Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Back at WWDC 2017 Apple finally embraced VR, announcing that it had been working with Valve to bring SteamVR and the HTC Vive to MacOS , along with a number of other announcements about how the company would support VR as part of its ecosystem. SEE ALSO Report: Apple Acquired VR Headset Startup Vrvana for $30 Million.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

XR experiences in general, have proven themselves to be an amazing tool for everything from workforce training and digital marketing to product visualization, entertainment, and immersive online education. Discover and play indie VR/AR content without having to make a single download.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

At the company’s annual WWDC developer conference today, Apple revealed ARKit 3, its latest set of developer tools for creating AR applications on iOS. Apple also introduced Reality Composer and RealityKit to make it easier for developers to build augmented reality apps. Apple Pay in AR Quick Look. People occlusion.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

In this blog, we will cover some highly popular software development tools used for AR app development. We have a plethora of AR app development tools available in the market. You should consider the following parameters before choosing a suitable tool for your AR app development. Top 5 Tools for Developing AR Mobile Apps.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

Apple is jumping firmly into the world of augmented reality. Announced during WWDC, ARKit brings AR development tools to iOS, allowing your phone’s sensors to detect things like depth, ambient light, and motion. Apple also showed off what the new development tool would look like with the popular AR game Pokemon Go.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

In an answer to Apple’s recently released ARKit , a developer tool used for making augmented reality apps and games that run on newer iPad and iPhones, Google today released a preview of a new Android-compatible software development kit (SDK) called ARCore.

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2017

With Apple’s increasing interest in VR on Mac , the company is adding essential features to its new Metal 2 graphics API to support high performance VR on MacOS. ” SEE ALSO Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS. Single-pass Stereo.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2018

Earlier this month at Apple’s annual WWDC conference, the company introduced their latest operating system, macOS Mojave (10.14). SEE ALSO Oculus Mum on Rift Support for MacOS as Apple and Valve Forge Ahead. ski visualizes below: Image courtesy Apple. Image courtesy Apple. In short, Gasi?ski

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Apple to launch a second “more affordable” headset in 2025. Since the rumors about the upcoming Apple headset were not enough, the famous Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has thought well to release rumors about the next-generation headset. Other relevant news. Image from the web). Anyway, we’ll see… these are all speculations.

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Road to VR

JULY 18, 2018

Unreal Engine 4.20 adds supports for Apple’s ARKit 2.0 Unreal Engine 4.20 The feature supports video input, calibration, and in-game compositing (including occlusion), though it doesn’t directly handle capture, so a third party tool will still be needed for capture or streaming. The post Unreal Engine 4.20

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. According to an evidence presented by Epic Games, Apple has not only removed Fortnite from the Apple Store, but it has also revoked the status of developer to Epic Games. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release Other relevant news.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

During Apple’s June developer conference, we finally got a glimpse of what we’ve all been patiently waiting for—Apple embracing VR. And with the launch of the new iMac Pro today, Apple is positioning it as the ideal machine for VR development. Its simple and intuitive, something we expect from an Apple product.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 update, arriving this fall, will be a huge boost to the emerging AR industry. With both Unity and Unreal integrating with ARKit for iOS, the two major tools for creating virtual worlds are now available to developers for building apps on hundreds of millions of Apple handhelds.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Meta Quest developers looking to port their Unity-based apps to Google’s newly unveiled Android XR operating system shouldn’t have a tough time of it, Unity says, as the game engine creator today released all of the tools devs need to get cracking.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2018

Called Project Aero, the newly announced AR authoring tool and multi-platform system that will soon deliver a way for developers to build simple AR scenes and experiences for Apple’s ARKit. The integration of usdz support was first announced at Apple’s WWDC, which saw the release of ARKit 2.0.

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

Know your tools. Since the emergence of AR on smartphones, tablets, and AR glasses, a new breed of authoring tools has emerged to accommodate the needs of these new “mobile” devices. We all like free tools and the good news is that there is lots of free authoring software out there. Know your resources.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 1, 2024

But the release of the Apple Vision Pro proved to Valve employees that people are fine with having an all-in-two device with two units connected by a cable. RecRoom without kids For us developers, there will be a dedicated Unity SDK at launch , with the Unreal one following a few months later.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The Use of VR in the Field of Education Vindevogel goes on to say that VR will be a useful tool in the field of education. More Accessible Developer Tools VR solutions are becoming more popular in commercial settings and it’s expected that developing such solutions will become simpler in the coming years.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Unity vs Unreal: Which is the best option for companies creating content for extended reality ? Unreal, or “Unreal Engine”, on the other hand, excels at enabling the creation of visually stunning graphics. They both offer creators access to various tools that enable the creation of immersive experiences in various environments.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Apple VR headset may feature a 3000PPI microOLED display. This week we had a new rumor about the XR headset Apple is working on. According to Korean publication The Elec, Apple has requested a sample of a display component for OLED displays that can arrive up to 3000PPI. Apple Event was not about AR, like, at all.

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Upload VR

MAY 2, 2024

Tim Cook just officially announced that more than half of Fortune 100 companies have bought at least one Apple Vision Pro headset. Enterprises including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, SAP, Porsche, Lowe's, and EnBW have publicly confirmed using Apple Vision Pro with custom visionOS software. Vision Pro launched exactly three months ago.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Reading the article excited me a bit, because when an experienced VR journalist says that something impressed him, well, I know that thing is super cool for real Vicon , which is a leading company in mocap systems, showcased for the first time its markerless mocap tool.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Apple) Apple Vision Pro 2 may come in 2026 The rumors about the Apple Vision Pro 2 continue. It seems that most of the rumors are aligning on the launch of an Apple Vision Pro 2 in 2026–2027. What a time to be alive! Matt Miesnieks said that the rumor aligns with some things he heard.

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GizModo VR

AUGUST 25, 2020

Last week, Epic filed for a temporary restraining order to prevent Apple from terminating all of Epic’s developer accounts and cutting the company off from iOS and Mac development tools, which would go into affect on Friday August 28, 2020. District Court for the Northern District of California heard… Read more.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

Top news of the week (Image by Brad Lynch) Bloomberg got a preview of the Quest 3 Last week I predicted that Meta could have given us a glimpse of the Quest 3 during the Gaming Showcase on June, 1st, so that to create attention around its device before the announcement of the Apple headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

Altspace was pretty unique because it offered amazing tools to create groups and communities, so people being part of it had many connections inside the platform. First of all, it seems that the headset is not a new product, but that Apple has been working on it for 7 years. And that now t here is some pressure to release them.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

It is the first step towards the Infinite Office solution that FRL wants to offer in some months , transforming the Quest into some kind of work tool (or trying to do so). Until now, WebXR developers could only target Android or Apple users that were tech enough to use a WebXR viewer developed by Mozilla for iOS.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Could Apple Vision Pro be a serious competitor in the enterprise AR market? While Vision Pro was mainly pitched as a consumer product when revealed at WWDC in June, Apple also teased enterprise use cases, including room-scale augmented reality apps. I almost get so blasé about VR.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2020

Castle Smurthenstein (Image Credit: Apple II Bits ). Given that the user base is strong and that the tools are consistently maintained as professional-grade, these models are attracting users who seek a more active role in the consumption of content. . Image Credit: Twitch Inc.).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

Of course, Epic is completely against Apple and its vision of its own walled garden. Epic also announced a few interesting things, like a tool to record facial animations for MetaHumans that run on an iPhone; and Fab, the Unreal version of the Unity Asset Store, where the developers can find many tools and multimedia elements put on sale.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Surreal Controllers Surreal Interactive announced a few months ago the Surreal Touch, the first (3d-party) controllers for Apple Vision Pro. via ALVR), but the company also plans to release an SDK for interested developers who want to release a native title for Apple Vision Pro that should work using controllers.

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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 the One App, creators have access to the full power of ARCore and ARKit for the best possible AR experiences. ( Apple Store ) ( Play Store ).

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

It has just announced that it will release a new tool to create virtual worlds for the platform based on Unity. On a separate note, the Quest 2 has just been updated to Runtime v44, which brings additional parental control tools, plus finally many customization options to record videos on the device. Rec Room announces Rec Room Studio.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

Epic tried to establish that Apple is an “essential utility,” meaning infrastructure that can be uncompetitively withheld, like a bridge, but it just wasn’t landing. On the more comical side of the news, Unreal is suing Chinese smartglasses maker Nreal because the brand names are too similar and will cause confusion.

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Upload VR

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Until now, building even a simple app for Quest headsets required using a full-fledged game engine like Unity, Unreal, or Godot. These are heavy tools that require importing swathes of assets or reinventing the wheel to achieve simple interfaces and interactions. Meta Spatial SDK is now available for developers.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

It is not an app, but a tool to build apps. Microsoft Mesh is a full suite of tools to let you build your multi presence collaborative XR application. If Microsoft commits to building this platform and doesn’t abandon it (a la Google), it can become an incredible tool for us developers.

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