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My article about Android XR granting permissions for the camera frames has earned me mentions in important magazines like Road To VR , Upload VR , and Android Authority ! Looking at the chart of the sales on Amazon US, it is possible to see that the headset had five times the peak sales volume during the 2024 holiday season as it did in 2023.
It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR….
Some magazines talked about thousands of people laid off, but Bytedance refuted that the scale of the operation was that big. The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem.
IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. The high-level architecture of IBM’s DeepQA used in Watson // Image Credit: AI Magazine.
An Amazon ad appearing on the streaming platform Peacock shows the Meta Quest 3 and Quest 3S and the caption: “Meta Quest, starting at $299.99”. Regarding the actual release date, we have also a rumor: someone spotted on the Australian Amazon page an entry about the Quest 3S and the availability date being October, 16.
Alan has lately announced the release of the MetaVRse engine, a new XR engine all devoted to the enterprise sector about which important magazines like Forbes have talked about, and on the occasion of this launch, I have interviewed him. It feels abandoned in the overall Amazon ecosystem and the rendering technology is older and inefficient.
It’s my first time in such an important magazine and I’m incredibly happy about it! Reading the reviews from the most important magazines, I’ve learned that the killer feature of this headset is the new XR2 Gen2 chipset. Shipping will start on October, 10th.
The community is not happy with this news, but another piece of news spread this week by VR magazines has given us some hope. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. I have detailed it in this post , and it was very cool because it let you create WebVR experiences directly from the tool that we develop always use, that is Unity.
Palmer Luckey is a tinkerer,” is how Time Magazine described the creator of the Oculus VR headset back in August of 2015. Why couldn’t they just use a simple voice assistant device, such as an Amazon Echo or Google Home? Lee Vermeulen is breaking new ground with his experimental AR prototypes. .
Considering the terrible sales performances of Snap Spectacles, I think the news will arrive on all main tech magazines, but the sales of these glasses won’t be spectacular. There are vaiours solutions to also export Unity XR projects to the web (Image by Mozilla). Concept of a future AR glass by Apple (Image by iDropNews).
Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! Amazon is opening its AR Beauty Salon. Unity developers will get this joke Funny link. You don’t even know how this made me happy!
If there is any new feature released in SDKs or libraries in Unity, you are most likely to find the first tutorial video about it on his YouTube channel. The top 3 experiences will win Amazon Gift cards. If you ever get stuck with an issue in Unity you can either post your issue in the forums or get some help in their Discord group.
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All the YouTubers and VR magazines talked about it, and it seems that the game is very fun. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. This seems like a great deal! Among Us VR has been released! Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.
Someone invokes saviors like Google and Amazon, but even if they managed to succeed, they are other data-harvesting companies , so in any case, we are f**ked. Let’s see what will happen… and in the meantime let’s eat lots of popcorns. More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic).
As John Riccitiello (CEO of Unity) said some years ago , the VR market won’t be interesting enough until it will reach the 10 million users mark. Amazon and Tesla could be two outsider of the XR ecosystem instead. . “The farm has been plowed, the farm is now ready for seeds” , he adds.
If these Facebook features proved to be popular, more developers would use them, and finally, Facebook could have more power on the VR development tools , after the failed acquisition of Unity. affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon? affiliate link) More info (Quest on Amazon?—?affiliate affiliate link).
It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. The interview has been super interesting for me, because thanks to it I’ve learned a lot about the 3D modeling market, that is something that usually VR magazines do not talk about.
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It has the ability to create a cross platform code where users can create their projects in either JavaScript, Unity, Xamarin, and Cordova. Amazon Sumerian — Amazon Sumerian enables users to create and run virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and 3D applications quickly without requiring any specialized programming expertise.
In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. The Peripheral is a new series on Amazon that has VR at its center. Learn more.
And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much. You remember how we were all amazed when we see this video with-- the video on YouTube, they were swiping on a magazine? And there's over 100 tools that allow you to collaborate.
And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much. You remember how we were all amazed when we see this video with-- the video on YouTube, they were swiping on a magazine? And there's over 100 tools that allow you to collaborate.
Oculus Quest 2 has disappeared from all Amazon EU websites. Kudos to Shachar Weis for discovering this: he told me about this news, and I have verified that it has disappeared completely from Amazon Italy and Amazon France, while some Redditors confirmed that the same holds for Amazon UK. This could be The Unity Cube 2.0.
And some of them are built on Unity, others are built on Unreal. It's a bunch of sourcing right now on Amazon, it doesn't cost us much. You remember how we were all amazed when we see this video with-- the video on YouTube, they were swiping on a magazine? And there's over 100 tools that allow you to collaborate.
But they claim having also seen a Unity experience running from it (maybe it will be possible to develop for Horizon with Unity, as it is possible with VRChat), so developers may still be able to create more complex stuff. Unity GPU We recently enabled Unity’s GPU Profiler on Quest and Go. Developer tools. Well, ZERO.
This week has been pretty crazy: It all started with Facebook approving my silly The Unity Cube application (an application with just a cube) on App Lab. The stocks of the headset are becoming empty on its main stores (Oculus website, Lenovo online store, Amazon US, etc…) and Facebook has stated that “it won’t replenish them”.
We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. You can buy it on Amazon, you can buy it at Best Buy. I was a magazine editor in 2008, 2009 when Twitter was really starting to take off. We have done some work with the Air Force on voice-activated pilot training. And I can’t say which one yet, TBD.
We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. You can buy it on Amazon, you can buy it at Best Buy. I was a magazine editor in 2008, 2009 when Twitter was really starting to take off. We have done some work with the Air Force on voice-activated pilot training. And I can’t say which one yet, TBD.
Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine. Now, in what seems a desperate move to become relevant in a field dominated by Unity and Unreal Engine, it has made this engine opensource with the name Open 3D Engine.
We just worked with Unity, building augmented reality projects. You can buy it on Amazon, you can buy it at Best Buy. I was a magazine editor in 2008, 2009 when Twitter was really starting to take off. We have done some work with the Air Force on voice-activated pilot training. And I can't say which one yet, TBD. This is stupid."
This has been a pretty interesting week for me, having spoken at XR Safety Week and Stereopsia, and having published two cool articles about creating innovative SteamVR controllers and using Application SpaceWarp in Unity to almost double the framerate of your application. Click this link to donate and support this magazine!
bHaptics made it very easy for the developers to implement it thanks to a Unity prefab that must just be dragged into your project. As soon as I released the magazine, I could feel the haptic sensation of something falling down through my back , as something really slipped into a bag there. I loved that sensation, it was so cool.
And so we already have a set of integrations with proprietary tools like Unity and Real Render and so on. And just like on Google Sheets, you can search Shutterstock to preview images and you want to do the same thing on Magic Leap or Hololens or any 3D application, like Unity or Instagram AR. I guess it would be still Unity, for now.
And so we already have a set of integrations with proprietary tools like Unity and Real Render and so on. And just like on Google Sheets, you can search Shutterstock to preview images and you want to do the same thing on Magic Leap or Hololens or any 3D application, like Unity or Instagram AR. I guess it would be still Unity, for now.
And so we already have a set of integrations with proprietary tools like Unity and Real Render and so on. And just like on Google Sheets, you can search Shutterstock to preview images and you want to do the same thing on Magic Leap or Hololens or any 3D application, like Unity or Instagram AR. I guess it would be still Unity, for now.
Before starting, I remind you that if you find what I do useful, you can donate to my magazine on Patreon to express your appreciation. The web is always ready to make some jokes on Zuck when we’re talking about data gathering (Image from Reddit, showcasing the magazine The Onion). And now, let’s go. Oculus Quest 2.
The one that I link to you here is from a general gaming magazine and it awards HL-A a 9/10 mark. Unity is offering 3 months of Free Learning so that you can sharp your development skills. Greg Madison is a genius working on AR/VR UX at Unity Labs. Stay safe, stay at home and enjoy your time with VR! from 2019. It seems fun.
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