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Somnium Space Launches Social VR Platform Powered By Ethereum Blockchain

VRScout

I’ve traveled the world through VR film, exercised and had fun with VR games, and networked and done business through industry events held in VR,” Mitchell continues, “Moving forward we will see the continued growth of social VR for business, and every time an outbreak like the coronavirus happens, we will see that growth spike.”.

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Students Hack Positional Tracking onto Gear VR with SteamVR Tracking

Road to VR

In a reverse engineering exercise, two students at Utah State University have hacked positional tracking onto a Gear VR headset using SteamVR Tracking technology. The data is sent to a computer via UDP packet over Wi-Fi, and the results are displayed using the game engine Unity, as shown in the brief demonstration video heading this article.

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How Watson, IBM’s Artificial Intelligence, Is Powering Audio-Interactive VR/AR Environments

VRScout

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. How do astronauts exercise in space? It was a trust exercise.

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You Can Take a Free Coursera Course on XR from the University of Michigan

ARPost

As part of an exercise within the University of Michigan, he was asked to create a “two-week focused learning” course. The course’s three parts cover an introduction to XR technology, applications and issues, user experience design, and extended reality app development through webXR tools, Unity, and Unreal. How the Course Came to Be.

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Daniel Beauchamp inspires us to do more crazy experiments in VR

The Ghost Howls

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. So working on these prototypes gives me an outlet to work on VR. Need inspiration?

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Creating VR Content With Zero Coding Skills

VRScout

But today you no longer need to be a Unity professional or 3D designer to get into this sacred industry. In that regard, Sumerian is more similar to standard development software, such as Unity, than it is to software such as BioVR. Pros: The main benefit of Sumerian is the lifelike characters offered through the software.

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What Are The Biggest Myths About AR Advertising?

AR Insider

I’ve been writing about it for over a year, and working on related products at Unity for much longer. To get the most information out in the most fun way in a short session, we decided to frame our panel discussion as a myth-busting exercise. Tony Parisi is Head of XR Ad Innovation at Unity Technologies. by Tony Parisi.

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