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.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The best part of the video is where I put toilet seats in my living room… well, they’re still useful if you have an urgency to go to the toilet, but are too lazy to change rooms! This avatar video stream is generated by Avatar provider apps/services on the headset. Scott Stein having a video call on Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2024

A few days ago I posted this video on my social media channels where I poured some biscuits from a real-world biscuit box into my VR kitchen to have some breakfast: So tasty… The video got some interest from the community and some people asked me how I did it. Initialization I launched Unity (I’m using version 2022.3

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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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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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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

JULY 20, 2021

We all like to shoot videos and screenshots of the VR experiences we play : sometimes to me it is a necessity because I need content to insert inside my articles for my blog, but in general, we all love to save some great moments we had in VR, in the same way we feel the need to take a picture when something interesting is happening in real life.

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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. Watch the video and fall in love with it!

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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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ARPost

JANUARY 16, 2023

Arcturus , volumetric video editing and streaming tools provider, has been at the forefront of virtual production, revolutionizing immersive content experiences across a vast range of verticals. Blend: Connecting Volumetric Video Clips With Seamless Transitions.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A video posted by a Vision Pro developer appears to show the current levels of hand-tracking and occlusion performance that Apple’s new headset is capable of. A developer building for Vision Pro using Unity posted a video which gives a clear look at both hand-tracking and occlusion.

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2022

Welcome to Reality Bytes, featuring lightning-round video commentary from AR Insider partner, M7 Innovations. What are the biggest insights and observations in immersive tech & media this week? 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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 19, 2023

Unity partnered with the Vancouver Airport Authority (VAA) this month to deploy large-scale enterprise-grade digital twins to ensure success in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) use cases. Moreover, as part of its reconciliation goals, YVR is also deploying a Unity training program to Musqueam Indian Band learners.

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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. This video from Holonautic sheds light on what’s possible.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 14, 2025

For the people who have not been able to attend the even t, Ive also recorded a video of the whole XR area and of course, Im linking it below for you to enjoy. It was even the third most-sold device of any kind in the whole Video Games category. Watching this video I was like: BUT WHY? This is impressive.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2025

The video of the judge donning the headset has gone viral and VR enthusiasts are rejoicing because they say this is another sign of VR going mainstream. There is a Unity SDK, so it is also possible to create a VR game (e.g. From this quick look, it seems a mix between Android and the interface of the Apple Vision Pro.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Google Photos has been redesigned with a layout that’s unique to Android XR, and the app can automatically convert photos and videos to 3D (with pretty impressive results). Unity is also supported through a new Android XR Extension, as well as WebXR and OpenXR.

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Road to VR

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. It’s tough to explain so let’s jump right to a video example: Take a look at the video above. We look forward to mixing reality ourselves next year.

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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. All you need to know on Hand Tracking on Vive Focus 3 – Video. Return to Unity, go to Window -> Package Manager.

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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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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

There are other cool features in the operating system, like that it can convert photos and videos to 3D automatically. Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR. Or that it has multimodal input and can be commanded using controllers, hands, eyes, or voice.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Everyone can create his online meeting spaces; It lets you customize your avatars; It lets you import in your virtual world whatever you want : Youtube videos, web pages, 3D models from Sketchfab, etc… If it is online, you can import it in Hubs. Promotional video of the features of Hubs in AWS (Video by Mozilla).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

On social media, we had some popular videos from the creators of Cubism, Gravity Lab, and also a cool AR demo that “teaches” you how to play the piano, and that was very nice, but… I expected something more. These are the only settings about the passthrough you can change inside Unity. Literally no way.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The company claims in a video on its social media channels that you can develop also applications for Ray-Ban Meta, but this sounds a bit strange to me and in fact, this device is not listed in the list of officially supported models on its website. Hand tracking fits very well with the magic-based combat system of the game.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

unity @Oculus #OculusQuest #MadeWithUnity #XR #SpatialComputing cc: @mitrealityhack pic.twitter.com/wypOFEJcNx — Greg Madison (@GregMadison) January 17, 2020. In a short video posted yesterday to Twitter, Madison shows off a custom-built VR environment layered perfectly over his real-world apartment.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

If you watch the video , you can see me say stupid things about XR… well, more or less as I do every day in my life… Have fun! In a video published on Facebook, he showed himself wearing the headset and let us also see what he was seeing inside , with some footage directly from his point of view. Top news of the week.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

First of all, one of the leakers affirms having found the info from a Chinese video on BilliBilli, but then some Chinese people saw the same video and said that it said nothing that was contained in the leak. There is also a new render about the upcoming elite strap and a lot of videos about its high-quality passthrough in action.

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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 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. It talked about SIFT features and how the inventor used this kind of features to add 3D model of rabbits and teapots on top of a desk and over the hand in a camera video stream. So many memories, guys.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

We are especially excited by the introduction of depth awareness in the XR-3 through combined LiDAR and RGB video, enabling the most realistic mixed reality experiences ever seen. Varjo has pushed the boundaries of high-resolution mixed reality for professionals across various industries,” said AC Mahendran , Director, XR, Unity. “By

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

These can easily be covered by watching some Youtube videos on it and a little bit of experimenting. With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. In terms of software, the North Star uses Unity to render its AR graphics while the Triton uses Three.js. . Yes, Three.js

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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

Vive Hand Tracking SDK video review. I’ve made a nice Youtube video with me saying random stuff and exploring the Vive Hand Tracking SDK at first in Unity and then in action using my hands in VR. Vive Hand Tracking Unity SDK. With all those buttons and fields, you can simulate two hands inside Unity (Image by HTC).

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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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