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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JULY 24, 2018

For Pol Jeremias, chair of the VR, AR, and MR program at the SIGGRAPH 2018 expo , it was vital to conquer that issue at this year’s convention. “It In line with this year’s explosion of talent in virtual and augmented reality, SIGGRAPH 2018 has chosen to expand its focus on VR, AR, and MR by introducing the Immersive Pavilion.

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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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JANUARY 9, 2021

With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. However, I had to manually switch between unity packages to demo different apps which led me to taking on and off the headset constantly. . Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine?

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VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2018

— MIRO (@MobileHackerz) September 29, 2018. unity????????????? — pansan (@pansan1029) September 29, 2018. The self-critical creator original wanted to build the experience in the Unity game engine and include touch sensor technology for better synchronization. VR????????????????????????????VR??????????????????????

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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

JULY 17, 2024

“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. . “Over the coming months, we’ll be working hard to bring the Open Blocks codebase up to modern standards,” Icosa Foundation says in a blogpost.

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JUNE 18, 2020

Using the companies custom Unity and Unreal-compatible SDK, game developers can easily drag-and-drop ad-ready billboards, posters, and signs into everything from simple 2D games to complex VR and AR experiences. funding round back in 2018. Image Credit: Admix.

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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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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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Road to VR

APRIL 11, 2019

In nine minutes, this crash course offers up an indie-dev focused overview of optimizing VR games built in Unity for mobile hardware like Oculus Quest. Lucas Rizzotto is an independent developer behind a handful of immersive applications including Where Thoughts Go , which was awarded ‘Best Experience’ in the 2018 Unity Awards.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 7, 2020

The company says in the SDK’s developer release notes that both Unity and Unreal Engine support for Oculus Go has officially been dropped. The latest Oculus SDK (v19/1.51) no longer supports the company’s first true standalone VR headset. Facebook says developers can still use Oculus Integration v18.0

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

According to Sabby, she first learned about VR in 2018. “ I learned about VR in 2018 and experienced it on the Google Cardboard mobile viewer, ” she told me via email. To launch her art onto virtual platforms, she relies on Blender and Unity. How Sabby Life Got Her Start. She uses various VR art apps, one of which is Tilt Brush.

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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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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The company says its Beta Prototypes will be shipping to new and existing partners during Q1 2018. Urho Konttori, CEO and founder of Varjo Technologies says the company plans on launching “a profoundly revolutionary VR/XR headset by the end of 2018.”. image courtesy Varjo. The post Varjo Secures $6.7M

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ARPost

APRIL 14, 2020

Notable past winners include 8th Wall Web (Best Developer Tool, 2019), The NYT apps (Best Consumer App, 2019), Ikea Place (Best Consumer App, 2018), Gravity Sketch (Best Creating and Authoring Tool, 2018), Vive Pro (Best Headworn Device, 2018), Varjo (Startup to Watch, 2018) and Unity (Best Developer Tool, 2018).

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AUGUST 20, 2018

NVIDIA claims that it works out of the box, but honestly, I don’t think that a Unity developer can have all this cool raytracing for free without any efforts in writing shaders and such. The post Gamescom 2018 Day 0: NVIDIA reveals RTX 2080 series graphics cards appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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APRIL 23, 2018

Unity and Android Permissions. What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity? Unity makes things easier for us, so whenever we use some Unity class that clearly needs a permission, Unity adds this permission automatically to the manifest. Thanks, Unity).

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. SEE ALSO Magic Leap Finally Unveils its First AR Product 'Magic Leap One', Shipping Starts in 2018.

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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. That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR. Drilling Down on Enterprise VR.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Impressive VR haptics are already on their way and could be in your living room in 2018. It’s possible we could release in Q1 of 2018 but we also might want to wait until the holiday season.” The focus lately has been getting both controllers ready to go and perfecting Unity and Unreal Engine integrations.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

By the end of the year all key global mobile phone brands would have announced their support for WebVR, and will have devices to support it out by Q4 2017 or Q1 2018,” said Christopher Gomez, XR industry advisor and angel investor. “And . — Clay Bavor (@claybavor) August 30, 2017. “By Experimentation is Key.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2018

— Olo Sabandija (@olomerol) November 19, 2018. I basically learned the basics of Unity by watching more than 20 YouTube videos,” said Sabandija, adding , “I’d work about 6 to 8 hours a day for almost a month to build my Sonic scene.”. Here's a direct from the screen version of my AR tat pic.twitter.com/CuIYaDZT6m.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Developers can tune the vest’s actuators with both Unity and Unreal SDKs for greater immersion in VR, as the vest can hypothetically simulate things like gunshots and raindrops, so not only sound-based haptis. You can check out the Kickstarter campaign here.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

The company is providing a Unity and UE4 SDK so that interested developers can develop for it. Now, I need some rest… The post Gamescom 2018 Day 2: NVIDIA RTX 2080 Ti video, Ubisoft believes in VR and much more appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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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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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

I see no reason to not look into the Oculus Launch Pad program,” wrote Moni Garr, the founder of MoniGarr.com LLC and an Oculus Launch Pad 2018 fellow. “It’s Oculus will announce the grant winners of the 2018 Launch Pad program in late Q4 2018. Screenshot of VR adventure title ‘Chrysalis.’

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OCTOBER 26, 2018

The post View Conference 2018: Baobab Studios talks about the development of “Crow: The Legend” appeared first on The Ghost Howls. Header image by Baobab Studio).

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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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JUNE 11, 2020

The glasses continuously remind you that they’re actually working as displays of an Android system : when you launch Unity applications, you see the visuals split in two for the duration of the splash screen; when you change the volume, you see the standard volume bar of Android moving (split in two, of course).

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

MacNeil and Sitler, driven by their interest in marketing, began consulting market research firms in 2018. For example, they made an immersive environment in Unity to test custom furniture models. Drew MacNeil, co-founder of XpertVR. They immediately learned how outdated the industry was.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2019

Experience in game engines like Unity and Unreal Engine is also a must. Magic Leap launched their debut product, the Magic Leap One , in August 2018. The posting specifies that the successful candidate will work out of the company’s Sunnvale, California office.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2018

At GDC 2018 Magic Leap has announced the release of the Lumin SDK , that is the tools that we should use to develop for this AR glass. I first tried looking the FOV of the Unity Camera: when you run the program into the emulator, it immediately becomes 80 , so I thought that the FOV of ML would be 80 degrees.

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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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