The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2020

Some months ago I published a guide for all Unity developers on how to request Android permissions for the Vive Focus Plus, because it took me a while to sort out how to do it to access the camera stream to do augmented reality on that headset. How to obtain permissions for Oculus Quest in Unity. The automated way.

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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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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A few weeks ago, while reading the news about SIGGRAPH, I saw NVIDIA teasing the release of the Omniverse connector for Unity , and as a Unity developer, I found it intriguing. Unity connector for Omniverse. At launch, Omniverse has been made compatible with Unreal Engine, and support for Unity was lacking.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In this article, you may find the answers to all the above questions : I will guide you in developing a little Unity experience for the nReal glasses (the typical grey cube!), How to get started with nReal development (and emulator) in Unity (Video tutorial). And then of course you have to download the nReal Unity SDK.

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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

AUGUST 21, 2021

I love telling you the story o f The Unity Cube , my crazy application for App Lab that is just a cube, and got amazing results , like more than 3000 installs, the selection as the 20th top-rated app on App Lab, mentions in important magazines like Road To VR and Forbes, and more. Well, today this story comes to a new sad chapter.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

After the latest Unite event, Unity has released in Open Beta the tools to develop applications for the Apple Vision Pro. The development packages are usable only by people having Unity Pro or Enterprise, but the documentation is publicly available for everyone to see. PC), it can be built and deployed on all other platforms (e.g.

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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! How to upload a 3D Photo on Facebook. But… how to create this depth map? The better way for Unity projects.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! Let’s create a new Unity 3D project, and call it TestQuestHands.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 2, 2022

With the show floor still closed, the highlight of the day has been the speech by Unity CEO John Riccitiello that spoke about the metaverse , telling us what he thinks it is and how he thinks it can evolve. The Unity CEO talks about the metaverse. The Unity CEO on AWE stage to talk about the M-word.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 3, 2018

In my review of Amazon Sumerian I said multiple times that in other game engines, like Unity, it is not possible to create a WebVR experience. Actually it is possible and I’ll explain you how. A WebVR exporter for Unity??? Unity on one side, a WebVR experience running on Firefox on the other one. I want it!

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Social VR platform Rec Room announced it’s released a new creation suite that allows you to publish content directly to the Rec Room platform from inside Unity, essentially letting its users create content using a host of industry standard tools. Unity Terrain Editor. Unity ProBuilder. Complex Animations. Custom Sound.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2023

As a result, platforms have begun to emerge to provide innovators with new ways of creating their own VR experiences. Unity, one of the world’s market-leading development platforms, is among the better-known solutions built to enable the creation of 3D, immersive content. What are the Tools Unity Can Provide for VR Development?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

Some people asked me how I did that and in this post, I’m sharing my knowledge giving you some hints about how to replicate the same experience in Unity. It won’t be a step-by-step tutorial, but if you have some Unity skills, it will be enough for you to deliver a mixed reality experience.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

If you are a Unity developer like me, you can use the awesome Unity Recorder package to shoot videos of your experience, both 2D videos and 360 videos. Basically in most cases, you set the Recorder settings, you play your game inside Unity, and you have the video ready without any hassle. How to Record 360 videos.

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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

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Cubes are easy to do. It got thousands of downloads.

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

This is what the collaboration between Esri and Unity brings to the world. The launch of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0 ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity enables developers to integrate ArcGIS directly into the Unity platform. Aside from this framework, ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

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. Design, Develop & Deploy for VR with Oculus & Unity. Plus, dive into reverb and mixer settings and learn how to test your audio.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The Unity Developer Bootcamp will run from October 11, 2022, to April 8, 2023. Why the Unity Developer Bootcamp Is Being Launched. Hence, the need for the Circuit Stream Unity Developer Bootcamp. The 2022 Circuit Stream Unity Developer Bootcamp. What Students Will Learn in the Circuit Stream Unity Developer Bootcamp.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Today I want to talk about a quick fix that may interest all the Oculus Go and Oculus Quest Unity developers that employ the plain Oculus Unity Plugin from the asset store to develop their VR experiences. Don’t worry, the Ghost comes to your rescue and explains to you how to solve this issue. How to solve that?

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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

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. Install Unity Using this Guide. Table of Contents.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2024

You have an experience ready to be played by the masses The Unity Cube is ready for prime time The first case is that you have an experience that is ready for the mass market, and you are just happy that it is put on the Horizon Store as is. I did this procedure with “The Unity Cube” , my most famous application.

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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

JULY 2, 2021

In this post, I’m going to tell you how to implement hands tracking in Unity for the Vive Focus 3, how to enable it on the device, and what are its performances, also compared to the ones of the Oculus Quest 2. How to integrate hands tracking in your Vive Wave Unity project. How to install Wave XR Plugin.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

PICO also points users to an official OpenXR Tutorial, a step-by-step guide on YouTube for how to write an XR app with the OpenXR SDK and deploy it on an XR headset. In order to access the OpenXR 1.1 specification, you can either go to the Khronos website or the GitHub OpenXR Registry.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2021

They want to learn how to create immersive experiences and enjoy a rewarding career in this industry. Unity VR Developer. Organization: Unity. Unity is one of the most popular and powerful engines for creating VR games. Before you take the exam, you need to: Pass the Unity Certified User: Programmer exam.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 24, 2019

More than one year ago, I published a post entitled “ How to create an Augmented Reality app for the Vive Focus in Unity “, where I shared with everyone a plugin to develop AR applications on the Vive Focus, that is actually a VR headset.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

AugmentedReality #xr #vr #wearable #unity #spatialcomputing pic.twitter.com/h2KAkgXWQq — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) February 15, 2019. After all of th ese technical difficulties, he had also to study how to 3D print the frame of the North Star and how to assemble it. Noah playing around with Unity with the North Star headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 6, 2023

Let’s see what it is about and let me tell you how to implement it. So the two of us Antonys of the company (it’s interesting how the VR world is full of Tonys) started investigating how to do that, and after some trial and error, we understood what we had to do. But now… how do you test that you work?

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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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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! Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR. This week has been pretty cool for me because Ive announced that Im attending CES in January for the first time in my life!

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2024

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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