UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 3, 2017

Unity is hoping that, one day, something will do the same for VR. Unity CEO John Riccitiello said as much to UploadVR in an interview at this week’s Vision Summit. Carte Blanche, meanwhile, largely remains under wraps but looks to be a simplified way of quickly assembling virtual worlds that anyone can get to grips with.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 22, 2022

It was even featured on Google News. Image by Google). Google acquires micro-LED startup Raxium. This week Google has performed another strategic move towards the development of its future XR glasses. XR Bootcamp has created an interesting table with the comparison of all the most popular interaction SDKs for VR in Unity.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Unity closed out its Unite 2016 Keynote in Los Angeles today with a huge focus on VR. Parisi is considered by many to be one of the early pioneers of VR thanks to his work on Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML), a tool for creating 3D environments on the internet, with Mark Pesce back in 1994. .”

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

Eight year ago, when I first launched Hypergrid Business , virtual worlds offered a unique set of compelling features. There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 2, 2022

Unity VisualLive. Created by a market-leading provider of XR development software, Unity VisualLive allows professionals in a host of environments to visualise designs and collaborate more effectively in a real-time space. Spatial integrates with a wide range of platforms, including OneDrive, Google Drive, and Slack. ImmersedVR.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 7, 2024

More info Google and Samsung are working on smartglasses According to The Information, Google and Samsung are not only working together on a mixed reality headset but also on a pair of smartglasses (a la Ray-Ban Meta) powered by Gemini AI. I cross my fingers, but I don’t have high hopes. Funny link This is too funny to watch!

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The new DRIVE Thor superchip aimed at autonomous vehicles, which companies will be able to use from 2025 Omniverse Cloud , which lets companies use Omniverse completely via cloud rendering even on non-powerful machines A connector to let you use Omniverse with Unity. Image by Google). Meta and Google announce layoffs.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Gelfenbeyn was a co-founder of API.AI, which was purchased by Google and now exists as Dialogflow. In these virtual world environments, people are often more comfortable talking to virtual agents,” said Gelfenbeyn. “In A Colorful Background. Gibbs was formerly at DeepMind , a company using AI to help solve problems.

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ARPost

JULY 29, 2022

Designed for Oculus Quest and Oculus Go, this app aims to create a cozy family corner in the virtual world. The environment built by AlcoveVR creators is a modern and comfortable living room, in many ways similar to the one you have in the real world. So far, the platform boasts more than 25,000 community-created worlds.

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Cats and VR

MAY 11, 2017

Today, Ubisoft ® announced that Hungry Shark ® VR, the seventh installment in the successful mobile franchise developed by Future Games of London, is available on Google Daydream. Built using the Unity 3D mobile game engine, Hungry Shark VR boasts striking 3D models, lighting and beautifully rich environments.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

A volumetric captured Corgan soars through Tilt Brush and Blocks by Google created VR art. Corgan worked in collaboration with Isobar, Viacom Next, and VR artist Danny Bittman to conceive the virtual worlds depicted in the production.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

If this partnership is exclusive, Meta has just got a huge edge over its competitors like Samsung or Google. More info Tokyo Game Show is in VR again Also this year the Tokyo Game Show , one of the most important events about gaming, is going to have its own virtual world.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

This is Google Earth VR. Our Virtual World. Google Earth VR is a surprise project from Google’s Geo team that is being both announced and released today. This is the team behind Google Maps and the original Google Earth. Google Earth VR’s primary locomotion system is flight.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Google might not earn as much attention in the XR space as some other leading technology vendors, but it has already captured the attention of countless artists and educators with its unique virtual reality tools. This cloud environment could have an important part to play in the new era of virtual content streaming.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Tender Claws and Google ARCore. As extended reality gaming experiences continue to take the world by storm, leading cloud and technology vendors like Google are offering game creators and developers an easy avenue into the ecosystem. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Fictioneers and Unity.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

“Between 360 video, virtual reality, and augmented reality, I think augmented reality has much bigger opportunities,” Asher said. It’s a great hybrid between the real world and the virtual world.”. Adobe also debuted Project Dali last year , a VR painting app built in the vein of Google Tilt Brush.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

In mid March , Google announced the end of Google Glass Enterprise. And, last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Disney shut down its metaverse team and the Truth in Advertising nonprofit advocacy group reported that Walmart had shut down its Roblox virtual experience. And it’s not just Unreal and Unity.

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Road to VR

JULY 17, 2017

Using 3D animations from 4DViews , China-based developer 应高选 created this with his iPhone 6s and Unity. Showing some gaming applications to the always cool portal-trick, Helsinki-based creative developer lingoded is by his own admission “searching [for] the next big thing” as he works with ARKit and Unity.

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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. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2022

Niantic has finally launched its VPS (Visual Positioning System), a solution that will allow developers to create AR applications that are persistent and shared in various locations in the world with centimeter accuracy. VPS is a technology that implements the AR Cloud and creates a bridge between the real and the virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

Now, however, countless companies and developers are beginning to embrace this model, including Varjo (with Varjo Teleport ), Unity, and Unreal. Unfortunately, NeRFs are difficult to train and limited in enabling navigation in virtual worlds. We’ve already mentioned Unity and Unreal, for instance.

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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. Google MediaPipe can now track 3D objects.

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Life at the Feeding Edge

AUGUST 5, 2021

As you may have noticed I have been in and around the virtual world and metaverse for a long while. I have spent decades helping people understand the basics of virtual worlds and benefits they bring to us all. He said (slightly paraphrased): “It’s Unity with an oculus looking at a t-shirt its Nvidia?”

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

Luckily there is AR that is still strong, and we can hope to wear Google AR glasses soon… ah no, they are dead too. Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Ah no, not even that because also Twitter is dead.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 15, 2017

SineSpace is a browser-based virtual world created by Adam Frisby, one of the co-founders of OpenSim. It is completely unrelated to OpenSim, however, using Unity as its back end platform. Googling “space” brings up more than 3 billion results, with SineSpace nowhere near the top. Adam Frisby.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Following that is a “Fireside Chat” with Unity CEO John Riccitiello. It’s hard to find an XR organization that Peck isn’t or hasn’t been involved with, and Bar-Zeev co-created Google Earth and HoloLens. We don’t yet know what will come of this year’s keynote but it’s being given by the company’s CEO Peggy Johnson.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 31, 2018

It is one of those places where people look for 3D models , alongside other marketplaces like the Unity Asset Store, Google Poly or Turbosquid. I managed to interview its CEO, Dalia Lasaite, and talk with her about the 3D models market trends and the relationship between the 3D modeling ecosystem and the virtual reality ecosystem.

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Hypergrid Business

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Horizon Worlds will be a platform where people can create entire virtual worlds, with in-world objects and interactivity. You can watch a video about Horizon Worlds here. The most popular VR game engine, Unity, is free at the basic level for small creators. You can watch a video about Horizon Home here.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When asked about why he focuses more on AR, Vermeulen says , “I don’t want to completely escape reality, I don’t want to be in a complete virtual world. I just want to augment my world.”. “Most people don’t want to escape or be blinded from the world for a long period of time.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 10, 2022

from PC) to join its virtual worlds , too, so that to increment the user base. This is why companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Meta are exploring similar technologies. Disney is working on glasses-free virtual installations. Maybe all these systems will just fall under a single Meta Horizon umbrella.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 28, 2018

This year’s Virtual World Best Practices in Education 2018 conference, which ended last week in Second Life, was shorter than last year — three days, instead of four — and attracted about 1,100 attendees, down from a high of around 4,500 in previous years. which are involved in research funded by Google.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ).

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Bernard Marr

AUGUST 8, 2022

But beyond it being a term for the digital, persistent, and highly immersive virtual worlds we will become used to, what it actually is – or will be – is up for debate! The metaverse concept emerged from the world of computer and video gaming, which has been creating vast, interactive, multi-user environments for decades.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

What virtual avatars, creatures, information layers or interactive components are here. The World Map in this world therefore isn’t a 2D street map like we have with Google Maps or Open Street Map, nor is it a 3D map with terrain and building volumes. What room are you in, what objects or other people are around you.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Image credits SCAND Blog Virtual Reality (VR)  — It teleports the user into a completely immersive world that replaces the physical world. Users can use HMD devices such as Google Cardboard, Oculus Quest, Rift or HTC Vive to experience an imaginary environment. In various scenarios, AR acts as a virtual tourist guide.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

AUGUST 9, 2017

Meanwhile, some software startups grapple with the “gap of disappointment” predicted by Unity CEO John Riccitiello wherein VR headset sales lag the dart throw predictions made by analysis groups. And amid all this, dozens of new virtual worlds arrive each week for people to explore in VR headsets.

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