XR Today - VR Headsets tag

OCTOBER 23, 2024

At the AWE EU 2024 event, industry leaders are expected to showcase the latest XR innovations that are evolving workplaces today. Participating firms include Meta, Siemens, Audi, ESA, Snap, Niantic, Unity, Pico, and more. Following its showcase at AWE 2024, the company will officially release the product for approximately €5,999.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tencent should start selling the headset beginning in late 2024 , with Meta getting most of the device revenue, while Tencent most of the content revenue. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

This rumor mentions a thing we already heard from other sources, which is that Meta is working on a new cheap device for 2024, aiming at a price tag of $199. According to the latest rumors, the device is expected to be launched either at the end of 2024 or the beginning of 2025. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 4, 2025

More info Other relevant news (Image by Valve) VR usage on Steam is on the rise December 2024 saw the second highest percentage of Steam gamers using a VR headset ever. There is a Unity SDK, so it is also possible to create a VR game (e.g. This makes us hope well for the future of XR! for fitness) that integrates them!

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Now that my 2024 world tour is finished, and I am preparing for my next year (that starts with a new trip to CES ), it is the right time to take stock of all these trips and all the events I attended and examine what I invested to go there and what I obtained in exchange. After 10 years, I managed to meet him!

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

Experience with 3D content creation is a plus, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work with AR design. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In its latest post, he stated that Meta plans to make the Quest 3 live as a medium-tier headset while releasing a new cheaper version of it in 2024 as the affordable option for the mass market. Because of these problems and the delays, a cheaper version of the Vision Pro, which was expected for 2025, may have been canceled.

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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The drama about Unity’s new pricing models has set the whole game development community on fire, while we had an unexpected leak about the Pico 5 and some updates on the Apple Vision Pro. In the case of Unity Personal, the thresholds are 200,000 downloads and 200,000 in revenues, and the fee is $0.20 per install. And this $0.2

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 25, 2025

According to Pruett, the usage per month of Quest headsets increased by 30% in 2024 compared to the year before. $2B 2B has been spent in total on the Quest Store, and in 2024, the spending has actually increased by 12% compared to 2023. And heavily promoting Horizon Worlds in the phone app only decreases sending by 3% at most.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The 2024 edition will happen again in Rotterdam (Netherlands) from the 4th to the 6th of December 2024. Read Graphic Designer Job Description Read Unity Developer Job Description Read Full Stack Developer Job Description Some XR fun Do you have a minute to read my opinion on the BigScreen Beyond?

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