XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 23, 2023

Microsoft unveiled fresh, immersive features for its Microsoft Mesh-powered Team platform, it announced at its Build 2023 event on Tuesday. Meeting attendees can now walk over to groups, wave to others, and similar activities. Teams users can now connect in immersive spaces with realistic interactivity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

What is Microsoft Mesh , and what can it do to transform the future of immersive collaboration? For some time now, Microsoft Mesh has promised companies an opportunity to build unique mixed and extended reality experiences for the future of work. So, what is Microsoft Mesh exactly, and what can it do? What is Microsoft Mesh?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Microsoft Teams Immersive Spaces is taking collaboration to a new level. Powered by Microsoft Mesh , the new XR experience is now in preview, allowing users to discover the era of “metaverse work.” What is Microsoft Teams Immersive Spaces? Any user can transform a virtual meeting into a fully 3D experience with just one click.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Also, the founder and managing partner of AR funding group Super Ventures , Inbar’s talks are always full of insight, passion, and a few laughs. Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. Panel Discussions.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Perhaps the biggest company in the mixed reality landscape right now, Microsoft is paving the way to a future of incredible hybrid learning. According to Microsoft, implementing mixed reality into the training landscape leads to a reduction in training times of approximately 30%. That’s where Unity comes in.

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AR Insider

JULY 1, 2020

Learn how industrial giant ABB is using Unity and augmented reality to transform field maintenance procedures into a completely paperless process. Kielar, to walk us through how they used Unity to develop a new digital field operator system. by Nick Davis. odarczyk and Rafa? What are some challenges faced by maintenance operators?

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2021

Despite being among the early supporters of the OpenXR consortium—the industry group building the open standard for XR devices—Sony so far seems to have avoided making a specific commitment to implement OpenXR on PSVR or its next-gen headset. OpenXR is an open standard developed under the Khronos Group. Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A group leading enterprise integration of digital twins is the Orlando Economic Partnership (OEP). This year was a busy one for the XR industry; following a lull in faith towards the start of the year, groups such as the OEP, Microsoft, and Meta worked to bring new life to the sector via substantial workplace XR solutions.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

For now it counts Apple, Pixar, Adobe, Autodesk, and NVIDIA as foudning memebers, with general members including Epic Games, Unity, Foundry, Ikea, SideFX, and Cesium. Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, launched a similar USD initiative in the past via its own Metaverse Standards Forum.

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

It’s no doubt been a massive undertaking creating a platform agnostic standard for VR and AR, as The Khronos Group consortium has included in its ranks the important hardware and software creators in the industry, including AMD, ARM, Epic Games, Facebook, Google, HTC, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Unity, and Valve.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2022

NVIDIA joined Meta , Epic Games, Khronos Group, Avataar , Microsoft, Unity, XR Association , and many other founding members to lead the development of interoperability standards to drive the growth of the metaverse. On June 21, 2022, brands gathered together for the founding of the Metaverse Standards Forum.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 1, 2024

More info (Logitech MX Ink now available) More info (My hands-on with the device) The end of HoloLens 2 Microsoft has officially announced the end-of-life of the Microsoft HoloLens 2: the company is now selling the last stock and will slowly discontinue the headset. Farewell, HoloLens. But I hope so.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The award for Best Developer Tool was presented by Khronos Group President Neil Trevett to Mixed Reality Toolkit for Unity (MRTK-Unity) by Microsoft. ?. This year, the Auggies ceremony also included a Halftime Show by XR improv group The Technodramatists. Best Developer Tool. Best Enterprise Solution.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The Dublin-based IT consultancy has outlined a Metaverse Continuum Group to facilitate digital transformations for businesses. Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. How To Prepare for Enterprise VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 26, 2023

But there’s even more: Unity has already published a page about how it is possible to build for the Quest 3 using not only the XR Interaction Toolkit, but also AR Foundation. Unity page also confirms that the headset will provide plane detection, so you will be able for instance to detect the walls and the desks in your room.

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Road to VR

MAY 2, 2017

The keynote from Unity’s Vision VR/AR Summit yesterday showcased just how far Unity is reaching into non-gaming content when it comes to augmented and virtual reality. The person who is in charge of Unity’s xR strategy is Tony Parisi, who is a co-founder of VRML and a long-time open web advocate. Subscribe on iTunes.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

This was our little group before the event started. Azure is one of the best cloud providers (Image by Microsoft). There is no ETA for a similar feature for Microsoft Azure, not even for a one-click-install (like for WordPress) on your own self-hosted server. Why not a Unity exporter?

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Upload VR

JUNE 21, 2022

The effort to “foster the development of open standards for the metaverse” is hosted by the Khronos Group and already joined by the likes of Microsoft, Meta, Google, Adobe, Epic Games, Unity, and NVIDIA among many others, and membership even includes other standards developing organizations such as W3C.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR API is a core piece behind many XR headsets from vendors such as Acer, ByteDance, Canon, HTC, Magic Leap, Meta, Microsoft, Sony, XREAL, Qualcomm, Valve, and Varjo. Moreover, RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Varjo’s technology, alongside integrations with Unity and Unreal Engine has allowed the construction leaders at Sellen to boost communication between teams, and enhance the development of amazing virtual reality mock-ups. Microsoft and the Haas Group. The Haas group can even offer virtual tours for buyers using Microsoft tools.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The group will consist of more than 50 Founding Members and Collaborators from across the world. For the AI Alliance, members will form working groups across the organisation’s targeted list of topics. Using AI, Microsoft aims to optimise processes for the enterprise, reducing time, waste, and equipment downtime.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 26, 2023

You can access it at this link: [link] ) Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) Microsoft kills Windows Mixed Reality Microsoft has decided to pull the plug on the Windows Mixed Reality platform , the one of the WMR headsets by Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, and Samsung which were the first to introduce inside-out tracking in the VR ecosystem.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 19, 2023

Neil Trevett, President, Khronos Group , explained that interoperability was essential to the Metaverse scaling to its full potential “beyond siloed games, experiences, and worlds.” Additionally, the organisation supports several Forum Exploratory Groups to build consensus on charters for future Working Groups.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In my humble opinion, since it looks like a draft page, I believe that someone at Meta created an App Lab app to test the service with some test groups, being sure that the app was hidden because App Lab apps were unlisted. The same element can so be compatible both with Unreal Engine, and Unity, but also Roblox and Minecraft.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 4, 2018

There wasn’t a specific announce surrounding support for VR games (see update), although as Khronos Group’s OpenXR standard marches ever onward in its mission to make market fragmentation a thing of the past, it’s possible those “open platforms” will also include VR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Following a successful experience with Unity Hybrid Scaling for Apex Legends, Respawn decided to work with Unity once again on its new immersive experience. Unity helped with everything from matchmaking in VR, to voice communications for the development of the new game.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Kenichiro Yoshida, Sony Group Chief Executive , said in a recent statement the Metaverse was “simultaneously a social environment, as well as a live networking space where gaming, music, films and anime intersect.”

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

” Both roles are part of Apple’s CoreMedia team within their Interactive Media Group (IMG). ” See Also: Microsoft is Building VR MMO for Xbox and PC, Job Listing Indicates. .” The latter is looking for someone with “Direct experience with implementing and/or designing VR or 360 video playback systems.”

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 30, 2024

Meta designed the layout application, following similar immersive customer experience innovations from groups like Ikea. RT3D development services like Autodesk VRED, Blender, Godot, NVIDIA’s Omniverse, StereoKit, Unreal Engine, and Unity support OpenXR integration, leading to seamless OpenXR application usage.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

There were four groups of two and one group of three students. Each group was assigned with three unique devices. My group members were:- 1. Networking implementation using Photon Unity Networking. Unity v2019.2.0 Unity v2019.2.0 Abhishek Tippireddy 2. Dakshvir Singh Rehill (me) Our devices were:- 1.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The company has since teased hardware and a collaboration with Microsoft Mesh , so their AWE appearance could mean anything. Day two of the conference opens with Unity’s keynote. Unity is “just a game engine” like XR is “just a game.” How about a group of experts talking about what they know best? Panel Discussions.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans. 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.

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2020

Their curriculum offers: Mentor groups – guidance from professionals that work in a number of related spheres; Conferences – events for the students to meet other professionals in the industry and participate in workshops; Check-out program – students get access to loaner devices to develop and test AR and VR applications.

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VRScout

APRIL 28, 2022

In a compilation video released by the research team, you can see a person wearing a Microsoft Hololens mixed reality headset extinguishing an AR fire using a real-world fire extinguisher. This will allow developers to assign a static target such as an AR house or tree with a trajectory target like a moving car, animal, or arrow.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

When I tried to use ChatGPT to create Unity scripts, it managed to write something good, but often I had to correct it. I’m a Unity developer, and for instance, I use a lot the Unity XR Interaction Toolkit and the features of the new Unity Input System to develop content for all the headsets using just one Unity project.

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