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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

Hello everyone from Austin, Texas! Quest Fitness Tracker “Oculus Move” is Getting Baked into Apple Health & Oculus App. Unity has partnered with Insomniac to build a metaverse for immersive live performances. Oculus, this is sexist… Funny link. Can you imagine something more Texan than this? Other news.

Magic Leap

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Designing the User Experience for WebAR, with Google’s Interaction Developer Austin McCasland

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. Alan: Today’s guest is Austin McCasland, a designer and developer in immersive computing. Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development.

Austin

Austin AR Examples Google

Designing the User Experience for WebAR, with Google’s Interaction Developer Austin McCasland

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. Alan: Today’s guest is Austin McCasland, a designer and developer in immersive computing. Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development.

Austin

Austin AR Examples Google

Designing the User Experience for WebAR, with Google's Interaction Developer Austin McCasland

XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 21, 2019

Austin McCasland is a UX prototyper working with Google, and he and Alan chat about the finer points of UX design for AR. Alan: Today's guest is Austin McCasland, a designer and developer in immersive computing. Austin has written multiple courses across VR and AR design and development. Or what you're really attracted to?

Austin

Austin Google AR Examples

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

VRScout

MAY 3, 2017

Demonstrated live on-stage during the Unity Vision Summit, you can already try it out for yourself in the Unity 2017 beta. If you already have an Oculus Rift and Touch controllers, you can join the early open beta and dial in your parents via Facebook Messenger. raised last fall.

360 Video

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Survios is quickly showing that they may be the heavyweight champ of VR game development

Cats and VR

MARCH 26, 2018

Sure Oculus and HTC get articles written about them but that is mostly for the hardware side. During the Unity GDC party, Electronauts Audio Engineer showed the party potential of the VR software while mixed along side a scratch DJ. This year at GDC, Survios showed me that they are more than a flash in the pan VR contender.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

“I met the guys from FOVE, Yuka [Kojima, CEO], and Scott [Harper, Creative Director] at South by Southwest 2014 in Austin, where they were demoing a very early prototype of the FOVE [headset],” Head of Special Projects Oliver Kibblewhite tells me. So how did this unexpected partnership come about?

Fove

Fove Eye Tracking Unreal Tips

Virtuix Faces Problems and Does the Right Thing

VRWorld

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Officially, Virtuix comes Unity and Unreal Engine 4 SDK, speeding the integration in the game or some other VR application. All units are tested at the end of our assembly line in China, and our team fully inspects each Omni again upon arrival in Austin before we deliver the units to our customers.

Austin

Austin Virtual Reality Tourism Exercises

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Digitalnauts

MARCH 23, 2022

“ “ There were also a few fully immersive exhibitions powered by amazing tech (Spatial, Unity, MeowWolf, Dell, DC, Porsche…), which was great to see. Paper Birds” an interactive VR story from Oculus (best story). GoliathVR and their schizophrenia experience (best interactive experience on Oculus Quest 2).

Industry

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Top 26 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2018

VeeR VR

DECEMBER 6, 2017

& 13-15, 2018 Venue: To be announced South by Southwest is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States. It began in 1987, and has continued to grow in both scope and size every year. Here's SXSW's full schedule for VR/AR sessions.

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10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

VRScout

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles and Austin, TX-based startup called The Wave VR is building “the world’s first social VR music platform,” according to CEO Adam Arrigo, “[and] it lets anybody from aspiring DJs to Deadmau5 to put on online virtual shows that are fully interactive. THE WAVE DANCES ONTO THE MUSIC SCENE AND RAISES $2.5M. OWLCHEMY LABS LANDS $5M.

Los Angeles

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Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel’s Raj Puran

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

Training

Training Education Data Technology

Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel’s Raj Puran

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago — I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago — we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

Training

Training Education Data Technology

Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel's Raj Puran

XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2019

I remember years ago -- I think it was probably, I want to say about five years ago -- we had a Unity session in our office, where we did Unity development basics, and we invited a lot of companies from the area in Austin to come to our office, and we would run a Unity training session around 2D/3D asset development.

Training

Training Education Data Technology

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The XR Week Peek (2022.03.14): Niantic acquires 8th Wall, Magic Leap 2 previews are positive, and more!

Designing the User Experience for WebAR, with Google’s Interaction Developer Austin McCasland

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Designing the User Experience for WebAR, with Google’s Interaction Developer Austin McCasland

Designing the User Experience for WebAR, with Google's Interaction Developer Austin McCasland

The VRScout Report – The Week in VR Review

Survios is quickly showing that they may be the heavyweight champ of VR game development

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Virtuix Faces Problems and Does the Right Thing

SXSW 2022 CHAT WITH CHARLES SEGUIN: FIRST IMPRESSIONS, XR INDUSTRY AND EMERGING TECH

Top 26 VR/AR Events, Expos and Conferences to Attend in 2018

10 Recent VR and AR Investments You Should Know About

Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel’s Raj Puran

Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel’s Raj Puran

Making Holograms a Reality Through Volumetric Capture, with Intel's Raj Puran

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