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The XR Week Peek (2020.01.27): Samsung may be working on a new headset, Half-Life: Alyx will ship on time and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. There will be an XR plugins manager, and some of them will be managed by Unity together with its partners (e.g. So sad for me, considering the 5 years I’ve spent using Vuforia in Unity… so many memories…. More info (Announcement by Unity Technologies) More info (Comment by Upload VR).

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How Can Brands Jumpstart Sales with AR? Part II

AR Insider

A study from Boston Consulting Group found that 9/10 brands are using, or plan to use, AR in their marketing. Brands like Unity, Facebook and Snapchat are already jumping on web AR to push forward its ubiquity. What’s the Holdup? The metrics outlined above are enough to drive marketing teams to join the AR bandwagon.

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Meta, IBM Rally XR Community for Global AI Alliance

XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

Also, institutions like Cornell University, Imperial College London, Boston University and Harvard University’s MOC Alliance, University of California Berkeley, University of Notre Dame, University of Illinois, University of Tokyo, Yale University and many more have joined the alliance.

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SIGGRAPH 2017: Neurable Lets You Control A Virtual World With Your Mind

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

At SIGGRAPH this week the Boston-based startup is showing its modified HTC Vive which include EEG ( Electroencephalography ) sensors along the interior of the headstrap. ” The company offers an SDK so Unity developers can integrate the system into a game.

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3D Jam: Now with Over $75K in Prizes!

Leapmotion

Thanks to the generous teams at Unity, OSVR, and NVIDIA, jammers now have the chance to win the following along with $50,000 in cash prizes: 2 Unity Suites. 9 Unity Pro licenses. Unity Suite. Unity Suite. Unity Suite. Unity is an incredible game development engine that lets you build for almost any platform.

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Zero Latency Shoots For Multiplayer VR Arcade Network With 24 Locations In 2017

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

A year later, the team had upgraded the platform to six players combating virtual reality zombies with assault rifles in the Unity-developed Outbreak game. locations in Orlando, Boston, Philadelphia, Wisconsin and the Poconos. Vandonkelaar did say their platform will support Unreal Engine 4 and other technology beyond Unity.

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50 Days Of PS VR #6: A Q&A With The Creator of ‘Headmaster’

UploadVR Between Realities podcast

Ben Throop: The first prototype of the mechanic was in June 2014 at the Boston VR Bender game jam that Owlchemy, Valve, and Unity put on. I met Alex and Devin from Owlchemy, Chet and Aaron from Valve, and Pete Moss from Unity there. Has developement finished?

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