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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Road to VR

APRIL 4, 2017

Built on Unreal Engine 4 and well optimized for PSVR, it’s also one of the system’s best looking games. Now Batman: Arkham VR will launch on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift on April 25th, with full motion controller support on both systems.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Sharing the same controller input set as Gear VR – a single controller and rotational-only tracking – apps will be “binary compatible”, working on both systems. The company revealed various improvements to the latest prototype, including brand new 6-degrees-of-freedom controllers, similar to Touch.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Object tracking : Hyperion allows the Leap Motion Controller 2 camera to track AR Markers (also known as fiducial markers) enabling tracking of any object. It’s interesting to see that Neurable is still around and kicking: a few years ago there was a bit of hype around it when it created an EEG-based “mind controller” for the HTC Vive.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. For entertainment, we’re largely using the same techniques of framing and timing from film, but adapted a little bit to make it feel better in VR. Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 is one of the leading tools for VR game development.

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VRScout

APRIL 19, 2017

They’ll give you the print files needed, walk you through assembly, and how you should connect the Vive Tracker Spray Can into Unreal Engine. The wild crew that focuses heavily on location-based entertainment has decided to attach one Tracker to a Piñata and another one to a foam baseball bat.

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Cats and VR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Neoglyphic Entertainment, a storytelling company built for the digital age, has released a comprehensive feature updates to its award-winning, cross-platform, real-time fur and fiber technology, NeoFur. for Unreal Engine 4 can be purchased for 20% off until October 6, 2016 by using code NEOFURPR20 at checkout. Now available, NeoFur 2.0

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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. Skonec has dedicated significant effort to crafting diverse user experiences using controllers, hand tracking, and curved UI elements. Now, these services are leveraged to create enterprise solutions.

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment , a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. Above: Drifter Entertainment’s founders (left to right): Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Combining 360-degree capture with solutions for spatial sound and integrations with tools like Unity, Unreal, and other engines, VR cameras are highly flexible. As demand for VR in the entertainment and media landscape continues to increase, these cameras will grow more popular in the years ahead.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

They’re not just ideal for intelligent gaming and entertainment. This allows them to recognize specific patterns of movement and hand gestures, making it easier to control virtual interfaces. Plus, the gloves are compatible with various software platforms, such as Unity and Unreal Engine. Are VR Gloves Better than Controllers?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 5, 2023

This directional input device allows users to walk, run, and crouch within a VR environment without controller inputs. Over the years, the Austin-based firm gained experience distributing immersive products to end-users in enterprise sectors like entertainment and training.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 13, 2019

because you will soon encounter a weird red material that has gone out of control in the enemy base , and that is related to the secrets that you have to uncover. The game is all controlled through the Touch controllers of the Oculus Quest. You really feel inside a military place controlled by a soviet regime.

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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. Yes, it is less than the 5% of Unreal, but until yesterday we only paid per seat, not both per seat and per revenue sharing. And this 2.5%

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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. We hope to soon port it to other platforms as well (Unreal, Web…?). The result is UltimateXR for Unity. Using the standard cylindric grab on two different objects. Customizable Hands.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Things are changing though.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2022

Its first VR concert tour springs from years of R&D that resulted in proprietary 9K cameras and software that can automate complex unreal engine-based VR concert visual effects (VFX) modules and run more than 100 headsets at a time.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon. Also, people in entertainment, medical, automotive, military training, and other enterprise sectors are interested in our glasses. The official computational unit runs Android.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

But the thing that surprised me the most in Gurman’s description is the controllers. Controllers do have not the tracking ring like the ones of Quest 2 and have not onboard cameras like the ones of Quest Pro (I guess they would have been too expensive). But that’s just a speculation of mine.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Today, ARWall, a virtual production product and services merchant, updated its augmented reality effects (ARFX) Pro Unreal Engine Plugin to streamline workflows for end-users incorporating immersive backdrops for media productions. New graphic options give a production team more control over the quality of a backdrop. New Features.

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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. We’ve not heard anything of them since.

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Upload VR

AUGUST 6, 2024

VR has many use cases beyond entertainment and with HTC, RiVR's fire safety program aims to minimize training risks. I firmly believe XR devices must go beyond entertainment to ever truly become mainstream, so I was curious when HTC invited me to a VR fire safety training demonstration last month. Here's what we thought.

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VRScout

JULY 11, 2017

Referring to themselves as the “AngelList for the VR entertainment industry,” the company hopes that this proves starter fuel for eventual crowdsourcing of VR art. Oculus just announced a short term, six-week sale that bundles the Rift and the Oculus Touch controllers for $399. GET YOURSELF A RIFT WITH THIS SWEET SUMMER DEAL.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

And how are you thinking taking in count the evolution that headsets and controllers will have in these two years? Then it was building the main stream in Unreal and branching off when needed. The hardest part of this is the control scheme. Marketing is really tough in entertainment.

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MARCH 1, 2017

Having worked on titles ranging from Unreal in 1998 to the Gears of War series more recently, Shane is an Epic Games vet, but this is his first VR project. I used to be an airbrush artist at the mall,” Shane explains, “and I held the Vive controller horizontally in my hand and thought, ‘hey, that’s kinda like an airbrush.’”

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. One of my favorite games of all times is Unreal Tournament because I just love to shoot and kill without thinking too much… or better, without thinking AT ALL.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2023

It’s good to see that AmazeVR has a very good launch lineup and will be able to entertain its users for many weeks in the future. I think having some multiplayer components would be great to make the experience feel more alive and more entertaining, so I hope to know more about it.

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VRScout

JULY 12, 2016

As the publisher of Unreal Engine 4, Epic Games is at the forefront of developers creating new worlds in VR, and we recently sat down with the man driving their VR efforts: Nick Whiting, Epic’s Technical Director of VR/AR. If we send you one, would you noodle about with it after hours and see if you can get Unreal Engine running in it”?

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Sony customers also leverage the widely adopted Unreal Engine, a powerful real-time 3D engine that can create immersive environments. So that was one idea behind the Virtual Production Toolset was to create a virtual Venice camera that can be loaded inside Unreal Engine. If you got a gaffer with a lighting desk, put him in control.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 6, 2021

By recognizing the street, it can display travel information or entertainment content. Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. Automatic light control. Integration with Unity and Unreal Engine. An AR app connects augmented reality content to a specific location using GPS, compass, or computer vision systems. Vuforia ?—?This

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Upload VR

AUGUST 30, 2023

Looking back at the limitations of PSVR 1’s tech, it’s remarkable that Firewall Zero Hour proved to be such a hit for First Contact Entertainment and resonated with a dedicated community happy to invest hundreds of hours in a single game mode. Game Modes & Maps In many ways, Firewall Ultra feels like more of a 1.5

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds. Over the last couple years, we have gained a lot of experience with them and their Unreal Engine. Motor Companies Meet the Metaverse.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 30, 2023

Motion Capture software, or “Mocap systems”, are particularly valuable for content creators looking to enhance XR experiences with realistic avatars, motion, and gesture controls. Mocap solutions are primarily used for the creation of XR content. There are also plugins for Maya and MotionBuilder, as well as SDKs for developers.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

Now the next step is making also the controllers work with a PC. More info Praydog’s UEVR mod adds roomscale tracking Praydog’s UEVR mod is an incredible project to let gamers automatically mod all games based on Unreal Engine to make them VR-compatible. In the end, he did it. This is an astonishing result.

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VRScout

MARCH 3, 2017

I donned the headset, took control of an Oculus Remote and was transported forward in time to a futuristic Borabora island resort that had long since been abandoned. Utilizing Unreal Engine, the construction of the virtual island was actually based on real satellite data and travel journals catalogued by anonymous users on Reddit.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 26, 2023

Devices were seen as novel tools for the gaming and entertainment landscape. Plus, there are two controllers included, with 6 degrees of freedom movement and hand, eye, and face tracking enabled by front-facing sensors. The SDK also supports development with Unreal, Unity, and OpenXR and can be used offline.

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Road to VR

MAY 19, 2016

Every time you teleport the controller gives a satisfying buzz letting you know the transfer of matter from one location to the next was successful. The first is to create comfortable VR movement by replacing the typical movement system of a controller and dual analog sticks. For me the answer was no.

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