Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. ” SteamVR and HTC Vive on Mac OS. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

View your 360° video projects in realtime on a HTC Vive. During Apple’s June developer conference, we finally got a glimpse of what we’ve all been patiently waiting for—Apple embracing VR. I can’t forget the VR headset playback either.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

We had at the same time the Game Developer Conference (the GDC) and the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) by NVIDIA, so we had lots of announcements about 3D technology in general and also about XR. There have been companies that have tried to compete with HTC in this market, but they all had their big share of trouble in doing that.

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Road to VR

APRIL 19, 2017

Facebook F8, the company’s annual developer conference, is currently in full swing on its second and final day. The SDK plugin is said to be compatible with multiple game engines including Unity and Unreal, and even native engines. Today’s big VR announce from the social platform giant?

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2017

If you don’t already know Cliff Bleszinski from his involvement with the Unreal Tournament and Gears of War franchises, you may remember him from Oculus’ 2012 Kickstarter video. Unfortunately this costs a lot of money,” he said at the conference. Bleszinski indeed believes in the technology.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

Think of this as more of a mini VR developer conference than a consumer-focused show, though. Epic Games is heavily invested in VR thanks to deep integration with its Unreal Engine 4 and its own tech demos like Bullet Train. It wouldn’t be a VR developer conference without talks from the two leading engine providers.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. An iteration of Unreal Engine (Unreal Engine 5) is already being used to develop applications for a range of VR devices.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 10, 2022

HTC is set to reveal its new VIVE Mars CamTrack solution at the SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver, Canada, where it will showcase the immersive production tool with Departure Lounge and Arcturus, it was revealed on Tuesday. HTC VIVE (@htcvive) August 8, 2022. One-click origin reset and simple calibration tools for cameras.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The demonstration included the now familar Unreal Engine 3 powered citadel area, one which would become the setting for one of the most famous early VR applications of all time, Rift Coaster. The HTC Vive (DK1), SteamVR Controllers and Laser Basestations. The final Oculus Rift consumer edition.

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JUNE 9, 2017

Now Apple has thrown us a bone, and during their World Wide Developer Conference last week gave us Apple silo folk some good news. ARKit supports iOS 11 (coming this fall) and Unity, Unreal, Scenekit, and if you have an iPhone 5s or higher—you can get in on the action (plus a public beta is coming in June).

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2021

This has not been the most interesting week in AR, VR, but I think that in the next times we’ll see some shots fired: in some days there will be the F8, the official shipment of the Vive Pro 2, then the Apple WWDC conference! Unreal Engine 5 gets released in Early Access. I hope for some juicy news… and you? Top news of the week.

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APRIL 8, 2020

For example, most HTC VR technology supports 3D hand tracking. 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. See Also: MR Company Nreal Talks Hand Tracking and New Partnerships.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. The Oculus Rift and Touch, HTC Vive, PlayStation VR (PSVR), Google Daydream, Samsung Gear VR, and so many other headsets are all available for purchase. What to Expect from HTC.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

The situation looks uncertain, and probably we will hear about Magic Leap’s plans at the next LEAP Conference. The VR route is instead being pursued by HTC (with its VEC event happening soon) and IEEE. This means that now with Unity you can create visually stunning VR experiences that before you could obtain just by using Unreal.

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MAY 16, 2022

This reminds me of a similar error HTC made in the past of mixing signals of a pro device and consumer content It has RGB passthrough cameras with three times the resolution of Quest 2 cameras. Google performs interesting AR news at I/O conference. Zuck still thinks that it is a device that can start substituting the laptop.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 28, 2018

We also recently seen him at the Vive Ecosystem Conference , where he took the stage to talk about his interesting experiences. Enea Le Fons in Shenzhen, ready to amaze all the audience of the Vive Ecosystem Conference (Image by Enea Le Fons). Enea Le Fons speaking on how VR can help us escape our sedentary jobs (Image by HTC Vive).

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

You can now register to attend Oculus’ 3rd ‘Connect’ conference, an event dedicated to all things Oculus from Rift to Touch and is focused primarily on developers and VR development. Photo courtesy Oculus VR, LLC. Might we finally learn the precise launch date and price of Oculus’ Touch motion controllers?

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2018

It is the time of MWC Shanghai and HTC has showcased some very cool stuff. The Vive Focus and its friend the HTC U12 phone. Focus and smartphones can now interact together (Image by HTC). Download it and then install it on your Android smartphone (it can be of whatever brand, this features is not HTC only).

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

This release (available 9/8 for HTC Vive) is really just a taste of the larger project to come: Favreau’s ultimate goal is a sprawling open world that you explore and build relationships with the gnome and goblin inhabitants… we can only hope that funny elves will somehow be involved.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2017

At the 2017 Game Developers Conference this week the company will showcase interactive streaming of a game inside the HTC Vive. Genvid’s technology is already available in Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4, but a plug-in for Unity is also being released.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The inaugural Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) is kicking off tomorrow at the Park Central Hotel in San Francisco. Get in on the ground floor with this talk from Martz, who will tell you how to get to grips with the new platform including working with Google VR SDKs for Android, Unity, and Unreal. November 3rd, 10:15am.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 14, 2016

EditorVR (which the company calls EVR for short) provides a robust virtual reality interface for Unity that’s said to support both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. West and Ebrahami demonstrated EditorVR last month at the company’s Unite 2016 conference in Los Angeles. of their game development engine.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2023

The year before that, he opened the conference with a joke game show called “ Metaverse, Shmetaverse.” According to a release shared with ARPost, the name change had to do with “disputes regarding the Nreal mark” (probably how similar it was to “Unreal”). He has been skeptical of the metaverse.

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Road to VR

JULY 8, 2016

But there are many other challenges with balancing interactivity and narrative that Apelab CEO & Sequenced producer Emilie Joly explained to me at the Silicon Valley Virtual Reality conference in April. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST. ” Here’s a trailer for Sequenced. Support Voices of VR. Subscribe on iTunes.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

But, in the early days of this industry, it is the developer conferences, the places where creators come together to share knowledge and reveal breakthroughs, that are the really exciting events to cover. There’s no better time of the year to do that than at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). Room 2011, West Hall.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

APRIL 14, 2023

Mirrorscape also plans to demo it at conferences in the future. Companies such as HTC VIVE, Lenovo, Meta Platforms, Pico, and others have tapped Qualcomm’s solutions. Developers can also download its software developer kit (SDK) for Unity and Unreal Engine. Niantic-Qualcomm Partnership: A Dynamic Duo for AR Gaming?

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

HTC has finally revealed the price of the Vive Pro : it will cost $799 just to have the headset (no controller and no base stations, so you must already have a Vive 1 kit) and will be available for pre-orders since April, 5th. But, as Road To VR has stated, maybe HTC should have clarified that in all its marketing material.

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Instinctively Real Media

AUGUST 12, 2024

Instinctively Real Media recap of SIGGRAPH 2024 conference, set the stage for an impressive array of technological advancements, highlighting the future of digital interaction, creativity, and artificial intelligence. The hot topic was the technology underpinned by generative AI and ways in which it could or will advance our future.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In addition to the free Trials on Tatooine virtual reality experience for HTC Vive, the studio released a 360-degree video that serves as a prequel to the upcoming Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. Bredow was recently in Milan, Italy for the VIEW Conference. Disney’s ILMxLab has been busy of late.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Many products showcased at the conference included flagship releases of VR headsets and solutions such as the Meta Quest Pro, Magic Leap 2, Lenovo ThinkReality A3, and AT&T’s Volumetric Video Photo Booth, among many others. Face tracking and camera resolutions need to improve.

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VRWorld

JUNE 8, 2016

Thus, AR manufacturers sell their development products by passing the cost onto the end user, while VR development is subsidized by all – Oculus shipped ‘devkits’ for $349.99, HTC Vive PRE program shipped over 10,000 units for free, OSVR is very cheap, and makers like Deepoon go for as low as $249.99.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Revealed at the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), the Apple Vision Pro has sparked both praise and criticism from the global XR community. I believe there will be more excitement around 3D apps and content development, which will raise the tide around content development for all platforms and headsets like Meta, Pico, and HTC VIVE.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

No grey zones like HTC did in the past. Unity should anyway be the first engine partner, something that doesn’t surprise me considering the litigation between Apple and Epic Games, the company behind Unreal Engine. VR looks incredibly stunning with Unreal Engine 5 features like Nanite and Lumen. Other news. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 6, 2020

It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. I got to try a Magic Leap experience at the I/ITSEC conference, the Interdisciplinary/Industry Simulation and Education and Training Seminar last week in Orlando. It was developed on the Unreal 4 engine and built by our studios team. It was crazy.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. . "Lil' Why not wireless? Why hasn’t Oculus gone for the jackpot releasing a fully wireless streaming solution?

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 27, 2019

This year we had the launch of two amazing 6 DOF all-in-one Virtual Reality headsets : the Oculus Quest and the HTC Vive Focus Plus. USB should have OTG enabled; Battery : 3 hours nominal duration; Vive Focus Plus and controllers (Image by HTC). HTC provides streaming to Miracast devices , but lacks the streaming to the phone.

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VRScout

APRIL 21, 2021

It’s about the technology that connects film with XR, enhancing partnerships and fostering business opportunities,” explained Esmoil, adding, “There will be conference sessions about distribution, filming, and virtual production, also covering the creation of synthetic content, game engines, and even digital humans.

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