The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A leaked image from the Oculus team shows that the company is working to implement body tracking inside the Oculus Unity SDK. More info (Bandai Namco’s metaverse platform) More info (Gartner’s prediction) More info (Epic Games Megaverse) More info (Real estate on the metaverse). Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 5, 2023

And the video trailer showed a guy playing with a gamepad and the Apple headset , like people playing with the Oculus CV1 at launch. It will have tools for building for it, and aside from the usual Apple tools, developers can use Unity to create content for it. What year is it? 2016 or 2023?

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

FB) Facebook is the owners of Oculus Quest , the current gold standard when it comes to VR headsets. In addition to releasing Oculus Quest 2, Facebook spent $150 million on content for the device (to bring you VR games from brands like Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Star Wars, Jurassic World, and Medal of Honor).

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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2016

More evidence of Facebook’s big plans for VR/AR: they plan on selling almost half a million Oculus Rift units by the end of 2016. Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum.

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Cats and VR

JUNE 22, 2016

"We're thrilled to provide the highest quality content for VR developers, while exploring innovative applications for the technology across entertainment, healthcare, journalism, travel, manufacturing, retail, live events, real estate, training, and so much more."

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

The loft area is really spacious and has a lot of wall real estate so I could easily see myself putting a few Edge windows in one room for web browsing, then placing a couple games in another room. No cameras, no trackers, no Steam, no Oculus Home. For a dev kit platform the interactions and performance feel really, really good.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

HTC’s China Regional President of Vive, Alvin Wang Graylin, took to the stage at the Unity Vision Summit in Asia this week and made a series of bold predictions for where we’ll see VR in the next two years. Real-estate developers begin to sell VR-ready micro-apartments. Vertical industries adopt VR in big way.

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ARVR

JANUARY 4, 2021

There is no use of all that knowledge that you have accumulated in the past 6 months if you don’t apply it to a real world project.Therefore add to that another 6 months of applying your learning in a real world project through an internship or a job. How AR/VR Are Transforming the Real Estate Industry 2.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. Augmented Reality (AR)  — It overlays digital content in the real world. It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Some people choose to create a Unity 360 virtual tour, since this game engine has multiple plugins and extensions that make development easier. For example, many tourists in Italy are offered VR tours for Oculus that let them explore ancient monuments restored to full glory in 3D.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

AR is being applied in training and education, healthcare, heads-up wayfinding and navigation, tourism, retail, field service, real estate sales, design and architecture. An Apple AR headset has been a mainstay of the rumor mills for several years, and we expect Facebook to be creating an AR Oculus device.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And then the other use case which we have seeing -- say, in real estate vertical -- is much more casual. At Oculus, they said 10 years. A lot of that was focused on real estate, of building out projects that didn't yet exist and helping pre-sell or pre-lease them. Alan: This is all built on Unity, then?

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And then the other use case which we have seeing -- say, in real estate vertical -- is much more casual. At Oculus, they said 10 years. A lot of that was focused on real estate, of building out projects that didn't yet exist and helping pre-sell or pre-lease them. Alan: This is all built on Unity, then?

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There are also app stores for the Oculus Rift , the Gear VR , the HTC Vive , and on Steam for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. There are movie tie-ins, car ads, real estate tours, and thousands of other VR experiences already up on YouTube. With a headset, it’s easy to switch to an immersive, virtual reality view.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 7, 2020

And then the other use case which we have seeing -- say, in real estate vertical -- is much more casual. At Oculus, they said 10 years. A lot of that was focused on real estate, of building out projects that didn't yet exist and helping pre-sell or pre-lease them. Alan: This is all built on Unity, then?

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. And at some point — once again, especially for retail — if you do not have a 3D model of your product or real estate, if you don’t let me explore your property in 3D, you’re going to be like, you know, “inferior.”

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Mobile virtual reality on a headset like an Oculus Go, which is $200. And at some point — once again, especially for retail — if you do not have a 3D model of your product or real estate, if you don’t let me explore your property in 3D, you’re going to be like, you know, “inferior.”

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

In fact, games only account for 35% of projects underway, as the rest are focused on fields like psychology and neuroscience (12%), education (7%), tourism (7% ), and architecture and real estate (6%). image courtesy VR First.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Series A round led by Atomico, along with Speedinvest, Y Combinator (of which the company is an alumnus), Dawn Capital, and notable individuals such as the founder of Unity and the former VP of engineering at Netflix and YouTube. REAL-TIME FACES: PINSCREEN’S STEALTH $1.8M. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M Sliver TV has raised $6.2M

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Featured image from left to right: Rob Goodman (OpenVerse), Han Jin (Lucid VR), Amitt Mahajan (Presence Capital), Timoni West and Tony Parisi (Unity). And the reason, according to Tony Parisi , head of VR and AR strategy at Unity, is simple. You need a really good, new computer to run this stuff. Gamers buy hardware first.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

While there, she led the launch of the company's Gear VR software application, drove social media strategy, and worked closely with partners like Oculus and the NBA. Recent Matrix investments include Oculus VR, Zendesk, Hubspot, Acacia Communications, Polyvore, Lever, Poynt and Namely. 43- Dillon Seo - Co-Founder #Oculus.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 19, 2019

This is not the world where it woke up to virtual/augmented reality when Facebook bought Oculus for 3-billion dollars. And the Oculus at launch started what I call the third wave of VR. Looking at real estate and development, it's just an enormous industry; being able to visualize spaces before they're built. Alan: Yeah.

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