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JANUARY 19, 2018

In 2017, venture funding of VR/AR companies reached at least $1.9B, ending slightly above 2016. 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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AUGUST 13, 2017

Colaianni told me, “the outstanding nomination process for the VR Awards 2017 is anything to go by, future years will continue to build upon the astounding work our nominees have been producing.” There you go, that’s the VR Bound VR Awards shortlist for 2017. So much so that organizers are already taking registered interests for 2018.

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JULY 31, 2017

Here’s how Neurable describes it : Neurable is debuting Awakening , a VR game preview made in partnership with eStudiofuture , at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles. ” The company offers an SDK so Unity developers can integrate the system into a game. You discover that experiments have endowed you with telekinetic powers.

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MAY 1, 2017

Brandon Bray, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, took the stage at Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit 2017 to show a little more of what Microsoft has planned for the VR side of things when the first Windows Holographic headsets come later this year. image courtesy Unity Technologies.

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JULY 28, 2021

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players. In Unity, OpenXR support is still considered “experimental.” Image courtesy The Khronos Group.

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APRIL 27, 2022

Unity support – It is an important parameter for any AR development app. Unity is unarguably the most powerful and prevalent game engine worldwide. In June 2017, Apple launched its own AR development kit, ARKit , while launching iOS11. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. Apple ARKit. Pricing : Free.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

At GDC 2017, Unity held a keynote discussing their impact on the gaming industry, future updates to the engine, and much more. The two played a match against each other, which was won by the Green Ranger of course, and then they shared another announcement for Unity 5.6. Stay tuned to UploadVR for more news from GDC 2017.

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MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. In a statement, Unity celebrated all of its award winners and nominees: This year’s selection showcases the continued growth and maturation of VR, AR, and MR content by highlighting advancements with narrative, artistic, and technical achievements. Baobab Studios).

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MARCH 16, 2017

Here are two of my VR favorites that premiered at SXSW 2017 this week: SHOW IT 2 ME – Mark Brooks & Dylan Carter. Show It 2 Me was created with Google Tilt Brush and was the first VR experience to use the Tilt Brush Toolkit ( now in BETA ) to export elements into Unity to be animated.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. Tony Parisi.

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JUNE 9, 2020

The VR Awards has been recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry since 2017. Since its release back in 2017 the game has attracted a sizable community of players thanks in large part to its $0.00 As a matter of fact, the Academy is still looking for talented community Unity creators to work with.

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As CEO of Unity Technologies, John Riccitiello leads one of the most important companies in VR’s future, but he doesn’t expect the industry to see “explosive growth” next year. ” Despite the long-term prediction for mass VR adoption, Unity is making big moves in the industry already.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Many companies are making waves across the gaming industry at GDC this week and Unity has certainly contributed to a few headlines. At GDC, Wowza Media Systems announced a collection of development tools for Unity software and one of them is a plugin that allows for a connection to Wowza’s GoCoder.

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JULY 17, 2024

Google announced that Blocks , the 3D asset creation tool released for VR in 2017, is following in the footsteps of Tilt Brush by going open source. “First up, we’ll be switching to use the OpenXR framework and new input system within Unity, enabling us to target Open Blocks for a much wider range of XR devices.

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The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is backed by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players. That will be a bigger deal once it finally happens because Unity is far and away more used than Unreal Engine when it comes to building XR content.

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AUGUST 28, 2021

One organization that the Orlando Tech Council played host to fairly early, in 2017, was the VR/AR Association. “We In 2017, Cunningham worked for Disti, a virtual maintenance training company specializing in aviation and based in Orlando. It’s in many different sectors and is geographically distributed.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Like every year since its inaugural award ceremony in 2017, the VR Awards is slated to bring together the industry’s most talented to celebrate achievements across a variety of fields, including VR hardware, games, experiences, film, education, and out-of-home entertainment. Developer applications to help are now open.

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JULY 6, 2017

Like Tilt Brush, objects made with Blocks may seem simplistic at first, but the apps professional potential becomes glaringly obvious once it’s objects are rendered in software like Unity. This will feel limiting at first, but it is a life saver when working in Unity. But what if you don’t know how to use Unity?

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JUNE 30, 2021

It is true that the Unity Asset Store is your friend, but as our creative artist Lapo Germasi says “ If you want to make a good job, there is no asset that you download and you just use as is. Tutorial on how to easily make a cross-platform application in Unity.

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MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate. Subscribe on iTunes.

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MARCH 23, 2017

SVVR 2017 is less than a week away , and with an exciting roster of speakers and demos across all major industry verticals, with 100+ VR/AR companies represented, it’s slated to be a star-studded gathering of VR experts. Here’s a peek of the far-reaching topics at SVVR 2017: Education And Virtual Reality – Clay Park VR.

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MAY 30, 2017

VRLA, in partnership with Microsoft, Unity, AfterNow and Upload LA, is hosting HoloHack LA on June 23rd through June 25th, 2017. Space is very limited and participants must have a minimum skill set to qualify with previous experience developing for AR/VR/MR and/or with Unity.

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JUNE 19, 2017

Unity’s Vision Summit keynote was home to a lot of news, but a certain game definitely stood out. Here at E3 2017 we got a chance to play some two-player co-op through a mission and based on that impression, this visually stunning title could use some work. Tagged with: e3 , E3 2017 , Seeking Dawn Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

At Unity’s Unite keynote in November, Otoy’s Jules Urbach announced that their Octane Renderer was going to be built into Unity to bake light field scenes. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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MARCH 1, 2017

When we last heard from OTOY , the company revealed it was bringing light field baking and more to its Unity integration. On display at Unity’s booth is the first light field video created in OTOY’s Octane renderer using the engine. Items captured could be turned into a Unity asset to be brought into VR or MR experiences.

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AUGUST 11, 2020

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. A lot of my prototypes are excuses to learn new skills and techniques in Unity. Back in 2017 we built one of the first collaboration tools for VR.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

In the summer of 2017, the company announced it was shuttering the social VR platform due to lack of funds. MRTK was a Microsoft-driven project that provided a set of components and features, used to accelerate cross-platform XR app development in the Unity game engine. We’ve written about the death of AltspaceVR once before.

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MAY 8, 2017

That’s the idea behind the company’s VRWorks Audio SDK , which was released today during the GTC 2017 conference; it’s part of the company’s VRWorks suite of tools to enhance VR applications on Nvidia GPUs. SEE ALSO Latest Unity Beta Gets NVIDIA VRWorks for Enhanced Rendering Features.

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MAY 10, 2017

Even their website and trailer (below) for 2017’s expo imbue a heroic theme, building buzz for the event with high energy. Individuals from companies such as HTC Vive, NVIDIA, Osterhout, Unity, castAR, Qualcomm, Leap Motion, Meta, Verizon, Dell, Oculus, and more will be among the over 300 featured speakers in attendance.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

At Slush 2017, Helsinki-based Varjo Technologies today announced an additional investment of $6.7 The announcement coincides with the company’s first public technology demonstration which happened this week at Slush 2017, the annual Helsinki-based startup conference. image courtesy Varjo.

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MARCH 23, 2017

This year’s show is sponsored by the likes of Oculus, HTC’s Viveport, and Unity. Attendees will also hear from Tony Parisi, currently busy heading up VR and AR at Unity,Kent Bye, host of long-time VR interview series Voices of VR, and Rikard Steiber, SVP of VR at HTC. Tagged with: svvr , SVVR 2017.

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APRIL 26, 2017

A year later, the team had upgraded the platform to six players combating virtual reality zombies with assault rifles in the Unity-developed Outbreak game. By this June, Zero Latency will have 10 sites across the globe and 24 by end of 2017, including U.S. locations in Orlando, Boston, Philadelphia, Wisconsin and the Poconos.

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Downloaded just over 85,000 times, in 2017 it was nominated for the ‘Best Narrative VR’ and ‘Narrative Achievement Award’ at Unity VR/AR Vision Summit and was featured at the Sundance Film Festival by HTC.

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JUNE 27, 2019

Survios, the studio behind a host of VR games such as Raw Data (2017), Sprint Vector (2018) and Creed: Rise to Glory (2018) , has been a stalwart pioneer of the medium since the birth of consumer VR. Target Student Demographic : Expert-level Unity (or other game engine) developers who want to master Unreal Engine 4 for VR.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

According to a report by Reuters , ZeniMax filed papers on Thursday, at the same court where the early 2017 trial was held, which seek an injunction that would prevent distribution of the VR code that was found to infringe on ZeniMax’s copyright.

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MARCH 12, 2018

billion in revenue in 2017, is seizing on the opportunity to provide the tools. “We Unity, which allows developers to create highly customizable experiences for VR and AR, leads the pack. Adobe, which announced a record $7.3 Adobe might be the undisputed king of creative software, but they face competition in the VR space.

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