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The article is a summary of the most interesting information that came from our chat… including the mind blowing moment when I realized that with this technology, people in Unity and Unreal Engine could work together on the same project :O. The online collaboration works in a way similar to Google Docs. NVIDIA Omniverse.
Image by Google). Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. At Google I/O, no executive of the company has talked about the M-word, but they have anyway showed interesting AR updates, which will be relevant for our future M-world. Another cool announcement has been the one of Immersive View for Google Maps.
Image by Google). Google is reportedly working on an AR operating system. In some of my past newsletters, I warned you that we shouldn’t forget about Google/Alphabet in the race to our mixed reality future. Now we have finally an official confirmation of the fact that Google is working on an AR device. Tilt Brush).
But it is anyway great news and makes us hope for a great 2022 for the whole XR ecosystem. The headset is expected for Q4 2022 , with no preorders available. CES 2022 is going to be less cool than expected. Some months ago, it was announced that CES 2022 would have had a physical edition again. This is great.
Apple glasses are coming in 2021–2022 and they are incredibly sleek. This week, the analysts Ming-Chi Kuo has teased that Apple Glasses are coming in 2022 at the earliest (2022–2023 timeline). The rumors also talk about a headset coming in 2022 with AR/VR and another one coming in 2023 as a smartglass.
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The plan for the end of 2022 is to integrate everything in an even smaller form factor so that the lightfield can fit inside standard frames. The environment where she has performed in was made in Unreal Engine and the modeling and the shading was so good that for a moment I thought it was a real studio. Google AR Cloud Streaming.
RT3D engines such as Adobe Substance, Unity, and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. Google: RawNeRF. Google first introduced RawNeRF in 2020 as an automated photogrammetry tool that can simulate the real-world lighting of a scanned object. NVIDIA Instant NeRF.
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According to the rumor, the headset is slim thanks to pancake optics , and It apparently features OLED microdisplays and Samsung’s own Exynos 2200 chip from 2022. These are the basic features that every new upcoming headset that wants to be serious on the market should have.
There is only one big problem: the form factor is terrible , they look super-dork, even worse than Google Glasses. RP1 also is working on a demo with 100,000 people which should be ready by the end of 2022. AIXR has shortlisted the people and companies that will be the finalists for the VR Awards 2022. It is impressive.
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In mid March , Google announced the end of Google Glass Enterprise. In 2021 and 2022, Reality Labs — its metaverse division — reported a total loss of nearly $24 billion. I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. Image courtesy Unreal Engine.)
RT3D engines such as Unity and Unreal significantly streamline XR production pipelines with easy-to-use tools. NVIDIA Instant NeRF NVIDIA debuted Instant NeRF in April 2022, and the software creates digital twins based on 2D images of real-world objects, people, and entire environments.
Similar to Apple, Google wants to ensure developers and gaming companies can introduce the most exciting and immersive mobile apps for their users. ARCore works seamlessly with a range of other tools, including the Unity and Unreal environments so that developers can bring all of their most valuable software together.
This move resembles the one that Google had with TiltBrush: instead of killing the program, it is returning it back to the community, and this is for sure a good decision. Yes, you’ve read everything well. It has 4.5DOF. Watch a Quest 2 getting watercooled.
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I think that from the results of this battle, which will happen most probably in 2022, we will understand the trends that will drive the VR gaming market in all the upcoming years. Unreal is already compatible with the framework, so in 2021 we’ll soon have also the tools ready to create OpenXR cross-compatible platforms.
GoogleGoogle’s AR environment is designed to work on various qualified Android devices and solutions, so companies can build augmented reality into virtually any tool they choose. The solution also integrates with Unity, Unreal, and even the iOS environment in some cases.
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Mark Rabkin showed a whole slide about Unreal Engine and announced camera access. I already had my travel plans figured out for Unreal Fest Seattle, where my company was giving several talks , followed by a Star Wars convention in Orlando, where we’d be exhibiting our open source recreation of the Galactic Starcruiser.
In 2021, US technology giant Nvidia announced it was starting its journey into the cloud streaming world with help from the Google Cloud. Companies can stream the same data to multiple devices simultaneously and leverage potentially infinite storage, processing, and computing power without hardware restrictions.
Helios , an Unreal-based social VR platform which actually came and went before I even had a chance to add it to the spreadsheet! However, two other social VR platforms using HiFi’s codebase, Vircadia and Overte are still up and running, at least, the last time I checked!
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But it seems that Meta is also working on other broader options, and we will know about them in 2022. Considering that Quest supports multitasking for 2D apps, this is great to use the Quest as a tool to work: you could have Slack in one Window, and Google Doc in another, and work on a document together with your team.
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