Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

.” The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity, and support for Unreal Engine is on the way. Realistic sound is an important but often underappreciated aspect of the immersion equation in VR. Available now with support for Unity, the Steam Audio SDK will also soon support Unreal Engine.

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VRScout

JUNE 15, 2021

Donkey Kong VR is a fully immersive VR experience built specifically for the Oculus Quest 2 that has you playing the role of Mario as you face off against the giant gorilla in your quest to save Pauline. In order to develop his next-gen homage, Nathan employed the Unity game engine to transform the 2D arcade game into a 3D VR world.

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2017

By matching up live video and a digital environment with the help of a green screen setup though, you can essentially create a video that places you straight in the action—one that better communicates the immersion of a VR game than a simple first-person screen capture. image courtesy Oculus.

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2017

The Spiraloid Workshop Company (headed by Bay Raitt, former Valve employee, and known as the creator of the facial animation system for the character Gollum in Lord of the Rings ) has created the VR comic Nanite Fulcrum , which the company calls a ‘3D Holographic Novel’ that is part comic, part mini game, and designed for Oculus Rift and Touch.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The legendary developer, who for several years held the role of Oculus CTO but now maintains a less formal “consulting CTO” arrangement, says that his keynote presentation at last year’s Facebook Connect conference foreshadowed some of the announcements that can be expected at the event next week. Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Using Unity and Photon , the team pioneered a new software framework designed for producing live musicals and operas that could be used in future productions. You can watch in standard 2D via YouTube, or you can participate in VR using the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, or as a WebVR experience. Can you accept your own role at face value?

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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

Optimization is no easy task, especially with the limited resources of mobile hardware like the Snapdragon 835 processor in the Oculus Quest. In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. Profile often [ video guide ].

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VRScout

JULY 8, 2021

Immerse yourself in a series of ground-breaking VR projects available as part of the XR3 virtual exhibition. Beginning now until July 17th, those with access to a PC VR headset can access a veritable treasure trove of genre-defying experiences and art developed using immersive technology. Image Credit: VRScout.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

This revolutionary system enables creators to harness the power of immersive technologies and unlock the vast possibilities of virtual production. It also lets them create immersive entertainment like no other. It brings studio production into the future by harnessing the immersive aspects of mixed reality.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In a video posted by CBS Los Angeles , we see Rams COO Kevin Demoff guiding a reporter through the VR tour of the jaw dropping venue using an Oculus Rift headset with Touch controllers (photos also show an HTC Vive being used). It’s clear that the potential for VR to dazzle, surprise, and immerse an entirely new audience is huge.”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Explaining the incredible immersion that a solid virtual reality experience provides is difficult to put into words, but showing someone playing or allowing a person to play themselves is the quickest path to amazement. There are also additional guides for those wanting to integrate mixed reality support into Unity , Unreal , and native.

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Road to VR

MAY 5, 2017

Oculus just officially announced that they’d be winding down Story Studio, the company’s internal VR film studio which produced first-party VR shorts like Lost , Henry , and Dear Angelica. When we started to show people [the Oculus Rift] in Hollywood, their question was ‘how do we get started?’…

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2020

VR has come a long way over since launch of the Oculus DK1. Over the past five years we’ve seen numerous advancements in immersive technology that have helped open the doors to a wide range of possibilities. Stretch goals would introduce native Oculus Quest and PlayStation VR support. Because VR teleportation is so 2016.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

XR experiences in general, have proven themselves to be an amazing tool for everything from workforce training and digital marketing to product visualization, entertainment, and immersive online education. Simply send a link to your friend through an email or text message and they can jump in with you using their own compatible device.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook’s VR headset subsidiary Oculus is finally integrating a native tool that will let you capture and share your Rift experiences through 360 photos and videos—one that developers can integrate into Unity and Unreal Engines, and across NVIDIA and AMD GPUs— and it’s available today on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2022

It is called “First Hand” because it has been roughly inspired by Oculus First Contact , the showcase demo for Oculus Touch controller released for the Rift CV1. All of this showed me that hand tracking may be unreliable, but when it works, it gives you a totally different level of immersion than controllers.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Used correctly, haptics make VR games more playable and immersive. Custom waveform editor window, allowing you to design waveforms without ever leaving Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

For this reason, I gained a good expertise in immersive collaboration tools, and one of the VR platforms that I love the most in this sense is Mozilla Hubs. Mozilla Hubs is an immersive meeting tool that lets you meet online with other people, and speak with them. Why not a Unity exporter?

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2021

When it comes to fast-paced immersive experiences such as Star Wars: Squadrons or Project Cars , motion sickness is a fairly common occurrence. Compatible with major VR headsets—including the Oculus Quest, HTC Vive, and PlayStation VR—the Yaw2 is compatible with 20 popular VR games via the Yaw VR Game Engine app.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

Developers of immersive games and apps, rejoice! Immersive experiences are in greater demand in all fields: for home entertainment, for training in various industries, and for retail and marketing. An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. Oculus Rift and Oculus Quest. Leap Motion.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The time for my Oculus Quest review has come. The Quest has a nice packaging , as all Oculus products. I really love opening Oculus products , since usually they are packaged really well, and the Quest is no exception. Oculus Quest box content (Image by Oculus). Front view of the Oculus Quest.

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2020

Realities.io , the team behind the photogrammetry-based VR experience Realities (2016) , today released a prototype version of their latest creation, a 3D VR jigsaw puzzle game for Oculus Quest called Puzzling Places. One day, due to a Unity import error, the pieces of a scanned environment were scrambled around the scene.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In an official press release, Artur Sychov, Founder and CEO of Somnium Space stated, “We are putting a lot of effort into the immersive aspect of our VR world. officially launches on February 20th on all mainstream VR headsets, including HTC Vive, Oculus Rift S, Windows Mixed Reality headsets, and many more.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2018

The advanced VR simulation expands to new medical institutions as Oculus & CHLA continue their push towards experiential education. These immersive training programs create high-stress environments that challenge users to make life-saving decisions under extreme pressure.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

What is interesting the most are not the features, that more or less are the same as most other headsets: integrated headphones, halo+headband, IPD adjustment, etc… It seems a mix of a Samsung Odyssey and an Oculus Rift S. Oculus Go is not part of the Oculus For Business program anymore. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The company offers access to one of the most affordable and flexible VR headsets on the market in the form of the Oculus Quest, allowing all businesses, large or small to explore virtual reality. Meta recently announced the arrival of a popular architectural tool “ Unity Reflect ” in the Meta Quest environment for 2022. Magic Leap.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It comes out from the passion of someone that has just discovered how immersive realities are beautiful, or maybe from the mind of a student that has just finished the university and wants to find a dream job in AR or VR. I will briefly highlight all my recent story and how I got started with every new role I covered in the immersive field.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2020

Companies such as Fable , HTC, and Oculus have each walked away as winners for their groundbreaking hardware, alongside genre-defying titles such as War Remains , Tilt Brush and ImmersiCare. As a matter of fact, the Academy is still looking for talented community Unity creators to work with. Think of it as cosplay in VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This week, hand-tracking market leader SpectreXR made various strides in innovating in XR input with various partnerships that aim to elevate immersion for XR training applications and user experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 7, 2020

While Oculus has decided to discontinue the Oculus Go and abandon completely the 3DOF sector, Chinese vendor Pico has decided to double down on 3DOF offering two new models , the Pico G2 4K S and the Pico G2 4K Enterprise , that are two improvements of the original Pico G2 4K. Honestly speaking, I have not loved it much.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2021

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2018

Plexus Immersive Corp, a San Francisco-based startup, announced a pair of VR gloves that integrate haptic feedback and interface with multiple tracking standards, including SteamVR, Oculus Rift, and Windows “Mixed Reality” VR. ” Image courtesy Plexus Immersive. Image courtesy Plexus Immersive.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Disney has some form of VR content on the way to the Oculus Rift and Gear VR before the end of the year, but this new project from the company’s Research division looks like something else entirely. A haptic playback and authoring plugin for Unity allows filmmakers to tailor feedback to their experience.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As the demand for these immersive experiences continues to grow, a number of leading virtual, augmented, and mixed reality vendors have begun demonstrating their ability to assist retail and ecommerce stores in building next-gen interactions. This could allow retailers to interact with clients in a digital version of a showroom or office.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps. I can only imagine the possibilities of mixing this with immersive headsets : you could visit every city in VR in a much more realistic way than the one shown by Google Earth VR today. Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value.

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