The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Kilograph brings Michael Graves’ unrealized architectural designs to life in VR. Using an Oculus Rift/Rift S VR headset in combination with Leap Motion’s hand-tracking technology, you can teleport throughout different areas of the resort and use your own two hands to add color to interactive outlines of various buildings.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Epic Games have detailed Unreal Engine’s support for the Magic Leap One Creator Edition on their blog, which confirms some significant hardware features of the device, including eye tracking, hand tracking, and room scanning.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2023

More info Owlchemy Labs thinks hand tracking can make VR mainstream Owlchemy Labs has just presented a demo of the popular game Job Simulator completely working through hands tracking. But still, the work that Owlchemy is doing is very important on the UX side, so I appreciate it. You have a big nose.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. Huawei has upgraded its sleek VR glasses and now they support 6DOF movement and 6DOF controllers that are very similar to the Oculus Touch. Notwithstanding all this hate, the Oculus Quest 2 is selling very well. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Developers are coming up with creative uses of Oculus Quest hands tracking. Oculus Quest hands tracking is being a success among developers. One in which you take one hand of yours, y ou throw it to the other side of the room, and then remotely move your hand to perform some tasks.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The headset should be operated through the use of hand tracking and eye tracking , exactly like the Vision Pro. More info Immersed VISOR to support hand tracking and eye tracking It seems that Immersed truly wants to compete with Apple with its VISOR headset. The startup just raised $1.6

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

He stresses that he wants his metaverse not to be like these ones… but I also have to remember you that currently, Oculus is the most closed VR platform. Oculus Quest 2 goes 128GB and MR. The Oculus Quest 2’s update pace is always impressive: every month we have new features to play with. Image by Facebook).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

Image by Oculus). Facebook is working on a new version of the Oculus Quest. According to a report by Bloomberg, Oculus is working on a new Oculus Quest model, and it has already done prototypes that are lighter and more powerful than the current device. Top news of the week. Mechanical IPD is confirmed.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 3, 2020

Compatible with a range of headsets and videogames, towards the end of 2019 3dRudder added compatibility for Oculus Quest via Oculus Link. The 3dRudder Pro Wireless has been designed to offer a control option for both Oculus Quest and Android-based standalone headsets. EUR/$199.00

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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. However, it could be argued that this has always been the case for industry veterans and enthusiasts—from Google Glass to Samsung VR and the original Oculus models.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

There have been attempts with voice input, virtual keyboards, and even real tracked keyboards ( something Logitech itself explored ), but none have proven to be effective solutions, typically due to slow input speeds (or a lack of sufficient hand tracking). A VR stylus that’s good enough for handwriting could be the key.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The French startup headed by Stan Larroque is developing passthrough AR glasses with eye-tracking and hands tracking that can offer a new paradigm to augmented reality. Last week I told you about MetaHumans creator, the tool to create realistic humanoid avatars in Unreal Engine. Image by Epic Games, from The SportsRush).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

There are no controllers, but Ultraleap hands tracking (you can use it with FinchShift controllers, though). $500 for this device is a steal. And since Epic has violated the rules of the App Store, Apple had all the rights to kick Fortnite out of it, and even to suspend the support in the integration of iOS inside of Unreal Engine.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale. Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 16, 2021

They have hired the popular singer Madison Beer (I had no idea who she was, honestly) and have made her perform inside a virtual venue for a virtual concert that won’t be available only in streaming, but also via Oculus and PSVR headsets. You know that I organize VR concerts with VRrOOm (and our last one even had 75M total views!)

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time. So gaze-to-aim and hand-to-shoot. So ok, I won’t be too harsh on this, I promised myself.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Developers can already implement dynamic occlusion for your hands by using the Hand Tracking mesh, but few do because this cuts off at your wrist so the rest of your arm isn't included. You can find the documentation for Unity here and for Unreal here. 0:00 / 0:42 1× UploadVR testing Depth API occlusion on Quest 3.

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Voices of VR

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Since this is the last episode in my series from Meta Connect 2024, then here's a list of all 20+ interviews and 12+ hours of my coverage from this year: #1468: Kickoff of Meta Connect 2024 Coverage with Orion AR Glasses Hands-on Impressions with Tested's Norm Chan & CNET's Scott Stein #1469: Analyst Anshel Sag on Meta Connect Announcements & Orion (..)

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Quest’s ‘Body Tracking’ API isn’t what it looks and sounds like. Body Tracking API was released on Thursday as part of Movement SDK, which also includes Eye Tracking API and Face Tracking API for Quest Pro. These equations power all full-body VR avatars in apps today.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process. The company also plans to release an Unreal Engine 4 plugin later this year as well as expanding compatibility for more motion capture hardware.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Harkening back to the idyllic days of Oculus Connect, I had hallway run-ins with countless brilliant XR people, some of whom I’ve known for many years and others I’d only met in the metaverse before today. Mark Rabkin showed a whole slide about Unreal Engine and announced camera access. How did I get here? Full stop.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The MRTK is a set of components with plugins, samples, and documentation designed to help the development of MR applications using gaming engines from either Unreal Engine or Unity, providing two versions of the solution – MRTK-Unity and MRTK for Unreal. Oculus (Unity 2019.3 or newer) – Oculus (now Meta) Quest.

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. There are a number of ways to create your own virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) app/videogame.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

This week has been the week of the Oculus Connect 6 , the biggest yearly event by Oculus where the VR company announces all its most important news, both on hardware and software sides. Oculus Link. You can even access to Oculus Home and Dash. Oculus Link will be available in beta in November 2019.

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Road to VR

MARCH 1, 2017

If you own an Oculus Rift, it’s being brought to you absolutely free of charge. Publisher: Oculus. Available On: Oculus Rift (Oculus Touch Required). This invariably ends in disaster, with a complete loss of hand tracking and more valuable seconds wasted as you reorient yourself with the teleportation.

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Leapmotion

APRIL 17, 2015

Hand tracking and virtual reality are both emerging technologies, and combining the two into a fluid and seamless experience can be a real challenge. Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space, which is absolutely essential to creating a sense of presence. Extra Reading.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

A quick note: VR/AR is a rapidly emerging ecosystem, and many of the engine tools and features that we use to build our Unity and Unreal assets are constantly shifting. In this section, we’ll cover our community’s three most popular environments for deskop and VR/AR: Unity, Unreal, and JavaScript. Get started with Unreal.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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Leapmotion

AUGUST 11, 2015

We believe that if virtual reality is to be anything like actual reality, then fast, accurate, and robust hand tracking will be absolutely essential. With the Leap Motion Controller, you can quickly bring your hands into almost any virtual reality experience. and Oculus 0.5 for your project.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It has a retro look that makes it very nerdy, and it should be able to offer passthrough AR and hands tracking via Ultraleap. On 14th, Meta dropped some merch for fans to get for free : a Beat Saber ugly sweater, some Questy (a cute smiling Quest) plush toys, Oculus-branded socks, and cookie cutters. Meta acquires Imagine Optix.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

Ben Lang has written a very interesting editorial on the topic, and for instance, he imagines that this may mean that all Sony-owned game studios will all start using Unreal Engine as their game engine , unifying the production processes among them all. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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