VRScout

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

During the first-day of the Unite 2016 conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, Unity Technologies unveiled a number of new updates and features to help support VR and AR creators around the world developing interactive 3D, VR and AR experiences. Recruiters can also post jobs and target a pool of highly-sought Unity talent.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Today at View Conference 2018 I attended a very interesting workshop by Gianni Ricciardi and Matteo Milani about immersive sound. I absolutely wanted to attend it, because I know that audio is very important for immersion in virtual reality , but I have a great lack of knowledge in that field. Let me explain that.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

On the other hand, VR cuts you off from your visual surroundings to completely immerse you in an app or film. Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. AR places 3D images in your surroundings you see through a headset or phone.

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VRScout

MARCH 1, 2017

Unity Technologies presented their Special Keynote at GDC 2017 in San Francisco on February 28, announcing the release date of Unity 5.6 alongside a bulletin of other updates, including a glimpse of Unity 2017. Riccitiello explained that this installment marks the last of Unity 5. The Unity 5 cycle culminating in 5.6

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Tech startup XpertVR is perhaps one of a handful of companies pushing the boundaries in this field, providing businesses with unique immersive solutions. Over the years, they considered 360 video marketing, VR entertainment booths, and training simulations before settling on XR tools to aid with research. What Is XpertVR?

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate. Subscribe on iTunes.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 2, 2020

With Spaces , Microsoft is aiming to provide point-and-click simplicity by letting users create immersive environments on the fly by using media such as 3D assets, 360 photos, and 360 video—all of which is stored in SharePoint folders. ” The news was first reported by German VR publication MIXED.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Apple is positioning the new iMac Pro—available this Thursday starting at a cool $5,000—as an ideal machine for VR content creators (both 360 video and real-time). With the new Vega GPU, iMac Pro lets you do more than just immerse yourself in VR worlds. Virtual reality gets real. It lets you create them from scratch. “a

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

It’s a while that I virtually know Chris Koomen , a talented professional that works with immersive technologies at KLM. In 2015 my girlfriend came with a Cardboard and with no experience with Unity I created my first 360 photo which I’ve shown to my manger. There started to grow the use of interactions in 360 videos.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. There will be an XR plugins manager, and some of them will be managed by Unity together with its partners (e.g. So sad for me, considering the 5 years I’ve spent using Vuforia in Unity… so many memories…. More info (Announcement by Unity Technologies) More info (Comment by Upload VR).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Igloo Vision was among a number of leading emerging technology companies showing face at the event to highlight the future of workplace technology -with the firm successfully showcasing how immersive spaces are a valuable enterprise tool via its Igloo Core Engine solution. In 2023, Igloo Vision showcased its various immersive spaces.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

AI, music, and VR creation tools collide in this beautiful 360° video. Danny Bittman is one of the most prolific creators of immersive art in the world today. Part of YouTube’s VR Creator Lab , the video project can be viewed in 360° on desktop, mobile devices, and VR headsets.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. Always remember that immersive realities encompass all five senses. Immersive fashion is one of the big trends of the moment, so if you don’t know much about it, I suggest you read this post.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 30, 2019

The games giant joins VRM Consortium in Japan as an observer, but does that mean they’re closer to entering the immersive space? Yet it’s safe to say that overall Nintendo has been quite noncommittal about dipping their toes into immersive tech – at least in public. Why is that a big deal? This article was first published on VRScout.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

While Guided Meditation VR is rendered in real-time on tethered headsets which are backed by a PC with plenty of processing power, the mobile Oculus Go version of the app , relies on 360 video captures of the virtual environments instead. But then along came a new method for playing back 360 video content on Oculus Go.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2017

OSSIC debuted their latest OSSIC X headphone prototype at CES this year with one of the best immersive audio demos that I’ve heard yet. Riggs says that they’ve been collaborating with Abbey Road Studios in order to figure out the future of music, which Riggs believes that is going to be both immersive and interactive.

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VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

PlayStation looks to an arcade rollout, Shazam goes augmented, AMD wants to go wireless, HTC Viveport’s new subscription service, the investment & funding wrapup, and more… You can enjoy the full audio recording below: IT’S NOW WAY EASIER TO COMBINE 360 VIDEO AND ANIMATION. NETFLIX LOOKS TO GET AUGMENTED.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The entire short film, embedded below, was created in Unity and is driven by a synthwave soundtrack scored by Emmy award winning composer RAD LAZER (aka Rafter Roberts). UploadVR: Why did you choose to make this entirely in Unity? Josh Hassin: I come from a background making video games for Sony and others. Unity changed that.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Also noteworthy: Final Cut Pro X will be able to support 360 video editing, Unity and Unreal now have VR support for Macs, and SteamVR is coming to Mac… and although there was a sweet on-stage mixed reality demo using Star Wars assets and an HTC Vive, there was no mention of support for Oculus.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2020

Presenz also offers a Unity plugin so that you can import this render file in Unity and so mix the resulting volumetric video with some real-time interactions that you add in the game engine. InVR is another nice company making 360 videos and volumetric videos. Me and Simon of One Bonsai. Altheria Solutions.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The final part of the mission has been live streamed, and people were also able to watch it in immersive 360 formats or in 2D in a VR environment like ENGAGE to feel more connected with the historical event. I wonder if something similar could be employed for 360 videos…. VR can be used in financial planning.

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Road to VR

JULY 12, 2016

Sound is probably the second most important part of creating a compelling immersive VR experience, but it’s also usually put off to the end as an afterthought. Here’s the highlights from the Sundance panel on Immersive Sound for Virtual Reality. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 4, 2017

The HoloLens, for example, is Microsoft’s AR platform while the HP and Acer headsets are their VR platform (although they refer to them as “Immersive” headsets in documentation, but whatever, they’re clearly VR headsets.) When I accessed the “Movies & TV” app it even auto-loaded a 360 video section.

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Voices of VR

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The latest Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories (FIVARS) starts today in a hybrid exhibition of 65 immersive stories until September 19 in Toronto and until October 3 with an online exhibition of spherical video and cinematic VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In October, Igloo Vision , a major provider of immersive collaborative spaces, refurbished its demo centre in London to provide five novel immersive spaces for its Hoxton-based showroom. People can also view YouTube 360 videos, Google Street View, as well as the enterprise’s bespoke 360 web browser.

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Cats and VR

MAY 26, 2017

Nick Ochoa-Founder Of Magik Gallery-" Virtual Reality is more that a gaming platform, more than a 360° Video distribution platform, VR is a canvas and what you can create is very vast and infinite. Also mad props to Oculus and Naomi from the Medium team out there showing mad love in support of the event.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. Yes, it’s a lot of time, but these are realistic projections.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. Or you can get photoreal capture of live subjects and live environments, but you’re stuck with the tyranny of 360 video. What we’re trying to do is bring the best of both.”

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Development — Get hands-on training for how to build the world’s best VR applications, from tutorials covering the latest Oculus Mobile and PC SDKs, to workshops on top game engines including Unity and Unreal. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 16, 2017

Immersive content agency Purple Pill has announced a VR interface design competition and is offering $10,000 in cash prizes to those who create the best virtual reality interfaces. From gaze-based interaction modalities to laser pointer menus to skeuomorphic knobs and buttons, today’s VR interfaces are all over the place.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. You don’t even need a 360 camera– you can capture a spherical photo with a panoramic photo app. Keep an eye out for the Compass icon, which will mark the 360 photos in your newsfeed.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 18, 2017

Outside of supervising VFX for big budget Hollywood films, Mack creates abstract surrealist art, realizing them as 3D printed sculptures, 2D renderings, and now through his newly founded VR production house Shape Space VR , immersive virtual reality experiences that let you explore his strange and beautiful globular creations up close and personal.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The immersive story is different for everyone, and was built with Wevr’s VR character AI framework. In addition to her 360 video for Stonemilker, exhibit-goers can check out Black Lake, Mouth Mantra (get inside Björk’s mouth!), Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 8, 2022

The same offerings can make the actual travel experience more engaging, by immersing customers in a unique experience while they’re sitting in their seat. Emerging British marine adventure company, Arksen, worked with the leaders in the XR landscape , Varjo, on the creation of an immersive new experience for their travel brand.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

We were using something called Visa, which was a very low-level library language, very different from what Unity is right now. on immersion and presence , or somewhere in that nature (I might be off by a single point). For four years, I stayed at UCSB and I learned how to program VR. Or Unreal if that’s your language.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

These developers make impressive 360 videos like their Strictly Come Dancing footage, immersive experiences like the enjoyable Home , and artistic experiments like the one it created in partnership with popular singer, Björk. The process was quick and simple enough that it didn’t break the immersion of the demo itself.

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VRWorld

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Following the Unity Training Day on Halloween, October 31st, Unity launched pretty awesome features during the opening keynote for Unite Los Angeles 2016 conference. Unity also revealed the new version of its EditorVR authoring tool and confirmed it will be available on December 15th.

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