the user three degrees of freedom: pitch, roll and yaw.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

support for visionOS, making its now Vision Pro-compatible game engine available to all Unity Pro, Enterprise, and Industry subscribers. visionOS support include ‘Play to Device’, which allows live-previewing of content on the visionOS simulator, or Apple Vision Pro within the Unity Editor. Unity has officially launched 1.0

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The gamification trap… XR is always linked to gaming, whether business like it or not. The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. Especially in the past 20 years, when gaming has become massively mainstream.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Steam Next Fest kicks off its latest edition today with two dozen PC VR demos, ranging from space shooters to puzzle games. Now live until next week, Steam Next Fest is back with its February 2025 edition to celebrate upcoming games. With that all said, here are some PC VR highlights we've spotted so far.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 25, 2022

In April, real-time 3D (RT3D) engine developers Epic Games and NVIDIA debuted easy-to-use photogrammetry tools to streamline the creation of RT3D assets. Epic Games launched Reality Scan in April, a photogrammetry tool for the firm’s Unreal Engine suite. Reality Scan. Capturing Reality (@RealityCapture_) April 4, 2022.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As well as improving the realism of avatars driven by non-Pro Quest owners in social VR and multiplayer games, Audio To Expression can also be used for NPC faces, which could be useful for smaller studios and independent developers that can't afford to use facial capture technology.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Unity, Unreal and other game engines plugins. SIMULATORS SUPPORT. Lockheed Martin Prepar3D, DCS World, X-Plane 11, Bohemia Interactive Simulations (VBS3, VBS4), Microsoft Flight Simulator, Aero FS 2, FlyInside, and other custom integrations. Microsoft Windows. SOFTWARE SUPPORT. Steam VR and OpenXR drivers.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2022

I have just finished playing Red Matter 2 , the much-awaited sequel of Red Matter , one of my favorite games for Quest. During the whole game, you are confronted with posters, writings, and products that remind a lot of Soviet Russia (e.g. Red Matter 2 is mostly a puzzle game.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

While brief zero-gravity flights are possible without leaving the atmosphere, and training in water can simulate operations in space, long-term training is always difficult. Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Boeing Starliner Spacecraft Crew Module.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Microphone input. Vulkan and OpenGL support.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HaptX SDK makes it easy for any developer to bring a realistic sense of touch to their VR games and apps. This includes advanced vibrotactile feedback technology, which is used to simulate microscale surface textures. The device also includes a variety of plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a C++ API.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Virtual reality is a simulated experience where people interact with computer-generated elements in a seemingly real way. Given that virtual reality games haven’t been around for a long time, there’s little we know about their nonphysical consequences. Violence in Virtual Reality Games.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2017

Developed by The Future Group and FreemantleMedia (the company responsible for American Idol and X Factor ), Lost In Time is a Norwegian game show that uses interactive mixed reality technology combined with a customized green screen studio to transport contestants to different landscapes scattered across time and space.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. So, if we’re going to have a metaverse for games, shopping, business, etc., You might also have heard the theory that the metaverse will be too big to be entirely populated by human agents.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

Now App Lab games appear if you search for a game in the Store: they are still flagged as experimental App Lab games, but they have become visible. I’ve tried looking for “HitMotion” and our game “HitMotion: Reloaded” appeared. It is fantastic because it means that finally, indie VR games have become discoverable.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

My favourite is probably the hair cutting simulator because it was so fun to build, and the end result was hilarious. If you design games to be played on the tray table of a plane, you are also creating experiences for people with mobility issues who might not be able to jump around like in a normal BeatSaber session.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Steam Audio uses the actual scene geometry to simulate reverb. Steam Audio applies physics-based reverb by simulating how sound bounces off of the different objects in the scene, based on their acoustic material properties (a carpet doesn’t reflect as much sound as a large pane of glass, for example).

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

XRDC has eight tracks – Games, Entertainment, Healthcare, Brand Experience, Enterprise, Training, Safety, as well as Partners. XR Games and Entertainment. Most of us first encounter XR technology through immersive games and media. The Games track focuses on how developers use XR technology to change the way that we game.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

unlocks new capabilities that enable developers to create sophisticated, intuitive, and realistic simulations with real-world applications. Unlocking New Capabilities by Merging the Real and the Unreal. They can build new classes of applications beyond the world of gaming. The launch of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

It is so not possible for instance to simulate a virtual stadium with 10,000 people in, with you seeing all the other people you have around you. At a certain point, they had the idea they could modify what they have created for 10 years for multiplayer poker games and adapt it to create the backbone of the metaverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And in fact, in these years, NVIDIA has always worked in offering the tools to improve the graphical quality of games and 3D applications in general , with ray-tracing (RTX ON / RTX OFF) being the latest big innovation it brought to the market. According to NVIDIA, photorealism is important for XR, especially for the enterprise.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

Physically-based audio is a simulation of virtual sounds in a virtual environment, which includes both directional audio and audio interactions with scene geometry and materials. Traditionally these simulations have been too resource-intensive to be able to do quickly and accurately enough for real-time gaming.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 18, 2023

Varjo, a manufacturer and innovator of MR headsets, is a joint partner in many enterprise-grade immersive operations, notably vehicle training and simulation. The maritime simulation firm distributes its XR maritime training service on Varjo headsets to add depth and realism.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Wading past some of the hypetastic bro-speak that permeates the Kickstarter itself, it appears Ryg, presumably like its forebears, can turn in-game sounds into body shaking haptics out-of-the-box, sort of like a ‘buttkicker’ for your entire torso.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. More info Can Monster Hunter be Niantic’s second hit game? After the huge popularity of Pokemon Go, Niantic never managed to replicate the same success with another game.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

According to the team, if you need to test for instance that your game increases the health of the player by 50 hp when he grabs a white suitcase, you can create an automated test that simulates the grab and checks that the action is executed.

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