The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announces important AI and XR news at Google I/O This Google I/O has seen immersive realities back to the menu. But to summarize, the most important XR-related tidbits have been: Google confirmed that is still working with Qualcomm and Samsung to build an XR headset.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2017

Google released a preview version of ARCore for Android yesterday, the company’s answer to Apple’s ARKit. Built by George Michael Brower with friends at Google Creative Lab. Built with Unity and ARCore. Built by Jane Friedhoff with friends at Google Creative Lab using Unity and ARCore. Portal Painter.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Google today released a new spatial audio software development kit called ‘Resonance Audio’, a cross-platform tool based on technology from their existing VR Audio SDK. Google’s existing VR SDK audio engine already supported multiple platforms, but with platform-specific documentation on how to implement the features.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 26, 2021

After I have written my post on how to handle unwanted permissions in Unity , many Oculus Quest developers asked me to make another tutorial to solve another common problem: Facebook showing a warning for 32-bit builds submitted to App Lab. Your Ghost is here to tell you how! How to make 64-bit builds for App Lab – Video.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2024

I guess the competition imposed by Apple and Google forced Meta to speed up the process to ensure to have a richer ecosystem in which its developers are happy (and so do not migrate to other platforms). I did this procedure with “The Unity Cube” , my most famous application. Let’s see what to do, case by case.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

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 !), The post Hacking the Oculus Quest: how to show Android Settings, Alarm and more! Camera access. Do you want to use your Quest to wake up?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Google I/O 2019 has just finished and has all been about new augmented reality features. Well, you are in the right place… Google ARCore. It works quite well, but it can be used only by the most recent phones that have been certified by Google for ARCore (all the other ones, can try this hack ). Isn’t it cool?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

you are the guy of the cube… The Trailer of The Unity Cube. How to download the app. I’m unsure if submitting it to SideQuest, but for now, I made it available via my Google Drive folder. How to install the app. Why am I sharing this app? This is more or less what you can see through this application.

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ARVR

JUNE 26, 2020

Story is written in the middle of May 2020, I’ll try to update it as the new versions of Unity/ARCore/ARFoundation come out. Official documentation is also out of date and ignores newer versions of Unity. Prerequisites Latest Unity 2019.4.x Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Similarly, Google’s recent update to Google Maps brought a possibility to navigate through the city using the capabilities of AR. You all know about the Google Translate application. How to develop a location-based AR application? Now, it’s time to discuss how to build the location-based augmented reality application.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

First of all, Google has to keep the work on the headset very secret also internally , because Samsung is afraid that Google will steal its expertise to build a competing product. Google is working in parallel to build the Android XR operating system for this headset and a Micro XR operating system for AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

Even just providing a satisfying answer to everyone on how to get started would be difficult, because everyone comes from a different background and has a different final goal to which he/she can arrive with many different paths. So, I googled around and found a workshop from a Unity event that taught how to do a Unity game.

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Next Reality AR

MAY 11, 2018

One of the primary factors that separates an augmented reality device from a standard heads-up display such as Google Glass is dimensional depth perception. This can be created by either RGB cameras, infrared depth cameras, or both, depending on the level of accuracy you're aiming for.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

This is something that in my opinion is not straightforward on the Focus unless someone tells you how to do it (I’ve been helped by some HTC’s engineer), so I wanted to guide you in this process. The Android pop-up asking the user for permissions during application startup (Image by Google). Unity and Android Permissions.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Anyway, with the end of the life of Quest 2, this cycle finished and a new one started with Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google and Samsung announcing their own headset, and other companies chasing them (e.g. Especially Apple and Google, which are the dominant players in the smartphone industry, are both launching headsets this year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2024

And if you don’t know the answer yourself, you can help by looking on Google, or asking another mentor to support you. Header image by XRCC) The post How to be a good mentor at an XR hackathon appeared first on The Ghost Howls. You shouldn’t be anxious about it: no one knows about everything. Thank you everyone!

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Next Reality AR

MARCH 26, 2018

Since Google's ARCore 1.0 Both Google's (ARCore) and Apple's (ARKit) augmented reality solutions are for their supported existing devices — without requiring additional hardware. is fairly new, there's not a lot of information out there for developers yet — but we're about to alleviate that.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2024

More info Unity 6 introduces new features for XR developers The new version of Unity, called Unity 6, is currently in preview. In the meanwhile, Unity has appointed Matthew Bromberg as its CEO. You can buy a single set of glasses for only $249 , a bundle with two devices for $389, and with three devices for $539.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

And if you have some pieces of advice on how to make my CES better, let me know, too! Top news of the week (Image by Google) Google announced Android XR The most important news of the week, and one of the most important of the whole year, has been the official announcement by Google of Android XR.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Later that day, Antony Vitillo presents “How to Organize a Great Virtual Event.”

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2020

See Also: How to Build a Location-Based AR Application. How to Choose the Right AR SDK. Unity Support. Unity is an advanced game engine used in the development of augmented reality apps, especially gaming. So, if you are in this business, try to pick an SDK that is compatible with Unity. Google ARCore.

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2020

Expeditions Pioneer Program by Google. Google helps tackle the latter with its Expeditions Pioneer Program. Below is a sneak peek of Google’s experiment at Andersen Middle School, where they pioneered their program. ?. Teachers and staff learn how to use Google’s Expeditions app and ARCore (for Android) or ARKit (for iOS).

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

You cannot rely on Google Play Services (e.g. Google Firebase, Google Cloud Messaging, etc), or third-party libraries that depend on Google Play Services (e.g. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. Recent SDK Required: Some very old Gear VR apps are still running on pre-1.0 releases of the Mobile SDK. or later.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Using 3D animations from 4DViews , China-based developer 应高选 created this with his iPhone 6s and Unity. Showing some gaming applications to the always cool portal-trick, Helsinki-based creative developer lingoded is by his own admission “searching [for] the next big thing” as he works with ARKit and Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

On the left side, there is the Daydream logo, that reminds the user that this is a product whose software has been offered by Google, and the Lenovo logo, because this hardware has been manufactured by Lenovo. What I really appreciated have been the lenses : I think that Google here used all its expertise on the field. WTF, really.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Unity is hoping that, one day, something will do the same for VR. Unity CEO John Riccitiello said as much to UploadVR in an interview at this week’s Vision Summit. Unity may be the company to make it happen. “Somebody is gonna go out and build with Unity the equivalent of LittleBigPlanet,” Riccitiello said.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. A company like BMW is using it to create a digital twin of one of its factories to understand how to properly build it to increase its efficiency. Google is hiring waveguide developers for AR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Google may still be working at Project Iris Some months ago a rumor claimed that Google had stopped working on Project Iris, its project devoted to the creation of augmented reality glasses. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

The bad thing is actually how to find this comfort. It is easily accessible in the Unity SDK as a standard WebcamTexture, so if you like hacking things, I guess you can have a lot of fun developing things for it! Simulation view of the VR application inside Unity. User Interface.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

“We have complete permission to play in this space and our creative professional audiences are going to be banging on the table for tools and best practices for how to participate in building experiences,” Asher said. Adobe also debuted Project Dali last year , a VR painting app built in the vein of Google Tilt Brush.

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Road to VR

MAY 26, 2017

Google’s overarching mission is to organize all of the world’s information, and so it’s a natural fit for the company to be one of the leading innovators for using VR for immersive education. SEE ALSO For Google, the Future of VR Is on the Open Web with WebVR & WebAR. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. As to whether users will engage, we know this is a highly compelling medium that consumers interact with; however, how we define and quantify that is still evolving. Tony Parisi is Head of XR Ad Innovation at Unity Technologies.

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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”. You may be saying “Come on! As a developer, we haven’t control over the runtime in which our application will execute (i.e.:

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. More info (Camera Path and Google Drive backup) More info (Sketchfab exporting). Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My impression is that in the best case, this Deca is the new Pimax, a company with great ambitions, a good spirit, but no idea on how to execute, and this will lead to delays, confusion in the logistics, higher prices than expected, etc… And this is just the best case. Vive XR Suite is HTC’s full enterprise suite for remote collaboration.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. I would never suggest something different to you. Absolutely not.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

For example, a user could point a camera at areas of their city to see what it looked like ten years ago from an archive of Google Maps. link] AR DEVELOPMENT FOR ANDROID DEVICES: ARCORE In an effort to stay competitive, Google has pushed ARCore far to remain one of the most versatile AR development platforms in the world.

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