Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Rather than a complete shutdown, Vega positioned this move as a strategic pivot, stating the business would continue under a new virtual world platform based on O3DE technology. Discovery Grid’s transition marks one of the first major moves by an established virtual world from OpenSimulator to the newer O3DE platform.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The “TendAR” augmented reality experience creates a virtual fish for players, capable of interacting with the real world through the user’s camera. 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 - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 12, 2022

NVIDIA delivered a speech on Tuesday at the SIGGRAPH 2022, revealing a fresh lineup of metaverse solutions to audiences, including virtual world-building, digital twin, and avatar platforms. Covers neural graphics advancements, digital twins, & virtual humans: [link]. Kent Bye VoicesOfVR (@kentbye) August 9, 2022.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

We’re excited about the depth and richness that the resulting characters bring to the game for our players” Popul8 the Virtual World with Didimo Solutions like Didimo’s Popul8 platform have grown in popularity over the last few years due to increasingly demanding production pipelines for gaming and real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. I managed to interview its CEO, Dalia Lasaite, and talk with her about the 3D models market trends and the relationship between the 3D modeling ecosystem and the virtual reality ecosystem.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 2, 2020

Blogger Tom Ffiske, that writes on Virtual Perceptions, has decided to write a very good book about AR and VR technologies and it is becoming pretty popular on Amazon. This is one of the weirdest rag-doll experiments in Unity. Facebook acquires Sanzaru Games. Do you want to read a good book on AR/VR? More info Buy it now!

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Bernard Marr

JULY 4, 2022

Today, we might log into Amazon, Facebook, or Slack for shopping, socializing, or working online. Many metaverse experiences will be created by designers using low-code or no-code worldbuilding solutions, such as Roblox or Somnium Space, as well as tools like Unity which require some understanding of coding to get the most out of.

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TechCrunch VR

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Vehicle passengers keen to experience virtual worlds or play games — all of which are in tune with the movement the car they’re riding in — will have to use the Ride utility token to make purchases. That bet could pay off.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. But we’d also expect to see the existing edge providers such as Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, the big cloud providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and a host of open-source tools for automation, deployment, caching, federated learning, serverless computing and so on.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Image from Amazon). Bad news for social world Sansar: its company, Linden Labs (the same that manages Second Life), has just laid off 20 more people, and now, what should have been the next-gen Second Life, is just being managed by a bunch of people. If you will be in Italy, please come visiting me! The hype is rising….

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

The industrial metaverse is the next evolution of digital transformation, describing the concept of full-physical-fidelity, real-time, immersive digital twins and industrial virtual worlds that are perfectly synchronized and obey the laws of physics. Each will have a digital counterpart.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The headset is already selling well, and it is currently the most-sold gaming console on Amazon. More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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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…. Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium.

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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

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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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 30, 2021

The Venice VR virtual world, designed by VRrOOm within VRChat, will be the Venice VR Expanded hub—a virtual version of Venice. Users on Quest can visit these worlds, too. Ball is a former Amazon strategy executive turned investor. Jensen Huang interview: The physical world and the metaverse can be connected.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 13, 2022

I truly hope they can create a serious blockchain that can be the foundation for ownership and payment systems in virtual worlds. Amazon now offers the possibility to try-on shoes in AR on its app. More info (LAMINA1 announcement post on Medium) More info (LAMINA1 announcement press release). Learn more. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

(Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Answer: if people go to a platform just to make money, that platform is not going to succeed) Are today’s virtual worlds so different from Second Life?

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented Reality Augmented reality (AR) is an immersive experience where the objects that resides in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated information (virtual objects). An AR system comprises of three features: combination of real and virtual world, real-time interaction, and registration of virtual and real objects.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 29, 2020

So I feel like there's so much of a mirroring of what's happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it's a surgical simulation or Walmart's using it to train for different employees. 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

So I feel like there’s so much of a mirroring of what’s happening in these virtual worlds that the training applications are just incredible, in terms of whether it’s a surgical simulation or Walmart’s using it to train for different employees. And we’re seeing these kind of rapid advances in technology.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Spaces offers functionalities in: Image tracking Object tracking Hand tracking Spatial mapping Environment understanding and meshing Plane detection Real/virtual world occlusion …and more. But it can also be very interesting to create virtual idols and other kinds of conversational characters for entertainment purposes.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 13, 2021

It is a very useful collection of articles for people that are new to this world and want to understand all the facets of the topic very fast. Amazon Lumberyard becomes opensource. Amazon has launched some years ago its 3D engine called Lumberyard, derived from Crytek’s Cryengine. AR users to reach 800M by the end of the year.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 25, 2020

bHaptics made it very easy for the developers to implement it thanks to a Unity prefab that must just be dragged into your project. Being a developer, of course one of the first things that I did was digging into the bHaptics SDK, that you can find on the Unity asset store or on Unreal Engine Marketplace. Price and availability.

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Building the Metaverse

APRIL 12, 2022

Whether we create something in Roblox, Unity or Unreal; architect an immersive space in VR; or build a decentralized application?—?we As is often the case, the forefront of this revolution has occurred in games and virtual worlds. Metamundo is a project that hopes to create a marketplace for 3D art assets for use in 3D worlds?—?essentially

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2019

The Cyberverse is very similar to the Magicverse by Magic Leap and is a system that employs the AR Cloud, mixing the real and the virtual world, and that uses AI for object recognition, uses localization, fast network and all this fancy stuff. Amazon thinks using AR for its delivery agents. UE4 adds Oculus Quest Vulkan support.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 16, 2020

It will be available on Amazon soon. For example, if in a film you see a special effect for one second in a frame and then the film cuts to something else, in virtual reality you need to finish the effect until the end. The tools that I usually use are Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe After Effects, Blender , Maya, Unity , Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 25, 2022

My favorite one is “interoperability” : you shoud be able to go through all virtual worlds carrying with you what you have got in one into the other ones. Epic has implemented it, and Unity is doing that too. I am a Unity developer, and I can tell you that now Unity.XR And that’s amazing, I love it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2020

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. He has set a shooting game in his apartment, and in it he can also use his real table as a prop in the game , moving it in the real and virtual world together.

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