Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Feelreal had its first taste of notoriety back at GDC 2015 when the company debuted its public prototype, a sort of smell-o-vision add-on for VR headsets that provided users with a number of scents through a clip-in cartridge system as well as hot and cool wind, water mist, and haptic vibrations. Image courtesy Feelreal Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

I have been working in the immersive space since 2015 and my personal vision is to inspire and educate people to think and act in a socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable way. With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one?

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Road to VR

JULY 24, 2017

We were in the last six months of working on The Order (2015) and we had ideas in the team about what we wanted to do next. And so work began in earnest in May 2015 on the project that was to become Lone Echo. Was there a temptation to jump into engines such as Unity or Unreal to jumpstart development?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 11, 2017

According to the Improbable website, SpatialOS “gives you the power to seamlessly stitch together multiple servers and game engines like Unreal and Unity to power massive, persistent worlds with more players than ever before.” The company’s main product is a new platform for networked 3D graphics called SpatialOS.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

According to Laverde, this began in 2015. Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. It also hinted at some developments to come in the future. Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

In 2015, Snapchat acquired Looksery for $150M. The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Although Facebook has had 360 video capabilities since September 2015, it’s not clear why they have waited so long to release 360 photo functionality.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 23, 2017

That’s a lot of investments for a fund that was announced in December 2015. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Collectively, he had invested in seed rounds for more than 150 companies, which includes holdings in billion dollar companies like Unity and Zappos.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The exhibit is rooted in her 2015 album Vulnicura – a dizzying dive into the depths of post-breakup despair. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2016

Fove raised $480,000 on Kickstarter (along with an undisclosed amount from Samsung Ventures) in summer 2015 to manufacture their eye-tracking headset, a technology that’s useful for a number of important applications such as foveated rendering, avatar eye-mapping, simulated depth-of field, and eye-based user interfaces.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2016

Their OctaneRender is GPU-based, physically correct renderer that has been integrated into 24 special effects industry tools with support for Unity and Unreal Engine on the way. — John Carmack (@ID_AA_Carmack) February 6, 2015. OTOY added support for rendering stereo cube maps in the Octane renderer.

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Leapmotion

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We’ve also switched up the 2015 competition with two tracks: AR/VR and Open. 1st Prize: $10,000, Unity Suite, 2 OSVR HDKs, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. 2nd Prize: $7,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. 3rd Prize: $5,000, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti. 4th Prize: $2,500, Unity Pro, OSVR HDK.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

” According to the company, Xenoma’s Software Development kit (SDK) enables development of apps using Java SDK, Visual C# and Unity Engine. Xenoma’s e-skin and software developer’s kit (SDK) supports application development using Java SDK, Visual C# and Unity.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And while the easy path would likely have been to take one of the readily available built-for-VR engines—like Unreal Engine or Unity—to develop a one-off Battlefront VR experience, the developers behind the X-Wing VR Mission have confirmed that it is indeed the Frostbite engine powering the experience.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

The creators hail from the Vancouver area, just a three or four hour drive across the border from Seattle-based Valve, and when they took a trip down to Valve’s offices in the summer of 2015 they got a look at an early HTC Vive with controllers that brought hands into VR. Learning New Skills.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. Or Unreal if that’s your language. Derek graduates January 1st, 2015, and then shocks everybody by signing six national football league teams in a couple of months to multiyear six-figure contracts.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” After the April announcement of its $100M Vive X VR Accelerator program, it’s funding of Steel Wool further illustrates that HTC is investing heavily in the virtual reality ecosystem. FOR VR GAME IN 2017.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Ben: In the 3D space for quite some time, but in doing 3D for e-commerce, we've been doing that since 2015. Let's kind of go back to 2015. What are the services that Threekit offers, and how has that changed from 2015? In 2015, people started using our 3D content creation for the web, for e-commerce applications.

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Leapmotion

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Our Unity , Unreal , and JavaScript integrations already include model hands that you can quickly drop into any project. Building a 3D Desktop App with Unity. Unity is a powerful game engine that makes it easy to rapidly build and develop desktop and VR projects. Building a Web App. Building a Web App.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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HaptX

MARCH 6, 2018

Kate Edwards at Konsoll 2015, where she spoke about strategies for game culturalization. Now, professionals from the game industry, such as Unity and Unreal developers, environmental artists, and 3D modelers are seeing demands for their skills beyond games. “My She recalls how much impressions have changed about who gamers are.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

And then if you take things like Unreal Engine, they're doing concerts on their Fortnite platform. Unity Technologies just went public. Now, if you look at something like game engines, for example, Unity and Unreal, they've been established for many, many years. And Unity's, I think started. Alex: Huge news.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Or we sell just the simulators to different integrators, and they're able to take our SDK and create their own experiences within Unreal or Unity. And we also just got awarded a Unreal-- or an Epic MegaGrant to develop in Unreal, basically in collaboration with BeBop Sensors who makes these haptic hand tracking gloves.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

My team at Shopify started on VR stuff back in 2015 but we’ve been really focused on augmented reality shopping as of late. The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. Aww shucks, thank you!

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VeeR VR

DECEMBER 25, 2017

It's adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 , Unity 5 and Amazon’s Lumberyard to provide developers an easy path to take amazing in-game shots. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is a 2015 action role-playing video game developed and published by CD Projekt. What's Nvidia Ansel? The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

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XROM

JULY 18, 2021

China’s XR Industry has been growing rapidly and so is India’s, In the year 2015 India had under 10 XR Startups, today we have over 2000 XR focussed Startups in the Country. Before his entrepreneurial work, Mahajan was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. She has worked in the XR space since 2015.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Ars Technica reported : For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold. ” “Unity is quite simply not a company to be trusted.” What has happened?

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But they claim having also seen a Unity experience running from it (maybe it will be possible to develop for Horizon with Unity, as it is possible with VRChat), so developers may still be able to create more complex stuff. Unity GPU We recently enabled Unity’s GPU Profiler on Quest and Go. Developer tools.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

It’s a simple SDK that integrates with Unity as a content creator, or you can drag and drop product placement within your experience. And with our plugin integrated with Unity, they were able to place ads alongside the track, by basically planting billboards that are part of the scenery. Get ads that work for VR and AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 2, 2019

It’s a simple SDK that integrates with Unity as a content creator, or you can drag and drop product placement within your experience. And with our plugin integrated with Unity, they were able to place ads alongside the track, by basically planting billboards that are part of the scenery. Get ads that work for VR and AR.

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