XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Affected companies include Meta Platforms, Amazon, and the global cryptocurrency community. It features full colour passthrough, a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ chipset, and productivity and security tools for workers. According to IDC data, VR headset shipments are expected to increase 42.88 percent YoY for 2023. Optimism in XR.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In a press release by Walmart, it said it is currently building ‘dozens’ of further generative AI tools for customers, associates, members, and partners, such as care assistants for Walmart International and Sam’s Club. The latter buzz term refers to a retailer’s ability to shift their products or services to meet changing customer demands.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

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. This is impressive. The numbers are still not comparable to those of Quest, but they are still very good.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

The demand for easy-to-use 3D creation tools is growing rapidly as demonstrated by a report by Hired that showed demand for VR/AR engineers grew by 1400% in 2019. With other game engines already available, both on standalone (Unity, UE4) and web (Sumerian), why did you feel the need to create a new one? What features are supported?

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

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…. Then, it guarantees that there is an open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal, so if in the future Meta wants to build its own engine, it could start doing that by forking Godot. Some XR fun.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This, together with 5G and Wi-fi 6, could help the spread of cloud rendering; Omniverse, the collaboration tool for artists, enters open beta. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This means that, even with many limitations, you’ll be able to create WebAR experiences from within Unity. This is so cool!

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 16, 2020

HTC Vive XR Suite is a broad solution for offering tools that let people interact remotely with other people to perform various tasks, using whatever device they want. So, I made a prototype with Unity and the Cosmos XR where I can actually take out a PC from an Amazon page and try it on my desk. Vive XR Suite.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 17, 2020

I mean, all UE developers, we Unity developers felt like being in a party where everyone is making out and you’re just there sipping a coke. Valve releases Half-Life: Alyx Steam Workshop Tools. After almost 2 months from the release of Half-Life: Alyx , Valve has released some authoring tools to create new maps for the game.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

When Apple announced the arrival of the Vision Pro , it also introduced users to a range of developer tools to encourage them to build their spatial apps. Apple Vision Pro Apps: The Apple Apps During WWDC 2023, Apple’s debut of the Apple Vision Pro drew much attention to the existing Apple tools that would work on the headset.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Since this framework makes the real-world objects an active part of the AR experience , this is an additional tool to blend the real and the virtual worlds Meta openly released the Digital Twin Catalog (DTC) , which is probably the world’s largest and highest-quality 3D object model dataset for 3D reconstruction research.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 5, 2019

It includes Unity , Amazon Sumerian and Adobe Aero. In many cases, the intended users for these tools are creative professionals. Elsewhere is evidence from a recent Unity report that likewise supports a somewhat optimistic view of the opportunity to provide creative professionals with AR development tools (as Unity does).

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Cats and VR

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Amazon has basically sent many brick and mortar traditions out to the retirement home. Due to the pushes by Amazon, even ancient traditions like going to the store on Black Friday have gone the way of Denver the Last Dinosaur. Well, Amazon is finally placing its hat into the kooky world of VR and AR with its new development platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

That’s because he builds his AR experiences through his VR tool Modbox, explaining that if he wants to place an AR switch on his wall, it’s just easier to do it directly in AR rather than having to build it in the Unity Editor and then trying to position it correctly on a second screen.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Who We Are A Silicon Valley-Based Startup on a mission to transform digital engagement from the ground-up by merging the physical and the digital world. A Creator Platform for next-gen to ‘Socialize.’

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TechCrunch VR

JUNE 23, 2022

But while there are quite a few tools out there to create virtual environments, there aren’t a lot of tools for creating virtual objects. With WorldForge, the company already offers a tool to create synthetic scenes. Image Credits: Amazon.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

Another leak regarded the release date: an Amazon listing put the availability date of the Quest 3 starting from October, 10th. Thanks to this partnership, MRTK will continue to thrive as an independent tool, and i ts much-awaited version 3 is still expected to be released in September 2023. in the reviews!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Read Graphic Designer Job Description Read Unity Developer Job Description Read Full Stack Developer Job Description Some XR fun Hitman 3 VR has some ridiculous moments both in the old PCVR version and in the new Quest one Funny link (PCVR version) Funny link (Quest version) The most immersive VR racing simulator rig is here.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Today at GTC 2020, NVIDIA has released three very interesting news that we in the XR sector should care about: New enterprise NVIDIA RTX A6000 and NVIDIA A40 graphics card have been released; Cloud XR servers are now available on AWS; Omniverse, the collaboration tool for artists, enters open beta.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

One job listing talks about creating “a 3D mixed-reality world” and “build tools and frameworks to enable connected experiences in a 3D mixed-reality world”. Snap and Amazon partner to offer AR preview of shopping items. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

All social companies are now competing on who can offer the best tools to create them: the one having the lead is currently Snapchat (that has been the first startup believing in augmentations), which has already implemented full-body filters, and location-based filters, where you can augment certain landmarks of various cities.

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AR Insider

MAY 6, 2020

The third major change came from Unity which recently announced that it will now be serving AR ads on mobile. Unity has one of the world’s largest mobile ad serving businesses and at the end of last year they partnered with Fossil to pilot this new ad format in mobile games. This is exactly what Lowe’s is doing with its Holoroom.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

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. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Pre-release versions of beta tools such as Reality Composer, Create ML, Apple Configurator, etc… ?—?Engineering

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Considering the leaks on Amazon and MediaMarkt, the device will probably be available starting from October, 10th, 2023. It will transform the PC software into just a lightweight runtime to: Make the Quest work with the Link on SteamVR Use old content bought on the Rift Store Make developers debug the apps they are making in Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

ARCore, built to empower creators to build their own game in the Google landscape, comes with all the tools and developers need to engage their audience. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Unity helped with everything from matchmaking in VR, to voice communications for the development of the new game. Fictioneers and Unity.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

JUNE 9, 2023

The device also hints at Metaverse support with Unity-native applications like Rec Room porting to the device. If Vision Pro does find a place as an enterprise tool, then firms like Taqtile may be ahead of the curve with an established iOS presence. Will Apple’s device shake up the XR world like its creators and hungry fanbase hope?

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2024

It needs the means to ease the development effort by creatives; modern tools are required,” Vega said. “Unfortunately OpenSim lacks these tools.” O3DE initially began as Amazon Lumberyard , built on top of the CryEngine game platform technology. Plus, Unity and Unreal both have free options.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 31, 2023

There will be a new launcher, improved graphics, improved in-game camera, production-ready Unity SDK for the creators, improved full-body VR, and much more. First of all, the Web3 VR platform has announced version 3.0 which is releasing this autumn with a massive update in which basically everything will be improved.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 16, 2021

It is also amazing that the interface lets us record directly Full HD videos in 1080p without having to use an external tool for that (see, Oculus? This means that if you have developed your application using Unity XR and Unity XR Interaction Toolkit, you can port your application that already runs on Quest to Pico Neo in just a few hours.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

It will be possible to shoot 4K videos of the augmented applications, body tracking has been improved , and the system will be able to perform better environment understanding The new ARKit features will be used by a new tool provided by Apple for all its iPhone users: RoomPlan. News worth a mention. Image by Meta). Learn more. Learn more.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Players can use the novel tools to buy and sell in-game content and identify metadata, ownership, and other key details for immersive content. The news comes after the company filed a patent for blockchain technologies for the PSVR 2 to trade non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other digital content.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The image above, clearly an homage to the legendary Unity Cube , demonstrates the position and orientation of optical sensors across different surfaces of the object… this would ensure that sensors are always available as the object is turned or moved. Image by Rob Cole). This was quickly solved using a five meters long active USB 2.0

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

More info (Official Sony blogpost) More info (Summary by Upload VR) Pimax works for the release of Portal Pimax Portal, the Nintendo Switch-like console by Pimax , has just been released on Amazon. Which tools and platforms are you using to build mind-bending creations? This reworking is going to introduce new delays to its release.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. Spatial Computing Trends: Dedicated Software and Tools Just as vendors are producing more advanced hardware for the spatial computing landscape, the software used to power these systems is evolving, too.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 12, 2019

The same Unity plugin is able to serve all Oculus devices and this helps a lot in developing cross-platform titles. The SDK is also very well documented and it is easy to find the solution to your problems also in Oculus and Unity forums since the Oculus dev community is far from being little. Enterprise features.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Even the cameras and processors in these innovative tools are becoming smaller and more powerful. Spatial Computing Trends: Dedicated Software and Tools Just as vendors are producing more advanced hardware for the spatial computing landscape, the software used to power these systems is evolving, too.

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