XR Today - Virtual Reality

MARCH 31, 2023

While various examples of this technology have been introduced to the landscape over the years, it’s only recently that experts have begun creating viable solutions ready for mass adoption. Here’s how professionals can get started with Unity 3D tools for VR development. What are the Tools Unity Can Provide for VR Development?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 29, 2024

This week, unity, a leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, unveiled a new partnership with 3D content streaming experts Vagon. A typical example is Airlink for the Quest 2. To access a high-quality and sophisticated XR experience, a headset must comply with, at times, high-end technical requirements to operate optimally.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

To me, this video was one of the most compelling examples of how immersive technologies could work together to enable social interactions across realities. Normcore , their multiplayer networking plugin for Unity, allows for the addition of voice chat-enabled multiplayer VR functionality for games and experiences in minutes.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages. For example, Spatial’s Unity Creator Toolkit beta model powered the 2023 Metaverse Fashion Week on Spatial between 28 to 31 March.

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ARPost

MARCH 30, 2023

Croquet , the multiplayer platform for web and gaming, which took home the WebXR Platform of the Year award at this year’s Polys WebXR Awards , recently announced Croquet for Unity. Effortless Networking for Developers Croquet for Unity alleviates the developers’ need to generate and sustain networking code.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 3, 2020

I want to start this year and this decade (that will be pervaded by immersive technologies) with an amazing tutorial about how you can get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK and create in Unity fantastic VR experiences with natural interactions! How to get started with Oculus Quest hands tracking SDK in Unity – Video Tutorial.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. First, let’s start with installing Unity hand-tracking. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Let’s start there—let’s download Unity and set it up for hand-tracking.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” , a report published today by Unity Technologies where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outline how mixed reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. .

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year the Unity Labs team shared an incredible proof-of-concept mixed reality demo that shows the power of blending the real and virtual worlds together. It’s tough to explain so let’s jump right to a video example: Take a look at the video above. We look forward to mixing reality ourselves next year.

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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. For example, to find a nearby location, restaurant, or object. or newer, Unity for iOS and Android, and Unreal Engine. Supported platforms : iOS, Android, and Unity.

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Road to VR

MARCH 11, 2022

While Niantic’s Lightship SDK is designed to integrate with the popular game engine Unity—and ultimately produce standalone app-based experiences—the company’s acquisition of 8th Wall expands its toolset to cover web-based AR content as well. niantic from any browser. niantic from any browser.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2021

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This appears to be one of the clearest examples yet of an app toeing that line—thus, the Megan Thee Stallion VR Concert sets an important precedent. One of the first examples we saw was The Unity Cube , which tested to see if Meta would allow onto App Lab a technically sound app that was completely devoid of meaningful content.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 11, 2020

The prototypes are also a way to get better at Unity. I was a die-hard Unreal Engine user, but with a lot of AR being in Unity I needed a way to ramp up on the engine. A lot of my prototypes are excuses to learn new skills and techniques in Unity. For example, make Leaf Blower VR. Locomotion in VR has just been solved.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2018

unity????????????? The self-critical creator original wanted to build the experience in the Unity game engine and include touch sensor technology for better synchronization. The motions shown in the VR experience mimic the same movements featured in the physical ride. pic.twitter.com/RBC8DMLASn.

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JULY 6, 2017

Like Tilt Brush, objects made with Blocks may seem simplistic at first, but the apps professional potential becomes glaringly obvious once it’s objects are rendered in software like Unity. A box, for example, is made out of six polygons. This will feel limiting at first, but it is a life saver when working in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

For example, captions are provided on videos for people in the deaf and hard of hearing communities as well as those who may not be native speakers of a language. Can you give us some examples of good ones in this sense? Mozilla Hubs is one of the good accessibility example provided by Regine. You can find it here: [link].

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Road to VR

MARCH 20, 2018

Using the example of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto IV (2008) , which remains one of the most expensive and richest game worlds ever created, Jacoby noted that this was, at launch, it only as big as downtown Manhattan (in terms of real-world scale). Building large virtual worlds is costly and time-consuming when done by hand.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. He gives the example of Star Trek: Bridge Crew , a VR game that was made in collaboration with Ubisoft.

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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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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2024

Google announced the news in a blogpost , noting that development of Open Blocks is following the example put forth by Open Brush, a version of Google’s Tilt Brush XR creation tool which was open sourced in 2021. At that point, we will be aiming to create a standalone XR port, and bring Open Blocks to the Quest and Pico platforms.

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Tech Trends VR

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

That’s the consensus that seems to emerge from “Top 2020 Trends: Enterprise AR & VR” a report published today by Unity Technologies, where 15 industry experts (yours truly among them) outlined how Mixed Reality (or XR depending on what flavor acronym you favor) will supercharge and transform the world of work. Look no further!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 16, 2024

Some people asked me how I did that and in this post, I’m sharing my knowledge giving you some hints about how to replicate the same experience in Unity. It won’t be a step-by-step tutorial, but if you have some Unity skills, it will be enough for you to deliver a mixed reality experience.

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VRScout

APRIL 17, 2018

The SDK also supports native development with plugins for both Unity as well as Unreal Engine 4. Some of the most interesting examples of the SDK have so far revolved around linking augmented with virtual, allowing users to step in and out of reality at their whim.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2023

However, if your goal is to create a fully immersive VR experience for Vision Pro that also works on other headsets like Meta’s Quest or PlayStation VR, you have to use Unity. It’s like diet-Unity that’s built specifically for this development stack. But those rich AR features are only available in Full Spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2021

If you are a Unity developer like me, you can use the awesome Unity Recorder package to shoot videos of your experience, both 2D videos and 360 videos. Basically in most cases, you set the Recorder settings, you play your game inside Unity, and you have the video ready without any hassle. Surreal Capture.

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AR Insider

MAY 27, 2021

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. We’ve seen some great examples of entertainment marketing, such as Sony Pictures’ Spider-Man : Into the Spider-Verse campaign done by Trigger using 8th Wall’s WebAR platform a few years back. Four Myths About AR Advertising.

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. For example, how does someone with Parkinson’s navigate gesture controls? Let’s jump in. Ethics and Inclusion in XR Technology. An early presentation in the day saw the University of Oregon professor Donna Davis presenting “Immersion and Ethical Responsibility.”

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AUGUST 30, 2017

Built with Unity and ARCore. Built by Jane Friedhoff with friends at Google Creative Lab using Unity and ARCore. Built by Rachel Park Goto and Jane Friedhoff with friends at Google Creative Lab using Unity and ARCore. It was made as a quick example of how to combine openFrameworks and ARCore. Portal Painter. Hidden World.

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

The Unity engine for example, always ships with the VR code in a flat game and that code can be re-enabled and a modder can then start building out VR mechanics on top of that with powerful Unity modding frameworks. For the longest time, we’ve been mostly limited to adding full VR support with motion controls, etc.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 21, 2025

While StadiaGoogle’s short-lived cloud game streaming serviceis probably the most recognizable example in recent years, the XR industry already has first-hand experience with the practice. The site Killed by Google maintains an active list of the company’s cancelled projects, currently totaling 296.

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Road to VR

JUNE 22, 2018

Knuckles EV2, for example, not only contains a touchpad, a joystick, trigger and buttons, and a number of capacitive sensing areas, but also a new force sensor, which detects actual grip force, and a track button which also has a force sensor. Check out the examples below of what the Knuckles EV2 looks like with and without the controller.

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AR Insider

JUNE 3, 2020

Unity has had a very successful run in the last 10 years or so and is more specific in its purpose as an authoring tool, originally being a 3D game engine giving mostly indie developers a platform to build games for smartphones. Today, Unity is powering the majority of AR apps out there as it is known for its ease of use.

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Road to VR

JUNE 17, 2020

Its platform also allows them to do it at scale thanks to its Unity and Unreal-compatible SDK, which essentially lets game developers forgo popups and other interstitials that may otherwise ruin the gaming experience. Example image courtesy Admix. The London-based startup’s penultimate funding round brought them $2.1

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

During the opening presentation at today’s Unity Vision Summit, Nathan Martz, Developer Platforms Product Manager at Google, took to the stage to talk about new tools that the company is releasing to help developers create high-performance apps for Daydream, Google’s high-end Android VR platform. Photo courtesy Unity Technologies.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 28, 2021

You can, for example, attach a virtual screen to a physical wall or navigate a virtual character with realistic occlusion throughout your real-world environment. 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.

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