Road to VR

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In separate announcements, Owlchemy Labs revealed its ever-fresh VR title Job Simulator (2016) and its well-received follow-up Vacation Simulator (2019) are coming to Android XR;Resolution Games says Demeo (2021) is coming too. Similar to Apple Vision Pro, Samsung is highlighting Project Moohan’s hand and eye-tracking capabilities.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. For who wasn’t doing AR at that time: Metaio had an amazing SDK for phone-based AR, but then it got acquired by Apple and it disappeared from the market. Since I loved gaming (who doesn’t love gaming?),

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Unity Technologies and Epic Games are in a grudge match for the hearts and minds of game developers. I interviewed both John Riccitiello, CEO of San Francisco-based Unity, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Raleigh, N.C.-based The Unity-based games reached a billion new devices since GDC 2016.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

You can pull up a location in Maps and pinch your way in and out of locales, almost exactly as Google Earth VR offered from 2016 on PCs with Steam and the Vive controllers. Meanwhile, eye tracking is a core part of its pinch selection interface in Apple Vision Pro.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

It’s a good moment for VR: thanks to the strong sales of the Oculus Quest 2 and the rumors of Apple entering the space soon, there is much more confidence in the future of immersive technologies. Unity releases free guide on mobile development optimization. Investments in VR companies are on the rise. It is overly cool.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

JUNE 8, 2023

Tweet In 2016 I wrote Cont3xt the follow up to Reconfigure and part of that was an upgrade our lead character gets. She has access to an API that can manipulate the physical world like the virtual, she builds that up into a Unity application for her smart phone in the first book.

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AR Insider

MARCH 24, 2020

After passing through the boom and bust cycle of 2016 and 2017, the last two years were more about measured optimism in the face of the sobering realities of industry shakeout and retraction. Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. Header Image Credit: Apple. AR at Work.

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AR Insider

MARCH 20, 2020

Confidence signals include Brand spending on sponsored lenses and indicators for Apple’s eventual AR glasses. Despite confidence signals, consumer traction lags far behind the high-flying expectations of 2016-2017’s hype cycle. Apple’s AR Fate. Apple’s Quick Look is evolving in the same direction.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

After passing through the boom and bust cycle of 2016 and 2017, the last two years were more about measured optimism in the face of the sobering realities of industry shakeout and retraction. Brand spending on sponsored mobile AR lenses is a bright spot, as is Apple AR glasses rumors. Apple Glasses Don’t Arrive in 2020.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents have an advantage with existing mapping such as Google Maps, Earth, Street View, Apple Maps and the Indoor Maps Program, and Bing Maps but there are also significant geographic data players such as Foursquare and OpenStreetMap. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

In the fall of 2016, Microsoft announced a partnership with a handful of hardware manufacturers to make developer headsets implementing the inside-out tracking technology seen on the HoloLens. LOTS OF BIG UNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS AT GDC. DOES APPLE HAVE 1000+ ENGINEERS WORKING ON AR IN ISRAEL? WHEN WILL WIRELESS VR GET HERE?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 27, 2025

” Bosworth also stated: Since Apple leaned so hard into marketing mixed reality features for the Apple Vision Pro, we wanted to make sure people were aware that Quest 3 in particular was as good as, or in my opinion better than, what they get elsewhere. Other features of the Meta XR Core SDK Version 74.1

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. Not to mention how 3D technologies are being adopted and developed by major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple. Back in 2016, we posted an infographic about 3D models and VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 18, 2022

Founded in 2016, Rec Room was one of the earlier pioneers in the XR and metaverse space. When it comes to building games and applications in extended reality, few companies have the same impact as Unity. We cover everything from Unity’s amazing consulting services to the powerful Unity Distribution portal. The Sandbox.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2014, 2015 and 2016 The Proto Awards were held to recognize some of the groundbreaking efforts pushing forward the emerging medium of VR content. Apple’s eye-catching ARKit is on the verge of release alongside a series of Microsoft-backed VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). The fun thing is that since it is a publication very focused on the Chinese market, outside China almost no one knows them.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 11, 2017

It released with the launch of the HTC Vive in early 2016 and Facebook’s Oculus Touch controllers for Rift late in the year. During this process of development the Northways learned Unity, a game creation toolset that alongside competitor Unreal Engine has been early to support VR.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In the first half of 2016, the VR/AR industry saw $1.3B Series A round led by Atomico, along with Speedinvest, Y Combinator (of which the company is an alumnus), Dawn Capital, and notable individuals such as the founder of Unity and the former VP of engineering at Netflix and YouTube. Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. Paul, welcome to the show.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. ” You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. Paul, welcome to the show.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 6, 2018

I’ve not been able to test it in person, but looking around its users manual, the aGlass DK II seems quite easy to install and also easy to be used as a developer , thanks to its handy Unity and Unreal plugins. As you know, in the west, SMI (M&A by Apple) was an advanced eye-tracking company before. Yes, it is!

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

OCTOBER 13, 2023

However, Meta terminated the contract after it found Andre Elijah Immersive had been working with Apple, one of Meta’s most significant competitors. The company launched in 2015 and released its first product in 2016 – focusing on spatial analytic services.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Game engines like the versatile Unity have long been the go-to for AR development, and for good reason. In 2016, Paul moved to Portland, Oregon, where he founded Torch to address this very problem. You know what, go learn Unity and coding and figure out how to actually make it. To learn more about Torch, you can visit torch.app.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2023

There is a small tab (visible in the image above) that starts a simple Unity-based application, with a series of white and green dots that must be followed by the user. In comparison, the Valve Index’s older BOE panels have a native resolution of 1440 x 1600 with SteamVR reporting 100% resolution as 2016 x 2240 per eye.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And kind of around 2016, 17, 18 we built a game for ARKit, called Zombie Gunship Revenant. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team. Alan: It's interesting you say that, because everybody in the world was moving towards glTF, until Apple said, "Oh yeah, we got our own one!"

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And kind of around 2016, 17, 18 we built a game for ARKit, called Zombie Gunship Revenant. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team. Alan: It's interesting you say that, because everybody in the world was moving towards glTF, until Apple said, "Oh yeah, we got our own one!".

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. Do you think Apple is going to come out with their glasses in the next five years? So, you think Apple Apple would do this? But I think first that is sort of talking about what’s happened. Let’s look out five years.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. Do you think Apple is going to come out with their glasses in the next five years? So, you think Apple Apple would do this? But I think first that is sort of talking about what’s happened. Let’s look out five years.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 2, 2019

Feature comparison between ARCore, ARKit and the Unity Handheld AR SDK (Image by Unity). Apple glasses. Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews). In 2019 we’ll see more strategic acquisitions by Apple and more rumors about an incoming AR glass by Apple.

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XR for Business Podcast

APRIL 21, 2020

And kind of around 2016, 17, 18 we built a game for ARKit, called Zombie Gunship Revenant. Apple featured it a whole bunch of times. We've been working with Unity's Reflect team. Alan: It's interesting you say that, because everybody in the world was moving towards glTF, until Apple said, "Oh yeah, we got our own one!".

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Apple Vision Pro is a very impressive fusion of hardware and software, but it's by no means perfect. Apple Vision Pro Specs, Features & Details Apple officially revealed the full Vision Pro specs when opening preorders today. And Apple did not send UploadVR a review unit, we bought our own. But does it deliver?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 3, 2025

Eventually, that company was acquired by Apple and became the foundation for the ARKit team , so that was a nice closure. Of course, we all know Unity, but there’s a whole set of new tools that have been developed to help game developers make their games better. We felt we needed to get together and have some event.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

John Riccitiello -- the CEO of Unity -- was one of the first to point out that there was going to be this great sort of gold rush of people who were going to overhype VR and its potential, and then we're going to see this gap of a disappointment where the early reality didn't match up with the hype and a lot of people were going to bail on it.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

Marc: I used to run the Majenta division of Autodesk, so I was building the legacy -- not real time -- tools for visualization in the film and TV industry, and I joined Epic in 2016. And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. At the time, for me it was like, "Oh my God, they're going to make it."

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 18, 2019

And this case with VR, starting in 2016, everybody thought it would be games again. Do you think Apple is going to come out with their glasses in the next five years? So, you think Apple Apple would do this? But I think first that is sort of talking about what’s happened. Let’s look out five years.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

It was also used to populate the locations for various Pokéstops and gyms in Niantic’s 2016, Pokémon Go, which proved to be a monumental hit among both dedicated and casual gamers. Ingress Prime is available now on the Apple App Store and on Google Play. The Netflix show will also feature music from artists such as Alt-J.

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