The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Gemini AI is deeply integrated into the OS, and the Gemini assistant always follows what you are doing, both in the real and in the virtual world, and it is ready to guide you when needed. Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR.

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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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VRScout

AUGUST 1, 2022

We Met In Virtual Reality is a new feature-length documentary film that follows the stories of five individuals using VR technology to connect with each other and the world in a variety of a unique and throught-provoking ways. ” We Met In Virtual Reality is available now to stream via HBO Max.

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. Let’s jump in.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 11, 2017

Unity rolled out a major update to its development platform bringing with it a number of improvements across the board. VR SLI provides increased performance for virtual reality apps where two GPUs can be assigned a specific eye to dramatically accelerate stereo rendering.

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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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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

To design in virtual reality, we need the high resolution of the Varjo device. With this high resolution there is a seamless transfer between the real world and the virtual world,” said Jan Pflueger, Coordination Augmented & Virtual Reality at Audi, in an official release.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

After Fortnite started the trend of virtual concerts in virtual worlds, always more platforms started implementing them. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. Documentary “We Met In Virtual Reality” to release on HBO. This is cool because it will help spread the word about VR and virtual worlds.

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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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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2022

You may have seen them in the news last month for offering a payment card and loyalty program that unlocks virtual rewards for physical purchases. The company’s principal virtual world, Aftermath Islands, is still in development. Peace & Unity” Exhibition in Spatial’s Peace Pavilion NFT Environment.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2017

Decentraland is a virtual world that is using the Ethereum Blockchain to sell plots of virtual reality real estate. They hope to create a virtual city with different thematic districts that will help with content discovery. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

VR events are one of the big trends of virtual reality of the last 3 months. Electronic French composer Jean-Michel Jarre , that is very famous in the electronic music environment , is going to seize this opportunity and host one of the first live concerts all in virtual reality. You should see it.

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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. Why not a Unity exporter?

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Everyone in the VR industry can envision a world in the next 10 years that’s radically changed by virtual reality. Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. Tony Parisi. Why is this a killer app?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. These numbers are impressive for a VR company, and show how a virtual reality company can be successful now. Other relevant news. Image by Rec Room). Rec Room is now worth $3.5B.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 24, 2017

Engines like Unity and Unreal are constantly getting better at representing sound effects in 3D space – with binaural audio , better reverb modeling, better occlusion and obstruction modeling, and more. Virtual reality is an exciting medium, but for first time users it can take a few minutes to master its limitations.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

A Basic Understanding of Extended Reality. Extended Reality, also called XR, refers to all real-and-virtual world environments that are generated by computer graphics. Platforms like GitHub can be quite useful for building your portfolio. It is also the umbrella term used to refer to AR and VR.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 23, 2021

During this panel too, Reyes spoke of blockchain technologies as the link not just between virtual worlds, but between virtual worlds and the physical world to create true interoperability across immersive platforms. How are we going to transport attributes from the physical world to the digital world?”. “To

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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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ARPost

MARCH 28, 2023

Then, it changed lanes to offer virtual worlds for consumer social uses. A Look at the Toolkit The new “ Spatial Creator Toolkit ” is a Unity-powered interface that allows users to create custom avatars, items, and “quests.” The toolkit also features advanced tools for linking virtual worlds together.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

The creative software company heats up to augmented and virtual reality. Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. It’s a great hybrid between the real world and the virtual world.”.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

As I’ve said, we worked with mixed reality on a VR headset two years ago on the Vive Focus Plus. 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.

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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. The question is, which XR collaboration solutions are most worthy of your attention in 2022?

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ARVR

JUNE 24, 2020

The growth in popularity of industries such as augmented reality and virtual reality is more than real. Virtual reality technology is all about the artificial world, while augmented reality technology includes virtual entities covered in the real world. What is Virtual Reality?

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Dispelling Common VR Myths and Misconceptions Despite the relatively widespread acceptance and use of virtual reality technology, there are still some myths and misconceptions that surround it. Unfortunately, such beliefs stem from a misunderstanding of the technology and how it works.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

We are at the beginning of March and I just realized that I haven’t written yet a post with my predictions for augmented and virtual reality for this year. The last cycle before this one was the Quest one, which started to make virtual reality known to the mainstream audience for what concerns games and fitness.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. With social media becoming more immersive, and immersive games growing into venues for social gatherings, the online experience is clearly going virtual.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

CX and the Metaverse: The Changing Face of Customer Service in a Virtual World. Day one saw major announcements from Qualcomm, ThinkReality, and the CyberXR Coalition, Ori Inbar’s AWE opener, and insights from Unity, Blippar, XRA, and others. We give you a list of 8 VR apps you can check out.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

The Virtual Burn is being created by devoted teams of independent technologists, who are building six wholly unique virtual experiences that will welcome anyone from around the globe August 22 through September 7, 2021. Learn about all six Worlds on the Virtual Burn website. What is your favorite virtual World and why?

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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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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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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the last few years, there’s been less hype around VR gloves and haptic accessories in the extended reality space. However, as the adoption of virtual reality grows in the business landscape for training, product development, and collaboration, this is beginning to change. There’s even zero-loss on-body recording at 120 FPS.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind. And since you are in VR, you are in a virtual world… well, it is just Unity, just C#, you can do whatever you want to modify the reality that you are seeing.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

Furthermore, this demo made me realize once more how interacting with objects without a clear sense of haptics and without realistic physics can be an illusion-breaker at the beginning, because you realize how your hands can’t interact with the virtual world as you do with the real one. UltraLeap Unity SDK.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

Last month, in a VIVE TALK session, HTC VIVE introduced a virtual reality (VR) behavioural training solution that helps individuals with public speaking by placing users in a virtual environment – like a stage – with digital humans. Mobile World Live (@mobileworldlive) March 1, 2022.

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