The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR , where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. This may be a local server on your pc (Apache, IIS), a server on a local virtual machine, or a web server that you own. A web server, with SSL certificates.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. Some developers I know are already switching to Godot or Unreal because they say that Unity can’t be trusted anymore. Learn more Volumetrics secure $1.1M of our revenues with Unity. And this 2.5%

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Learn more (Meta Connect program) Learn more (Connect on Meta Horizon).

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. Acquiring it, Epic secures a great source of assets for the developers using its Unreal Engine, and also the connection with many talents. Learn more (Discover the finalists). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Probably the communication machine of the company is not as strong as before, so the old message still hangs around. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Other relevant news. Other news.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. After a lot of teasing of its upcoming fantastic features, Unreal Engine 5 is finally available for download. VR is the ultimate empathy machine” is a current refrain that we constantly hear in our communities. Learn more (Presentation video) Learn more (Discover more and register).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But she’s not been the only one taking a similar decision: Vogue Business reports that Cult fashion boutique Machine-A and the Institute of Digital Fashion are launching an augmented store environment to promote the London Fashion Week collections of designers like Martine Rose and Richard Quinn. (PS Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

If you want to experiment with XR cloud rendering , you won’t need to buy a powerful workstation and experiment with the settings anymore: you just buy a dedicated EC2 machine on AWS supplied by NVIDIA and everything is ready out of the box. You activate the machine, pay for its usage and you can have cloud rendering. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The most viral news of the week has for sure been the one about MetaHuman Creator, a new software for Unreal Engine. Learn how to shoot mixed reality videos. Learn how to scan objects with your phone. He has written an article teaching you the lessons he has learned , and I’m sure you will like it! Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I’ve studied at important universities like UC Berkeley, and I’ve worked on many technical projects (for work or personal interest) in electronics, optics, brain-machine interface , natural language processing, etc…. What lessons have you learned during these years? What is Kura’s story? All APIs have a plain C version.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Like Meta's Horizon Hyperscape Demo and Gracia , Varjo Teleport uses Gaussian splatting, leveraging advances in machine learning to "train" the output based on image views of the scene. Captured scenes can also be exported as a PLY file for use in other software, which means they could even be converted to use in Unity or Unreal.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

Gesture recognition: Some haptic gloves can work alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. Plus, the gloves are compatible with various software platforms, such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Different VR gloves have unique capabilities; some even leverage AI and machine learning for gesture recognition.

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The spokesperson described the technology as a combination of inverse kinematics (IK) and machine learning (ML). Meta’s pitch here is that its machine-learning model can produce a more accurate body pose for free. It’s not actual tracking, and it doesn’t include your legs. That’s our current strategy.”.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 21, 2018

It’s drawing from a philosophically introspective yarn, exploring the what-ifs of humanity giving society over to intelligent machines. He has been working with Unreal for 20 years and was part of the Paragon and Fortnite development teams. He was part of the design process for several of Unreal’s core features.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

Honestly speaking, we have no idea what is happening, and we don’t even know if this has to do something with the recent lawsuit by Magic Leap or the one from Unreal… are these moves being made to slow the lawsuit or are these just an internal re-organization? Who knows…. More info (nReal teases new headset) More info (nReal changes name).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2020

So it is not advised to just shoot like crazy a la Unreal Tournament : you also need some strategy and think when to use the grenades or the explosive barrels that are scattered all around the levels. I love FPS games, and I loved shooting in Half-Life.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then, it guarantees that there is an open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal, so if in the future Meta wants to build its own engine, it could start doing that by forking Godot. In case you don’t have a powerful machine, this open-source project is worth a look. Learn more. Matrix 4 Resurrections is not a masterpiece.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Unreal Engine is not exactly the most friendly game engine when it comes to Android development, and that’s why Oculus has just released some facilities to help UE4 developers in iterating Oculus Quest applications faster. Learn more (VR in healthcare event) Learn more (Oculus Quest giveaway). There are 5 available .

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Because most VR developers know well Unity or Unreal, and WebVR languages like A-frame are based on Javascript, that is very different from the usual programming flow of the game engines. This can be extremely useful to implement indoor navigation ; Vuforia Spatial Toolbox, that lets you integrate AR augmentations with industrial machines.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 11, 2017

They’re using Microsoft’s Custom Recognition Intelligent Service (CRIS) as the speech recognition engine, and then Microsoft’s Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS) in order to translate spoken phrases into a number of discrete intention actions that are fed back into Unreal Engine for the interactive narrative.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Using machine learning and some ideas “stolen” from speech recognition algorithms, the system was able to transform the movement of the fingers in actual keystrokes, and it worked almost as if there was a physical keyboard. Learn more. Learn more and register.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

Like many other technologies, there is no perfect roadmap to learning XR. Nevertheless, I have tried my level best to come up with a generalized learning process for the same. Learn programming from YouTube, Udemy, Udacity and a thousand other free platforms. There are tons of online resources to learn these.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The aim in developing the PanguVR engine was to equip content producers to create immersive and interactive content, in UE4 (Unreal VR Engine), automatically meaning without any learning curve. It is a limitless space in which we can play, learn, and enjoy services to the extent our imagination allows. How do you achieve that?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

Now, however, countless companies and developers are beginning to embrace this model, including Varjo (with Varjo Teleport ), Unity, and Unreal. Developers are also rolling out plugins for popular platforms like Unreal Engine, Unity , and Nvidia Omniverse. We’ve already mentioned Unity and Unreal, for instance.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

The use of eye, hand, and voice interactions make the interface with the headset natural and easy to be learned. If I were you, I wouldn’t underestimate Apple’s execution and marketing machine. We have not seen much about this headset, but the basic interactions seem made the right way.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

The vision of the company is to create stretchable clothing with built-in electronics that detect user’s movement, all while being a piece of clothing which can be worn comfortably with machine washability just as regular shirt could do. Now, e-skin is coming to Kickstarter.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms. This lets the glass offload a good part of the computation from the host machine and perform it directly on the device. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2019

It is a real-time rendered experience (I guess they have used Unreal Engine), in which you can navigate in the cosmos and see the planets, the stars , etc… You can hear the sounds of the universe, you can see things that you are not able to see in real life (e.g. The second is about the universe and the black holes.

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ARVR

JUNE 3, 2021

The roll-out of 5G technology and Wi-Fi 6 and rising technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analytics is feeding virtual reality market extension globally. The many immersive activities by VR headsets have changed the face of learning totally towards a different phase.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. If we send you one, would you noodle about with it after hours and see if you can get Unreal Engine running in it”?

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

An example of this is how it can be used to dream of virtual machines and text adventure games. For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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ARVR

MARCH 19, 2021

If you want to teach them hard skills like how to use a machine or piece of equipment, VR is an obvious solution since it simulates the physical experience with no risk. This type of training in VR has proven to be 4x faster than classroom learning and 1.5x faster than e-learning.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Graeme Cox, the Chief Executive, co-founder of Emteq and serial tech entrepreneur, said: “Our machine learning combined with facial sensor technologies represents a significant leap forward in functionality and form for developers looking to introduce human expression and mood into a digital environment.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

These will allow users added realism when viewing objects such as jewellery, clothing, machines, furniture, and others. Epic Games’ Unreal Engine The news comes as several major platforms for world-building and graphics have launched tools to enhance realism and immersion for developers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

However, there’s actually a significant symbiotic relationship between extended reality, AI solutions, and machine learning. The best generative AI software should work seamlessly with the tools your teams already use, from content creation and development platforms like Unity and Unreal , to metaverse as a service platforms.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Bredow said that his team at ILMxLab is constantly learning as they experiment with different experiences across emerging platforms. There were so many things we learned from Trials on Tatooine ,” Bredow said. That was a great learning experience because we really did build that experience up as we were learning different things.

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