The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2020

WebXR is a technology with enormous potential, but at the moment it offers far worse tools to develop for it than standalone VR , where we all use Unity and Unreal Engine. The exporter basically creates a special type of WebGL application that supports virtual reality, that’s why there are both directories. You did it!

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Generally, “the cloud” refers to remote servers that do work off of a device. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. XR streaming is already a reality on other cloud platforms. The bigger your XR needs are, the larger your software needs are.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 4, 2023

” XR devices can provide hands-free immersive content such as guides, manuals, and CADs as assistive references while an on-site worker performs tasks such as repair and maintenance operations. Also, in augmented reality, you can actually train someone while they’re doing the work.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 8, 2016

An avalanche of new virtual reality devices has arrived. Many game engines—such as Unity, Unreal, and SteamVR—immediately support it. For those that want to design their own hardware, the OSVR headset is a good reference design. Increased Device Diversity, More Choices for Customers. Photo courtesy Denny Unger.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

For this purpose, it has created a reference design for an AR headset dubbed North Star , giving full instructions on how everyone can build one at home. Reference Design Issues. Noah loves the philosophy of North Star and really believes in an open augmented reality ecosystem.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

Story Studio is the team within Oculus that focused on the creation of narrative driven virtual reality content like the emmy award winning Henry, emotionally moving story Dear Angelica and breakout content like Lost. In a surprise announcement, Facebook is announcing today that it will be shuttering Oculus Story Studio.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

RT3D developmental engines such as Unreal, Unity, and Omniverse also leverage genAI to optimize developmental workflows, notably for budding XR content creators. Spatial environment refers to the 3D computing space around a headset user – as showcased by Apple’s Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Nucleus connects via special plugins called “Connectors” to standard applications that are used to work on 3D scenes, like Unreal Engine, Adobe Substance, Autodesk 3ds Max, Blender, etc… Normally to work on a 3D scene, you need a full team working on its various aspects (e.g. In the middle, you have Nucleus that assembles the scene.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

The immersive NYC art exhibition featured some truly creative virtual reality installations. The exhibition featured the best and brightest in experimental new media, which naturally included several artists utilizing virtual reality for their innovative projects. WORLD AND PLACE EVAPORATING. LATTICEDOMAIN_VISUALIZE.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

He was obsessed with Virtual Reality. For the Matrix trilogy it was important the use of computer vision, immersive photography, volumetric capture , the first markerless motion capture, to create frame by frame models of the performances… and today all these techniques are prolific in virtual reality and mixed reality.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

Unreal Engine is not exactly the most friendly game engine when it comes to Android development, and that’s why Oculus has just released some facilities to help UE4 developers in iterating Oculus Quest applications faster. Startup VirtuLeap is building Enhance, a system of brain-training minigames in virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

OpenXR has arrived at the first version of the standard, and now it has been implemented by all the major vendors : Microsoft has implemented it for HoloLens and WMR; Oculus for Rift and Quest; Valve has implemented it in SteamVR; etc… Talking about game engines, Unreal Engine now already offers it, while Unity is still lagging behind.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Now, he turns his eye towards virtual reality with Gnomes & Goblins , an original production from Wevr in partnership with Reality One. Despite this, Björk returns to the album via virtual reality collaborations with well-regarded developers and visual artists traveling the globe as Björk Digital.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It broadly refers to digital domains that host synchronous interaction between placeshifted participants. So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. How Augmented Reality (AR) is Reshaping the Food Service Industry 3.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

An environmental artist with a passion for Star Wars has realised the iconic location of Star Wars’ Mos Eisley space port in jaw-dropping detail via Unreal Engine 4. ” The resulting environments, rendered capably using Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, are some of the most detailed and realistic recreations I’ve ever seen.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2019

The company has worked hard to ultra-optimize everything for the Quest, even creating a custom version of Unreal Engine to offer better lighting! Not only the multimedia assets of this game are very well shaped, but also the rendering engine is incredible. One of the weird moment of the game, when everything is covered in red matter.

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ARVR

MAY 10, 2021

We’ll be focusing on augmented reality because it’s what I know best and I think all of the moving parts that can go into AR dev are very nebulous and constantly changing. Refer to my medium article?—? Unity Website Unreal // Unity’s higher fidelity sibling Unreal Engine is the world’s most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

First launched in the spring of 2015, Kaleidoscope emerged as a global virtual reality festival — bringing audiences all over the world premiere VR content. Referring to themselves as the “AngelList for the VR entertainment industry,” the company hopes that this proves starter fuel for eventual crowdsourcing of VR art.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

This is the first post in a series of technical posts in which we will be covering the bare bones of a Virtual Reality API (Application Programming Interface) and coding a few examples using it. Go Mati, show us all what you’re capable of! You may be saying “Come on! It’s a Visual Studio project tested in Windows 8.1

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 15, 2016

In part one the outspoken founder of Epic Games warned us how dangerous collectivization could be for virtual reality; in part two he gave us our best look yet at how much Oculus is spending to fund VR content and now, in part three, Sweeney is setting his sights on the Internet’s champion himself: Elon Musk. .”

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ARVR

JULY 20, 2020

Aurasma Here’s an equally great tool to create AR experiences with your smartphone + a bonus With nearly a decade of existence, HP Revel aka Aurasma was the platform everyone referred to for creating augmented reality experiences. It allowed you to create your own experience without the need to refer to an AR developer.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Everyday is bringing us more news from the realm of Virtual Reality (VR). Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. What can make it become the mirror of the real world.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

It seems that in the Oculus SDK there are now some lines that refer to the Oculus Quest colocation APIs , that would let you play in local multiplayer with other people in your home. that will probably feature color passthrough, controllers tracking the full hand and other amazing features. Why does this matter?

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Bernard Marr

JUNE 8, 2023

The Epic Games platform and Unity’s platform are best known for powering many of the most popular video games in history, but they are also universally used for creating experiential 3D designs, virtual reality environments, and all manner of simulations for the industrial and leisure markets.

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ARVR

MARCH 16, 2021

Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK. Today it can work with Unity, C++ and C#, but will soon have support for Unreal, Babylon, and React Native. Holographic Rendering?—?Holographic Multiuser Sync?—?the

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Leapmotion

JUNE 7, 2015

Today on the blog, we’re spotlighting getnamo’s community Leap Motion plugin for Unreal Engine 4, which offers some unique capabilities alongside the official plugin. Much like the Quick Switch gesture for Unity, this experimental approach lets you rapidly toggle between the real and virtual worlds. GET THE PLUGIN. What’s Next?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 29, 2024

Llamas, Research Director with IDC’s Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality programme , added: It will be exciting to watch how the market will evolve from today’s experiences and how end-users will adapt to them. ” According to Seidl, NVIDIA OpenUSD, the Omniverse file format, is a “game changer.”

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Road to VR

MAY 24, 2016

As virtual reality enters the consumer space there are two major platforms vying for the public’s attention and money, each with their own content delivery portals. The Oculus Platform patch is still only working for Unreal Engine games, there are quite a lot of Unity Engine games that need a different patch.

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Leapmotion

DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. This week @LeapMotion will be at @CES w/ their next-gen reference design Click To Tweet. Our team will be at CES January 5-8 with our Leap Motion Mobile Platform reference design. Here are the top 10 stories from our blog in 2016.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. The presentation at Gamescom talked about your partnership with Unreal Engine for offering real-time RTX. Please refer to Jensen’s “it just works message.” What about Unity, instead?

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VRWorld

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Crytek didn’t make it clear are they referring here to allowing developers to use both discrete and integrated GPU at the same time, anyway I am sure many developers are looking forward to implement this feature. However their roadmap of course doesn’t stop there, it also looks ahead to tweaks in CryEngine 5.4

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Leapmotion

MARCH 14, 2017

Click To Tweet To bring Leap Motion tracking into a VR experience, you’ll need a virtual controller within the scene attached to your VR headset. Our Unity Core Assets and the Leap Motion Unreal Engine 4 plugin both handle position and scale out-of-the-box for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Multiple Frames Of Reference.

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Leapmotion

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

From Unreal community plugin creator getnamo , NexusVR is a space between worlds, where you can move between different VR experiences. Today we have VR experiences in disjointed sequences, taking off our headsets and rummaging through folders to go to the next virtual place,” says getnamo. Requires: Windows, Oculus Rift.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

If you consider virtual reality over the last few years, there has been increasing traction in the enterprise. AR can also assist in quality inspections by highlighting defects, providing real-time feedback, and comparing finished products to digital reference models.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

Unreal Engine 5 may change the rules of game development. Out of nowhere, Epic Games has teased the next version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5, due to be released in 2021. It means that you can take whatever model, even with billions of polygons, and put it in your Unreal Engine project. Other relevant news.

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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). Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms.

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VRGuy

AUGUST 1, 2016

Increased Device Diversity leads to more Choices for Customers Trends An avalanche of new virtual reality devices arrived. Many game engines – such as Unity, Unreal and SteamVR- immediately support it. For those that want to design their own hardware, the OSVR goggle is a good reference design.

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