The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2021

So let me show you how you can develop an AR app for Oculus Quest 2 using Oculus Passthrough APIs in Unity. In this tutorial, you are going to replicate the fantastic The Unity Cube experience, this time in AR! Open Unity (I’m still on Unity 2019.4 Open Unity (I’m still on Unity 2019.4

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 2, 2022

With the show floor still closed, the highlight of the day has been the speech by Unity CEO John Riccitiello that spoke about the metaverse , telling us what he thinks it is and how he thinks it can evolve. The Unity CEO talks about the metaverse. The Unity CEO on AWE stage to talk about the M-word. That was totally insane.

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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. Initialization I launched Unity (I’m using version 2022.3 But how to do that?

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Upload VR

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Meta released an XR UI kit for Unity, which some Quest developers have been requesting for years. But until recently , the only way to build XR apps for Meta's headsets was with a game engine, such as Unity or Unreal, and Meta didn't provide any kind of UI framework for either. Meta has finally released a solution to this.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 29, 2024

This week, unity, a leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, unveiled a new partnership with 3D content streaming experts Vagon. Leading up to the Unity partnership, Vargo joined the wealthy NVIDIA ecosystem via a collaboration that provided Vagon with up-to-date NVIDIA hardware to understand 3D streaming on various end devices.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unity has officially launched 1.0 support for visionOS, making its now Vision Pro-compatible game engine available to all Unity Pro, Enterprise, and Industry subscribers. Some of the key features of its Unity’s 1.0 The post Unity Releases 1.0 Check out the full guide here.

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Upload VR

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. OpenXR is the open standard API for AR/VR/MR supported by the vast majority of the industry.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2024

The latest version of the Unity game engine—which is the basis for the vast majority of XR games made today—is now available to developers as a preview. Unity 6 Preview (formerly known as 2023.3 Unity’s Foveated Rendering API also supports eye-tracked foveated rendering for headsets like Quest Pro and PSVR 2.

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Upload VR

MARCH 7, 2025

Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. The news comes shortly after we reported on developer frustration that Meta's Unity and Unreal integrations, which are described as using OpenXR, block other PC VR headsets. For Unity, the company says that version 1.14

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Road to VR

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Unity Cube is an objectively terrible game that was built to test the limits of what Quest content Meta would allow into its uncurated App Lab program. To test whether Meta was going truly hands-off when it came to the quality of App Lab apps, developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo created The Unity Cube. Behold, The Unity Cube!

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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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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Another good question is about Unity development. Android Camera2 and CameraX are Android native classes, so what can we Unity developers do? Well, if Android XR offers a similar path to Android, then we Unity developers can likely use the WebcamTexture class to grab the frames of the camera.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Welcome back to Spatial Beats, AR Insider's weekly series that features observations and insights of author and futurist Charlie Fink. This week, we look at Quest 3 reactions and more gen-AI action. This post appeared first on AR Insider.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2023

” At MWC Shanghai, state-owned China Mobile announced the first batch of 24 members of the alliance, including Huawei, Xiaomi, HTC Vive, Unity China, NOLO, XREAL (formerly Nreal), AI company iFlytek, video streaming platform MGTV, and cloud streaming platform Haima Cloud.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Meta released a new Desktop Editor for Horizon Worlds in preview, giving world creators a Unity-style game development platform for the first time. The newly released Desktop Editor allows developers familiar with traditional game engines, such as Unity, to create and publish worlds. But that appears to be changing.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

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. First, let’s start with installing Unity hand-tracking. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Let’s start there—let’s download Unity and set it up for hand-tracking.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2025

Studio co-founder Brandon Laatsch outlined a number of goals for 2025 in a recent X post, stating that not only is the studio working on patches for its Marrow Enginephysics framework, which was developed by the studio for the Unity engine , but also the release of Boneworks for Quest 3 and Quest 3S.

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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. Return to Unity, go to Window -> Package Manager.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2021

Unity VR Developer. Organization: Unity. Unity is one of the most popular and powerful engines for creating VR games. The Unity organization is keen on training and certifying professionals who will put their tool to the best possible use. Before you take the exam, you can use the Unity Learn platform for practice.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Last year, real-time 3D (RT3D) development solutions provider Unity introduced its Meta OpenXR package , which supports Quest 3 application development with support from integrated frameworks.

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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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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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VRScout

APRIL 2, 2022

Arkio is a slick collaborative VR tool that lets you create 3D buildings, virtual cityscapes, remodel rooms such as your kitchen or bathroom, review existing 3D models, and create Unity scenes that include triggers and colliders, all in VR with up to 10 other collaborators. . Working in Arkio is simple.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. However, I had to manually switch between unity packages to demo different apps which led me to taking on and off the headset constantly. . Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine?

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

The experimental demo was built using the Unity game engine and is powered by iPhone with LiDAR, which currently includes the iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd and 3rd gen), and iPad Pro 12.9-inch Let’s all be Wizards — Augmented Reality Experiment — Unity ARFoundation — iPhone with LiDAR from AR_MR_XR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 24, 2024

VIVE offers a good amount of official documentation of their products regarding Unreal Engine and Unity development. Breker also spoke about some of the positives of collaborating with HTC: “The support for development has always helped us immediately with our questions, and they try to be as close as possible to their customers.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2023

Today I want to take you on a journey on one of the coolest prototypes I’ve ever worked on, which is about creating Unity applications that can dynamically modify their logic at runtime depending on the user’s needs thanks to generative artificial intelligence. Cubes are easy to do. It got thousands of downloads.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2025

By partnering with Unity and focusing on open standards like OpenXR, we’re providing a clear path for immersive experience developers to easily take advantage of our platform. For example, we’ve worked hard to enable all compatible 2D Android apps from the Play Store to work on our platform from the start with no effort from them.

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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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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Unity, makers of the popular game engine, announced earlier this week it’s getting ready to levy some pretty significant fees on developers , causing many to rethink whether it makes more sense to actually go with the main competition, Unreal Engine from Epic Games.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Unity is also supported through a new Android XR Extension, as well as WebXR and OpenXR. For devs building with Android Studio, a new Jetpack XR SDK extends that workflow to help developers create spatial versions of their existing flat apps. This includes a new Android XR Emulator for testing Android XR apps without a headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2025

Then the management of the camera will happen through the functionalities exposed by Camera2 in Android and WebCamTexture in Unity, which are the ones developers have always used with smartphones. This is something absolutely impossible to have with Unity or Unreal. This will let Google enrich its content library pretty fast.

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VRScout

JUNE 15, 2021

In order to develop his next-gen homage, Nathan employed the Unity game engine to transform the 2D arcade game into a 3D VR world. ” Though the game is built for the Oculus Quest platform, Donkey Kong VR uses a Unity plugin that also supports PlayStation VR and Windows Mixed Reality. Image Credit: Paul Nathan.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2021

He then offered to send me the Unity Project files! I am a total C# and Unity noob so I learn as I go. This time he did respond. “He He said it was entertaining and that he didn’t think anyone had any interest in the project so he ended up forgetting about it. This was the most thrilling part!”.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

It’s also game engine friendly, which means you can port your project into something like Unity. If you don’t own a Quest, you’re still able to view projects on a web browser, allowing you near-constant access to the project and team.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Well, being our solution something working at Unity level (so at a very high level), it couldn’t be optimized, so its framerate was not enough and it also consumed a lot of resources we couldn’t use in our application. These are the only settings about the passthrough you can change inside Unity. Literally no way.

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