Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Notably, nDreams is known for a host of VR games over the years, including The Assembly (2016) , Phantom: Covert Ops (2020) , Fracked (2021), and Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord (2023), and more. At the time, the studio said it employed 250 people, meaning the layoff could affect up to 40 people.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Perhaps the biggest company in the mixed reality landscape right now, Microsoft is paving the way to a future of incredible hybrid learning. According to Microsoft, implementing mixed reality into the training landscape leads to a reduction in training times of approximately 30%. That’s where Unity comes in.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

2020 showed us that it shouldn’t just be a creation tool, it should be a collaboration tool.”. The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. The award was accepted by founder and CEO Inga Petryaevskaya.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The VR industry has skyrocketed immensely, with immersive headset shipments spiking 92 percent in 2019 and 70 percent in 2020. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. percent YoY for 2023.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Later that day, Antony Vitillo presents “How to Organize a Great Virtual Event.”

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ARPost

MAY 28, 2020

The second day of AWE Online 2020 wrapped Wednesday evening. Not the plucky startup it was before its acquisition by Microsoft three years ago, the company remains creative and agile. update to Theia for Unity Developers. Unfortunately, we couldn’t cover everything, but we tried to wrap up some of our favorite highlights.

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Peter Graham

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It’s a day of tech company cancellations following on from Facebook just confirming F8 2020 will no longer be taking place. Epic Games, Unity Technologies and Microsoft’s Game Stack team have all issued statements announcing their withdrawals from March’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2020. .

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although Unity 3D is undoubtedly the most common and trained standards for developing and deploying augmented and virtual reality application for both beginner or expert developer, it is cannot be employed for developing content for some headsets. You also give 5% of net revenues per quarter although its free to use.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

In 2020, it consolidated its product with a series of partnerships and a solid product development plan. 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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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 16, 2021

At the start of 2020 (remember those giddy, carefree times before the pandemic struck?) Unity asked more than a dozen industry experts – including yours truly – to share their thoughts on how immersive technologies would be embraced for a report entitled Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft ramps up distribution of HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Microsoft is working to improve the distribution of its latest devices: HoloLens 2 and Kinect For Azure. Other relevant news. HoloLens 2 availability has been expanded to 15 new regions : Italy (YESSS!)

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The good news of the week is that I’ve been selected as one of the speakers at AWE USA 2020 ! And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. Didn’t work (Image by Microsoft). million AR effects on Facebook and Instagram. Sounded good. Smartphone-based AR is here to stay. What about Magic Leap ?

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019. RealMax experience at CES 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

This time is again the turn of the Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, that is said to be very accurate on Apple rumors … so accurate that he predicted in the past that Apple AR glasses would have launched in Q2 2020. Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. Then he said they should arrive this year. News from partners (and friends).

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. We now know that it will surely run on Quest, that you won’t have lightsabers but blasters, and that it is still in track for a 2020 release.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Apart from the AWE that has become an online event, as I’ve highlighted in my intro, also Oculus Connect 7 and Gamescom will transition to a fully digital version for 2020. Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Basically, projects that give value to the device and to Microsoft in general. Why does this matter?

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AllThingsVR

JULY 25, 2016

How Unity is preparing for the mobile VR revolution The gaming landscape looked quite different when TechRadar spoke to John Riccitiello, CEO at game engine Unity, back in June 2015. That hasn’t caused Unity to shy away from VR though, quite the opposite. billion PCs).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

A patent filed by Valve in 2020 and granted some days ago shows the work that Valve is doing towards wireless/standalone headsets. Image by Microsoft). After the news went viral, Microsoft has clarified that it was just “a translation bug” and that Xbox is not adding VR support at the moment. News worth a mention. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2020

For another big project I am now using Microsoft Teams, and I appreciate that Teams subdivides every channel in threads that start from a single post , so it is easier to skip directly all the posts that seem uninteresting from the first post of the thread. And all of this using Unity, the tool that I already use every day.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We are announcing today Integration of Interhaptics with Hololens 2 Haptic design for all mobile phones early 2021 Upcoming Haptic design for PS5 in 2021 Interhaptics was released to the public in September 2020. Hololens 2 Credit: Microsoft One of the major XR platforms used in business applications is Microsoft Hololens 2.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In the meanwhile, its adoption is getting better, too: the popular Unity game engine promises the first implementations of OpenXR for the end of the year with a complete implementation coming in 2021, and Microsoft has already completely switched to an OpenXR runtime. AMD releases its new RX6 graphics cards. Boost Clock (GHz) 2.25

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

In a prepared statement, the social media declared: “we’re exploring many ways to accelerate VR, and 2020 is going to be an incredible year for VR game launches and announcements. Image by Microsoft). This reinforces my belief that Microsoft in 2021–2022 will add VR support to it , to fight the PSVR when the market will be riper.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

It’s a new month, we’ve reached level 6 of this Jumanji game that is 2020. Shipping is expected for fall 2020. HP and Microsoft have a long track in offering enterprise hardware, so this headset may battle HTC on his own land (B2B). What will happen next? Top news of the week. Image by HP). HP launches Reverb G2 headset.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

But in China, they are very famous, and now they are also organizing a big event about XR called FBEC with hosts from all the major VR companies (HTC, Unity, Alibaba, Huawei, etc…). For example, we invited senior executives from HUAWEI, JBD, HTC, Alibaba, iQIYI, Qualcomm, Microsoft, and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 15, 2020

Late to the party after Oculus and Microsoft already released prototypical implementations, but finally Valve has implemented OpenXR into its runtime SteamVR. On the occasion of CVPR 2020, Facebook has just published online a very long list of computer vision-related articles , many of which include also artificial intelligence features.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. The Evolution of Brand Ambassadors.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

According to the same report, the glasses should be released around Q2 2020 , and Taiwan’s ODMs Quanta Computer and Pegatron should handle the assembly job. Microsoft ships HoloLens 2, nReal gets ready to do the same with its glasses. After a long wait, finally Microsoft is shipping its HoloLens 2 headset. The hype is rising….

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

This is the sort of puzzle piece that the VR industry needs to fulfill its destiny, which is to become a $30 billion industry by 2020, according to Tech advisor Digi-Capital estimates. It works with the Unity game engine, enabling developers to make it easy for players to craft their own characters in VR apps.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

XTAL won the prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award in 2020 and was also among the finalists for VR Awards 2021. Microsoft Windows Operating System compatibility. 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 8, 2022

The solution involved creating a 3D, configurable version of the incredible Arksen 85 yacht, powered by Unity. Microsoft and Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe. The Leipziger Verkehrsbetriebe company decided to work with Microsoft to build an engaging way for travellers to plan their transportation experience.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The Varjo XR-4 series follows the highly successful XR-3 headsets, launched in 2020 , with more advanced graphics, tracking technology, and integration with the NVIDIA Omniverse. This aligns it with the prices for competing solutions like the Apple Vision Pro and Microsoft HoloLens 2.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

This column previously covered the 2018 BETT show and how VR was immerging as a possible EdTech trend – but with BETT 2020 the event cemented this movement, with a vast array of new developments and applications for this technology, and growth of previous early adopters. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP. Image credit: KWP.

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ARVR

JULY 17, 2020

We are not living in this future yet , but there is a strong case to be made that we are accelerating towards it, in 2020, faster than ever before. Apps & services : Third-party developer adoption Content : The things that keep you coming back for more How close are we to realizing this? So how did we get here anyway?

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Robert Scoble

JANUARY 11, 2022

Apple and Unity aren’t going to continue making this mistake, because they have done the kinds of human factor research I have. Former Apple/Microsoft exec Linda Stone told me that was coming back when I worked at Microsoft 17 years ago. Unity, alone, is going to make a HUGE play for this space. Here we are.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

On the enterprise side, many AR headsets, from firms like RealWear and Microsoft, for on-site usage provide eye and hand-tracking features to optimize workplace operations and communications. The industry is anticipating improvements on Quest 3 in contrast to Quest 2, which has been around since October 2020.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

We have a Unity SDK. And there was this rumor that came a couple weeks ago that Apple’s releasing their AR glasses in 2020. We don’t want to have a closed system, where we only have a few apps, or make it really tough for developers to develop applications. We have an Unreal engine SDK. Nobody really knows. So what is that?

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