Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple has finally made a commitment to VR, announcing on stage today at Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2017 that not only will they offer an external GPU developer kit for MacBooks capable of meeting the graphical demands of VR, but that both the new 27-inch iMac and the iMac Pro will be VR-ready out of the box. image courtesy TIME.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. ” In addition, Unreal Engine will premiere The Giant: Michelangelo’s David in VR to the public, which lets audiences get up-close with the iconic statue unlike ever before. — guyal of crypto (@cryptoguyal) August 3, 2017.

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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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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

ShapesXR is game engine-friendly, allowing you to easily export your projects to popular platforms such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Despite technically being a stripped-down version of the original 2017 PC VR release, Vinyl Reality Lite is a surprisingly robust VR DJ experience. Not sure where to start? Try the in-game tutorial.

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Road to VR

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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Road to VR

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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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR and the HTC Vive to MacOS , along with a number of other announcements about how the company would support VR as part of its ecosystem. — Philip Schiller (@pschiller) December 12, 2017.

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APRIL 17, 2024

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and over time has become supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players—but notably, not Apple. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Of course, all of the various applications, programs and tools will require a base engine for creation, and that’s where Epic Games – and specifically its Unreal Engine – comes in. On the professional side, I’ve been blown away with the amount of progress we’ve been able to make with the VR Unreal Editor.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. support in Unreal Engine and plans to update the engine for the 1.0 Epic says that it has previously implemented OpenXR 0.9

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2017

At the ‘VR with Metal 2’ session during Apple’s WWDC 2017 conference last month, Apple GPU Software Team member Rav Dhiraj detailed the new features in Metal 2 for VR. On stage at WWDC 2017, Valve’s Nat Brown overviews the inner workings of SteamVR rendering on MacOS | Photo courtesy Apple. Single-pass Stereo.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. ” He went on to talk about Facebook’s social VR demo that debuted at Oculus Connect 3 last month, revealing that both it and Oculus’ own Rooms and Parties social software had been made with Unity.

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MAY 26, 2017

During a week where Unity gained a $400 million influx of investment capital, it’s chief rival Epic Games is working to spend $5 million of its own money to facilitate game development for the Unreal Engine. Earlier this year, Epic announced that it would be dolling out $5 million total in grants to up and coming Unreal devs.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Coming out of stealth in 2017, Varjo has partnered with a few big names in the automotive industry, including Volvo, Audi, Volkswagen, and maintains that those professionals using its new software could hypothetically modify a 3D car model using existing CAD and visualization tools like Autodesk, or game engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine, and (..)

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Federighi says that ARKit provides fast and stable motion-tracking, plane estimation with basic boundaries, ambient lighting estimation, scale estimation, support for Unity, Unreal, SceneKit and Xcode app templates—all available on “hundred of millions of iPhones and iPads […] making overnight ARKit the largest AR platform in the world.”

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OCTOBER 25, 2019

However, after pursuing VC funding, the company struggled before shutting down in 2017 due to leadership changes pushed through by investors. The Tilt Five team invites those interested in developing for the platform to contact them , as they can provide an SDK with ready-made plugins for Unity 5.5+ and Unreal Engine 4. .

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

At the 2017 Game Developers Conference this week the company will showcase interactive streaming of a game inside the HTC Vive. Genvid’s technology is already available in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, but a plug-in for Unity is also being released.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

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? Unity and Unreal are both incredible game engines and both require specialized training and/or teams to develop for. This is scheduled for a Q4 release.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus. LET’S SPECULATE ON Q1 HEADSET SALES.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The Holodeck Year 2: Growing the VR Ecosystem in 2017. These representatives of the best of both PC and mobile VR are bound to have a few answers, as will the makers on Unreal Engine 4. State Of Unreal: Epic Games’ Opening Session. Liz Mercuri (Unity). Tagged with: GDC , GDC 2017 , VR talks.

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APRIL 21, 2017

You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. But the tracking volume is still limited compared to other VR experiences made using graphic engines like Unity or Unreal.

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JUNE 3, 2019

First introduced in 2017, ARKit is a suite of tools for building AR applications on iOS. ” Rather than asking iOS developers to learn game engine tools like Unity or Unreal Engine, it seems that RealityKit will be an option that Apple hopes will be easier and more familiar to its developers.

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AUGUST 29, 2018

Some of the ways the company suggest conquering this challenge include: individual game support, native engine support through Unreal or Unity, an API wrapper (which could break after headset software updates), native support through OpenXR, or native support from headset manufacturers.

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JUNE 8, 2017

The CEOs of reality creation tools Unity and Unreal have perhaps the best insight anywhere into the state of the industry and both John Riccitiello and Tim Sweeney see investment accelerating significantly over the next year. Tagged with: e3 , E3 2017 , Scorpio Facebook Twitter Reddit More. Things are changing though.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

in beginning of 2017, and the standalone VR HMD is a focused new business unit for the company – and they’re working with partners for in-headset payment systems. Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code name: Moss. WITH 500M USERS, ALIBABA’S ALIPAY GOES VIRTUAL.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

The experience was created in honor of the upcoming Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale (2017) film, and will be first made available in Japan and Korea starting January 31 with availability ending July 31, 2017. The 'Sword Art Online' VR MMO Isn't Real.

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JUNE 6, 2017

It will cost $4999 and launch in December 2017 Macbook Apple will be offering an external graphics enclosure with an AMD Radeon RX 580 GPU which will connect to Macbooks via Thunderbolt. Apple also says that both Unity and Unreal Engine will support their VR SDKs on Mac, allowing developers to create VR content on Apple’s machines.

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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. The goal is to bring the clothing to market in time for Mixed Reality devices, all of which are coming in the fourth quarter of 2017.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

FOR VR GAME IN 2017. Earlier this year, Seattle-based Polyarc received an Epic Games Unreal Developer grant for an unannounced project, code named “Moss.” We’ll have to wait until the end of 2017 to experience its first game, which is expected to be released on multiple platforms. FROM DESTINY AND HALO TO POLYARC – $3.5M

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JANUARY 17, 2017

OSSIC produced an interactive audio demo using Unity that is able to produce audio in the near-field of less than 1 meter distance. So VR developers should be getting more information for how to best integrate with the OSSIC hardware in 2017 as their OSSIC X headphones will start shipping in Spring of this year.

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MAY 24, 2022

Founded in 2017, Vrgineers offers virtual and mixed reality (VR/MR) pilot training systems for businesses and the military. Compatible with Steam VR and OpenXR drivers, Unity, Unreal Engine, and other game engine plugins, as well as C++ libraries such as Direct X, OpenGL, and Vulcan. A Little Bit About Vrgineers.

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DECEMBER 31, 2016

2016 was a landmark year for virtual reality, but 2017 will be nothing short of surreal. Redesigning our Unity Core Assets. MARCH 2: To match the new capabilities of Leap Motion Orion with the performance demands of VR, we gave our Unity toolset an overhaul from the ground up. Stay tuned for more updates in 2017.

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VRWorld

MAY 8, 2017

GPU Technology Conference 2017 is premier, NVIDIA just announced first set of VR news coming from the conference. Key components of VRWorks are being adopted by industry leading graphics engines such as Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5 to provide developers an easy path to taking advantage of the SDK in their games and applications.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

which is planned in late 2017, and major feature for that update is addition of support for DX12 multi-GPU. Although CryEngine isn’t quite as popular as Unity or Unreal Engine among developers, there are a few high profile releases coming up in the next months powered by Crytek’s engine, and we are looking forward to see them in action.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

We looked to the lessons from our 2017 launch video, which featured our HaptX Glove prototype. Our HaptX Gloves announcement video from 2017, featuring the prototype HaptX Glove. We had both Unity and Unreal projects featured in the video, and they were incredibly helpful with integrating their plugins for both engines.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

I remember in the beginning of 2017, we had some kind of survey, and unfortunately for every 51 developer, there was only one headset in any institution or in a startup cluster. Of course Unity, Unreal, and these engines is already important to make you enabled, which we strongly recommend if you already have a commitment for VR/AR.

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XR for Business Podcast

MARCH 17, 2020

I remember in the beginning of 2017, we had some kind of survey, and unfortunately for every 51 developer, there was only one headset in any institution or in a startup cluster. Of course Unity, Unreal, and these engines is already important to make you enabled, which we strongly recommend if you already have a commitment for VR/AR.

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