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MAY 24, 2017

Unity Technologies’ Unity Engine is playing an increasingly important role in the VR industry, and new funds announced today should help it grow further still. Unity Technologies is getting $400 million from private equity firm Silver Lake. That is if regulators approve the deal, taking its valuation to $2.6

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

On the software side, we’ll be enabling users to bring tightly time-locked data into development engines like Unity and by building on open-source protocols like BrainFlow , the raw data will be available in most common programming languages as well. There are obvious applications in the world of entertainment.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

Meta to introduce new parental controls on Quest. After many pressures from the community and the media, Meta has finally decided to introduce new parental control tools in Quest 2. More info (Quest 2 new parental controls?—?Road Road To VR) More info (Quest 2 new parental controls?—?Upload Top news of the week.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

Brandon Bray, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, took the stage at Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit 2017 to show a little more of what Microsoft has planned for the VR side of things when the first Windows Holographic headsets come later this year. image courtesy Unity Technologies.

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ARPost

JANUARY 27, 2021

The release also included software updates to the Vision platform and a number of new Rokid-made applications expanding entertainment offerings. This makes them versatile for industry as well as entertainment applications. Fantasy World is an immersive space that users navigate with voice commands, and head and gesture controls.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Last week we had a first look at the controllers, while this week we had quite a confusing leak about its product line, which, if confirmed, would show an ambitious plan by the Chinese company. of our revenues with Unity. This is fair, and this is why a good chunk of the community answered positively to these new terms.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Top news of the week (Image by Meta) There are new leaks on Meta Quest 3S This week we had new leaks on Quest 3S, including many images of the headset and its controllers and some leaked information on the Quest documentation website. The new CEO has finally made the great decision to remove it.

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Road to VR

MARCH 7, 2024

Meta has worked with Virgin parent company Universal Music Group and Columbia parent Sony Music Entertainment in the past on other music packs, so it makes sense from a licensing perspective. The post Daft Punk Music Pack for ‘Beat Saber’ Arrives Alongside Haptics Improvements on Quest appeared first on Road to VR.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In my unboxing video, you may see that I’ve found an additional Leap Motion v1 controller + Leap Motion mount for RealMax + USB-C cable for Leap Motion. This is because the company sent me a special version of the device with already the necessary setup to use it with the Leap Motion Controller to exploit hands input.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

If watching decades of sci-fi movies and television like Star Wars and Back to the Future has taught me anything, it’s that holograms are the future of communication and entertainment. All you have to do is plug the Portrait into a power source and use the touch controls located on the side of the device to cycle through content.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The impact of AR technology on our daily lives gets greater and greater each day as it finds its place in how we learn, how we perform our jobs, purchase items on the internet, home repairs, stay connected with friends, and entertain ourselves. Sabandija originally envisioned a SEGA controller as the marker.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Although its well-known applications lie in gaming and entertainment , its potential isn’t limited to these industries. Over the years, they considered 360 video marketing, VR entertainment booths, and training simulations before settling on XR tools to aid with research. Virtual reality has gotten more sophisticated over the years.

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Road to VR

MARCH 16, 2018

The device intentionally leaves the hand free so that users can still use standard VR controllers. While the Exos Wrist leaves the hand free to use standard VR controllers, the Gripper functions as a controller replacement, and can arbitrarily stop the user’s hand from moving to simulate the sensation of gripping a virtual object.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2023

According to the company , it uses a “fully three-dimensional user interface controlled by the most natural and intuitive inputs possible – a user’s eyes, hands, and voice.” The device is controlled using our hands, rather than external controllers, making it more intuitive and user-friendly.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Already, the company is partnering not just with Samsung and Qualcomm but with countless heavyweights like Sony, Magic Leap, and Unity. Users can interact with applications using voice and gestures rather than physical controllers. There will also be dedicated versions of apps, like YouTube and Google TV, for immersive entertainment.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 6, 2021

” It will ideally offer the connectivity, utility, and entertainment of the web, but fleshed out in 3D. For example, PCs are defined by the ways we control them, such as keyboard and mice. The same goes for mobile (touch and voice) and gaming (controllers). Embodied Internet. But the next step is neural interfaces.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

” A British Nuclear Fuels PLC control room modeled and rendered in the 1990s using Superscape’s VRT platform. The same BNFL control room model hosted under Division’s dVS/dVISE platform, but using the same assets as in the image above. Looking Forward. Experimentation is Key. ” “Augmented City” #ARCity. .”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 31, 2024

The real-time 3D engines powering AR/VR/MR applications, like Unreal and Unity, found fame and traction as gaming development tools. For example, Unity is a critical component of the workplace-focused Vision Pro. The gamification trap… XR is always linked to gaming, whether business like it or not.

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ARPost

JUNE 23, 2021

These QR codes have brought users to a Zappar-enabled Angry Birds experience made by Rovio Entertainment. We’re thrilled to partner with Zappar and Burger King to create this unique AR experience for Angry Birds fans,” Rovio Entertainment Director of Brand Licensing Katri Chacona said in a release. “We ZapBox Goes to Pre-Order.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. More info (NVIDIA CloudXR upgrade) More info (NVIDIA CloudXR on Tencent Cloud) More info (NVIDIA VRSS v2) More info (DLSS integrated inside Unity) More info (Jarvis) More info (NVIDIA RTX cards shortage).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 23, 2023

for the training of astronauts) or for out-of-home entertainment (e.g. 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. flight simulation in VR arcades). Anyway, they enjoyed my craziness, too.

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ARPost

JUNE 17, 2021

These included entertainment, gaming, design, e-commerce, and remote presence. The weight of the headset is still the 85g that had been cited in earlier releases, not counting the computing box, controllers, or central screen device. The event once again teased premium controllers, though we still have no specifications.

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

The improved headset is pitched as an upgrade for current Vive owners, as it works with the original controllers and base stations. It is still not known exactly when the improved controllers and SteamVR 2.0 Magic Leap has launched the SDK for the device’s Lumin OS , with support for Unity and Unreal engines. Nvidia RTX.

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ARPost

JULY 22, 2021

Light&Shadows for “ Stipple ,” a point cloud editor plug-in for Unity. The platform also makes entertainment and brand engagement experiences. GRX Immersive Labs for “ POV: Points of View ,” an immersive Sci-Fi thriller that cautions viewers that “control begins where privacy ends.”. Out-of-Home VR Entertainment of the Year.

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AR Insider

MARCH 1, 2021

Let’s dive in… Sony Confirms New Playstation VR2 for PS5 with New Controllers. Just four months ago, in October, 2020, Sony Interactive CEO Jim Ryan told The Washington Post “At some point in the future VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. Will it be this year? Currently, there are over 1.5M

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

More info Get started with Apple Vision Pro development Unity has just released the tools to start developing for Apple Vision Pro and interested developers can already start experimenting with them. Now Microsoft is discontinuing them , putting another nail in the coffin of the HoloLens. Thanks to Davy Demeyer for the tip!)

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ARVR

JUNE 4, 2021

Founded by members of Unity, Interhaptics , Senseglove , and Nanoport. The company believes the most elaborate haptic feedback brings gaming, entertainment, and other interactive content to the next level by bringing the most profound emotional connections between the artificial world and users. Who is Alex Meland and bHaptics?

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sony believes in VR, and we definitely believe at some point in the future, VR will represent a meaningful component of interactive entertainment. These advanced haptics make us dream of PSVR 2 controllers with best-in-class immersive haptics … but we have to still wait various months before discovering if this is the truth.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

During these years we had to develop applications with extremely different requirements, interactions, and goals, from serious training to entertainment. The result is UltimateXR for Unity. We decided to develop a full-fledged hand-pose editor inside Unity that would allow us to adjust hand-poses directly from the world editor.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 31, 2024

In January, Apple previewed some new “entertainment experiences” coming to the headset with the help of apps from Disney+, ESPN, Discovery+, and more. However, the Vision Pro is more than just a headset for immersive entertainment. However, this isn’t necessarily a problem for many Apple Vision Pro users.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 12, 2024

Here, I’ll cover some of my favorite Apple Vision Pro apps so far for everything from business productivity to collaboration and entertainment. That includes keeping themselves entertained when they’re walking the dog, planning home refurbishments, and even cooking new recipes. It makes sense.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . Automatic Time Synchronization : LooxidVR facilitates time synchronized acquisition of eye and brain data , as well as VR contents and interaction data (Unity event logs).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 14, 2022

But it brings many innovations: the field of view is much bigger, especially on the vertical side , and this makes the visuals much more enjoyable the controllers now feature inside-out tracking with onboard cameras. Unity has partnered with Insomniac to build a metaverse for immersive live performances. Learn more. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

David of Upload says that thanks to its big boost in specifications , PS5 can offer an amazing flat screen experience : better resolution, better framerate, better graphics, better load times, better controller. All the PSVR system is retrofitted into the new console , and so it is like if it can run only in some compatibility mode.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 23, 2023

Could also be a negative one, if these people want to control it, though. More info Unity fires around 300 employees While the news about Microsoft layoffs made headlines everywhere, it was more silent the second round of layoffs at Unity. This could act as a positive force. In this session, around 300 people lost their job.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2020

And all of this using Unity, the tool that I already use every day. This would have been the “main” concert hall, where we would have controlled all the execution for a perfect concert experience; All the other people in VRChat would have accessed automated worlds with live music. Streaming the background videos.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2023

While still in its early stages, mixed reality copresence has shown vast potential for applications beyond gaming and entertainment. Recently, the company hasalso released the HoloKit Unity SDK to empower developers in creating copresence experiences.

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