Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Here’s a roundup of news from ‘day one’ of our GDC 2018 coverage. The company is still heavily involved with VR development however, and are expected to present some new technology with Google at Display Week 2018 in May. Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

The Mezo interactive art installation that will be the centerpiece of the show floor at VRLA 2018. First time attendees can register in VR via the official VRLA Registration 2018 app or visit VRLA. The post VRLA 2018 Returns; Keynote Lineup Announced appeared first on VRScout. Passes are available now and start at just $30.

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MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there. “It starts to take off 12 and 24 months from now.”

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MAY 2, 2017

After speaking with Unity CEO John Riccitiello, I’m putting a little note on my calendar for CES 2019 as the time I expect to see multiple VR headsets that will cost less than $1,000 for the entire package. ” Tagged with: unity Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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Road to VR

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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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. Things are changing though. Tagged with: e3 , E3 2017 , Scorpio Facebook Twitter Reddit More.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

That’s why we decided to port it to other devices, especially the Oculus Quest that is selling so well among consumers in the last months. 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.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 30, 2020

ARtillery projects it to grow from $829 million in 2018 to $4.26 This category is best exemplified by its market-sare leader, Unity. Oculus pricing ) will lower enterprise VR adoption barriers. That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR.

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Road to VR

MAY 25, 2018

The app is also soon to launch on the Oculus Rift. The company said at the time that high res content would become available in early 2018, so we’re hoping to see it crop up sooner rather than later. SEE ALSO NextVR Partners With Oculus to Bring Live Events to 'Oculus Venues'.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Google , Oculus and Samsung Internet also published their WebVR and open-source developer resources. . On the browser front, browser vendors are developing or enhancing their browsers to make them VR-friendly: there’s Chrome for Android, Firefox Nightly, Samsung Internet, Microsoft Edge, Chromium, Servo and Oculus Carmel.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

This is a cool video of me unboxing the Nreal Light Devkit: I have to say that I loved unboxing this headset : while Nreal has not reached the mastery of packaging that Oculus has, it has done a great job: the external box is in a very elegant silver color, and the case of the glasses is small and beautiful.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). This is even more than the 20,000 concurrent users of early 2018 when the app went viral on Twitch.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

Back at Microsoft’s annual SharePoint Virtual Summit in May 2018, the company announced it was getting ready to ship a new VR maker tool set called Spaces for SharePoint, the web-based collaborative platform for enterprise customers. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Sairento VR (2018) , the cyber-ninja VR combat game, just received an update that includes remastered graphics and better performance thanks to a game engine upgrade. Sairento VR launched out of Early Access for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift in February 2018. You can find the full change log in the link posted above.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

Today has been another interesting day: it has started with us running to try to enter the Cyberpunk 2077 booth (but with no luck) and has finished playing with an Oculus Go. The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. So, here you are what I did today.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

A leading Unity 3d game development services provider explained that gaming is the biggest driver of VR and it will certainly continue in the near future. between 2018 and 2025, as stated in a Valuation report. If you’re wondering what the Oculus Rift is, it’s a solid step into VR gaming and its immersive nature.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2019

Catching up with VR director and two-time Oculus Launch Pad recipient Kiira Benzing. So when I finally got an Oculus Rift DK2, I jumped in and started going to every meetup that was happening in New York. ”. We’re working with Unity on this project. I started off training in theater all over the world.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

When I wrote my post about CES 2018 , I briefly talked about a headset called LooxidVR, able to “read the emotions” of the user by employing a combination of EEG sensors and eye tracking. Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals.

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AUGUST 9, 2017

They aim to bring the awards back in 2018, skipping the 2017 season “in order to assess the changing landscape of immersive technology and entertainment,” according to a prepared statement. The move to 2018 by the Proto Awards comes when the emerging mixed reality industry is in a transitional period.

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JUNE 19, 2017

I am standing in a virtual living room rendered via Unity. My experience in that Unity-based living room and other demos, using what Varjo is calling the “20/20” prototype, shows that they are working in the right direction. They retrofitted an Oculus Rift with an extra layer of lenses inside the unit.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

One of the videos from Oculus Connect 5 that stuck in my mind till tody is when Michael Abrash showed a real space transformed into a virtual one that has exactly the same shape, but a different mood. This video is from 2018, but I still dream about it today. In that moment, I regret not having visited it before.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

Here’s the full press release for VRLA 2018 ( Road to VR readers can save 15% on passes, details here ): Announcing VRLA 2018 Keynotes & Expo Highlights. Passes are available now and start at just $30, and for the first time ever attendees can register in VR via the official Payscout VRLA Registration 2018 app.

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Road to VR

MARCH 13, 2017

Graylin: Initial versions of above applications could happen in late 2017 or the first half of 2018. But likely it’ll be the second half of 2018 or 2019 for mass adoption of such apps to really take off. Oculus’ Head of Content, Jason Rubin. Unity’s Head of VR & AR, Tony Parisi.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Set for release on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive in spring 2018, the game is an arcade shooter in which players use jet packs in 1-vs-1 and 2-vs-2 multiplayer battles. It looks just a little like Oculus and Ready At Dawn’s Lone Echo, which is releasing next month. This new project is being developed by Ubisoft Montepellier.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

We released the demo on Steam in May 2018. The demo got more than 100k downloads on Steam so we decided to push on and now it’s available on Steam, Oculus, VivePort, WMR, PSVR, Pico Neo2, Nolo X1. Going deeply technical, how you managed your workflow for handling so many different Unity projects?

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2018

Liv also supports many Unity-based VR titles without direct integration from developers. Below you can see the Electronauts Liv integration in action and see how players will be able to spin some sick beats in VR: Electronauts is the next VR experience to come from Survios, the studio behind Raw Data (2017) and Sprint Vector (2018).

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

So much so that organizers are already taking registered interests for 2018. Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Oculus – Rift. Oculus – Touch. HTC – Vive.

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JULY 30, 2024

Valve's Steam Audio has had audio ray tracing since 2018. And in fact, the Oculus Audio SDK, the predecessor to the Meta XR Audio SDK, had it in 2019. How the Meta XR Audio SDK's Acoustic Ray Tracing sees a scene in Unity. Meta isn't the first company to offer an audio SDK with ray tracing.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 2, 2020

But those wheels are slowly turning and are accelerated by things like Oculus Quest. Shifting to enterprise VR, ARtillery Intelligence sees that growing from $829 million in 2018 to $4.26 Over time, revenue-per-user metrics can then improve, and around we go. We’re certainly not there yet with this virtuous cycle in VR.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But those wheels are slowly turning and are accelerated by things like Oculus Quest. Shifting to enterprise VR, ARtillery Intelligence sees that growing from $829 million in 2018 to $4.26 Over time, revenue-per-user metrics can then improve, and around we go. We’re certainly not there yet with this virtuous cycle in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Some weeks ago, I’ve got to know a crazy demo for Oculus Rift called Eyeballs VR Demo, who lets you detach your eyes inside VR. — Jack Brookes (@jackbrookes) July 14, 2018. and it was clearly made with Unity (I can recognize the Unity standard shader from a mile). The environment was lovely.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 18, 2018

On one hand, they are able to distribute their content cross platforms (including Oculus Go , Oculus Rift, Gear VR , Steam VR, HTC Vive, MIVR, Android, iOS etc) just with one single click on VeeR; on the other hand, we have developed the free web-based interactive experience creation tool VeeR Experience back in August 2018.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

Back in 2018, as part of the IBC Masterclass on VR technology, Rob Koenen shared his vision of the future of virtual reality. For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly.

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Cats and VR

MARCH 31, 2017

Featuring a soundtrack by lead singer and composer Ville Valo, of gothic rock band HIM, 3rd Eye Studios Downward Spiral : Prologue launches on Oculus Rift and HTC Vive is now available on the Oculus store for Oculus Rift and Steam for HTC Vive. The VR technology will be launched in 2018. CatsAndVR.com/blog.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2018

This also let me write various articles about it, like this one on Vive Focus streaming , this one on Focus instant preview for Unity or this other one highlighting the updates of the v2 runtime. When I published this photo of the Oculus Go and Vive Focus together, a lot of people got surprised by its dimensions. Oculus Go).

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 25, 2020

Videogame engine Unity has supported the XR industry from the early days of virtual reality (VR) through to the current crop of augmented reality (AR) hardware. This week has seen Unity update its XR platform, removing support for some devices whilst reaffirming official functionality for the latest headsets. . Affecting Unity 2019.3

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