XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 19, 2023

Unity partnered with the Vancouver Airport Authority (VAA) this month to deploy large-scale enterprise-grade digital twins to ensure success in environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) use cases. Moreover, as part of its reconciliation goals, YVR is also deploying a Unity training program to Musqueam Indian Band learners.

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ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

Between the Metaverse ETF, the Glimpse Group IPO (initial public offering), and other big trends, XR might be finally coming of age. Curated by the analyst, writer, and venture capitalist Mathew Ball and partners, the index includes companies like Cloudflare, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Unity. Glimpse Group Goes Public.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Some days ago, I was looking at the code of HitMotion: Reloaded , the fitness game that we of New Technology Walkers developed some years ago for the Vive Focus Plus, and all the intricate system I had to make in Unity to have a cross-platform VR game … and I wondered: “Is all of this mess still needed today?”

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

SideQuest threatened Unity with legal action over its planned install fees while telling the game engine maker to "stick that up your pipe and smoke it." Yesterday saw Unity announce the Runtime Fee , a new charge based on revenue in the last 12 months and installs, counting from 2024 forward. With costs as high as $0.20

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 4, 2022

Unity Technologies has formed a strategic partnership with Capgemini to offer consultations to firms seeking metaverse solutions, the latter revealed on Wednesday. Capgemini will also offer its Metaverse Lab featuring senior technology experts from its Group Executive Committee. Unity-Capgemini Partnership Focus Areas.

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Ryan Schultz

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Ars Technica reported : For years, the Unity Engine has earned goodwill from developers large and small for its royalty-free licensing structure, which meant developers incurred no extra costs based on how well a game sold. ” “Unity is quite simply not a company to be trusted.” What has happened?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2024

AWE Asia set a fantastic stage for the group’s final event of the year with its AWE EU event. Unity to Integrate Vagon’s RT3D Streaming Service This week, Unity, a leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, announced a new partnership with Vagon, experts in 3D content streaming.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

In 2023, Stockholm, Sweden-based gaming group Aonic acquired nDreams for $110 million. Layoffs spanning 2023 and 2024 included a number of top publishers and studios, such as Embracer Group, Unity, Microsoft, EA, Sony, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive and Riot Games.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2023

Unity developers can build spatial computing experiences for visionOS that blend digital content with the physical world using Unity PolySpatial. Through this beta program, you and other creatives will be able to create experiences using Unity editor that can run on the Apple Vision Pro MR headset. for Apple Vision Pro.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

AUGUST 22, 2022

The animations company tasked a leading games development group, “Fictioneers”, with the challenge of bringing an iconic series into the digital world. Let’s see how the Fictioneers leveraged the Unity environment to achieve incredible outcomes for Aardman Animations.

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2022

Khronos Group, the consortium behind the OpenXR standard, is helping to assemble other XR industry players in service of cooperatively building interoperability standards for what it hopes will be an “open and inclusive metaverse.” ” Image courtesy Metaverse Standards Forum.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Facilitated by the standards body Khronos Group, OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem. Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0 release in 2019, this week’s release of OpenXR 1.1 “OpenXR 1.1

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

This comes amid the backdrop of a number of top publishers and studios reducing headcounts, such as Embracer Group, Unity, Microsoft, EA, Sony, Epic Games, Take-Two Interactive and Riot Games. VR veteran studio nDreams announced in mid-September it was laying off around 17 percent of the studio.

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ARPost

MARCH 26, 2021

Last year, many game development groups held events independently. This year, Facebook (who held their own showcase event last year ) partnered with Unity and Intel to offer a larger, joint showing in advance of the more complete Game Developers Conference, which will take place in July. Major Announcements From Unity.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 16, 2022

The Washington, DC-based XR Association announced recently it had formed its Education Working Group (EWG) tasked with developing immersive technologies and solutions for academic environments.

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ARPost

JULY 7, 2023

How Unity talks about digital twins – real-time 3D in industry – I think we need to revamp what that means as we go along,” Unity VP of Digital Twins Rory Armes told ARPost. There’s a much younger group coming into the industry […] the way they think and the way they operate is very different,” said Armes.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

It starts with how you can install Unity and get started with hand tracking development and then proceeds with some suggestions about hands tracking UX. First, let’s start with installing Unity hand-tracking. How to Set Up Hand Tracking in Unity 3D. Let’s start there—let’s download Unity and set it up for hand-tracking.

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MARCH 14, 2024

Meta is funding a group of Godot veterans to improve the engine's support for OpenXR and Quest feature extensions, as well as to build high-quality samples and documentation. If you're not familiar with it, Godot is a free and open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal.

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Voices of VR

JANUARY 23, 2020

Amy Zimmerman is a senior producer on the innovation group for media & entertainment at Unity Technologies, and she helped to start the Unity for.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

XR World Reacts to New Unity Runtime Fees Unity Technologies has reportedly backtracked on the controversial fees it introduced last week, triggering a public outcry from the developer community, with many Unity developers slamming the new fees as unfair, prompting the San Francisco-based firm to rescind its announcement partially.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2020

Each team member can be seen operating the body of their own unique avatars in a custom tech demo environment built on the Unity platform. The content for the technical demo was created in Unity. The team then proceeded to display the impressive level of accuracy afforded by their system via a series of group interactions.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2017

At GDC 2017, Unity held a keynote discussing their impact on the gaming industry, future updates to the engine, and much more. The two played a match against each other, which was won by the Green Ranger of course, and then they shared another announcement for Unity 5.6. For Android and iOS, 5.6 as part of the beta as of today.

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JULY 28, 2021

Image courtesy The Khronos Group. While both Unity and Unreal Engine—the two most commonly used tools for building VR applications—offer some degree of support for OpenXR, neither have shifted to OpenXR as the default for building new VR applications. In Unity, OpenXR support is still considered “experimental.”

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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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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MAY 1, 2017

Today is Unity’s Vision Summit in Los Angeles. Social Impact Award – Out of Exile: Daniel’s Story (Emblematic Group, Atrevida Productions, True Colors Fund). The event is a chance for the 3D visuals company to focus on its support for the VR/AR industry and encourage creators to develop using its tools. Baobab Studios).

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Road to VR

MARCH 7, 2024

Meta has worked with Virgin parent company Universal Music Group and Columbia parent Sony Music Entertainment in the past on other music packs, so it makes sense from a licensing perspective.

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Road to VR

JULY 21, 2021

Sketchfab says it will continue to support other game engines, Unity included. The acquisition no doubt comes as a direct result of Epic securing a $1 billion financing round back in April, $200 million of which came from Sony Group Corporation. Sketchfab has partnered with Epic Games in the past as a recipient of an Epic MegaGrant.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 8, 2018

As impressive as that quessadilla was, and it was impressive, it pales in comparison to a project conducted by a group of third-year Japanese students which involved the careful planning and construction of a functioning roller coaster accompanied by a custom-made virtual reality experience. ?????? unity?????????????

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Built in Unity , the VR experience gives fans an in depth look that the stadiums various luxury accomodations, from the beachside view provided by the Champions Plaza level, to the exclusive Club level suites located right on the sideline. Super Bowl LIII takes place tomorrow 3:30pm PST.

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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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APRIL 15, 2024

The OpenXR working group includes all the major companies in the industry, including Meta, Pico, HTC, Valve, Varjo, and Unity - but notably not Apple. Various companies and groups have added extra features on top of the core spec through OpenXR Extensions, and OpenXR 1.1 The OpenXR 1.0 specification was finalized in 2019.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 5, 2020

XR Hub There is a high chance that you are already a member of this group. This group has been started by one of the most active XR Developers on YouTube. If there is any new feature released in SDKs or libraries in Unity, you are most likely to find the first tutorial video about it on his YouTube channel. Join Dilmer Games?—?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

That’s where Unity comes in. Offering some of the most innovative development tools in the market, Unity has dedicated solutions just for the educational sector. Offering some of the most innovative development tools in the market, Unity has dedicated solutions just for the educational sector.

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JULY 16, 2024

A group that helped open source a fork of Google's Tilt Brush is doing the same to 3D modeling platform Blocks. We've been working hard with the Google AR & VR team in the last few weeks to bring the codebase to a usable state, so anyone should now be able to download and run the Unity project," a landing page for Open Blocks explains.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

It’s a major milestone, according to Khronos Group which has overseen development of the standard by a consortium of many of the biggest names in the AR/VR sector. OpenXR’s ‘working group’, under which representatives from member companies have been actively developing the standard, is facilitated by Khronos Group.

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