XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 24, 2024

VIVE offers a good amount of official documentation of their products regarding Unreal Engine and Unity development. HTC VIVE partnered with The Bavarian State Criminal Police Office (Bayerisches Landeskriminalamt, BLKA) to launch the ‘Holodeck’ VR platform that will ‘revolutionise’ forensic investigations.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 19, 2024

This week at AWE 2024, Microsoft announced new avatar integrations and usability enhancements for its recently launched Microsoft Mesh platform. At AWE 2024, Microsoft announced a trove of features for Mesh, which sees the firm boost the service’s usability across various enterprise settings.

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Road to VR

MARCH 31, 2025

Studios COVEN and ALBYON have released the long-awaited hand-tracking update for Masters of Light (2024) on PSVR 2, letting you blast beams of light, summon shields, and control energy as you combat against dark celestial enemies. And it turns out casting magic is one of the most immersive things you can do with your bare hands.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2025

WEART , a leader in enterprise-grade haptic feedback devices, spent 2024 demonstrating that its TouchDIVER product portfolio adds significant value to immersive training modules by creating more realistic immersive applications. It also supports XR experiences built on Unity and Unreal Engine SDKs.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Unity, makers of the popular game engine, announced earlier this week it’s getting ready to levy some pretty significant fees on developers , causing many to rethink whether it makes more sense to actually go with the main competition, Unreal Engine from Epic Games.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

If you’re embracing the industrial metaverse or unlocking the benefits of extended reality in the enterprise during 2024, VR gloves could be a great investment. The Top VR Gloves to Consider in 2024 As mentioned above, the number of companies investing in haptic technologies is still relatively small.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2023

Google Releases AR Geospatial Creator for Unity Google has launched Geospatial Creator for Unity, a new platform that allows developers to preview 3D assets in the Unity Editor. Geospatial Creator for Unity currently offers visualizations of more than 2,500 cities in 49 countries.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Then the Vision Pro beta for the Unity game engine has not been distributed yet, so many Unity developers can’t build applications for the Vision Pro, yet. First of all, the labs are dedicated only to devs who are already developing applications for the Vision Pro , which is a very expensive headset.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Developers can already access a preview of the development environment for native, Unity, WebXR. According to the company, the headset sales volumes fell by 10% in 2024 to 6.9 The only announced content is the G-suite and some games like Demeo or Vacation Simulator, but more is to come. million units, down from 7.7 million in 2023.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2024

Plus, Unity offers a range of authoring tools to users who want to get involved with VisionOS. These give companies complete access to Unity’s PolySpatial technology , digital twin creation capabilities, and more. There’s also the option to use ARKit to integrate content with in-person surroundings.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

Apple Vision Pro isn’t due out until early 2024, but the company wants developers to get a jump-start on building apps for the new headset. From what we understand, it’s sort of like an easier (albeit less capable) alternative to Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Now, I don’t want to sound like a balloon popper, but VRChat basically lets you use Unity for the development, so most of the content that can be developed in Unity and that does not require low-level features like reading files or connecting with custom servers can be done in VRChat.

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Road to VR

JUNE 26, 2024

for Unity-based apps which support Meta’s Presence Platform capabilities, such as hand tracking, passthrough, spatial anchors, etc. for similar Unreal-based apps will also arrive, with official release of both Unity and Unreal versions coming sometime in Q4 2024.

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Road to VR

MAY 31, 2024

It was revealed in early 2023 that Meta was internally cooking up a new Quest headset to ship in 2024, which the company mentioned it hoped would make the platform more accessible to consumers. Now, the naming scheme ‘Quest 3S’ has appeared in a recent app listing, seemingly confirming previous rumors of Meta’s next headset.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 31, 2024

AWE EU 2024 continues to highlight the leading XR announcements and advancements. Participating firms include Meta, Siemens, Audi, ESA, Snap, Niantic, Unity, and Pico. Furthermore, AWE EU 2024 emphasises technologies that enhance enterprise-facing XR solutions, including AR cloud, motion capture, and 5G.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Top news of the week Ray-Ban Meta sold 2 million devices EssilorLuxotticas CEO Francesco Milleri during the companys Q4 2024 earnings call this week praised the Ray-Ban Meta glasses for having been a big success. It feels good to have 15 minutes of celebrity sometimes And with all this happiness, lets dig into the best XR news of the week!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

Some people asked me how I did that and in this post, I’m sharing my knowledge giving you some hints about how to replicate the same experience in Unity. It won’t be a step-by-step tutorial, but if you have some Unity skills, it will be enough for you to deliver a mixed reality experience.

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Road to VR

JUNE 8, 2023

Apple’s launch of Vision Pro is still a good bit away—it’s coming first to the US in early 2024 at the hefty price of $3,500. Rec Room was the only native VR app shown during the part of the keynote discussing third-part apps, which are coming to the headset via Apple’s integration of the Unity game engine.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The new capability was announced at Meta Connect 2024 in September as coming this year. For Unity, developers access the cameras through Unity's WebCamTexture API, which is how they already access phone, tablet, and PC cameras and webcams in the engine. Now it's here, as an experimental release for Quest 3 and Quest 3S.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SideQuest threatened Unity with legal action over its planned install fees while telling the game engine maker to "stick that up your pipe and smoke it." Yesterday saw Unity announce the Runtime Fee , a new charge based on revenue in the last 12 months and installs, counting from 2024 forward. With costs as high as $0.20

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

The organizers of OSFest 2024 , an annual festival that will be held this coming October, recently opened voting for this year’s theme to their Discord community. (image courtesy OSFest.). Performers and merchants are not required to follow the selected theme.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 2, 2024

Effective May 15, 2024, Unity is introducing Matthew Bromberg as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, President, and member of the Unity Board of Directors as the firm moves towards deploying its engine as an enterprise-grade RT3D design and collaboration – namely for game development and creating XR applications.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Unity plans to introduce a new 'Runtime Fee' next year and charging developers based on how many installs they reach. Effective from January 1, 2024, Unity confirms any games running the Unity Engine - comprised of Unity Editor and Unity Runtime - will incur this new charge based on revenue in the last 12 months and lifetime installs.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info (Meta’s losses in 2023) More info (Meta expecting even higher losses in 2024) Quest 3 enters the Steam chart at 0.15% Meta Quest 3 appeared for the first time in Steam’s Hardware Survey, with a 0.15% share of the market. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. SteamVR 2.0

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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Recently, XR Today released its State of XR 2024 report which spoke to leaders in the broad immersive technology industry to consolidate expert insights and data related to the current state of AR/VR/MR in business environments. The XR industry is in a very exciting place in 2024. That XR reach is global!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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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. While disheartening, the news of layoffs comes as no real surprise given turmoil in the wider gaming market.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 19, 2024

Google and Magic Leap Form XR Partnership Google I/O 2024: The Latest XR Updates from Google According to the computer graphics news website CG Channel, the original version can still be accessed via Steam and the Meta store, but it is no longer receiving updates. Google AR Glasses: Is This the Return of Google Glass?

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

billion last year to just over $21 billion in 2024. billion last year to almost $4 billion by 2024. billion last year to almost $17 billion in 2024. This includes platforms like Unity that enable companies to build AR for internal purposes or for their customers. So what did the report uncover? Zeroing In.

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APRIL 20, 2024

Special thanks to our sponsors from the last showcase, especially our generous main sponsor, Perp Games , as well as our supporting sponsors: Timeless Heart VR , PLAYISM , Drakheir , Wenkly Studio , Combat Waffle Studios , Incuvo , Events at Unity Farm , Fountain Game Studio , and Impact Reality. Is There a Date Set For the Showcase?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 3, 2024

How will its vision fare in an increasingly competitive 2024 market? ” Microsoft has announced that it will release new avatars for its Teams application in January 2024. However, the new year is upon us, as is Microsoft’s industrial Metaverse roadmap, with the first of its products coming this month.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

But when it comes to Quest, which runs Horizon OS, the vast majority of applications are built using Unity, a comparatively resource-intensive game engine that’s great at real-time graphics, but not so great for making basic flatscreen apps like those we enjoy on our phones.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 18, 2020

billion last year to $21 billion by 2024. We call this category “AR as a Service,” and it includes companies of all sizes — from Adobe to Unity to 8th Wall. billion by 2024. million units in 2024. million in 2024, with a pandemic dip in 2020. units by 2024. The Here-and-Now Opportunity.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 27, 2024

Google I/O 2024 is one of the tech giant’s most exciting annual events for a few reasons. In 2024, the focus was on Google’s increasing investment in AI. Here are the most exciting XR updates from this year’s Google I/O 2024. Most of the biggest changes come to Google’s Geospatial tools.

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