The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

Instead, it is not for people wanting: An affordable device ( Rift S is much better in this sense); A portable device ( Oculus Quest or Vive Focus Plus are the way to go); A super-big screen resolution ( Varjo VR-1 or HP Reverb are better in this sense); An easy-to-use headset (again, Rift S or WMR devices like the Samsung Odyssey are better).

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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. It is free and open-source.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Those already involved in the initiative include the likes of Oculus, HTC, Samsung, Valve, Epic Games, Unity, AMD and NVIDIA to name a few. Learn more about Revive (and how to install it) on CrossVR’s GitHub. Khronos has already helped create several open standards including WebGL, Vulcan, and OpenGL.

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Road to VR

APRIL 20, 2018

Furthermore, the company lays out in simple terms how to implement some of the new features that developers ought to consider—like Fixed Foveated Rendering, Dynamic Throttling, and the headset’s optional 72Hz mode. You cannot rely on Google Play Services (e.g. Recent SDK Required: Some very old Gear VR apps are still running on pre-1.0

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 31, 2016

While VR video portals like Jaunt , Littlstar , Samsung VR , and others offer a single destination from which to stream many different 360 and VR videos, another popular way to distribute VR video has been as a standalone app, offering more complete control over the experience by the creator.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Should it primarily be running on the latest and greatest Samsung and Pixel devices with high-performance AR features, or should it be less intensive to run on more devices? Unity AR Foundation is a helpful framework for cross-platform augmented reality app development.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Her first VR creation, Cardboard City , earned an award at the Samsung Gear Indie Milk VR contest in 2016. But now that it had been created, she says, she knew that she just needed to learn how to build for it. “ We’re working with Unity on this project. But that wasn’t her first rodeo by a long shot. Image Credit: Double Eye.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

Apelab has developed a series of a Spatial Story platform on top of Unity in order to handle this type of gaze-triggered, interactive narrative. Emilie says that in some Unity scenes that there are over 150 different triggers and both subtle local agency flavorings of control, but also decisions that send you off into different scenes.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

In a detailed technical post published on Facebook, he shares a useful tips with VR developers which explains how to avoid ‘aliasing’, a common CGI artifact. ” See Also: Oculus Shares Optimization Tips for Unity-based Gear VR Projects.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Google now supports numerous Android smartphones such as Asus, Lenovo, LG, Moto, Motorola, OnePlus, Samsung, Sony, Vivo, Infinix, Tecno, Sharp, and Xiaomi. The Unity-powered platform also offers visualisations of over 2,500 cities in 49 nations containing “comprehensive 3D geo datasets.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

One of the most frustrating things about introducing people to virtual reality (VR), especially on a Samsung Gear VR, is that they can’t see what you see while you’re wearing the headset. “The live viewer was setup through the network of Unity,” explained Robustelli. This is in a nutshell how we made it work.

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ARVR

AUGUST 28, 2020

How to use subtle AR filters to survive your Zoom meetings? Major tech giants like Samsung, Google, Apple and Nvidia are the chief contributors to VR market and at the same time the chief researchers that can help explore more versatile use cases of this impactful technology within the next few years. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. This trend will continue in 2021 : the new LiDAR sensor, which is rumored to be installed in all future iPhones, will for sure be copied also by Android phones (Samsung?)

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). Many users are confused about how to use them, so the wearing and use operations need to be simplified.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 31, 2017

The SAO experience was created to welcome new users and teach them how to use Fove 0, the first commercially available VR headset with integrated eye-tracking. The San Francisco-based company has since secured over $11m across 3 funding rounds with investors including Samsung Ventures, Colopl VR Fund, and Foxconn Technology Group.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Alon Or-bach (Samsung Electronics), Kaye Mason (Google). It’s not often you get both Oculus and Valve together days, let alone Google and Samsung, with bonus helpings of Epic Games, Owlchemy Labs, and Sensics. Finding out how to best use it will be in the interest of a lot of developers as it starts to roll out later this year.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

This week in XR hasn’t had any explosive news, but it was interesting nonetheless: in particular we had cool info on AR glasses, with some news from Kura, Lynx, and Samsung. Samsung AR glasses concept has been leaked. Popular Twitter leaker WalkingCat has leaked two trailer videos about two AR glasses by Samsung.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

Meta has released this feature in the SDK and runtime of Quest and Quest 3S, plus it has released some official samples that show how to use this new technology. I myself have written a hugely detailed post on my blog to teach people how to get started with Passthrough Camera Access.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Image by Samsung, taken from Upload VR). Samsung may launch a next-gen Samsung Odyssey. A recent filing at the Chinese IP offices makes us speculate on a new PC VR headset in the works by Samsung. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. That said, let’s have a look at this interesting week in AR and VR.

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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. Samsung can be the first partner also on this line of products. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Moreover, Apple is also pushing its Vision Pro SDK to support its first-party and Unity-supported third-party immersive applications, again in a bid to create a sophisticated piece of hardware with a system-selling lineup of integrated applications and hardware. The Vision Pro device is due in 2024 for $3,499.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. Participants used a wayfinding app on two VR headsets (Oculus Go with a hand controller and Samsung Gear VR), as well as on a smartphone which was the reference condition. No headphones were used.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 15, 2023

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. More information about it is coming “later this year” Project Starline , the booth to have volumetric 1-to-1 calls has been improved and optimized. All without leaving your editor.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The main one regards the 4 devices we were waiting for this year , which in our opinion should have changed everything: Quest 3, Apple Vision Pro, Google-Samsung Headset, and PSVR 2. The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we’re looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. So how can we commercialize this, how can we make a successful business beyond ticket sales.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we’re looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. But otherwise we’re using the Samsung Gear VR. So how can we commercialize this, how can we make a successful business beyond ticket sales.

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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. with Xiaomi, Oppo, Samsung, etc…) to convince hardware manufacturers to create headsets powered by Android XR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 19, 2023

We all joked about Samsung waiting for the Apple Vision Pro announcement to copy it, but according to some rumors, this is exactly what is happening. But having these new displays is a huge undertaking, and the production may only start later this year. Anyway, these are all rumors, so take them with a big grain of salt.

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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. Sony has answered this question in the weekend.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Unity now supports Vulkan for Oculus Quest. Unity has finally implemented Vulkan support for the Oculus Quest, in Unity 2019.3. Long story short, this means that using Vulkan instead of OpenGL, you may even have a +20% performances boost on your Unity apps for Quest. Samsung Odyssey+ is now at $230.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Valve is also releasing all the sources of the maps of the game as references for the devs to understand how to create their levels. Samsung terminates its XR services.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 22, 2020

So that way, I guess I met some of the teams that I work with now and we're looking at how to solve all these problems and to bring it to audiences around the world. But otherwise we're using the Samsung Gear VR. So how can we commercialize this, how can we make a successful business beyond ticket sales.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2019

When Daydream launched as an alternative to Gear VR, it seemed destined to kill Samsung’s ecosystem. Unity Development. Unity Development for the Mirage Solo is not difficult. I hit Play on Unity and I was able to test the apps from within the headset without having the wait the deploy times. Apps ecosystem.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

He's always looking at how to scale teams to build the products to solve tomorrow's problems. Arvind Neelakantan was earlier part of Unity India & was instrumental in the adoption and growth of the company's solutions across product verticals. Advisor for Betting & Gaming vertical in Samsung Harman. 17- Helen Situ.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

After having tried the headset for some days, having written what it is and what are its features, the comparison between it and the Vive Focus Plus , having taught people how to start developing with it , I think tha t I’m ready to let you know my impressions on the first 6 DOF standalone headset by Facebook.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2022

On one side, many of these games have a huge multiplayer component and acquiring Activision Blizzard, Microsoft gains a lot of expertise in how to manage virtual worlds that host many thousands (if not millions) of players at the same time. Samsung Exynos 2200 introduces ray tracing on mobile. Thanks Marco Giammetti for the tip).

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