Today I’m going to write a detailed tutorial about AR.js, telling you what it is and how it can be useful to create seamless simple mobile AR experiences. I spent a lot of time experimenting for this article, so I really hope that you will love it 🙂 The problem of friction of mobile AR […]
The Valve Index is for sure one of the best VR gadgets of the moment. On its faceplate, it has two front cameras, that are not used for inside-out tracking, but to provide some kind of mixed reality features. While Valve has not released an SDK to develop mixed reality applications yet, it is already […]
One of the most discussed themes in the VR communities nowadays is the Oculus Quest content curation. According to many people (like me), Oculus is right in preventing crappy apps to enter and clutter the Quest Store, but its content curation is being too strict and it’s preventing also good apps from being published (I’ve […]
As soon as my Oculus Quest arrived, I immediately started playing with it and have fun with Beat Saber, Robo Recall, Creed and all the other titles. But then, as a developer, I felt the urge to understand how to develop my applications in Unity for the Oculus Quest. And I guess that if you […]
Google I/O 2019 has just finished and has all been about new augmented reality features. One of them, that comes together with ARCore 1.9, is the possibility of embedding 3D models inside your website, so that they can be seen in augmented reality by your users by just tapping on the screen of their smartphones. […]
Facebook 3D Photos are one of the hot trends of the moment, especially now that is possible to upload them from Facebook website. They could be a great innovative tool to market your AR and VR applications (and even for the non-XR ones)… so let’s see how you can create them for you game directly […]
Sometimes it happens that when I launch my Rift, an error saying that “an Oculus update may not have installed correctly” pops up… and after I close it, everything seems to work perfectly. Today, I finally understood what it means and I want to explain this to you, in case you find yourself in my […]
I was porting our Unity game Hit Motion: Reloaded to the new Vive Wave SDK 3.0.2 so that to make it ready for launch on the Vive Focus Plus, when something made me panic: no button on the controllers was working! I wrote to HTC and in the end, I managed to someway solve the […]
Some weeks ago, I have published my post where I detailed how to install the 6 DOF Controllers devkit for the Vive Focus. Later on, I published on my social media a video of the controllers in action, shot directly from inside my Vive Focus. As you can see, this video is in a nice […]
In December, I published this tweet: All I want for Christmas is: – Mariah Carey – 6 DOF Controllers for the Vive Focus About the first point, unluckily nothing has happened. But regarding the second one… well, I must have been a good guy in 2018 because Santa Alvin (the Chinese version of Santa Claus), […]
In these two days, I’ve attended two events inside virtual reality. They have been very different one from the other, but both of them have been very interesting. They were: The CPD in VR organized by Steve Bambury. The chosen platform was ENGAGE and I was there as one of the speakers. Steve manages this […]
