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How to install and uninstall unapproved apps on Oculus Quest using SideQuest

How to install and uninstall unapproved apps on Oculus Quest using SideQuest

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 […]

June 19, 2019July 12, 2019
by Skarredghost
How to get started with Oculus Quest development in Unity

How to get started with Oculus Quest development in Unity

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 […]

June 8, 2019July 12, 2019
by Skarredghost
How to show a 3D model in AR inside your website

How to show a 3D model in AR inside your website

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. […]

May 10, 2019May 22, 2019
by Skarredghost
How to make a 3D Photo for Facebook from your Unity project

How to make a 3D Photo for Facebook from your Unity project

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 […]

April 28, 2019May 4, 2019
by Skarredghost
How to fix the “An Oculus update may not have installed correctly” error

How to fix the “An Oculus update may not have installed correctly” error

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 […]

April 17, 2019April 17, 2019
by Skarredghost
How to fix controllers buttons not working and menu interactions with Vive Wave SDK 3.0 in Unity

How to fix controllers buttons not working and menu interactions with Vive Wave SDK 3.0 in Unity

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 […]

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019
by Skarredghost
How to record (or stream) videos easily with your Vive Focus and a Windows 10 PC

How to record (or stream) videos easily with your Vive Focus and a Windows 10 PC

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 […]

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019
by Skarredghost
Vive Focus 6 DOF controllers devkit unboxing and setup instructions

Vive Focus 6 DOF controllers devkit unboxing and setup instructions

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), […]

January 5, 2019January 5, 2019
by Skarredghost
11 cool suggestions to follow if you have to speak at (or attend, or host) a VR event

11 cool suggestions to follow if you have to speak at (or attend, or host) a VR event

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 […]

December 21, 2018December 21, 2018
by Skarredghost
How to suppress the controller pairing popup in your Vive Focus app

How to suppress the controller pairing popup in your Vive Focus app

Today I want to propose you a quick solution for one big problem of the Vive Focus apps: the controller pairing popup always appearing in front of your eyes. The situation is this one: you launch the experience you have just developed with the Vive Focus and when you put the headset on your head, […]

December 11, 2018December 11, 2018
by Skarredghost
How to use Casting to stream your Oculus Go content to Phone or PC

How to use Casting to stream your Oculus Go content to Phone or PC

At Oculus Connect 5, Oculus has announced Casting, an amazing feature that lets you stream the content of an Oculus Go to a smartphone. But how to use it? And is it possible to use it also to stream to PC? Keep reading and you will know that.

December 4, 2018
by Skarredghost

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