Cats and VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Unity announced that it has hired Dr. Danny Lange as VP of AI and Machine Learning. He joins from Uber, where he was head of machine learning. At Uber, Lange led the efforts to build the world’s most versatile Machine Learning platform to support Uber’s hyper growth. Source: Unity Press Release.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. Niantic announces a new AR game, this time with NBA. Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision).

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ARPost

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The advent of the VR art game Tilt Brush enabled users to paint in 3D space using virtual reality. Moreover, VR games , such as The VR Museum of Fine Art , have allowed visitors to interact with timeless masterpieces on a freer and more personal level. According to Sabby, she first learned about VR in 2018. “

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Probably the communication machine of the company is not as strong as before, so the old message still hangs around. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. This week, Valve will host on Steam the first “VR Fest”, which will highlight discounts and demos for VR games. Resolution Games has reported record earnings for 2021.

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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. Star Trek: Bridge Crew VR game // Image credit: Ubisoft. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2022

Unity Technologies has teamed up with Microsoft Azure to add the former’s Create Solutions to the Cloud, allowing users to distribute games across Windows and Microsoft Xbox systems. Digital’s RT3D and hyperrealistic animations with optimised processing times, machine learning (ML), and other intensive workflows.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The HaptX SDK makes it easy for any developer to bring a realistic sense of touch to their VR games and apps. Touch is the cornerstone of the next generation of human-machine interface technologies, and the opportunities are endless.” The device also includes a variety of plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a C++ API.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 19, 2022

The company provides an immersive environment for users to play mini-games, join events, and socialise. The platform also has new mini-games and immersive experiences in the pipeline for future builds. Users can also hop between tailor-made digital worlds via portals that seamlessly transport a user to a new digital space.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. Meanwhile, TikTok is changing the social game again with micro-entertainment and bursts of distraction. But this is just the beginning.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Additionally, the international extended reality (XR) firm adds that its volumetric service applies to gaming, TV, and location-based entertainment (LBE). In a similar vein, Unity unveiled Metacast in October 2021.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2021

Some days ago, Facebook has distributed its new Facebook Avatars system, promising many possible customizations, a machine-learning algorithm able to reliably reconstruct the pose of your upper body, and a visual appearance that is the right mix between realism and cartoon-style. But is this true? Trying out Facebook Avatars.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Game developers are also preparing for it: popular games like SuperHot, Red Matter , and Arizona Sunshine will publish new updates to take in count the new horsepower of the Quest 2. You activate the machine, pay for its usage and you can have cloud rendering. Someone has made a WebAR exporter for Unity. This is so cool!

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some of the news coming from there have been: NVIDIA announced new Grace Hopper chips to empower AI algorithms on server machines , and AI workbench to allow everyone to play around with AI models. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR. But now things may change.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2023

The update improves a Quest’s ability to track quick movements in applications such as fitness and fast-motion games. Moreover, the update improves hand-tracking-based interactions and navigation for its adopters—it leverages machine-learning technology to improve the platform’s pinch-based interaction.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). It has not been thought for games, but more for enterprise uses like training. Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. Applications.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2019

Essentially, the project is aiming to let users create the same sort of ‘hyper reality’ VR effects that location-based entertainment facilities such as The Void provide; having that physical object match up to an in-game representation makes for a potent shot of immersion to say the least. Image courtesy Tinker Pilot Team.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Unity vs Unreal: Which is the best option for companies creating content for extended reality ? Unity is popular for its accessibility and beginner-friendly features. Unity is popular for its accessibility and beginner-friendly features. However, each option has its own unique pros and cons to consider.

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AR Insider

JULY 21, 2020

Though the company has risen to prominence with its breakout hit, Pokemon Go, the larger play may be its location-based AR gaming platform: The Real World Platform. Examples include Unity, Adobe Aero and 8th Wall. The Pokémon Go creator has turned its AR architecture into a platform on which others can build apps and games.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

Our primary research areas are Computer Graphics and Mixed Reality and our works span different topics like MR for serious games, human-computer interaction, usability in MR, virtual heritage, and so on. The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . Automatic Time Synchronization : LooxidVR facilitates time synchronized acquisition of eye and brain data , as well as VR contents and interaction data (Unity event logs).

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 21, 2021

The main trigger can give adaptive force-feedback, applying a different force on the index finger depending on what is happening in the game. Ctrl+Labs already demoed it years ago: check out the link to the Dino Game that I added below this paragraph. Maybe are they talking about the games by Ubisoft?

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Thanks to this exporter, every Unity developer can create a WebXR experience by just building the Unity project for HTML5!

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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ARPost

AUGUST 26, 2019

Most of us first encounter AR technology through our phones, in things like mobile games. While some mobile games are just mobile games, others are signs of bigger things to come. The Holoscape Mobile Game. Holoscape is believed to be the first massively multiplayer AR game. Holoscape is of the second camp.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

.” Much like HTML forms a sort of description of a webpage—being hostable anywhere on the Internet and retrievable/renderable locally by a web browser—USD can be used to describe complex virtual scenes, allowing it to be similarly retrieved and rendered on a local machine.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

CREATORS: Varun: ML Engineer and Product Manager, Praveen: Sound Engineer and storyteller, Vatsal: Game Developer( Unity/VR/AR) and facial animator. Virtual beings could become a new digital medium to learn about their contributions to society and most importantly remember and practice their teachings.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 31, 2017

It became active during the next portion of the demo meant to show the potential of the system in a game environment. Here’s how Neurable describes it : Neurable is debuting Awakening , a VR game preview made in partnership with eStudiofuture , at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 11, 2020

If these tools were directly integrated into the game engines, that would be even better. Valve has made a great job in providing all these options to make also disabled people play this game. There is also the need of working with big corporates to make them hire more women in the gaming and tech industry in general.

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AR Insider

DECEMBER 4, 2020

But when combined with the iPhone RGB camera, possibilities arise to up-resolution scans in potentially game-changing ways. The Babble Rabbit creator has been working with LiDAR on a prototype game that demonstrates the range of experiences that LiDAR could unlock. So lots of software development is still to come.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

A research project from Facebook (not to be released anytime soon) used “super-resolution” to reduce the computational power needed by games running on Quest. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible. Unity High Definition Rendering Pipeline is now compatible with Virtual Reality projects. Very good news for all us Unity VR developers.

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Upload VR

JUNE 22, 2023

Masterpiece X will use generative AI for a new "game-ready" 3D creation platform available on Quest 2 in early access. Masterpiece Studio is launching Masterpiece X to develop "game-ready 3D" with a mesh alongside textures and animation. Masterpiece X is available now for free on Meta Quest 2 and Quest Pro.

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Tech Trends VR

JANUARY 21, 2022

There are many excellent toolmakers and service providers in a great position to connect, empower and enable the growth of many aspects of the Metaverse, many of whom are good friends of ours, for example: ReadyPlayerMe — A cross-game avatar platform for the Metaverse. Volograms — Easy volumetric video capture. Well, it was top secret.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

While the average consumer might not need haptic experiences in VR games, sensory feedback in the business world can be extremely valuable. They’re not just ideal for intelligent gaming and entertainment. Gesture recognition: Some haptic gloves can work alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the gaming industry eclipses the movie and filmmaking sector, gaming firms are leveraging their technologies to create next-level immersive experiences. Companies such as Meta, holoride , Improbable , Steam, Sony, and many others have begun tapping their serious gaming technologies to achieve this.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 17, 2025

In this tutorial, I will explain step-by-step how you can create a project using Passthrough Camera Access of the Meta SDK , both starting from the samples and starting from a blank Unity 6 project. Update your device if you have a previous version You must have a recent version of Unity. Exciting, isn’t it?

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 12, 2021

On HoloLens 1, whatever Unity application I run had framerate problems, while here all Unity applications worked like a charm. This is obvious: like you can’t play two VR games at the same time, you can’t run two AR applications together, unless you want the 3D elements of one to mix with the elements of the other one.

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