Road to VR

MAY 11, 2023

Google has announced an upcoming AR game, Space Invaders: World Defense , which is built as a showcase of the company’s latest AR tool. Over the last few years Google has been steadily working on its AR developer toolset, ARCore.

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VRScout

JANUARY 18, 2020

Remember that scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character cycles through a bunch of important police data by swiping his hands across a massive holographic display? unity @Oculus #OculusQuest #MadeWithUnity #XR #SpatialComputing cc: @mitrealityhack pic.twitter.com/wypOFEJcNx — Greg Madison (@GregMadison) January 17, 2020.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

But for now, I’ll just tell you what have been in my opinion the most interesting pieces of XR news of the week… Top news of the week (Image by KnightMD) Valve Deckard’s “Roy” controllers allegedly leaked The usual Brad Lynch with his team of data miners has found evidence of a controller codenamed Roy in the code of SteamVR.

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ARPost

APRIL 27, 2022

Unity support – It is an important parameter for any AR development app. Unity is unarguably the most powerful and prevalent game engine worldwide. GPS can be utilized to overlay data from nearby locations. Google ARCore. ARCore is developed and launched by Google. See Also: Developing AR Apps with Google's ARCore.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Google has unveiled its Geospatial Creator for Unity platform, allowing developers to preview 3D assets via the Unity Editor. Viewing spatially-linked assets on a hyperrealistic 3D planet map, the toolkit powers ARCore and Photorealistic 3D Tiles via the Google Maps Platform, it said on its website.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 27, 2021

That could be wayfinding with Google Live View , geospatial gaming experiences from Niantic, or location-specific social AR experiences like Snap’s Local Lenses. To continue the discussion, Part IV now examines a recent discussion at Localogy Place , emphasizing the importance and evolution of location data. Depth of Engagement.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

Nstream is “a vertically integrated streaming data application platform.” How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. “How That means lots of data – and doing new things with it.

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Upload VR

MARCH 14, 2025

They instead got higher-level data derived by the system, such as hand and body skeletal coordinates, a 3D mesh of your environment with bounding boxes for furniture, and limited object tracking capabilities. A limitation here, however, is that Unity's WebCamTexture API only supports one camera at a time, not both.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

It states, among other things, that “The company used its data advantage to create superior market intelligence to identify nascent competitive threats and then acquire, copy, or kill these firms”. Unreal Engine and Photoshop), as it happens in Google Docs when many people edit the same document at the same time. Image by Google).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

For this reason, NVIDIA has released two new graphics cards: NVIDIA RTX A6000 dedicated to prosumers and enterprises that want to work with very complex scenes to render on their workstations NVIDIA A40 dedicated to Data Centers that wants to exploit it for remote renderings and AI computations. Basically, it is like Google Docs for artists.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Tilt Brush is Google’s first VR app to launch on the Oculus Rift , and I had a chance to catch up with Tilt Brush product manager Elisabeth Morant. I also asked about privacy in VR, but Google has yet to disclose any information about what information they may or may not be capturing from VR users.

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Upload VR

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Samsung's first standalone headset is coming in 2025, running Google's new Android XR operating system and powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 chipset. I went hands-on with an early headset developer kit showcasing Google's software and Samsung's hardware. Beyond this, Samsung isn't yet sharing specifications.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

It started with big data , and I started blogging about that at the end of 2015 basically because I couldn’t find anyone to talk about it with (laughs). In early 2016, I run into a paper from a professor at Caltech that was talking about data visualization in virtual reality and that blew my mind.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2020

The setup sounds fairly painless: users pair their AgileVR devices to the AgileVR Manager Software via Bluetooth and calibrate their system, after which they are then free to explore a variety of compatible titles including Minecraft VR, Fallout 4 VR, Skyrim VR, Asgard’s Wrath, DoomVFR, GORN, and Google Earth VR just to name a few.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 2, 2024

I guess the competition imposed by Apple and Google forced Meta to speed up the process to ensure to have a richer ecosystem in which its developers are happy (and so do not migrate to other platforms). I did this procedure with “The Unity Cube” , my most famous application. Let’s see what to do, case by case.

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AR Insider

JULY 21, 2020

It includes some of its data and takeaways. Examples include Unity, Adobe Aero and 8th Wall. AWS and [Google Cloud] weren’t built as compute platforms for everybody,” said Keslin at the same AWE presentation. They were built to support the applications of Amazon and Google.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It is not by chance that is Reality Labs working on it: the data collected from AR and VR headsets, and also from the Project Aria glasses, can be very precious to train these robots. As you can see, competition is pushing all the big brands like Meta, Apple, and Google, to improve their products as best and as fast as they can.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

As Space Invaders turns 45, TAITO teams up with Google and UNIT9 to give its players an elevated AR gaming experience with Google’s ARCore Geospatial API. TAITO and Google partnered with global production and innovation studio UNIT9 to transform Space Invaders into an immersive AR game in honor of its 45th anniversary.

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ARPost

JUNE 15, 2020

Unity Support. Unity is an advanced game engine used in the development of augmented reality apps, especially gaming. So, if you are in this business, try to pick an SDK that is compatible with Unity. This lets you use 3D models and CAD data to set up trackers since they’re the perfect reference for physical 3D objects.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

More info Google may still be working at Project Iris Some months ago a rumor claimed that Google had stopped working on Project Iris, its project devoted to the creation of augmented reality glasses. But a new data mining revealed that new strings mentioning Iris have appeared in Android. It seems the journalist liked them.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

As a long-time AR enthusiast, and one of the first to have tried Google Glass in Italy, I have to admit that I will consider AR mainstream only when it will be on glasses that we will wear all day , when we’ll live in a completely shared mixed reality world (the AR Cloud). Or is it just a talk about glasses?

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Unity (Nasdaq: U) for 3D Modeling and Animation Tools. Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) for Servers. This might sound obvious, but all this amount of data must be stored somewhere. Snap’s augmented reality filters likely place it as one of the leading companies in the AR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. From the above data and the pictures, it is clear it is a headset very similar to the Oculus Quest 2.

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Always see chart date for context, and refer to newer data if applicable. Google Swirl could serve as an important AR accelerant by incentivizing brand adoption through Google-scale distribution. For example, Google Swirl could serve as an important AR accelerant by incentivizing brand adoption through Google-scale distribution.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Of course, companies don’t need to have a keynote to say something interesting. Autodesk Inc.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 23, 2018

The Android pop-up asking the user for permissions during application startup (Image by Google). Unity and Android Permissions. What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity? What does this mean if you want to request some permissions inside Unity? Thanks, Unity).

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Road to VR

MARCH 8, 2017

The popular forms of mobile VR headsets, such as the Samsung Gear VR and Google Daydream View and Cardboard, are currently limited to rotational head tracking, meaning that you can look around comfortably from a single vantage point, but movements of the head through 3D space (like leaning forward or backward) cannot be tracking.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Such applications use GPS data and digital compass, a combination that works pretty accurately, to determine one’s device location as well as its position. The location-based AR apps then send queries to the device’s sensors and decide whether they should add the virtual object based on the acquired data. Resolve the data question.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

John A Cunningham, Head of Government & Aerospace at Unity. John A Cunningham, Head of Government and Aerospace at Unity Technologies , delivered his keynote speech exploring the concept at the event, which gathered roughly 500 businesses, analysts, media partners, and executives at the sunny destination of Madeira Island, Portugal.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

” Adobe unveiled its first foray into AR with a proof-of-concept Microsoft HoloLens app that overlays 3D data visualizations on products in a store. Adobe also debuted Project Dali last year , a VR painting app built in the vein of Google Tilt Brush. But Adobe is also making moves in the VR space.

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AR Insider

JULY 10, 2020

Speaking of AR sleeping giants, Google offers Swirl, which lets advertisers create 3D interactive ads. In fact, Google announced this week the program is exiting beta and available globally. “A lot of people don’t realize you can actually advertise in 3D on Google today with Google Swirl. .

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 10, 2019

Google I/O 2019 has just finished and has all been about new augmented reality features. Well, you are in the right place… Google ARCore. It works quite well, but it can be used only by the most recent phones that have been certified by Google for ARCore (all the other ones, can try this hack ). Isn’t it cool?

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AR Insider

JULY 9, 2021

Specifically, LoopMe’s Christina Park cites her company’s survey data that show that almost 20 percent of consumers are more likely to pay attention to interactive ads, and 40% find AR try-ons useful. Game engines such as Unity have driven these prices down in terms of 3D creation and application.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. The RealWear Cloud also allows data analysis across headsets. Handling this data for an individual on an individual headset is possible but, again, becomes unbearable at scale sans cloud. “Now CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2021

Accessibility in terms of cost and learning curve were recurring themes, as were immersion, and data and security. Doing things in VR is very close to doing things in real life,” HP’s Cécile Tezenas du Montcel, an XR and data science specialist said in a presentation on enhancing VR learning experiences. Headsets as a Learning Tool.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 28, 2023

There is not only the problem of the timezone but also the unknown of the internet connection and the inability of reaching Western websites like Google. While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China. I tried using the VPNs, and I managed to connect to the servers.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Trained on decades of Walmart data, Wallaby can also be combined with other LLMs to create highly personalised and contextual information, while being able to offer responses in a ‘natural tone’ that also supports Walmart’s values.

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