Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2021

The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity includes a beta release of a spectator camera capability which will allow developers to show a third-person view to spectators watching on a smartphone or web browser. Soon, developers on Quest will be able to add the same kind of feature to their games.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6. Unity 6 is bringing many new features that are helping with cutting-edge technologies like XR and AI.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2022

Participants joined using various VR devices such as Oculus, mobile devices, desktops, and MacBooks. Orlando aims to create an immersive and functional digital twin that will showcase the city in a virtual world, helping people like potential investors experience the metro without leaving their offices or homes.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there. “That is in the works, I’ve seen it,” he said.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Mixed reality is a way to give spectators a window into virtual experiences, showing how the player inhabits a virtual world. Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Full body avatars will become available so you can look like a real digital person using the Unity Avatar SDK. The virtual world will add native NFT (Non-Fungible Tokens) integration allowing users to place any NFT directly onto Somnium Land Parcels they own and explore them in full VR in headsets like HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Valve Index.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. “We want you to make all your VR and AR with Unity,” he said, promising renewed investment in the industry. 10, and that native Unity support would arrive in the next iteration of the engine, 5.6.

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Upload VR

JULY 30, 2024

The feature realistically simulates how sound propagates through the geometry of the virtual world to your ear. And in fact, the Oculus Audio SDK, the predecessor to the Meta XR Audio SDK, had it in 2019. And in fact, the Oculus Audio SDK, the predecessor to the Meta XR Audio SDK, had it in 2019.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space. This innovative solution builds on the existing functionality Meta Workplace has to offer in the XR world.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Oculus Quest 2 had a great Christmas. The sales of Oculus Quest 2 have been great during the holidays , and the Quest has been a Christmas gift very much appreciated by kids (but wasn’t there an age limit?). (Image from Reddit). The VR ecosystem can end 2021 with a big smile on its face. Other relevant news. Image by Rec Room).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2022

It works on the following platforms and devices: Oculus Quest; Oculus Rift S; Valve Index’. Designed for Oculus Quest and Oculus Go, this app aims to create a cozy family corner in the virtual world. So far, the platform boasts more than 25,000 community-created worlds. Windows Mixed Reality; Vive.

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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! 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? Unity WebXR exporter is a powerful tool for all us Unity developers (Image by Mozilla).

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Venice VR virtual world, designed by VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a virtual version of Venice. Users on Quest can visit these worlds, too. Jensen Huang interview: The physical world and the metaverse can be connected. It’s available to anyone with a VRChat account.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We can say the new cycle started with the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro , because that has been a disruptive moment for our market: Road To VR’s Ben Lang says that it has been the most important moment for virtual reality after Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus , and I agree. Photoshop is doing the same.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Road To VR) More info (HTC Vive Ultimate Tracker — Upload VR) Valve releases its own version of Quest Link Out of the blue, Valve has launched Steam Link, which basically is… Oculus Air Link offered directly by SteamVR. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Oculus Connect 3 Registration. There’s also a student/academic pass available at $99.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The “TendAR” augmented reality experience creates a virtual fish for players, capable of interacting with the real world through the user’s camera. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. When creating the new “Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond” title, Respawn wanted to reboot an entire franchise for access in the Oculus VR platform.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

As a tech guy, of course, I’m all in for retro compatibility, and I would still love to sometimes attach my Oculus DK2 to my laptop and remember the good old times playing Tuscany. I know that I’m saying something unpopular, but I understand Microsoft’s decision. Funny link This is too funny to watch!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis. The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Modeling Next, we created virtual copies of the tools and uniforms, so that all of them looked real in a virtual world. App programming (Unity) We developed a simple intuitive application that would help employees understand and remember a sequence of actions. We used sketches, schemes and references provided by Huawei.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

My silly app The Unity Cube is now in 20th place among the best-rated applications on App Lab ! Finally, Facebook has released passthrough APIs for Quest 2, so you can create AR/MR apps for the Oculus standalone headset. More info (Virtual Market 6) More info (DecaGear at Virtual Market 6). AR/VR developers, rejoice!

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Oculus has also partnered with Virtuclear to offer prescription lenses for the Quest 2 for $80. All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. You can now use consumer devices inside Oculus For Business.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

More info Tokyo Game Show is in VR again Also this year the Tokyo Game Show , one of the most important events about gaming, is going to have its own virtual world. Called TGS Digital World it is going to be available on Quest and PCVR and will let you explore the main exhibitors of the Japanese event.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

It feels like only 5 minutes ago we caught wind of a new startup riding on the back of the new virtual reality revolution, one based in Utah that had its sights set on creating a cutting edge mixed reality theme park. When we finally did get our hands on it, we were impressed.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Although SteamVR also supports the Rift on PC, it relies on elements of Oculus’ PC SDK which means it’s unlikely that we’ll see Rift on Mac until Oculus supports it officially. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support. Vive Demo on Stage. Metal for VR. Photo courtesy TIME.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In order to achieve that, the virtual world you are interacting with should be as close to the real world as possible; visually, audibly and tactile-wise. As our previous features, the sapping will be available cross-platform, on all Interhaptics supported tracking devices including Oculus Quest , Ultraleap , and HoloLens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

All these tools look amazing also for the creation of very realistic VR experiences, but actually, we should hold our enthusiasm: both Nanite and Lumen are not available for VR yet, and Epic has not announced any kind of improvement of the workflow for development for Oculus Quest 2, either.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

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. Your space can be turned into a virtual world. In that moment, I regret not having visited it before.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 23, 2022

Ready Player Me will “build avatar content creation tools to enable developers, brands and individual artists to create and sell avatar customization assets that work across thousands of virtual worlds,” wrote Ready Player Me Co-Founder and CEO Timmu Tõke in an emailed answer to UploadVR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The flexible Oculus environment has already become the platform for a range of virtual museum, gallery and concert experiences hosted around the globe. Meta’s Oculus team have already partnered with leading companies like Sony Music to give fans an immersive way to explore music videos and unique content.

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