Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2023

.” Here’s a look at what Nanite can do for VR games, courtesy of YouTube channel ‘Smart Poly’: Lumen, the engine’s new dynamic global lighting system, also makes virtual environments look better, as it can use both software and hardware ray tracing for more realistic lighting.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As Meta continues to expand its investment into the Metaverse , we’re likely to see a host of new ecommerce and retail brands taking advantage of the environment to build new digital experiences. Unity provides users with access to a comprehensive real-time development platform, ideal for building 3D, immersive experiences.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

Founders Graham Gaylor & Jesse Joudrey plan to keep it that way for the “foreseeable future” Like other social VR experiences before it, the app will allow friends to meet up online in virtual environments with personalized avatars and talk, share videos and more.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2020

Moving players artificially through large virtual environments isn’t a trivial task. The haptics were synchronized to virtual footsteps to offer a stand-in stimulus for the sensations associated with real walking. Users were walked through three different virtual environments | Image courtesy Yi-Hao Peng.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 29, 2024

However, it can help to have foundational knowledge of: AR development tools: Understanding how platforms like Unity, Unreal Engine, and similar solutions work can be helpful when learning about augmented reality. You’ll learn about the basics of tools like Google Poly and Unity and explore popular use cases for AR.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2020

As a matter of fact, the Academy is still looking for talented community Unity creators to work with. Though this marks the first time the VR Awards would be hosted in VR, this is definitely not the first live event ever to be conducted in a virtual environment. Those interested can apply here. .

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Substance for Quest allows RT3D designers to sculpt a virtual object within a VR environment. Additionally, the service lets a Substance designer swap between working in a bespoke virtual environment to using their real-world desktop.

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VRScout

AUGUST 8, 2022

The app features a number of different colors and brush strokes to employ, allowing you to craft everything from stylish self-portraits to complex virtual environments you can actually explore. Once you’ve finished you can upload your sketches to the Unity editor. Ultrawings 2. Price – $24.99

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

When you are in VR, instead, you have to draw all the environment, the skybox, set the correct lighting, etc… This means more time invested, which is more money spent. There is always some work that is necessary to adapt it” The environment of our VR version of HitMotion: Reloaded.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2017

Getting that directional audio to interact in realistic ways with the virtual environment itself is the next challenge, and getting it right came make VR spaces feel far more real. SEE ALSO Latest Unity Beta Gets NVIDIA VRWorks for Enhanced Rendering Features. Photo courtesy NVIDIA.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Once the character is complete in both mind and body, they can be integrated into virtual environments created using Unreal Engine or Unity. That is, outside of the testing environment in the developer’s app for Quest. They call this model “Bring Your Own Avatar.”. A Bigger, Better, Metaverse.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface. Maher Professor of Computer Science and director of the Center for Human Computer Interaction. .

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The emulation tool can take these files, and spawn several rooms next to each other directly in the Unity editor. A custom tool built in Unity spawns several rooms side by side in an orthographic view, showing how a certain level in Laser Dance would look in different room layouts. Luckily the answer to that is: probably not.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Unlike ready-made social platforms though that feature limited avatar selections and only a few virtual spaces, VRChat maintains a DIY vibe that tends to attract more of a Maker crowd.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2023

Unity engine support is promised but with no plans for motion control support, Apple has cut out any possibility of porting most of the existing or future VR catalog to its platform. There is a comfort in understanding the topological landscape of a controller and a physical touchpoint within the virtual environments themselves.

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VRGames

JANUARY 14, 2023

Unity is continuing to grow their XR platform by releasing a new package that allows developers to add hand tracking as an input without using headset-specific SDKs. This means users can now interact with things within the virtual environment using natural gestures.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

” The company has launched a beta of the SDK today supporting Unity, and support for Unreal Engine is on the way. Available now with support for Unity, the Steam Audio SDK will also soon support Unreal Engine. Realistic sound is an important but often underappreciated aspect of the immersion equation in VR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

The Forma platform allows companies to create their own virtual environments for meetings and interactions rapidly, then embed virtual content into physical environments via real-time streaming. Unity Unity stands as one of the market leaders in software development for the metaverse landscape and the XR economy.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The PokéLens tech demo was recorded with the headset’s on-board HD video camera, allowing for a full capture of both the real and virtual environment.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

They can also create new lesson plans in virtual environments and provide fun, interactive learning experiences for their students. This costs them much less than more widely-used gaming engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine.

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ARPost

JULY 3, 2023

See Also: How Virtual Reality Can Improve Your Escape Room Business The Montreal-based company takes this concept to new heights by bringing escape rooms into the realm of augmented reality. All they need is a mobile device to project the virtual environment into their physical surroundings.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Like HTC VIVE, Magic Leap also supports a vast developer community, with access to various tools capable of integrating with Unity technology for spatial sound. There’s a “Soundfield Audio” solution for Unity users which allows for the creation of powerful AR experiences within the Magic Leap headset, equipped with spatial sound technology.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

The tech promises sound which very realistically responds to a virtual environment and would serve as an improvement over the standard 3D audio. In the demo video below you can hear the audio change as a player moves around a virtual room. Simulations can run in real-time, so the reverb can respond easily to design changes.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them. The company is also making an SDK available for Unity and Unreal Engine developers to make better use of the system.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible.

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Tech Trends VR

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The virtual environment was developed in the Unity game engine, and the native physics engine of Unity was used to drive the physics-based simulation of the Force Push interface. Maher Professor of Computer Science and director of the Center for Human Computer Interaction.

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 23, 2022

In machine vision applications, that means creating different environments and objects to train robots or self-driving cars, for example. But while there are quite a few tools out there to create virtual environments, there aren’t a lot of tools for creating virtual objects.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since I have worked on some VR concerts myself (and one even got featured on the Unity blog), I thought my opinion could be valuable for someone… at least for the Stageverse developers that so have some feedback about what to improve. but I thought it could be interesting to write some short first impressions about it.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

There are lots of tests that must be done on VRChat to see what is feasible because in VRChat you can develop using Unity, but you can’t write C# scripts and this kills completely lots of possibilities for us developers. Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen? You should see it.

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Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

Using a lightweight, mobile electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) device that provides low-voltage to arm muscles, the idea is to let AR headset-users stay hands-free, but also be able to experience force-feedback when interacting with virtual objects, and feel extra forces when touching physical objects in their environment too.

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Road to VR

MARCH 30, 2017

Developers can quickly add the free SDK to their Unity-based VR games, which allows users to easily set up, broadcast, or record mixed reality gameplay footage with the help of the utility. In addition, the VR game ideally should offer mixed reality output options, i.e. with multiple virtual cameras and depth information.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

One of them was the Immersive Visualisation Room, which had a 5 x 5-metre space where users display 360 videos, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides. In 2023, Igloo Vision showcased its various immersive spaces.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 5, 2016

They used a visual scripting program called “Virtual Environment Interactions”, which is abbreviated as VEnvI. This would control a virtual avatar who would be executing the dance. And then they would go into a virtual environment and then dance with the digital avatar. " https://t.co/1kQffI3Y2Z

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Companies can use engines from companies like Unity to recreate digital “twins” of products, buildings, and other items, combined with information from various data sources. Often combined with RT3D engines, photogrammetry is a technology designed to help content creators and innovators construct digital twins for the virtual environment.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Roughly 60 judges nominated ARuVR out of 450 global applications for two additional categories – ‘Most Innovative New Learning Technologies Product’ and ‘Best Use of Simulations or Virtual Environments for Learning.’ . Med-Tech World Awards 2022. A massive expansion of XR use cases and new applications for the technology .

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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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