Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard. This inflection point has accelerated our efforts to enable OpenXR in Unity,” writes Matt Fuad , Sr.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

After a year that turned our lives upside down, the world is slowly going back to normal – proven, among others, by a large number of XR events in 2021. XR Events in 2021 – Celebrating the Industry that Made Lockdown Bearable. Our Top Recommendations: Must Attend XR Events in 2021. AWE Asia 2021. AWE USA 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 22, 2021

This year, in exactly one month from now, there will be the 2021 edition of the Virtual Burning Man and I’ve got the amazing opportunity to talk with the organizers about it. The Worlds are built on various platforms — everything from VR and Unity, to browser-based spatial video chat and Zoom. Hello, my name is Colette Crespin.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 15, 2022

Popular real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity doubled down on its famed ease of use this week in a bid to enhance its toolkit with new key features to streamline the creation of immersive augmented, virtual, and mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) assets. Since 2021, Unity has purchased Ziva Dynamics, Parsec, SyncSketch, and W?t?

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2021

Unity VR Developer. Organization: Unity. Unity is one of the most popular and powerful engines for creating VR games. The Unity organization is keen on training and certifying professionals who will put their tool to the best possible use. Before you take the exam, you can use the Unity Learn platform for practice.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Meta released a new Desktop Editor for Horizon Worlds in preview, giving world creators a Unity-style game development platform for the first time. The newly released Desktop Editor allows developers familiar with traditional game engines, such as Unity, to create and publish worlds. But that appears to be changing.

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Road to VR

JULY 5, 2023

” At MWC Shanghai, state-owned China Mobile announced the first batch of 24 members of the alliance, including Huawei, Xiaomi, HTC Vive, Unity China, NOLO, XREAL (formerly Nreal), AI company iFlytek, video streaming platform MGTV, and cloud streaming platform Haima Cloud.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. AWE co-founder and Futurewei Technologies Director of AR/VR Tish Shute presented the award to Masterpiece Studio. Best Developer Tool. Best Enterprise Solution.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Day two of the conference opens with Unity’s keynote. Unity is “just a game engine” like XR is “just a game.” See Also: Top XR Events in 2021 That Should Be on Your Must-Attend List. To see the full schedule and make your own itinerary, visit the AWE USA 2021 agenda online.

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Road to VR

MARCH 26, 2021

Backing the conference’s enthusiasm that the pandemic situation will allow for a safe in-person event by November is a handful of sponsors already signed on to support the event, including Nreal, Qualcomm, Unity, Meta, PlugXR, 8th Wall, Lenovo, Mad Gaze, Zappar, and others, along with some 80 exhibitors.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Now the company indicates it has “high confidence” that the feature will be deployed in Q1, 2021. In previewing the roadmap, Dorvilias showed that the “New Quest Distribution Path” feature is expected in Q1, 2021. But if Facebook doesn’t want to play nice, they could put policies in place to prevent this.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

ShapesXR is game engine-friendly, allowing you to easily export your projects to popular platforms such as Unity and Unreal Engine. The post 5 Free VR Games On Oculus Quest 2 – November 2021 appeared first on VRScout. Developer Tvori said the app was developed in response to frustrations the team experienced while working remotely.

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ARPost

MAY 21, 2021

The Bitmoji software that Snapchat users can use to represent themselves on the site or play games with is now accessible to game developers using Unity. Bitmoji X Unity Games. This will allow users to play as their custom bitmoji characters in mobile, PC, and even console games made by participating developers.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tony Parisi from Unity was also there. The post AWE 2021: my first impressions about AWE and hands-on with Ray-Ban Stories! Here I am with Charlie Fink, Gregg Katano, Joanna Popper, Philip Rosedale, Emy Peck, and others! Me and the Linkedin star Cathy Hackl, with the super Alan Smithson in the background. It was literally insane!

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

I was expecting a PSVR 2 launch in 2021, but then suddenly Jim Ryan in an interview with The Washington Post has commented on VR with these exact words: PlayStation believes in VR. Coming in May 2021 , with first units sents to reviewers in January 2021, because the product is almost ready. Top news of the week.

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VRScout

JULY 3, 2021

Bradley took a moment to talk to us more about building realistic RC cars in VR, saying, “ VRChat is based on Unity, which has a great physics engine built-in. — Rice/3D Commissions Closed (@rice_baller_) June 29, 2021. Image Credit: Chris Bradley. I feel like im about to beg my mom to buy me s**t WTF my childhood???

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Tried the new #OculusQuest2 passthrough API in Gravity Lab #VR #AR pic.twitter.com/rrONObVubC — Mark Schramm #VR #AR (@MarkSchrammVR) August 15, 2021. These are the only settings about the passthrough you can change inside Unity. Passthrough is not rendered in the Unity scene, it is rendered as a special OVR Overlay.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

After Murphy and Garcia presented their focused attitude on the metaverse, Unity Technologies head of AR/VR Ad Innovation Tony Parisi expressed a similar sentiment: “We come here to AWE to see all these cool things… but remember: it’s not about the thing, it’s the thing that gets you to the thing.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

As per Statista research , the global AR, VR, and MR market already surpassed $27 billion in 2021, and it is going to rise exponentially hereafter. Unity support – It is an important parameter for any AR development app. Unity is unarguably the most powerful and prevalent game engine worldwide. Pricing : Free. Google ARCore.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 16, 2021

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. Expect that to continue into 2021. At the start of 2020 (remember those giddy, carefree times before the pandemic struck?)

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 30, 2021

Just to make you understand how pioneer we were: Facebook will probably release the SDK for passthrough AR for Quest in the second half of 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.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This Monday, the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity completed its merger with Ironsource to introduce tools for mobile platform developers to track core user metrics that enhance eCommerce opportunities. Unity has merged with @ironSource. Unity (@unity) November 7, 2022. Read the blog for more details.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 2, 2024

XR Games, the Leeds, UK-based studio known for Hitman 3 VR: Reloaded (2024) and Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever (2021), have laid off a reported 86 percent of its staff. The information was shared by María Fernanda Díez Huerta via LinkedIn , who was Head of Production at XR Games from 2021 – 2023.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2024

Google announced the news in a blogpost , noting that development of Open Blocks is following the example put forth by Open Brush, a version of Google’s Tilt Brush XR creation tool which was open sourced in 2021. At that point, we will be aiming to create a standalone XR port, and bring Open Blocks to the Quest and Pico platforms.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

3-month Unity Pro license. In early 2021 the company says its previously promised financing option—allowing developers to buy the headset by paying in increments of $100 per month—will become available in “early 2021.” Value (MSRP; in $USD). HoloLens 2 device. Azure credits. 3-month Pixyz Plugin license.

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ARVR

MARCH 30, 2021

This runs like any other unity build, and will connect to the headset plugged in automatically when you open up Oculus link on your quest. You will probably notice when playing the build that the framerate is a lot better than when you were testing it in Unity! You officially have a built project ready to run free of the Unity editor!

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

According to analysts, the Apple headset could reach 10M sold units in 2026… this means that in 4 years from now, it expects to have the sales that Quest had in 2021–2022. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. Resolution Games has reported record earnings for 2021. See Unity running on Quest. Other news. Learn more.

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Upload VR

APRIL 16, 2025

Resolution Games says it spent the past 10 months upgrading the underlying technology behind the game, which first released in 2021, including upgrading to Unity 6 and switching to the engine's newer Universal Render Pipeline (URP). Crossplay is supported between all these platforms.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2024

Spatial design and prototyping app ShapesXR (2021) just launched its 2.0 Released in 2021, ShapesXR founder and CEO Inga Petryaevskaya calls the addition of the new web editor “a strategic move to extend the time users spend in the product and to enable co-design and editing with those who do not have an XR device.”

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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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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Top 5 XR Communities To Join & Stay Updated With The Latest XR Trends in 2021 Overview Staying updated with the latest trends and updates in the XR industry can be challenging. If there is any new feature released in SDKs or libraries in Unity, you are most likely to find the first tutorial video about it on his YouTube channel.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

In an unhinged rant worthy of Rudy Guiliani, Cramer explained the metaverse is made by Unity, before correcting himself and crediting Nvidia instead. in Revenue in First Half of 2021. The new social VR world launching in 2021, id backed by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, who used to own the New York Nets NBA team.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This includes being able to play as your Bitmoji in games on the platform, but also making the Bitmoji available to Unity developers – an update announced at the 2021 Partner Summit. Snap has been making the Bitmoji feature increasingly useful. The event may also be an interesting first for Snap.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In a similar vein, Unity unveiled Metacast in October 2021. Unity worked with the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to capture athletes on a volumetric stage, converting a sparring session into an RT3D animation.

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TechCrunch VR

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Unity, the platform that develops 2D and 3D content for mobile phones, tablets, PCs, consoles and augmented and virtual reality devices, launched a beta version of Unity Gaming Services — a new platform that provides everything game creators need such as backend, monetization, user acquisition and player engagement.

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