ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

CX and the Metaverse: The Changing Face of Customer Service in a Virtual World. Dive Into a Hyper-Realistic Metaverse Built on Unreal Engine. In this article, we introduce you to Victoria VR, a hyper-realistic metaverse created and owned by users, and powered by Unreal Engine. Top AR/VR Trends for 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis. The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 8, 2022

Nowadays in social VR worlds like VRChat you can have a maximum of 50–100 people together in the same room. If we want to create virtual worlds scenarios like a concert in a stadium with 50,000 people inside singing altogether, we need to have a new networking stack. Red Matter 2 promises to be an astonishing game.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Unity , one of the most popular game engines for VR development, has been a long-term supporter of the medium, introducing many VR-specific features as the hardware evolved at a frantic pace over the last few years. SEE ALSO NVIDIA Explains Pascal's 'Lens Matched Shading' for More Efficient VR Rendering.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

If you’ve played any video games at all – particularly open-world RPGs – you know that getting NPCs right can be hard. So, if we’re going to have a metaverse for games, shopping, business, etc., In these virtual world environments, people are often more comfortable talking to virtual agents,” said Gelfenbeyn. “In

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 22, 2021

I think there is a lot of confusion in the communities about it… Omniverse is a simulator of 3D virtual worlds. To use an analogy, Omniverse Nucleus – the platform’s collaboration engine – is like the ‘Git’ of 3D assets and these virtual worlds. Why is a solution like Omniverse important?

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2017

Developed by The Future Group and FreemantleMedia (the company responsible for American Idol and X Factor ), Lost In Time is a Norwegian game show that uses interactive mixed reality technology combined with a customized green screen studio to transport contestants to different landscapes scattered across time and space.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Meta Horizon Desktop Editor for Horizon Worlds is now publicly available in early access, with asset importing and TypeScript support to build "high-fidelity worlds" with "complex game logic". Horizon Worlds is Meta's "metaverse" platform. Horizon Worlds Desktop Editor interface. Meta takes 47.5%

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ARPost

MARCH 23, 2023

Even more exciting, the virtual world could be constantly extended. Attendees were also treated to other immersive and engaging virtual music experiences. Each of these emerging French artists performed in different virtual worlds. In this world, all share resources and cohabitate in symbiosis.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some of the most common myths and misconceptions surrounding VR include the following: it always causes motion sickness and virtual reality is solely applicable to games. We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

While Steam has been Mac compatible for some time now, Apple announced that Valve will be bringing SteamVR to Mac too, allowing the HTC Vive to run VR games on Mac systems. Using Epic’s Unreal Engine VR Editor, they showed how developers could build VR content inside of VR itself, using Star Wars assets. Metal for VR.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

Epic Games’ Fortnite is steadily moving from ‘just’ a massively popular battle royale game to a cultural touchstone for hundreds of millions of players. And it was all surprisingly lifelike for something rendered in the Unreal Engine, led by a motion captured performance of Marshmello behind the turntable.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

According to the team, if you need to test for instance that your game increases the health of the player by 50 hp when he grabs a white suitcase, you can create an automated test that simulates the grab and checks that the action is executed.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

If you’re unfamiliar with visual scripting environments, such as Unreal Engine’s ‘Blueprints’ for example, it’s a way to visually represent objects, actions, properties etc. This new feature, is called LogiX. ” NeosVR ‘s LogiX takes that accessibility a step further.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

HeadOffice.Space announced their premier space for connection, it’s the world’s first metaverse on the moon designed for the ever-changing way remote teams work, play, learn, and explore together. I’m certain people will spend more time in work-related game-like experiences in the future. Image Credit: HeadOffice.Space.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney thinks Apple’s upcoming iOS 11 update, arriving this fall, will be a huge boost to the emerging AR industry. It’s the most definitive event marking the move to high-end technology that will power a new generation of world-class experiences transcending games and storytelling.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

After Fortnite started the trend of virtual concerts in virtual worlds, always more platforms started implementing them. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. This is cool because it will help spread the word about VR and virtual worlds. Image by PUBG).

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. with experience using game-oriented technologies in The Matrix films. It then veered off to instead put real people into an animated world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 11, 2017

Its competitor, Unreal from Epic Games, is often the go-to toolset for large teams working with big budget titles. The changes should make it easier for developers to design more detail into their virtual worlds while still hitting required frame rate thresholds that ensure a comfortable experience.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The Hanover, Germany-based company develops virtual, augmented, and mixed reality (VR/AR/MR) content using real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

More info (iVRy makes PSVR tracking work on PC) More info (IMU is now supported by the tracking) The European Union announces a strategy to lead on virtual worlds and Web 4.0 Government: supporting societal progress and virtual public services to leverage the opportunities virtual worlds can offer. Kudos to him.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Why should a creator use STYLY and not a powerful game engine like Unity? And why should a creator use STYLY and not a social VR world with building tools like Horizon Worlds or VRChat? STYLY is not intended to act as a virtual world. If you’re already familiar with Unity then please do continue to use it!

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

continuing here with Epic Games. Project Anywhere Epic Games has signaled its commitment to a real-world metaverse with the AR launch of Project Anywhere. In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations.

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Building the Metaverse

JUNE 14, 2023

A few days ago, my team won grant prize the LA AI Virtual Worlds hackathon during the a16z Tech Week by creating a roleplaying game in one day. This is the result of me spending the last few years obsessed with accelerating game development. Semantic Programming and Software 2.0

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 4, 2023

This Monday, Luma AI debuted a plugin for NVIDIA NeRF, a volumetric capture and immersive content creation suite which enables developers to run their designs on Unreal Engine 5 as a real-time render. The update allows Unreal developers to run Luma AI volumetric renderings locally.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

Coming off of several impressive early VR experiences, the pivot toward a full fledged game was an exciting new path for the studio. At the time the studio expected to launch the game in 2016. While the Smash Bros-esque game is the fundamental core of [Bebylon], we always envisioned a world that you could immerse yourself in.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 14, 2022

Epic Games, one of the world’s most celebrated real-time 3D (RT3D) content creation platform companies, announced last week it had struck a partnership with sportswear firm Timberland and CONCEPTKICKS to design a mixed reality (MR) shopping experience. Coming soon. TIMBERLANDFORTNITE pic.twitter.com/bKpARA8Hms.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Spin Rhythm XD , the kinetic rhythm-action game mixing Bop It and Guitar hero, is coming to PSVR 2 on July, 9th Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive announced a new interactive story coming exclusively to Apple Vision Pro based on the popular Disney+ animated series What If…? Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world?

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

Attendees could jump into one of six networked Oculus Rift headsets and enter the world of SlimeZone, letting you play games, watch cartoons, create art, and of course slime others. There was even a chance for parents to participate from the sidelines on a classic upright arcade machine converted into an in-game spectator camera.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

And in fact, in these years, NVIDIA has always worked in offering the tools to improve the graphical quality of games and 3D applications in general , with ray-tracing (RTX ON / RTX OFF) being the latest big innovation it brought to the market. Omniverse is a powerful tool for creating 3D virtual worlds that is made of different modules.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

They both serve a similar purpose, that is blending the virtual and the real : if wearing a Varjo XR-1 headset you go to a greenscreen room, you will see the virtual world in the places where there is the green color and the real one in the other parts of your view. This is so sad. Who knows…. Some info on content.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

A panel discussion titled “Delivering Gaming and XR from the Cloud” discussed a topic near and dear to industry and gamers alike. This could optimize game performance but also solve security concerns in industry. Best Game or Toy. Cloud Streaming for XR Content. 5G and Edge Computing. Announcements. Best Enterprise Solution.

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Hypergrid Business

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Rather than a complete shutdown, Vega positioned this move as a strategic pivot, stating the business would continue under a new virtual world platform based on O3DE technology. Discovery Grid’s transition marks one of the first major moves by an established virtual world from OpenSimulator to the newer O3DE platform.

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VRScout

JULY 24, 2018

The character was the your head, while your actual body was in the virtual world, immersing you in Turtles’ iconic New York City world. A combination of software was used to execute the endeavor, including Adobe Character Animator, Unreal Engine, and NewTeK NDI.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The umbrella term that covers all of the various technologies that enhance our senses, whether they’re providing additional information about the actual world or creating totally unreal, virtually simulated worlds for us to experience. What is Virtual Reality? VR is the most widely known of these technologies.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

But, other than giving a presentation at the OpenSim Community Conference in December , I can’t remember the last time I went in-world for a meeting. I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. I’m feeling the urge to run out and buy a gaming console.

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