VRScout

JULY 23, 2019

Available for demo July 28th – August 1st at the Immersive Pavilion, Undersea harnesses the power of the Magic Leap One, as well as Unreal Engine 4 and Vulcan 3.1 mobile, to transport users to a photorealistic undersea environment featuring life-like animated sea life inside a dynamically generated coral reef biome.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

Senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi announced today to the WWDC crowd that Metal 2, the company’s updated hardware-accelerated graphics API, will be launching with support for external graphics as well as a set of VR-specific features to the newly revealed High Sierra macOS. image courtesy TIME. 27-Inch iMac Specs.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In a trio of announcements, Apple revealed that Valve would be bringing SteamVR and HTC Vive to the new iMac, Unity and Unreal Engine were coming to Mac, and Final Cut Pro X would finally support VR video editing. One of those tools is none other than Final Cut Pro X, Apple’s professional-level video editing software.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

There are 15 main categories including art and film, apps, games and toys, headworn devices, developer tools, and more. See Also: Can AI and AR Be Put Together to Offer a Unique Experience? creative director BC Biermann. AWE USA 2019 Day 2. The Auggie Awards for XR Technology. The Auggies are AWE’s AR and VR awards show.

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

The virtual reality toolset makes it easier than ever to create VR content from live film. Another method involves using a special camera to film events from multiple angles, which are then spliced together. This method merges the potential for imaginative computer imaging with the realism of 3D filming. How 3D Imaging Happens.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

But it seems most of the industry is in agreement that the Killer App —a single, platform-defining piece of software that compels buyers—has not yet arrived. Whiting oversees the development of the award-winning Unreal Engine 4’s virtual reality efforts. Epic’s Nick Whiting weighs in on how we might come to find it.

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AR Insider

APRIL 23, 2021

The latest augmentation that came to our attention isn’t a new technology but one that isn’t often associated with AR: the growing trend of LED walls in film production. Much of this is done through 3D game-engine software. ILM specifically uses Unreal Engine. And the technology continues to rapidly evolve.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 19, 2023

Virtual production (VP) is a new technology revolutionizing the film, media, and broadcast industries. Film production teams and professionals can use this powerful tool to create stunning visuals. VP is a rapidly growing field and will likely grow in popularity in the coming years. What Jobs Can Come From Virtual Production Tools?

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ARPost

MARCH 23, 2023

SXSW 2023 also offered a range of compelling conference sessions across 15 tracks, including interactive tracks exploring science, technology, culture, government, and more; film tracks covering both the creative and business elements of film and TV production; and music tracks featuring content on the making, marketing, impact, and future of music.

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Road to VR

APRIL 13, 2017

VR First , the global initiative to seed academic institutions with VR/AR hardware and software, today announced that it’s nearly doubling the number of its VR labs in universities and science parks across the globe by the end of 2017. Vancouver Film School, Canada. image courtesy VR First. image courtesy VR First.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. Best Art or Film. The Auggie Award for Best Art or Film was presented by Jesse Damiani to Lucid Dreams for their VR adventure “ The Key.”. Best Interaction Software.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 4, 2017

This helps us turn our internal research, development, and focus towards exciting but unsolved problems in AR and VR hardware and software. Rubin writes: “Now that a large community of filmmakers and developers are committed to the narrative VR art form, we’re going to focus on funding and supporting their content.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

This is great news for the customers of the Quest 2, but it poses some doubts about the retro compatibility of the Quest ecosystem that Zuck promised at OC6: if the Quest 2 is much more powerful than the Quest 1 and the Quest 1 is discontinued, has sense for developers to keep producing software that is compatible with Quest 1? Learn more.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye.

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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. We don’t really have any software to show on it. Read on for the full interview.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

APRIL 21, 2017

You can either get immersive stuff by building on top of Unity or Unreal, but you’re stuck in a videogame world. But the tracking volume is still limited compared to other VR experiences made using graphic engines like Unity or Unreal. But even further out, Rosenthal sees VR evolving beyond film.

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RealVision VR

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

With Unity achieving nearly the same valuation as it’s rival Game engine maker, Epic (13.6mil versus 17.3mil) what does it mean for Film-Game convergence and VirtualProduction ? Those plugins that they do not develop themselves, they offer generous MegaGrants to the software and plugin developers that do.

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VRScout

JUNE 10, 2016

The Seebright SDK also supports Unity and Unreal engines and is compatible with both iOS and Android. Based in Seattle and formed in 1995, Getty Images has over 80 million still images and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage – and now they’re adding over 12,000 spherical photos to their collection.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Snap, one of the world’s top camera software firms, has revealed major updates to its augmented reality (AR) platform, Snap Lens. The most frequent use cases for ray tracing take place in film, television, and video games. Additional sources include the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries.

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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.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 3, 2016

Design — Explore early lessons of VR game design with our Oculus Studios team and top developers such as High Voltage Software, Tripwire Interactive, OZWE Games, and more. Explore the endless possibilities for VR across 360 video, film, art, and education.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). Augmented vision is commonplace in futuristic films, from Minority Report to Iron Man. What kind of devices and software will we need to participate in this AR Cloud?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The event hosted various camera, lighting, and film production solution providers showcasing the latest audio/visual capture equipment. Virtual production solutions are emerging as a new tool for film, media, and broadcast markets. Introducing Sony’s XR Film Production Ecosystem. What is Virtual Production?

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. Scott spent 15 years as an art director in Triple-A games at places such as id Software and Microsoft Game Studios. As for the name, the founders said it evoked the image of Clint Eastwood in films such as High Plains Drifter.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 15, 2023

VITURE secures its sound quality with built-in Harman speakers and spatial audio software. The VITURE 1 product can also allow a user to jump between AR and VR modes using electrochromic film displays, which quickly moves a user between a variety of passthrough and fully immersive visualisations.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

In this blog, we’ll take you behind the scenes of how we overcame unfamiliar software challenges, smashed UFOs in our office, demoed to celebrities, and edited together 62 seconds of footage that we’re proud of. Producing a professional MR video requires a rare combination of technical savvy in VR software and traditional filmmaking chops.

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HaptX

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Weeks later, we traveled to Park City, Utah to debut our HaptX Glove prototype at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. The software that powers our haptics. While our gloves garner the most attention, our software is the invisible force that makes them so powerful. The Verge listed HaptX as among the best of the festival.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The obvious answer is the ethos behind ThreeKit’s product customization software, which CTO Ben Houston joins Alan to discuss. We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. So Unreal and Unity do have abilities to go on the web.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The obvious answer is the ethos behind ThreeKit’s product customization software, which CTO Ben Houston joins Alan to discuss. We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. So Unreal and Unity do have abilities to go on the web.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The obvious answer is the ethos behind ThreeKit’s product customization software, which CTO Ben Houston joins Alan to discuss. We started making-- this company originally was creating software for Hollywood films, and we did that quite successfully on a lot of films. So Unreal and Unity do have abilities to go on the web.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They’ve created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware’s useless with software.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 13, 2023

Emma Ridderstad : It is possible that the Vision Pro will build out Apple’s app ecosystem, but unlike when Apple released the first iPhone or the first Mac, the XR market has already pioneered software that takes XR beyond entertainment purposes. XR Today: Did Apple select the right initial partnerships for this device?

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XR for Business Podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

And so he created the hardware and wrote the software to make 360 truly a consumer product. They've created amazing hardware, but they failed on the delivery of the actual experience, from the hardware to the software, out to how people actually want to use it. Well, yeah, we hardware's useless with software.

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