The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I’m sure that there will also be other offers announced in the next couple of days , so be sure to check out the main VR magazines and communities to stay up to date about them. As a Unity developer (also knowledgeable of VRChat), I’m not surprised at all, honestly. It looks like a good time to buy a new headset!

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. As usual, these are all speculations, so let’s see what will actually happen.

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ARVR

MARCH 30, 2021

This runs like any other unity build, and will connect to the headset plugged in automatically when you open up Oculus link on your quest. You will probably notice when playing the build that the framerate is a lot better than when you were testing it in Unity! You officially have a built project ready to run free of the Unity editor!

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ARVR

JUNE 26, 2020

Story is written in the middle of May 2020, I’ll try to update it as the new versions of Unity/ARCore/ARFoundation come out. Official documentation is also out of date and ignores newer versions of Unity. Prerequisites Latest Unity 2019.4.x Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

My article about Android XR granting permissions for the camera frames has earned me mentions in important magazines like Road To VR , Upload VR , and Android Authority ! I hope you had a good Valentines Day with your special ones and that in general, you are happy, too. Do you want to know one of the reasons for my happiness?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Some magazines talked about thousands of people laid off, but Bytedance refuted that the scale of the operation was that big. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 15, 2025

The first one comes from a Chinese magazine that claims that the Apple Vision Pro 2 is already in production. In particular, panels, shells and other key components of the headset are already in mass production, with the magazine even mentioning the companies that are working on them. We have two random rumors from this week.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 6, 2022

Apple has also probably the most powerful brand in the world , so when the announcement about the Apple visor will happen, every single magazine in this world (mine included) will talk about it, and the web will be flooded with memes, analyses, social posts about it.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. The high-level architecture of IBM’s DeepQA used in Watson // Image Credit: AI Magazine.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2023

I did not manage to use their Unity package yet. Documentation is super accurate, and their Unity component is by far the best of these options. If Blipper had better tracking and their Unity samples were more organized, I probably would have recommended them since they have great pricing and a friendly support team.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2023

For sure I hope that the next Unity CEO will be more interested in the community and the technology and less into advertisement and monetization… Unity is the most used game engine by XR people, so the course decided by the new CEO will impact many of us… and also me, since I’m a Unity dev since 2014!

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The choice of the magazine is not casual: Apple keeps pushing to show that its device is not a nerdy thing that isolates people, but it is a trendy thing that augments reality while you can still interact with other people. For the first time, Tim Cook showed himself wearing the Apple Vision Pro.

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ARVR

JUNE 29, 2022

New Software VisionLib : SDK with super impressive tracking on 3D objects (ready for Unity as well). link] VR AR Global Summit Summary was originally published in AR/VR Journey: Augmented & Virtual Reality Magazine on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 11, 2025

More info (TCL RayNeo X3 Pro hands-onToms Guide) More info (TCL RayNeo X3 Pro hands-onPC Magazine) More info (TCL RayNeo X3 Pro hands-onCNET) VisionOS 3 will be a feature packed release According to Mark Gurman, VisionOS 3 will be a feature packed release.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Chinese magazine VRTUOLUO has published some photos of what looks like an early prototype of the device. Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet.

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ARVR

JUNE 4, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. The Haptics Club was founded by Manuel Sansily from Unity, Ashley Huffman from Nanoport, Gijs den Butter and Irina Tripapina from Senseglove, and Eric Vezzoli and Sarah Alkibsy from Interhaptics. The Haptics club is an Open community about #Haptics.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

As I reported last week, people are exploring class actions, or are switching to other devices, and I even found on Kotaku (a popular indie gaming magazine) a very angry article about this topic. More info (New features of OpenXR) More info (OpenXR in Unity) More info (OpenXR in Microsoft products). Support The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 17, 2022

I thought that there could be nothing else to say in this roundup apart from the Connect, while actually, digging into the various XR magazines and social media feed, I have been able to find a lot of interesting little news, which I’m reporting to you. StandableVR is a plugin developed by a young dev to offer full-body VR via IK in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

Alan has lately announced the release of the MetaVRse engine, a new XR engine all devoted to the enterprise sector about which important magazines like Forbes have talked about, and on the occasion of this launch, I have interviewed him. This is scheduled for a Q4 release. Recently, we just pushed a test with over 1.5m

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The community is not happy with this news, but another piece of news spread this week by VR magazines has given us some hope. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. I have detailed it in this post , and it was very cool because it let you create WebVR experiences directly from the tool that we develop always use, that is Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 15, 2023

Unity adds OpenXR hand integration package. Unity has just released the XR Hands package, currently in preview, that aims at making developers integrate hand tracking into their applications via OpenXR. All VR magazines reported the news with enthusiasm. This is a decision that is not going to make Microsoft happy.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Unity Game Engine ?? AR Foundation includes core features from ARKit, ARCore , Magic Leap , and HoloLens , as well as unique Unity features to build robust apps that are ready to ship to internal stakeholders or on any app store. ? It provides a framework that makes 3D and UI interactions available from Unity input events.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). News from partners (and friends). I’ll use this section of the newsletter to actually talk about myself :). Some XR fun.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

With these added sensing areas, developers could create several different reload interactions, like slapping the bottom of the rear grip as if securing a magazine, pumping the area under the body like a shotgun, or pulling the rear of the gun like a slide or charging handle.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Why: Fast Loading Memory Optimization Great for large projects Post build/apk asset customization (without your users having to redownload the app) How: Download Addressables package in Unity Download Cloud Content Delivery package in Unity Make a prefab you want to use, mark as addressable Adjust AddressableAssetSettings to use “Remote” & “Build (..)

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

More info (Double Joe McFlash) More info (Premier League VR) More info (Shogun’s Empire) More info (Beat Saber) More info (Vestiges: Fallen Tribes) More info (ICYMI) Some reviews about content Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded has finally been released, but it is so full of issues that the game got bad reviews from all magazines and influencers.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

App programming (Unity) We developed a simple intuitive application that would help employees understand and remember a sequence of actions. The locations were recreated using 360° photos: for the roof position, we used a drone to shoot a view from the building opposite the skyscraper you see in the reels and screenshots.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. Lee Vermeulen is breaking new ground with his experimental AR prototypes. . Since that article, Luckey’s “tinkering” has expanded into a full-blown technological revolution, earning him a whopping 2.3

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

If there is any new feature released in SDKs or libraries in Unity, you are most likely to find the first tutorial video about it on his YouTube channel. Unity Unity is hands down the best platform to develop games and AR/VR experiences using SDKs like ARFoundation, ARCore, ARKit, Vuforia, and many more. Join XR Hub today ?—?

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ARVR

JUNE 13, 2022

So first I have to measure my room in the real world and start designing it in Unity. Then i took a picture probably scan it via the notes app and upload the image to unity so we can draw a 3d version from it. I used Unity ProBuilder to design a 3D scene from the sketch. Placed it in right place and try playing it in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Thanks to this exporter, every Unity developer can create a WebXR experience by just building the Unity project for HTML5!

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

A leading Unity 3d game development services provider explained that gaming is the biggest driver of VR and it will certainly continue in the near future. From ancient times to the first 3D video game, it shows that the gaming industry has seen its fair share of technological progress.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

So many exciting things are happening and I’m thankful to you all for the support you are giving me.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Considering the terrible sales performances of Snap Spectacles, I think the news will arrive on all main tech magazines, but the sales of these glasses won’t be spectacular. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews).

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Last month, we had the pleasure of working with Unity and the Orlando Economic Partnership to help them unveil their Regional Digital Twin installation at the Partnership’s HQ. And so we are always looking for ways to craft experiences and solutions in the medium, even if it’s in small doses.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

And do you remember that demo all magazines talked about, that you read a text and when you arrive at the bottom of it, the text scrolls automatically? On HoloLens 1, whatever Unity application I run had framerate problems, while here all Unity applications worked like a charm. The text that auto-scrolls is cool only in videos.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

This week some selected journalists from popular online magazines like CNET and The Verge have been able to have a preview of the upcoming Magic Leap 2 glasses. Unity has partnered with Insomniac to build a metaverse for immersive live performances. Other relevant news. Image by Magic Leap). First previews show Magic Leap 2 qualities.

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