Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Generative AI tools have also helped dungeon masters create imagery to share with their groups. For people who couldn’t realize their creativity in a sandbox or walled-garden — platforms like Unreal and Unity enable the creation of real-time, immersive worlds that simulate reality. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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XR Today - Big XR News tag

MAY 19, 2023

BMW Group Taps Meta for XR Car Gaming System BMW Group USA and Meta Platform’s Reality Labs division have announced a partnership to develop an automotive VR/MR solution. However, the partnership is a significant step forward for both companies and could pave the way for new and innovative ways to use VR/MR in vehicles.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Prior to Accenture, Rori was Global Head of Digital Strategy and executive vice president at Havas Media Group, where she led and managed strategic planning worldwide, with a focus on digitally-integrated marketing communications and innovation. There’s a lot of groups. Rori: Yeah, absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JUNE 18, 2019

Prior to Accenture, Rori was Global Head of Digital Strategy and executive vice president at Havas Media Group, where she led and managed strategic planning worldwide, with a focus on digitally-integrated marketing communications and innovation. There’s a lot of groups. Rori: Yeah, absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

Which we do that at home, but essentially kids spend more time at school with that type of structure, to teach them how to report in, how to handle things, and how to work in groups, and do all of those things. And Tomorrowland just partnered with Epic Game’ Unreal Engine, and did the Tomorrowland concert. And they’ve done very well.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

Which we do that at home, but essentially kids spend more time at school with that type of structure, to teach them how to report in, how to handle things, and how to work in groups, and do all of those things. And Tomorrowland just partnered with Epic Game’ Unreal Engine, and did the Tomorrowland concert. And they’ve done very well.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

I think that for a small startup that is shipping its first product, it may make a lot of sense: for a company of that size, it is better to handle a smaller group of high-paying customers than doing the opposite. Also the price is getting closer to that plan, with the device now expected to retail for $1300. Wait, what???

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 25, 2020

Which we do that at home, but essentially kids spend more time at school with that type of structure, to teach them how to report in, how to handle things, and how to work in groups, and do all of those things. And Tomorrowland just partnered with Epic Game’ Unreal Engine, and did the Tomorrowland concert. And they’ve done very well.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. There’s these other engines– Alan: Improbable. Paul: Yeah. So, it’s coming. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

” So, in our world, Unity — and let’s not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there’s Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. There’s these other engines– Alan: Improbable. Paul: Yeah. So, it’s coming. Paul: Yeah.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One thing she’s trying to put together is something called the sensory design group. I’ve got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program — so, you program in Unity or Unreal. The tools are here.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One thing she’s trying to put together is something called the sensory design group. I’ve got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program — so, you program in Unity or Unreal. The tools are here.

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XR for Business Podcast

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

So, in our world, Unity -- and let's not just pick on Unity all the time, you know, there's Unreal. And they actually built an Unreal engine-based app to publish news content to go on with their news. If Google is all-in on AR, Apple's all-in, Amazon, Facebook, Walmart -- like, every major company in the world gets it.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 14, 2019

Amazon Sumerian. One thing she's trying to put together is something called the sensory design group. I've got to try this thing called Vasco, which is a scent machine that mounts to the bottom of your VR headset that you can program -- so, you program in Unity or Unreal. there's just all these tools. The tools are here.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 4, 2019

June 28 th was a key date this year for a group of Virtual Reality enthusiasts who received on launch day, the first delivery of the new “ Valve Index ” PCVR system. As a member of this small group, who against the odds had managed to secure a pre-order on May 1st , mine arrived at 12.31

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The game is very different from its predecessor, and it is less a realistic combat simulator and more an adrenaline multiplayer game, like Unreal Tournament or Quake Arena. Let me shout a big thank you to Jeff Dawson and Juan Sutelo that are the ones that have joined this group this week! Magic Leap may partner with AWS.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Vulkan News We’ve added support for Vulkan Multiview and Fixed Foveated Rendering in our platform and in Unreal Engine, which can boost performance significantly. Mixed Reality Capture for Quest We recently shipped the ability for developers to make mixed-reality videos, with support in our Unity and Unreal Integrations.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. But once you start to have like a group conversation with five or twelve people… Alan: Yeah, it falls apart. I mean, the introduction of ARKit and ARCore probably put 200 startups out of business.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We've got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. And their response actually, I hadn't considered was: when you're in a group -- let's say you're four people in an office, and you're face to face -- you still want to see those people. Alan: Yeah, it falls apart.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

We’ve got AR platforms being hosted by Amazon, by Facebook, by Snapchat, where you can develop your own AR lenses. But once you start to have like a group conversation with five or twelve people… Alan: Yeah, it falls apart. I mean, the introduction of ARKit and ARCore probably put 200 startups out of business.

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Robert Scoble

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It isn’t alone, we know of many companies that are spending billions on same, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Sony, Magic Leap, Huawei, and others. We should stop forcing developers to be joined in some sort of weird way just because they both use the same tool, Unity or Unreal Engine. The problem with reacting to Apple.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2020

And all of this comes in a period when other partnerships between tech giants are happening: remember that some weeks ago, Microsoft closed its streaming service Mixer and allied with Facebook Gaming to fight the quasi-monopoly of (Amazon-owned) Twitch. Unreal Engine can now use your iPhone to record facial animations.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

Honor to all the other countries, some of them probably deserved more than us, but I think Italy won because we were a true team, a group of people that supported each other for a goal they craved to reach. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. We won with our heart, the big heart of us Italians. billion) and ARkit (1.25

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In my humble opinion, since it looks like a draft page, I believe that someone at Meta created an App Lab app to test the service with some test groups, being sure that the app was hidden because App Lab apps were unlisted. Unreal Engine 6 will feature the full power of UE5 with the ease of use of UEFN (Unreal Engine for Fortnite).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2020

Thanks to the WeChat group XR Story I got to know Gianluigi Perrone, a very talented movie director that works a lot with virtual reality , and that also teaches cinema at the Beijing Film Academy. It will be available on Amazon soon. He is Italian like me, but he is living in Beijing, China for 7 years. Why do you think it?

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