VRScout

APRIL 29, 2021

The C64, as it’s referred to by many enthusiasts, had a screaming MOS 6510/8500 1MHz processor with a paltry 64 KByte of memory. Real Commodore 64 – Virtually is actually based off an earlier version that Gomberg built for the Oculus Go back in 2020, which itslef was based on a Commodore 64 project by Jonas Minnberg called Machineroom.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Meta's Unity and Unreal "OpenXR" integrations block other PC VR headsets, and developers aren't happy about it. But companies like Meta and Pico still also offer their own integrations for Unity and Unreal. Notably, the only mention of Meta in the statement is in reference to the "community discourse".

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Today I made two little big discoveries about the Oculus Quest 2 that together mean that you can use this headset as an AR device whenever and wherever you want. Yes, this is the passthrough version of The Unity Cube! The post Oculus Quest 2 passthrough now works without boundaries appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Today I’ve played around with Oculus Quest , trying to hack it a bit via command-line tools (ADB), hoping to activate some cool features. 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 !),

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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. A WebVR exporter for Unity??? Unity on one side, a WebVR experience running on Firefox on the other one. So, how to do you export a WebVR project from inside Unity? I want it!

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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. Method 1 – The Unity Way. Method 1 – The Unity Way. And guess what?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In a series of videos uploaded to Thrust Vector’s YouTube channel earlier this week, Nagle can be seen piloting a light aircraft while wearing an Oculus Go headset as Sommer’s sits beside him as a safety pilot. The post Texan Pilots Use Oculus Go For In-Flight Navigational Guidance appeared first on VRScout.

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. Everyone (local or remote) collectively ‘touches’ the same board within the same spatial frame of reference, making it too feel like a shared piece of reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

Goertek, one of the main manufacturers of XR devices, proposed new reference designs for smart glasses and AR glasses, and this will make even more companies release products of this kind. There has been no mindblowing piece of news in our field announced during CES.

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APRIL 20, 2018

With the impending launch of Oculus Go, the company’s first standalone headset, Oculus has shared with developers a handy cheat sheet for bringing Gear VR applications to the Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. OneSignal) when running on Oculus Go. HMD Touchpad: Oculus Go does not have a touchpad on the HMD.

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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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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Developers wasted no time creating unique experiences that effectively showcased the potential of Oculus Passthrough technology. These world-locked frames of reference allow you to create and permanently place virtual content in a physical space. Also announced was developer access to Spatial Anchors. Image Credit: Facebook.

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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

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. Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Really, it works with all platforms: PC, Mac, smartphones, PC VR headsets, Oculus Quest , even Cardboards! For now, you can refer to the official Quick Start Guide. the user has an Oculus Quest, that can’t manage all those people that must be rendered in the space). Why not a Unity exporter?

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JULY 29, 2019

A reference guide published by Khronos Group gives a high-level technical overview of the API’s structure. Oculus has committed to bringing OpenXR runtime support to both Rift and Quest later this year. Released, Microsoft Supports on HoloLens & WMR, Oculus Plans Rift & Quest Support appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

One of the first accessories for AR/VR I had the opportunity to work on is the Leap Motion hands tracking controller : I made some cool experiments and prototypes with it and the Oculus Rift DK2. I’ve tested it with my Leap Motion Controller, the Oculus Quest, and a lot of scotch tape and I was very satisfied by the results.

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VRScout

JULY 8, 2021

These virtual offerings are split into three categories: the VeeR VR Cinema, the Unity for Garden Showcase, and the Cannes XR Developer Showcase. This includes SteamVR headsets such as the HTC Vive and Valve Index as well as the Oculus Rift. Image Credit: VRScout. But how to access these wonderful creations, you may be asking.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. That is if every company implemented OpenXR, a program built for the Oculus should work with SteamVR as well. Image by Oculus).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

The reference to the tether is a clear statement about the fact that Sony aims at offering quality, and it is not interested in the casual gamers that are the target of the Quest (for now). Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80.

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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2019

Oculus today released ASW 2.0, Oculus today announced the release of ASW 2.0 Oculus says that ASW 2.0 Oculus says that while ASW 1.0 Oculus says that while ASW 1.0 With the new version, however, Oculus says that “even at [less than 45 FPS], ASW 2.0 We’ve reached out to Oculus for confirmation.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 2, 2018

The Vive Focus was most probably the best VR standalone on the market when Oculus last week announced what will be the first consumer 6DOF VR standalone headset. And so here we are again: Oculus vs HTC, America vs China, Hugo Barra vs Alvin Wang Graylin. And now the battle is on standalone headsets: Oculus Quest vs Vive Focus.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 21, 2020

Me wearing the Oculus Quest. On the other side, PC gamers are appreciating the high-quality Valve Index (even if it has some reliability issues ), and casual gamers are loving the Oculus Quest. This year, I’m not going to make an exception, also because my predictions for 2019 performed pretty well.

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VRScout

AUGUST 9, 2021

At first, it’s not clear which conflict Geva is referring to, especially given the number of obstacles he and his team had to overcome to get their game from an early tech test to its selection as part of Cannes XR. The Secret Of Retropolis is out now on Steam and Oculus. Image Credit: Peanut Button.

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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. User Interface.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Oculus For Developers has some documentation for Designing accessible VR. Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? The first step is to educate yourself. You can find it here: [link].

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

References found in Quest 2 firmware hint to Quest Pro features. References found in the Oculus Quest 2 firmware by users Reggy04 and Basti564 highlight how the Quest 2 Pro should have: Eyes tracking Facial expressions tracking Eye relief knob Granular IPD adjustment External charging station. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. While Oculus is getting all the glory for the Quest, its competitors are not sleeping. We’re excited to try this headset when it becomes available.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. Every year, the Oculus Connect, later (sadly) renamed as Facebook Connect, is the biggest event about XR from Facebook. You can now invite your Oculus friends to play with a web link.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

SenseGlove is currently producing its DK1 device , that can be used both with Vive systems (in this case, a Vive Tracker is attached to the gloves to provide the positional tracking) or Oculus systems (in this case, the Oculus Touch controllers are used). Structure of the Unity SDK (Image by Senseglove). Applications.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Oculus Link now works with USB 2.0. Very Silently, Oculus has changed the specifications of Oculus Link , which now doesn’t require anymore a USB 3.0 port and cable.

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AUGUST 16, 2017

The paper describes a system which has been trained with a ‘deep learning / neural network’ approach, using eight hours of reference footage (2,543 sentences) from a single speaker to teach the system the shape the mouth should make during various units of speech (called phonemes) and combinations thereof.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 25, 2025

21 games are currently supported by the Oculus Publishing Ignition initative. Dataminers also found references to a totally overhauled UI coming in future versions of the Quest runtime : since every time Quest changes UI, it is always a disaster, Im afraid to see how it will be. As usual, competition is good to bring new features.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. They don’t currently have any focus on utilising a form of Oculus’ Asynchronous Timewarp.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Epic Games is a prominent member of the Khronos Group working alongside a host of industry pros including Oculus, HTC, Valve, Microsoft, Google, AMD, NVIDIA, and Unity. Epic Games Store is said to launch soon and begin what Sweeney calls “a long journey to advance the cause of all developers.”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I had a few friendly chats with him since he’s a nice guy… and quite soon I started Italianizing his name into “Cirillo” : this is how I will refer to him for the remainder of this article. I think that this could become a powerful thing in our mixed reality future that someone references with the M-word.

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