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A few weeks ago, while reading the news about SIGGRAPH, I saw NVIDIA teasing the release of the Omniverse connector for Unity , and as a Unity developer, I found it intriguing. Unity connector for Omniverse. At launch, Omniverse has been made compatible with Unreal Engine, and support for Unity was lacking.
Top news of the week (Image by Pico) Pico launches Pico 4 Ultra and Motion Tracker in Europe and Asia After the launch in China, Pico has launched its latest product, Pico 4 Ultra, also in Europe and Asia. Preorders are already open for £529 / €599, with the headset going on regular sale from September, 20th.
These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.
3) Biggest takeaways from the IGS 2022 Europe and global tech community. If you’re looking for more information on this topic visit Unity Technologies at their website. In this session, we discuss the following: 1) How digital twins are helping companies to enter the Metaverse.
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I just got back from Lisbon, where I attended AWE Europe. 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. Meta releases Movement SDK.
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I have made things in Unity ever since, now with 4 published titles: Custom Home Mapper (on Sidequest and Itch), as well as Space pilot Alliance , Pocket Racer , and RamCastle on App Lab. Unity is the game engine, Photon handles the networking and Dissonance is amazing for VOIP. Hello Ryan, can you introduce yourself to my readers?
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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). Learn more and participate.
They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date. In late 2019, they expanded to Korea – a market more similar to the US and Europe – where they again experienced huge success. They’ve had huge success in China, but China is a pretty unique market.
Valve Releases ‘The Lab’ Unity Renderer for Free Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. The move was announced by Valve’s Chet Faliszek at Unite Europe in Amsterdam yesterday.
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Varjo says their “industrial-grade” VR-1 headset is available starting today in 34 counties, across North America, Europe, and Hong Kong. At launch the company is promising support for 3D software tools and engines, including Unreal Engine, Unity, Autodesk VRED, PREPAR3D, ZeroLight, and VBS Blue IG.
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By the way, today I travel to Lisbon to attend AWE Europe, where I will be the moderator of a panel about sustainability in XR and Web3. StandableVR is a plugin developed by a young dev to offer full-body VR via IK in Unity. If you are going, too, let me know and maybe we will be able to meet! Quest Hand Tracking v2.1 Learn more.
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Among this free content, the real interesting stuff is $500 in free Azure credits , while the other things are highly questionable (like 3 months of Unity Pro license… it is more a free trial than a real added value!!). Nreal Light is shipping in Europe and US in 2021.
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