VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Where Normal VR stands out, however, is that their remote team doesn’t use virtual conference rooms or presentation spaces to meet. Normcore , their multiplayer networking plugin for Unity, allows for the addition of voice chat-enabled multiplayer VR functionality for games and experiences in minutes. Image Credit: Normal VR.

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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. We can see two other users around the table, and then we see the view transitioning seamlessly between the passthrough view of the real world and the virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Dave Rhodes, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Digital Twins for Unity , delivered a keynote speech at the massive immersive tech event on Monday morning. Remaking the (Virtual) World. These entities leveraged real-time 3D (RT3D) content, with Unity leading the industry as a RT3D content creation platform.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. That is, until you remember that the metaverse isn’t just a collection of virtual worlds – it also means augmenting the physical world.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

RGB Haptics is a new Unity-based tool that aims to make it easier for developers to create and implement haptic effects in VR games. Custom waveform editor window, allowing you to design waveforms without ever leaving Unity. Anything supported by the Unity XR platform should be supported by this.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

I’ve used my eyes to interact with a virtual world before, but startup Neurable just enhanced that experience by reading my thoughts too. According to Neurable, this works using machine learning to interpret “your brain activity in real time to afford virtual powers of telekinesis.”

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Unity is hoping that, one day, something will do the same for VR. Unity CEO John Riccitiello said as much to UploadVR in an interview at this week’s Vision Summit. Carte Blanche, meanwhile, largely remains under wraps but looks to be a simplified way of quickly assembling virtual worlds that anyone can get to grips with.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2022

From simulation and modeling to game development, world-building, and even Imagineering, Orlando houses not only the talent, but also the business-friendly climate incentives that are needed to develop the metaverse,” Hackl said in a press release shared with ARPost. It was a free event that was simultaneously streamed on YouTube.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there. “That is in the works, I’ve seen it,” he said.

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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. In the real world, sound follows the inverse square law – getting quieter as the source gets farther away.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Unity’s impressive demonstration of its Editor VR software was the highlight of yesterday’s Unite conference keynote. Though extensive in the tools it provides, it also represents a more accessible, user-friendly development engine that we might all be using one day to create virtual worlds.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Parisi is considered by many to be one of the early pioneers of VR thanks to his work on Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a tool for creating 3D environments on the internet, with Mark Pesce back in 1994. .”

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Full body avatars will become available so you can look like a real digital person using the Unity Avatar SDK. For those that have purchased land through Somnium Space’s previous Initial Land Offering’s (ILO) the Builder tool will be enhanced to purchase or create new assets.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 4, 2021

The latest update to the Oculus Integration for Unity includes a beta release of a spectator camera capability which will allow developers to show a third-person view to spectators watching on a smartphone or web browser. Soon, developers on Quest will be able to add the same kind of feature to their games.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

Players can easily switch between the World Dimension and Invaders Dimension via a portal. The virtual, 3D Invader world changes in sync with the natural environment, allowing players to complete missions in both the virtual world and the natural world’s AR view.

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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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ARPost

AUGUST 15, 2022

ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine blurs the distinction between the real world and the virtual world. Esri , the world’s largest GIS software firm, recently released version 1.0 Back in June, the company launched ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity. of the ArcGIS Maps SDK for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Rec Room built a world using generative AI tools called Fractura. Last year Rec Room added direct integration with Unity, called Rec Room Studio , letting creators build higher quality worlds in the Unity editor instead of being limited to the ingame shape-based creation tools.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Virtual worlds like Fortnite, Roblox, or also RecRoom, and VRChat are becoming every day more successful. But now that prediction at least makes some sense, and this shows how the virtual worlds market is growing, both in number of users and in the size of its economy , and this trend is continuing this year for sure.

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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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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. This is cool because it will help spread the word about VR and virtual worlds. See Unity running on Quest. News worth a mention.

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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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AUGUST 26, 2016

As a result, they've created an "Interaction Engine" for Unity, the primary platform for developing virtual and mixed reality experiences, to try and take gesture interaction to the next level. Leap Motion explains: The Interaction Engine is a layer that exists between the Unity game engine and real-world hand physics.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

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. These are the only settings about the passthrough you can change inside Unity. Literally no way.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info LivingCities shuts down Last year, LivingCities was announced as one of the most promising startups out there , having the mission of bridging the real and the virtual world, making physical and virtual people interact together as if they were in the same place.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Virtual reality focuses on introducing a virtual world with which people can interact. Virtual reality uses software to create realistic images, sounds, and other senses that replicate a real environment and mimic a user’s physical presence within this environment, controlled or experienced by body movement.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 22, 2023

Development of  Crystal Frost — a mobile-friendly Unity -based Second Life viewer which is now in beta trials — will continue despite Second Life recently announcing its own mobile virtual world viewer. “If people could just go to a website and enter the world, it would be a lot easier for new users.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 9, 2022

Meta Platforms unveiled last week the latest iteration of its hand-tracking technologies as a demo for developers, allowing users to explore virtual worlds with their hands rather than physical controllers. Modular systems for adjusting hand-tracking functions such as pose recognition and velocity tracking.

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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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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Venice VR virtual world, designed by VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a virtual version of Venice. Users on Quest can visit these worlds, too. Jensen Huang interview: The physical world and the metaverse can be connected. It’s available to anyone with a VRChat account.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2022

NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse. As big tech is racing toward the development and adoption of extended reality, the debut of the metaverse is nigh.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Developing with a VR headset doesn’t necessarily mean you’re developing a VR app; the HTC Vive is finding unexpected use as a camera for virtual worlds, too. VRCameraman costs $25 from the Unity asset store.

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