Road to VR

APRIL 16, 2018

HTC has announced a new set of tools allowing developers to build applications which take advantage of the Vive Pro’s stereo front-facing cameras, effectively turning the device into an AR headset dev kit. The new tools allow the cameras to capture depth, spatial mapping data, hand input, and seamlessly shift between VR and AR worlds.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Paving the Way for Richer AR Experiences. It introduces more accurate data collection capabilities and takes geolocalization capabilities to the next level. This broadens the horizon for newer and more immersive AR experiences and use cases. OVRMaps have a fundamental importance for AR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

You know that I have a big passion for Brain-Computer Interfaces, a passion that has grown even more when I understood they are a perfect match with AR and VR (I have even dedicated a long article in the past about this). OpenBCI has also watched our customers integrate our existing products into AR and VR headsets for years.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

As Space Invaders turns 45, TAITO teams up with Google and UNIT9 to give its players an elevated AR gaming experience with Google’s ARCore Geospatial API. TAITO and Google partnered with global production and innovation studio UNIT9 to transform Space Invaders into an immersive AR game in honor of its 45th anniversary.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Since the market size of augmented reality solutions is expected to reach $209 billion by 2022, it’s no surprise AR is a trend for a handful of industries like gaming, media and entertainment, advertising, and others. What Is a Location-Based AR Application? Influence of AR on Various Domains. Healthcare. Entertainment.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Epic Games today released a new video featuring a demo for HoloLens 2 that aims to show off just what sort of graphics can be achieved on Microsoft’s latest standalone AR headset. Released in early September, Unreal Engine 4.23 We’ll update this article as soon as we hear back.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For this reason, NVIDIA has released two new graphics cards: NVIDIA RTX A6000 dedicated to prosumers and enterprises that want to work with very complex scenes to render on their workstations NVIDIA A40 dedicated to Data Centers that wants to exploit it for remote renderings and AI computations. Max Power Consumption 300 W Form Factor 4.4″

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

“We are proud to be delivering the technology that is pushing industrial training applications to their furthest reaches – even to space,” Varjo CEO and co-founder, Niko Eiden, said in a release shared with ARPost. Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Building the Experience.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 22, 2022

Epic Games, the parent company of the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) development suite Unreal Engine 5, recently released MetaHuman, a framework for creating highly realistic digital human avatars. The platform also supports augmented reality (AR) projects due to its ARKit integration, which helps further immersive content opportunities.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

In terms of events, participants, and opportunities to attend, Augmented World Expo (AWE) is the largest AR, VR and MR trade show out there. There will also be talks dedicated to the XR developers that are working on, or interested in working on, these fields. See Also: Can AI and AR Be Put Together to Offer a Unique Experience?

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This headset is basically identical to the Pico 4, but it features a more cleanable headset, additional sensors for eye and face tracking, plus enterprise services (dedicated assistance, device management, data security certifications, etc…) and an enterprise runtime (which offers kiosk mode, for instance). Learn more (Soccer game in AR?—?Video)

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Road to VR

AUGUST 30, 2022

Update 21.50, the game’s fifth and final update to Season 3, is rolling out today, and it seems data miner and itinerant Fortnite leaker HYPEX has gotten a look under the hood, maintaining that Epic has added “stuff related to Oculus.”

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2017

AR is happening. Apple’s massive leap into augmented reality with no additional sensors or hardware, only the phone in your pocket, seemingly opened up the largest AR platform in the world overnight. With more than two billion active devices, it now looks like Android may be on its way to the largest mobile AR platform in the world.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 29, 2017

Drawing from their work developing Tango , the company’s older AR platform that works with only two publicly available devices—Lenovo Phab 2 Pro and Asus Zenfone—Google is opening up their new ARCore SDK to run on “millions of devices,” initially supporting both the Pixel line and Samsung S8 line, running 7.0

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

This week we cover a handful of new funding rounds, new Snap AR milestones and Oculus Quest sales Inflections, among other items. This will allow these companies to work more closely together to deploy AR applications across industries in the process of digital transformation. Over 200M Snapchat users engaged with AR daily in Q4.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. But it is thanks to research projects like this that in the next years, we will arrive at having AR glasses we can wear every day.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

Nvidia’s GTC 2017 conference next week has a heavy focus on broader business uses of AR and VR, including healthcare, education, architecture, and more. And out on the concourse, they’ll be using GPUs for one-click body scanning in 12 seconds with automatic data post-processing.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Vindevogel adds that the growth of VR in the context of LBE is due in part to how VR and AR are capable of providing users with more exciting ways to bring their vision to life, making the technology suitable for visitor attractions. “It Thus, it’s likely that we’ll see more AR apps making use of AI tech in the future. “

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 26, 2020

Today I feature a great interview with one of the most important people in the AR space: Alan Smithson. 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. What features are supported? MetaVRse logo (Image by MetaVRse).

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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2022

With real-time geospatial data, photorealistic immersive experiences can now be accessed and applied in a wide range of industries. Unlocking New Capabilities by Merging the Real and the Unreal. San Francisco textured buildings with demographic data, global imagery, and elevation, viewed from within the Unity editor.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 22, 2021

CloudXR is exciting because it puts all of your XR content at your fingertips, no matter where you are, and it makes it possible to experience your most complex models on even modest XR devices. What is NVIDIA’s vision for AR and VR for the long term (5-10 years)? Most recently, we’ve taken XR to the cloud. Image by NVIDIA).

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. This means you can run the most complex VR and AR experiences from a remote server across 5G and Wi-Fi networks to any device, while embracing the freedom to move—no wires, no limits.”. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Apple signals interest in location-relevant AR through its geo-anchors and Project Gobi. These are a few utilitarian, commerce, and social angles. How else will geospatial AR materialize? What are its active ingredients, including 5G and the AR cloud ? Trending AR VR Articles: 1. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

For VR and AR, well, summer is seldom the right moment to have many great news, so this week hasn’t been that exciting. But here you are anyway the things that you should know from the last 7 days! If we look at the data of the three independent reports, we get a clear coherent picture. Jio launches its AR glasses.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

My speech will be about AR and BCI. A bit like Apple, whose upgrades to ARKit show its creation of an AR framework aimed at the future more than the present (because phone AR is good only to add features to 2D apps), Facebook updating the Quest gives us a hint of what we can expect in the upcoming years. Top news of the week.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The XR revolution is coming, with new AR/VR/MR solutions debuting throughout 2024. On that note, leading into 2025, the XR market is looking to shift, with interest shifting towards emerging technologies such as AR and MR, with accessible products debuting from firms like Meta and Apple. degrees and a per-finger accuracy of up to 2mm.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 11, 2025

When I started writing these weekly summaries of AR/VR news I couldnt imagine I would have continued for such a long time. Thank you to all of you, my readers, for having kept reading these posts of mine and giving me the strength to keep writing them by telling them they are useful for you. THIS IS MY 400TH ROUNDUP OF XR NEWS.

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AR Insider

APRIL 19, 2021

The maker of the mega-hit game and Unreal Engine game development platform has landed another cool billion in a new round of funding. Virtualitics is letting people transport into VR to view data with other users. Snapchat brings AR monuments across Los Angeles. More from AR Insider…. Let’s dive in… .

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

Facilitated by the standards body Khronos Group, OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And also, for AI training, as we’ll see in a while, realistic rendering and physics engines to create synthetic training data are of paramount importance. For these reasons, photorealism and physical accuracy are important goals. “XR and Artificial Intelligence are increasingly going to be seen together” , he said.

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2017

Apple finally talks about VR while taking a (very solid) swing at AR, Walmart will use virtual reality to train employees, you can grow better weed with AR + AI, and Q1 VR headset sales…. Apple, humble as always, announced that their ARKit made iOS the largest AR platform in the world…overnight. APPLE ACTUALLY TALKS ABOUT VR.

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VRScout

JANUARY 8, 2018

Now with FBI data showing that nearly 1/3 of all mass shootings since 2000 have taken place in schools, DHS is giving EDGE an upgrade to focus on educators and school employees. million program, which was built on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, isn’t the first VR experience to focus on surviving an active shooter situation.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content. Developers designed the VR experiences using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 5 , arguably the world’s top immersive platform for designing and deploying immersive content.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Additionally, people can develop augmented reality (AR) experiences with the platform’s 3D viewing function. This comes with “comprehensive 3D geo datasets,” where users can select renderings and data overlays. According to the tech giant, gaming firms can develop real-world models for AR-based immersive experiences.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

XR data analytics firm CORTEXR has launched its platform on Tuesday to standardise virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) technologies as well as the Metaverse. XR Study on Key Analytics.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In the letter, he accused the Chinese firm of collecting data for the Communist Party of China via the TikTok social media and user-generated content (UGC) application. Carr called the company a “wolf in sheep’s clothing” due to the firm alleged data farming operations. Data Processing Oversight.

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