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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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 2, 2021

In this post, I’m going to tell you how to implement hands tracking in Unity for the Vive Focus 3, how to enable it on the device, and what are its performances, also compared to the ones of the Oculus Quest 2. How to integrate hands tracking in your Vive Wave Unity project. Return to Unity, go to Window -> Package Manager.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 18, 2019

Luckily for advertisers, Unity is here to flatten the curve a bit. At the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity 2019, Unity unveiled Responsive AR, a new ad format that enables non-developers to create interactive AR experiences.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

’ in 2019 ; this new announcement from Oculus is sure to hasten the pace significantly. While both Unity and Unreal Engine—the two most commonly used tools for building VR applications—offer some degree of support for OpenXR, neither have shifted to OpenXR as the default for building new VR applications.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

It was an AR game that could be played on a VR headset , in 2019. 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

JUNE 2, 2020

Oculus released controllerless hand-tracking on Oculus Quest as a beta feature back in late 2019. At the time, the company had only added support to the Oculus Unity integration, meaning that developers building apps in Unreal Engine didn’t have access to the feature.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Our Mixed Reality game on Vive Focus Plus in 2019. Well, being our solution something working at Unity level (so at a very high level), it couldn’t be optimized, so its framerate was not enough and it also consumed a lot of resources we couldn’t use in our application. Quest 2 vs Vive Focus Plus. Literally no way.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. According to Sensor Tower, TikTok was the second most-downloaded app in 2019, after WhatsApp. Authors’ opinions are their own. . by Tony Parisi.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 26, 2021

After I have written my post on how to handle unwanted permissions in Unity , many Oculus Quest developers asked me to make another tutorial to solve another common problem: Facebook showing a warning for 32-bit builds submitted to App Lab. Method 1 – The Unity Way. Method 1 – The Unity Way.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Setup Download Unity Unity 2020.3.8f1. In your echo3D console , download and import the Unity SDK Zappar Download and import Zappar for Unity here. Go to Build Settings > Player > Resolution and Presentation and select the Zappar player (Zappar for 2020+, or Zappar 2019 for anything older).

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Road to VR

JULY 4, 2023

The most recent being Path of the Warrior (2019) for Quest and Rift. Considering that we haven’t seen any new release or even game announcement from Twisted Pixel since late 2019, it wasn’t clear if the studio had remained properly intact, or if it had been absorbed into the Meta mothership and scattered to the wind.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

in 2019, and in the last 12 months it has significantly picked up pace with SteamVR officially supported it back in February and Oculus announcing last month that it’s going “all in” on the standard , saying that all new developer features will be built on top of OpenXR going forward. That makes Unreal Engine 4.27

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ARPost

JUNE 12, 2020

In 2019, ARKit was deployed across 650 million devices while there were around 400 million ARCore-enabled devices. There are similarities between these tools: both are Unity framework-compatible; both are similar in the capability of sensing changes in lighting and accessing motion sensors. What Is Better – ARKit or ARCore?

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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. 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. Virtual events.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 11, 2019

I was porting our Unity game Hit Motion: Reloaded to the new Vive Wave SDK 3.0.2 How to make controllers’ buttons to work in Unity with Vive Wave SDK 3.0? Because yes, we are in Unity, and that line is referred to the native C++ SDK. in Unity appeared first on The Ghost Howls. Header image by HTC).

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2020

One day, due to a Unity import error, the pieces of a scanned environment were scrambled around the scene. tells us it was actually a mistake that led them to create the unique puzzler. “We’ve had the idea of Puzzling Places floating around our heads for a while.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The original Arizona Sunshine is ending support for its online multiplayer this July, citing Unity's discontinuation of the UNet Service. For the unfamiliar, UNet is the Unity Engine's legacy multiplayer solution that the company began deprecating back in 2019.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

version of the standard was announced in 2019 and has been slowly but steadily finding its way into key VR platforms and game engines like Oculus Quest & Rift, Windows Mixed Reality, Unity, Unreal Engine, SteamVR, and more. OpenXR has been in the works for several years, and has garnered backing by many key players in the XR space.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Alongside its proprietary 20/20 eye tracker and 60-PPD Bionic Display with “human-eye” resolution, the VR-1 also features support for a large helping of photorealistic virtual workflows, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk, VRRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue. Tracking: SteamVR Tracking V1.0 + V2.0.

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ARPost

JULY 2, 2020

See Also: A Comprehensive Review of 2019 and 2020 VR Headsets. Since then he’s been independently working with creator platforms like Unity and Unreal. See Also: AR and MR Headsets and Glasses 2019 and 2020 Overview. It’s headed by a 16-year-old futurist, inventor, and self-proclaimed “Kid Tony Stark.”

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Established in 2019, Prox & Reverie has continually sought to enhance the design experience by incorporating the latest technologies into innovative studio systems. Real-time engines such as Unity and Unreal enable them to instantly merge digital realities and real-world scenarios in-studio or on-location.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

However, if your goal is to create a fully immersive VR experience for Vision Pro that also works on other headsets like Meta’s Quest or PlayStation VR, you have to use Unity. It’s like diet-Unity that’s built specifically for this development stack. But those rich AR features are only available in Full Spaces.

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Road to VR

APRIL 14, 2022

in 2019, and picked up significant steam in 2021 with official support on SteamVR , Meta going “all in” on OpenXR, “production-ready” OpenXR support in Unreal Engine , and more. Image courtesy Khronos Group. OpenXR has seen a slow but steady adoption since reaching version ‘1.0’

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VRScout

JULY 9, 2019

If you were lucky enough to stop by E3 2019 this year, you may have come across a line of people waiting to check out a small booth set up by CBS and Insta360. So, I taught myself Unity late at night after my son and wife went to bed. How the Insta360 Titan allowed an amateur developer to recreate ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ in VR.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2024

This comes amid the backdrop of a number of top publishers and studios reducing headcounts, such as Embracer Group, Unity, Microsoft, EA, Sony, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive and Riot Games. The post ‘Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded’ Studio XR Games Lays Off Majority of Staff appeared first on Road to VR.

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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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ARPost

MAY 16, 2022

We have tripled revenues for the last three years since 2019. We think about the competition set for Zappar as being heavy creators like Unity and then the social media AR companies like Meta Spark or Snapchat,” said Galaria. A recent CB Insights report ranked them among the tech companies making the metaverse a reality.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Layoffs spanning 2023 and 2024 included a number of top publishers and studios, such as Embracer Group, Unity, Microsoft, EA, Sony, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive and Riot Games. The post Veteran VR Studio nDreams Announces Layoffs Amid “challenging VR games market” appeared first on Road to VR.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Microsoft initially began selling HoloLens 2 to enterprise customers back in late 2019, but a broader rollout has taken quite some time. 3-month Unity Pro license. Earlier this year the company began selling the headset directly to individuals, and now its expanding the scope of sales to 15 more countries. Value (MSRP; in $USD).

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

The class focused on VR Development with Unity and was taught remotely by an instructor in LA with students split between two buildings on the MIT campus. Duration : 14 weeks (September 4 – December 11, 2019 – current dates with MIT fall semester). Frequency : 2 times per week in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

It got the attention of all the press at CES 2019 revealing an AR glass that is light, fashionable, and affordable. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. At the time of writing it doesn’t work with Unity 2019, but only with Unity 2018.

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Road to VR

MARCH 15, 2023

As you’d imagine, Meta says the original 2019 Quest won’t be supported— it’s unceremoniously getting pushed off into the sea —however the company is slated to provide separate binaries for each device soon, which will allow developers targeting Quest 1 an upgrade path.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

AugmentedReality #xr #vr #wearable #unity #spatialcomputing pic.twitter.com/h2KAkgXWQq — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) February 15, 2019. link] — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) July 24, 2019. Back to it [link] — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) July 24, 2019. Back to it [link] — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) July 24, 2019.

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ARPost

JULY 17, 2020

Universal Everything created Super You in Unity, using Apple’s ARKit 3.5. Aside from these, the iPad Pro 2019 can be used to access the app. Transforming in Augmented Reality. They developed it as part of an art series called Future Human, which is their exploration of artificial forms.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Bonelab , the anticipated sequel of Boneworks (2019) from developer Stress Level Zero, is pushing ahead with its physics-driven gameplay by allowing players to import custom avatars which will gain dynamic stats that influence gameplay. The Marrow SDK will allow users to adapt third-party avatars to work with the game.

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