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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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2022

Even worse, Unity has lost -30% of its stock value. These huge losses have a similar origin to Meta’s ones: Apple’s new privacy policy on the stores has impacted the earnings through Unity ads. Unity is a very important company for many AR/VR creators, so this is not a good piece of news. Lenovo to launch a new MR headset.

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VRScout

AUGUST 31, 2017

Back in 2015, Disney developed AR technology that could bring coloring books to life through live texturing , the process of capturing a 2D drawing to create a 3D augmented-reality image in real-time. AR Museum, which was built with the Unity 5.5 for image-marking tracking, basically turns any image into a coloring book.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate. Subscribe on iTunes.

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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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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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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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Life at the Feeding Edge

JUNE 8, 2023

She has access to an API that can manipulate the physical world like the virtual, she builds that up into a Unity application for her smart phone in the first book. So she ports the Unity app and upgrades the messaging system for this high bandwidth device and to enhance the experience.

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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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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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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

More info (Nathie going around the streets with the Vision Pro on) More info (Vision Pro guy with a robot dog) More info (A girl staying in the pool with the Vision Pro) More info (Photos and videos of other people wearing the headset in public places) Unity has released the tools to build for the Vision Pro.

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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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Life at the Feeding Edge

JULY 25, 2023

Tweet Having my books Reconfigure and Cont3xt I am always using them and the story I created as a way to explore other mediums. I created some meta humans and have a unity based mocap suit from a kickstarter to see if I could produce anime. and tried its new gen-2 image to video generation. This time with NO PROMPT at at all!

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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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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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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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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 1, 2023

Unity Unity stands as one of the market leaders in software development for the metaverse landscape and the XR economy. The Unity ecosystem enables business leaders and developers to create powerful immersive experiences using virtual, mixed, and augmented reality content.

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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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VRPlayin

JUNE 27, 2023

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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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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

An older, but interesting example of marker-based AR is the PlayStation 3 Wonderbook, a gaming ‘peripheral’ that allows players to view a spell book on their screen. The book rotates and moves when they pick up the device and move it around. However, there are some missing features depending on the platform you’re on.

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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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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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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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ARVR

MAY 21, 2021

This image would then be imported into Unity, a game development platform, which would allow you to create a marker that will link back to the 3D content. Such apps can also be useful for tattoo artists for uploading creative images and booking appointments. Another person recorded family sayings or even their dog barking.

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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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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

JUNE 17, 2020

The anxiety coming from this question is one of the reasons why I jump into learning Unity 3D and C# instead of learning Javascript. Build your first HoloLens 2 Application with Unity and MRTK 2.3.0 Source For a while, I’ve been thinking about if VR / AR (a.k.a XR) will eventually replace 2D interfaces or even a web itself.

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VRPlayin

MAY 3, 2023

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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

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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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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Stuck E. in Augmented Reality

AUGUST 13, 2020

So today I decided to turn a sketch on paper into an interactive art piece using Unity, Augmented Reality, and Vuforia. The goal was to see how awesome I can make a simple drawing and push the idea of combining technology and art as far as I could take it.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2023

At AWE Vitruvian was one of the main attractions, and it got fully booked pretty fast. After I was ready to go, I had to wait for the team to start the experience, launching before the Windows Mixed Reality ecosystem and then the Unity application of the demo. Setup Ready for the battle!

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