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The Most Important Upcoming AR/VR Events This Year

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XR Expo 2023 When: June 15-16 Where: Stuttgart, Germany If you happen to be in Germany this summer for business, you can also put aside two days to attend XR Expo 2023. For those who can’t attend in person, there’s also the option to access some parts of the event online through the awe.live platform.

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‘Puzzling Places’ is a 3D Jigsaw Puzzle for Quest Featuring Stunning Photogrammetry Scans

Road to VR

One day, due to a Unity import error, the pieces of a scanned environment were scrambled around the scene. tells us it was actually a mistake that led them to create the unique puzzler. “We’ve had the idea of Puzzling Places floating around our heads for a while. ” the studio says. Founded in 2016, Realities.io

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Reverb G2 Omnicept, with Eye, Mouth, & Heart Rate Sensors, Priced at $1,250 for May Launch

Road to VR

USA, Canda, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia. HP says the Omnicept features are supported across both Unity and Unreal Engine. Heart Rate API. Pulse Rate Variability API. Developer Support. Online self-help. Premium support. Country Availability. 68 countries (same as headset). HP Omnicept SDK.

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VRdirect Adds WebStudio

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First, it was only available in Germany – though it was already in the process of an international expansion. Using the web tool still requires either 3D photos or virtual worlds created in game engines like Unity. “We VRdirect has a unique solution with a lot of promise and is available across devices.

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How I got started with virtual reality (and you can, too)

The Ghost Howls

It was too early for Unity, but they taught me about C++, C#, Java, OpenCV, OpenGL and other fancy development stuff. I thought developing everything VR-related in native code, but while researching how to develop for VR, I discovered that many people abandoned de nerd C++ wei to use a more visual program called Unity.

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Siemens Invests €1bn in Erlangen Industrial Metaverse Hub

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Valued at roughly €2 billion USD, the huge investment plan will allocate €1 billion to build facilities and growth in Germany to back the nation’s innovation capacity. The Erlangen facility will demonstrate Siemens’ push for digital transformation and industrial automation across Germany’s high-tech sectors.

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Nreal (Finally) Expanding to the US This Spring

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They released a Unity SDK a few months later, but still no market release date. The China-based company announced the Nreal Light smart glasses in May of 2019. The surprisingly sleek and powerful consumer glasses with a $500 price tag was a welcome announcement, but a release date wasn’t included.

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