Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. Parisi is also the author of O’Reilly Media’s books on Virtual Reality and WebGL: Learning Virtual Reality (2015) , Programming 3D Applications in HTML5 and WebGL (2014) , and WebGL Up and Running (2012).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 20, 2023

Croquet Corporation announced on Thursday last week it had launched its Croquet for Unity solution. The new JavaScript multiplayer framework integrates with Unity to provide a novel approach for developers. With it, people can create Unity-based immersive experiences without writing or maintaining multiplayer code.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

More info (Article about the metaverse in China) More info (Article about Chinese cities’ attitude towards the metaverse) More info (Animoca Brands getting 75M) More info (Metaverse books reading list) More info (Web3 platforms issues). Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. See Unity running on Quest. Learn more.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Companies such as Gamooz gamify reading books for children, significantly boosting engagement levels with 2D pop-up content, and offering more publishers and authors access to the technology for their books. This costs them much less than more widely-used gaming engines such as Unity or Unreal Engine. Reduced Educational Costs.

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AR Insider

JULY 26, 2021

Sketchfab is integrated into Epic’s popular Unreal Engine game and special effects paltform, and notably, all of its competitors, starting with Unity, Snap’s Lens Studio, Facebook’s Spark AR, and even Tilt Brush. See his books here. In short, they are everywhere spatial content is made. And now, so is Epic. More from AR Insider….

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AR Insider

AUGUST 9, 2021

In an unhinged rant worthy of Rudy Guiliani, Cramer explained the metaverse is made by Unity, before correcting himself and crediting Nvidia instead. See his books here. Since it’s only theoretical, some folks are having trouble understanding it, among them CNBC’s Jim Cramer. Watch the latest episode below. More from AR Insider….

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Technicolor released a behind the scenes video (linked below) that delves into this process, which we learn was a natural expansion from Favreau’s work with VR on his other Disney classic retelling The Jungle Book (2016). Cinematographer Caleb Deschanel lines up a shot using an HTC Vive, Image courtesy MPC, Technicolor.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

The product allows users to create 3D content on top of CAD models without a game engine like Unity. See his books here. Currently, there are over 1.5M Snapchat lenses. Scope AR launches an enterprise browser-based AR creation platform. You can now create an avatar of yourself and import it into VRChat. Watch the latest episode below.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The book is coming in March, 2024, but can already be preordered on Amazon. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global VR video streaming ecosystem. SteamVR 2.0 is now live for everyone. This is for sure going to be something interesting to read.

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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

The virtual portion of the experience is powered by The Void’s proprietary VR hardware and built entirely on the Unity game engine, one of the first engines to offer Oculus Rift integration and remains of the most popular among VR devs. The Void – Ghostbusters: Dimensions opens to the public on July 1st.

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AR Insider

APRIL 12, 2021

The Unity Cube is an experiment from developer Tony “SkarredGhost” Vitillo to test the limits of what Oculus will allow into the App Lab program. See his books here. The new headset is a professional version of the recently released Reverb G2 last year. You can find it on podcasting platforms Spotify , iTunes , and YouTube.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

A few friends of mine suggested I visit the booth of XCOM Labs , so I booked a meeting to try their solution in one of their private rooms. There is one last experience I want to tell you about from my trip to AWE USA a few months ago: the time I visited XCOM Labs to try its remote rendering solution! XCOM Labs.

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AR Insider

JULY 12, 2021

Behind the Scenes with Jean-Micahel Jarre’s VR Concert From the Unity blog , the story of how AR/VR consultant Antony Vitillo journaled the entire experience of putting on Jean-Michel Jarre’s Welcome to the Other Side (WTTOS), in a VR replica of the Notre-Dame Cathedral to celebrate New Year’s Eve. See his books here.

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VRScout

JULY 19, 2018

Throughout the 30-minute adventure, users will have the opportunity to learn more about the resolutionary by interacting with several digital versions of Mandela’s real-life possessions, rendered via a handheld scanner and imported into Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes. Unity Muse, Sentis to Tap AI-Powered Content Creation This week, two AI tools, Unity Muse and Sentis , were released to assist creatives in designing immersive worlds and XR content.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 30, 2021

The fund’s top five holdings are Nvidia (8.93%), Microsoft (4.91%), Roblox (4.85%), Tencent, majority shareholder of Epic Games (4.80%) and Unity (3.99%). See his books here. Ball is a former Amazon strategy executive turned investor. Jensen Huang interview: The physical world and the metaverse can be connected. More from AR Insider….

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

They also talk about the current difficulties of using Unity to develop for the Vision Pro. Learn more SimulaVR has delayed the release date of its headset to the end of 2024 Learn more News from partners (and friends) Get this book about Spatial Design Dominique Wu has written a book about how to properly design an XR application.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

My friend Giambattista De Giorgis has published a book about learning how to develop AR/VR applications in Unity. It is intended for people with no development experience, so if you want to get started with Unity, this can be the book for you! News from partners (and friends).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 10, 2022

As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. Upload VR) More info (Moss: Book 2 review) More info (Walkabout Minigolf X Myst) More info (Half-Alyx: Levitation) More info (Painting VR) More info (Green Hell VR) More info (Super Kit) More info (Demeo). The CEO of Sketchfab has tried it and said that it works quite well.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2020

The talk, given by Viveport President Bjorn Book-Larsson, will look at modeling consumer behaviors. The talk will cover how and why to roll out hand tracking affordances with Unity. The first talk, “A Step Ahead of the Curve: Using Data Trends to Build a Successful VR Experience,” is already open for registration.

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AR Insider

MAY 17, 2021

These seven companies include founding charter member Verizon as well as ZEISS, RED Digital Cinema, Unity, Intel, NVIDIA, and Canon. See his books here. The app is on iPhones and other devices, accelerating growth. The Volumetric Format Association (VFA) was founded. Watch the latest episode below. More from AR Insider….

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Logitech currently lists VR Ink Pilot Edition support for Flyingshapes, Vector Suite, VRED, Mindesk, Gravity Sketch, MARUI (Maya plugin), IrisVR, and Tilt Brush, with integrations for Unreal Engine and Unity so that developers can adapt more applications to the stylus.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2020

They decided to base everything in the massively popular 3D development platform Unity. See Also: XR Technology for Industry According to Unity’s Andre Gauthier. That’s things like interpersonal communication that are required for the job but can’t be learned from a book.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 16, 2021

Unity asked more than a dozen industry experts – including yours truly – to share their thoughts on how immersive technologies would be embraced for a report entitled Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR. You can access the e-book for free here.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

To me, this movement means Black Unity around this truth and the protests send a clear message to the world. They’re already going to protest, making donations, reading books, and educating themselves. Attack one of us, deal with all of us and our allies. You have activated people already taking action.

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ARVR

JUNE 13, 2022

So first I have to measure my room in the real world and start designing it in Unity. Then i took a picture probably scan it via the notes app and upload the image to unity so we can draw a 3d version from it. I used Unity ProBuilder to design a 3D scene from the sketch. Placed it in right place and try playing it in Unity.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 25, 2019

The same can be said of books, and despite our large personal library, I know that I relish being able to open an app and have access to hundreds of titles anywhere I go. . The Tilt Five team invites those interested in developing for the platform to contact them , as they can provide an SDK with ready-made plugins for Unity 5.5+

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 4, 2022

Unity talked about PlayStation VR 2 at GDC. Unity had a talk about developing for PlayStation VR 2 at GDC 2022. More info (Foveated Tracking boost inside PSVR 2) More info (Full Unity talk at GDC). Talking about the most-awaited games, we had also the release of Moss: Book 2, which has just been released for PSVR for $40.

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ARPost

APRIL 8, 2020

Laverde also pointed out that while VIVE’s hand tracking SDK works with a number of common platforms including Unity and Unreal, there can be complications for different hardware. This echoed some of the advice given by VIVE’s Bjorn Book-Larsson in last week’s talk on developing for VIVEPORT. “ Tips on Incorporating Hand Tracking.

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ARVR

APRIL 9, 2021

Let’s take the Disney coloring book. A few years ago, Disney created technology that projects coloring book characters in 3D. Disney is using augmented reality to bring coloring books to life The Weather Channel is now using technology to illustrate the weather and its effects. It is an answer to Apple’s ARKit. What is Vuforia?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 1, 2020

Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. Unity launches MARS tools. After many months of teasing them, Unity has finally launched the MARS tools, a suite of tools to build easily Augmented Reality experiences in Unity without knowing how to code.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Dean Takashi has interviewed Neal Stephenson about the metaverse , his book, and, of course, Meta. Mindport helps you in building your Unity VR experiences. Mindport is a very interesting plugin on the Unity Asset Store that lets you create your VR experiences in Unity in an easy way.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

“When I first got the HTC Vive there was next to nothing on the market, so I started messing around in Unity,” O’Neill says via email when we asked about what inspired him to start working on VR Home. “When I first opened it, I tried to make a simple apartment, and it looked great.

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Road to VR

MAY 29, 2019

I’m by no means a digital artist who spends every day with a Wacom tablet, but I’ve used my fair share of tablet PCs with active digitizers (including the Surface Book as my primary laptop), and VR Ink’s drawing and pressure sensitivity felt very comparable.

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Road to VR

MARCH 25, 2020

By Bjorn Book-Larsson, President, Viveport. Learn how to add hand tracking support to the VIVE, VIVE Pro, VIVE Cosmos and VIVE Focus with a hands-on coding session using Unity. The company has also provided a description of each talk via its blog post. Tuesday, March?31 Laverde, Sr. Developer Evangelist .

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2021

October, 12th won’t be remembered in history books only as the day America was discovered by Columbus (that was Italian, of course, :D), but also as the day that Lone Echo 2 launched. More info (Facebook Horizon rebranded and grant set up) More info (Unity support dropped in Horizon) More info (Charlie Fink visiting Horizon Worlds).

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 10, 2017

As you walk inside the gallery-like interior (and are greeted by a very charming coordinator named Josephin) you’re immediately hit with design: big white walls with graphic posters, design books, and metallic chairs with faux fur throws. Unlike typical cavernous tech spaces, this one feels segmented in both a beautiful and useful way.

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