Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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JUNE 9, 2020

As a matter of fact, the Academy is still looking for talented community Unity creators to work with. HTC recently hosted the first-ever VR industry conference on socialVR platform Engage back in March that really showcased how VR will transform the future of conferences. Those interested can apply here. .

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Magic Leap’s first developer conference, L.E.A.P. The company is livestreaming its keynote today, which will feature a number Magic Leap partners including speakers from Weta Workshop, AT&T, Unity, Epic Games, and ILMxLAB. Timoni West – Director, XR Research, Unity Technologies.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2020

After a string of cancellations by larger vendors amid the worldwide coronavirus outbreak (COVID-19), this year’s annual Game Developers Conference (GDC) was postponed. Now, GDC organizers say a summer conference will kick off in its place. SEE ALSO Facebook Cancels F8 Developer Conference Over Coronavirus Concerns.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2016

During the first-day of the Unite 2016 conference in Los Angeles Tuesday, Unity Technologies unveiled a number of new updates and features to help support VR and AR creators around the world developing interactive 3D, VR and AR experiences. Recruiters can also post jobs and target a pool of highly-sought Unity talent.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There’s a lot of buzz around this year because, while AWE never took a break, the conference went online last year and this time it’s live and in-person in Santa Clara California. Because people are still wary of travel and because the virtual AWE conferences had such high attendance, this year is going to be a hybrid event.

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ARPost

MARCH 27, 2023

At this year’s NVIDIA GTC , “the developer conference for the era of AI and the metaverse,” NVIDIA announced the latest release of CloudXR. The new NVIDIA CloudXR also makes it possible for developers to create custom user interfaces through the use of Unity plug-in architecture.

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MAY 29, 2020

There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. See Also: XR Technology Conference AWE Goes Live. The Virtual World Society and WiiT weren’t the only ones to make the big announcements at the XR technology conference. Let’s jump in. Ethics and Inclusion in XR Technology. Industry Announcements.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Virtualware will also serve as the exclusive sponsor of the event to unite “Unity instructors and workforce development professionals,” according to a press release. Those attending can network with executives from global firms, showcasing the capabilities of Unity’s RT3D technologies.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, at launch, it won’t even be possible to create Unity content for it. According to the rumors, In the beginning only Apple’s first part tools (like RealityKit) will be allowed to create content, and only after, Unity support will come. Discover the Global XR Conference. Meta is under heavy pressure. Learn more.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2021

The 3-day conference will cover hot topics in the XR industry, such as: remote collaboration, training, and education; artificial intelligence and virtual beings; healthcare and wellness; gaming and location-based entertainment; enterprise solutions. When: October 17 – October 21. Where: Turin, Italy (and Online). ICHVR 2021.

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Next Reality AR

JUNE 22, 2018

During its presentation at Unite Berlin, Magic Leap gave attendees a crash course in developing experiences for Magic Leap One (ML1), we found out quite a bit more about how the device works and what we can expect to experience with the device.

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Road to VR

JUNE 11, 2020

From live VR concerts in Wave coming from some of the biggest names in music, to HTC’s annual developer conference taking place in Engage , social VR is picking up the slack where video chatting platforms simply don’t cut it. Developer applications to help are now open.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Unity is considering allowing Quest passthrough in the splash screen instead of a black void. Currently when you launch a Unity mixed reality app on Quest you'll see two sequential black void loading screens, effectively temporarily blindfolding you, even if you were in passthrough in the home environment.

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APRIL 21, 2025

Who Are We Looking For Unity Developers (both Junior and Senior levels) Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry.

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APRIL 19, 2019

As reported by Engadget , Microsoft researchers teamed up with Cornell Tech and Cornell University to create SeeingVR, a kit intended for Unity developers to integrate into their VR projects. SeeingVR includes 14 different tools that address a variety of vision issues.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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AUGUST 28, 2021

Every time I went to a conference, there were people from this group called the VR/AR Association. While he is now the Head of Government Solutions for Unity , Disti remains a member – Disti’s Global Managing Director is the chapter’s marketing director. Cunningham started the Orlando chapter of the VR/AR Association.

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JUNE 30, 2021

It is true that the Unity Asset Store is your friend, but as our creative artist Lapo Germasi says “ If you want to make a good job, there is no asset that you download and you just use as is. Tutorial on how to easily make a cross-platform application in Unity.

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JULY 8, 2021

This week marks the start of part two of the XR3 virtual exhibit, a hybrid digital conference developed as part of a collaboration between Cannes XR, Tribeca, and The NewImages Festival. These virtual offerings are split into three categories: the VeeR VR Cinema, the Unity for Garden Showcase, and the Cannes XR Developer Showcase.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Jim Chabin, President of the Advanced Imaging and VR Societies, explained that the latest edition of the conference has expanded to match the explosive growth of immersive technologies as a whole. Tony Parisi , Global Head of VR/AR at Unity Technologies. LIFE VR, Unity, Unreal Engine, VRC and DTS (an Xperi company).

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OCTOBER 28, 2021

During today’s Facebook Connect conference, Facebook rolled out its vision of the metaverse in a series of exciting announcements. The Unity Library, available early next year, will come with a set of ready to use, interaction components like grab, poke, target, and select. Image Credit: Facebook. INTERACTION SDK.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 3, 2024

Unity 6 Preview is now available and includes new XR features like mixed, hand and eye input, and enhanced visual fidelity. The game and interactive experience creation engine, Unity 6, reportedly supports most popular XR platforms, such as ARKit, ARCore, Meta Quest, visionOS, Windows Mixed Reality, Playstation VR, and more.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Through the initiatives of the Orlando Economic Partnership and Unity, a metaverse creation company, the city is creating a digital twin of their 800-square mile metro area that will map everything in 3D and collect massive data like weather, traffic, job opportunities, talent potential, real estate data, and many others.

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Hypergrid Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

Suggested themes for exhibitors this year include “Futurism,” “Silk Road and Asian history,” “Burning Man and Woodstock expressions,” “Hypergrid community unity,” “creative art and architecture” or no set theme. Performers and merchants are not required to follow the selected theme.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

A haptic playback and authoring plugin for Unity allows filmmakers to tailor feedback to their experience. Perhaps the company could use the system to showcase its own Gear VR content, which was announced in partnership with Oculus back at the company’s Connect developer conference in October.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. Tony Parisi.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

During the opening keynote to their annual Unite conference yesterday, Unity announced that their in-development VR authoring tool EditorVR , which allows creators to step inside and work on their projects using virtual reality, is on its way within the next couple of months.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Anyway, there was something here and there that was worth sharing and so in the spirit of this series of posts about the View Conference , I want to make you feel as if you were with me and I will share with you what I’ve learned during this session. Header image by Baobab Studio).

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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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ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2022

It’s no surprise that during SIGGRAPH 2022 , the most significant conference for computer graphics, the company unveiled its latest developments geared at making the metaverse as ubiquitous as the Internet we have today. See Also: Save the Date for the Most Important XR Events in Q3 and Q4 2022. NVIDIA Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE).

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 28, 2018

This year’s Virtual World Best Practices in Education 2018 conference, which ended last week in Second Life, was shorter than last year — three days, instead of four — and attracted about 1,100 attendees, down from a high of around 4,500 in previous years. Gateway area of this years’s VWBPE.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Last year, AR content creation platform Zappar held AR Pioneers – a two-day live streaming virtual conference. One session also discusses how to “Build Your Own Digital Avatar With ZapWorks and Unity.”. Even though AR Pioneers is a virtual conference, seating is limited! But, surprise! AR Pioneers 2022. Headliners.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

At the 2020 World Conference in Nanchang, a partnership between UK startup PhotonLens and Shanghai AR hardware company Shadow Creator was announced. We have an SDK for developers adapting content from unity, and we’re putting the finishing touches on some of the documentation at the moment,” said Liu. Meet PhotonLens.

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Road to VR

MAY 8, 2020

In a paper published as part of CHI 2020—a conference focused on human-computer interaction— researchers describe their WalkingVibe system which uses simple head-mounted haptics to provide sensations that synchronize with the movement of the user in virtual reality. Image courtesy Yi-Hao Peng.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 21, 2023

3D social and shared immersive space platform Spatial announced on Monday that its Unity Creator Toolkit had moved to its beta version. The new iteration of Spatial’s widely-celebrated extended reality (XR) platform now integrates Unity Technologies’ industry-leading solutions.

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APRIL 22, 2025

Recently, at the TED2025 conference, Shahram Izadi , the leader of Google’s AndroidXR development team, gave a public demonstration of the upcoming smart glasses operating system, following its initial launch in the new year, showcasing a prototype pair of smart glasses during the presentation.

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