The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

If I had to choose the most common question I’ve received in these 4 years on the blog, social media, and Quora, I would surely pick “How do I get started with virtual reality?” How I got started with virtual reality. This is how I got started with Virtual Reality development.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Some days ago, I was looking at the code of HitMotion: Reloaded , the fitness game that we of New Technology Walkers developed some years ago for the Vive Focus Plus, and all the intricate system I had to make in Unity to have a cross-platform VR game … and I wondered: “Is all of this mess still needed today?”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! Let’s create a new Unity 3D project, and call it TestQuestHands.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 24, 2021

For sure you remember that together with my tutorial on how to develop and submit an application for App Lab , I have actually submitted to App Lab my majestic “The Unity Cube App” , an application with just a cube and some avatar hands (Yes, I’m a troll). Unity and its automatically added permissions.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Then you may be interested in Oculus and Unity’s new intermediate level VR game development course, which is not only free, but can get you some valuable feedback from Oculus on your creation. After you complete the course, you have the option to submit your vertical slice for review by the team at Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

I wanted just to experiment with technology, not make a product I’m not going to do a step-by-step tutorial, but if you are a bit experienced with Unity, you can use the info I’m providing you to create something similar yourself. The kitchen is the virtual setting, and the box is the real element living in it.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

After Venice VR Expanded has come to an end, I have finally had the time to experiment with Oculus Quest AR Passthrough. What is impressive on the good side is instead the stability of the tracking : we all know that Oculus Insight is the best in class tracking solution among VR headsets, and in AR this is even more important.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Today I publish a very specific post to help Oculus developers in a particular situation I’ve been myself in: how to publish an update to an App Lab experience of yours when the “Production Channel” is missing in the Oculus Developer Hub interface and the web uploader has been deprecated. My story with this problem.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Established in 2015, Circuit Stream has helped over 40,000 people learn to design and develop virtual reality and augmented reality applications. It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. Table of Contents.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2019

They could be a great innovative tool to market your AR and VR applications (and even for the non-XR ones) … so let’s see how you can create them for you game directly from your Unity project! But are we sure that there isn’t a better way for Unity projects? The better way for Unity projects.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Learn the ins-and-outs of Unity development and have your project reviewed by Oculus experts. From the initial prototyping stages to testing and final submissions, students will be guided through every stage of VR development for Oculus Rift/Rift S and Oculus Quest headsets on the Unity platform.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). The standard 1.2 After purchasing another active USB 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 15, 2021

This is the idea that MightySkins had, and now the company sells skins for Oculus Quest 2 for everyone to buy on its website. Recently it has also decided to launch a new line dedicated to the Oculus Quest 2 , to let you customize as you want both the headset and the controllers. Me and my branded Oculus Quest 2.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . Automatic Time Synchronization : LooxidVR facilitates time synchronized acquisition of eye and brain data , as well as VR contents and interaction data (Unity event logs).

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2019

I made various tests and so I can not only review it, but also compare it with its competitor solution, the Oculus Link. Its peculiarity is that it works completely via Wi-Fi , so you need no cable to play your PC VR games, a bit like when you use Riftcat , Virtual Desktop on Quest or similar solutions. Are you intrigued?

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

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 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. Receiving funding was not only a blessing, but an incredible learning experience for me.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

With virtual reality, companies can build models of projects in a digital landscape, and make it easier to interact with specialists from all over the world. What’s more, Meta’s flexibility makes it easy to combine Oculus headsets with state-of-the-art technology and software for building prototypes and designs.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 2, 2021

In this post, I’m going to tell you how to implement hands tracking in Unity for the Vive Focus 3, how to enable it on the device, and what are its performances, also compared to the ones of the Oculus Quest 2. How to integrate hands tracking in your Vive Wave Unity project. Otherwise, keep reading for the textual version.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

The successor to macOS Sierra promises a slew of new features and most notably among them—support for virtual reality. Apple Embracing Virtual Reality. Notably missing from the Apple keynote was any presence of Facebook’s Oculus Rift.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

When trying to sell someone on the wonder that is virtual reality, it’s better to show than to tell. 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.

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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. The Unity project. The Unity project of First Hand is available inside this GitHub repo. First Hand – Review as a developer.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 24, 2018

Up until now, developers wishing to get their VR app on the Oculus Store had to submit to a manual review process by which their game or experience was washed through two stages; a tech review to see if the app passed minimum standards and a content review to determine it was a complete and polished experience. image courtesy Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It’s a while I’m connected on Linkedin with Cyril Tuschi , a prize-winner filmmaker turned Virtual Reality entrepreneur. One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

Recently I had fun doing some experiments in mixed reality, showing a door to another world, or my balcony having a view to a virtual reality place. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

Image by Oculus). The other bombshell news is that Resident Evil 4 is coming to the Oculus Quest 2. On April, 21st, Oculus will host its first Gaming Showcase , with news on ‘Lone Echo II’, ‘Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge’, and many other titles. Top news of the week. Facebook announces Wi-Fi streaming and Resident Evil 4 for Quest.

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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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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality games, in particular, have come a long way from the lukewarm response they received in their early years. Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

The most interesting insight of the week comes from analyst Mark Mahaney, that, among other things has analyzed Facebook’s Virtual Reality business, and has reported very interesting data. The first interesting forecast is about the number of sold Oculus Quest 2 headsets. The revenue from the sold headsets is so around $2.4B

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 19, 2024

Mike Nisbet, Unity Engineer at SideQuest and Icosa Foundation Team Member , expressed his enthusiasm to be working on Open Blocks when the news landed that it was being open-sourced last month : “We’re thrilled to see Blocks join Tilt Brush in being released to the community, allowing another fantastic tool to grow and evolve.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Meta (Oculus). The brand offers one of the most affordable and straightforward hardware solutions for users interested in virtual reality on the market. With the Oculus ecosystem, schools and professional training companies alike are beginning to scale their virtual curriculums for a wide range of use cases.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 18, 2024

Google and Magic Leap Form XR Partnership Google I/O 2024: The Latest XR Updates from Google Google Blocks is a 3D modelling platform for virtual reality that does not require expert knowledge to use. It was originally released for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The Launch of Google Blocks Google blocks was introduced in 2017.

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