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Top news of the week (Image by Samsung) Samsung XR headset may launch in Q3 2025 Two new reports gave us potential updates on the Samsung Project Moohan headset. South Korean news outlet The Elec instead reports that Samsung will use Sonys new 1.35-inch Of course, they are rumors, so take them with a grain of salt.
Epic Game’s Unreal Engine is making it easier to create for augmented reality in the newest 4.18 Epic has however provided experimental support in their game engine for ARKit since Unreal Engine 4.17, but the new 4.18 ” Unreal Engine 4.18 Nougat and above including Samsung S8 line. ” Unreal Engine 4.18
Tomorrow I’m going to celebrate this blog’s anniversary, so be sure to read the upcoming related post and say something nice to me! Top news of the week (Image by VRTUOLUO) A leak shows a prototype of the Samsung XR headset We finally have a leak of the Samsung headset that makes us see something about it.
Riding the wave of excitement over Google’s new VR platform, Daydream, Epic Games CTO Kim Libreri announced on the Google I/O stage today that the gaming giant has brought support for Daydream to Unreal Engine 4. In a collaboration with Hardsuit Labs on the plugin, Epic Games has made Unreal Engine 4 support for Daydream available now.
Unreal 4.18, pulled from Oculus’ GitHub mirror. The post also recommends specific versions of development tools that devs will want to use to access such features: We recommend developing for Oculus Go and Gear VR with the following tools: Unity 5.6.5p2 or 2017.4.2 with Oculus Utils 1.24.1 For native code applications, Mobile SDK 1.21
Chinese manufacturers BOE and SeeYA may provide cheaper displays in higher quantities than Sony is doing now, while Samsung may be supplying the DRAM components. According to a recent report, the successor of the first Vision Pro may come in 2026 and have a price comprised between $1500 and $2500.
When it comes to developing virtual reality (VR) videogames there are two primary engines studios use, either Epic Games’ Unreal Engine or Unity by Unity Technologies. will end support for Samsung Gear VR and Google VR, while OpenVR compatibility will be phased out. As the company previously announced Unity 2019.3
Renato Andrade, Senior XR Product Designer, Samsung R&D Institute (SIDIA) , posted his thoughts on the changes, gaining him over 20,000 impressions on LinkedIn. This also open the door for Epic and their Unreal Engine to shine and capture the entire XR development market.
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I myself have written a hugely detailed post on my blog to teach people how to get started with Passthrough Camera Access. More info The Samsung headset should have motion controllers According to a report by SamMobile, Samsung will be making its own first-party handsets for its upcoming Project Moohan headset.
Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. firm investing in AR solutions.
Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. firm investing in AR solutions.
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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Matt is renowned as one of the world’s AR industry leaders, and through his influential blog posts and persona around the world. He’s built AR system prototypes for Samsung, and had long executive and technical careers in mobile software infrastructure before jumping into AR back in 2009. firm investing in AR solutions.
Some people are migrating to Unreal Engine or Godot. The posts on social media and on the blogs of gaming studios and platforms (including SideQuest) in which people express their disappointment are countless. Others have stopped using Unity Ads, Unity’s main source of revenue. Others have even threatened the safety of the employees.
The environment where she has performed in was made in Unreal Engine and the modeling and the shading was so good that for a moment I thought it was a real studio. Read more about this news on Google Blog. The whole thing is incredible. Of course I guess all of this has come for a price. Pollen Robotics.
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More info Samsung is still on track to deliver its headset Samsung’s president of mobile experience, TM Roh, has spoken with CNET about the XR strategy of the company. Then he talked about the ecosystem and the fact that Samsung wants to create an open ecosystem around XR where many partners can operate in.
Stanford and Samsung create a super-high-resolution display. A joint work of the University of Stanford together with Samsung Research has let a team working on optics and another one working on solar panels collaborate to create a new kind of OLED displays featuring 10,000 pixels per inch. PLEASE DONATE FOR MY BLOG! Funny link.
In my opinion , the true error is with the Vive 1 , that will get a price that is higher than the one of all the competitors… and that will cost as much as a Samsung Odyssey, notwithstanding its far lower features. The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4.
I’ve already reported on this blog how Xiaomi has disbanded the team working on the Oculus Go and this seems to point that there won’t be a Go 2. Vulkan News We’ve added support for Vulkan Multiview and Fixed Foveated Rendering in our platform and in Unreal Engine, which can boost performance significantly.
Stay tuned on my blog for updates about this new adventure of mine. nReal has also been sued by Epic Games for its name that is too close to “Unreal”. You know, I’m here for the Sandbox Immersive Festival that will begin tomorrow and I’m ready to tell you all my experience here! Top news of the week. Image by Upload VR).
After so much time teasing it, Google has finally announced Android XR, the version of Android for XR devices, and gave hands-on demos of the headset it is building with Samsung and Qualcomm. Google is truly betting on the mix between MR and AI , not just on MR. First ever live demo of Samsungs mixed reality headset running Android XR!
video) More info (Unreal Engine with Octane Renderer) More info (Wi-fi is not enough for VR streaming). Samsung gets a patent for an AR contact lens. Samsung has just won a patent for an augmented reality contact lens that contains: a display; a motion detection sensor; a communication module (antenna). Other relevant news.
I’m not there (I’ve still never been to CES…), but as usual I will follow the news and report it on this blog, so stay tuned! Qualcomm has officially said that this is the chipset that the upcoming Samsung headset is going to employ. Please donate to the Red Cross to handle the current humanitarian situation in Ukraine.
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