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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

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IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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Investors Poured a Record $2 Billion into VR/AR in 2017, But Early Stage Funding Slowed

Road to VR

The total number of companies raising venture capital during 2017 outpaced 2016, but the average deal size declined sharply by 35%, according to Greenlight Insights’ annual year-end analysis of individual venture capital deals dating back to 2011.

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Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $181M, Matterport Acquires Virtual.

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Funding Roundup: Unity Raises $181M, Matterport Acquires Virtual Walkthrough, ScopeAR Raises $2M, Pixie Raises $18.5M Unity Technologies announced that it has closed a $181 million Series C round of funding led by DFJ Growth.

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Becoming a Butterfly?—?Part 2: Flight

ARVR

In this post, I’ll be discussing the development of our avatar’s flight capabilities, using the Nvidia PhysX engine in Unity. Building our butterfly avatar’s flight capabilities in Unity based on our simplified flight model A note to readers: as before, I’m embedding some short video clips of the avatar’s flight capabilities in action?—?but

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DreamGlass is an interesting Augmented Reality glass that costs only $399

The Ghost Howls

Unity-based SDK supporting Windows and Android. Its SDK is compatible with Unity, so us developers can use a game engine we already know well to create AR apps. in physiological optics in 2011, I later worked for General Electrics and Meta AR. HTC: 10, U11. The accessory is sold separately.). iPhone/iPad support in development).

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The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

Unity’s most recent update makes the cross-platform game engine even more equally optimized, so with only one API you can simply build for multiple platforms with hardware-specific tweaks held to a minimum. Already supporting the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, HTC Vive, and PSVR – Unity will now support Google Daydream.

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Game Cooks Are Using Their Mobile Experience To Create ‘HOVR’ And Other VR Games

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Since 2011, they’ve released over a dozen successful mobile games on iTunes and Google Play, but HOVR for Gear VR is their first foray into virtual reality. The transition to VR development turned out to be quite smooth, since Game Cooks was already working with the Unity engine on their previous mobile titles.

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