Road to VR

JULY 5, 2023

” At MWC Shanghai, state-owned China Mobile announced the first batch of 24 members of the alliance, including Huawei, Xiaomi, HTC Vive, Unity China, NOLO, XREAL (formerly Nreal), AI company iFlytek, video streaming platform MGTV, and cloud streaming platform Haima Cloud. ” China Mobile isn’t new to the space.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The past week has been a pretty interesting one for the tech world: between Microsoft Ignite, Unity Unite, and the OpenAI drama, there has been a lot to follow. Unity 6 takes back the original way of specifying engine versions and abandons the confusing one that bound a new Unity version to the year it was released.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 15, 2023

Spatial is a leading RT3D Metaverse platform for various hardware, including web browsers and XR headsets. Spatial Hits Big at GDC 2023 In March, at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2023 in San Francisco, Spatial announced the platform’s new Unity Creator Toolkit is entering its beta stages.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 8, 2021

HTC is teasing the launch of a new hardware. More info (HTC is going to launch a new hardware) More info (Second tweet from HTC) More info (Third tweet from HTC). Chinese VR manufacturer Pico has just got a big round of financing of 242M yuan (circa 37 million dollars) to continue developing its hardware and software platforms.

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 5, 2023

Jan Goetgeluk, the Founder and CEO of Virtuix , sat down with XR Today earlier this month to discuss the development of the product while also giving insight into creating VR hardware for consumers and commercial markets. Goetgeluk explained that the hardware provides increased immersion while adding “ a lot to the fun factor of VR.”

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Road to VR

APRIL 28, 2022

At the outset the company is targeting the automotive industry, but plans to enable enterprises more broadly with support for Unity & Unreal Engine. Unity & Unreal On the Way. The post Varjo Launches Its XR Cloud Streaming Platform, Support for Unity & Unreal Planned appeared first on Road to VR.

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2021

Unity VR Developer. Organization: Unity. Unity is one of the most popular and powerful engines for creating VR games. The Unity organization is keen on training and certifying professionals who will put their tool to the best possible use. Before you take the exam, you can use the Unity Learn platform for practice.

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Road to VR

JULY 26, 2023

The Attestation API includes things like secure device authentication, hardware-based app bans, protection of financial and enterprise app data, prevention of external data misuse, and other anti-piracy measures. Meta has published documentation for both Unity and Native.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

” Even more was revealed by Jared Ficklin, Chief Creative Technologist at argodesign , who helped develop the Magic Leap 2 hardware. The idea is that it’s a garment, not a piece of hardware. You can’t just have hardware, you can’t just have software, it’s the whole ecosystem that’s necessary,” said Kling.

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VRScout

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Earlier this morning, VR hardware manufacturer Varjo revealed the latest additions to its lineup of human-eye resolution mixed reality headsets, the Varjo XR-3 and Varjo VR-3. Varjo has pushed the boundaries of high-resolution mixed reality for professionals across various industries,” said AC Mahendran , Director, XR, Unity. “By

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AR Insider

JANUARY 30, 2020

That includes lots of moving parts and sub-sectors including consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, advertising and LBVR. This includes VR hardware and software spending from enterprise buyers. This includes VR hardware and software spending from enterprise buyers. Availability and economics of that hardware (e.g.

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Road to VR

JULY 31, 2024

Released in the Audio SDK for Unity and Unreal, the new Acoustic Ray Tracing tech is designed to automate the complex process of simulating realistic acoustics which is traditionally achieved through labor-intensive, manual methods. “One of the standout benefits of our new acoustics features is their performance on mobile hardware.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 18, 2021

While the spotlight is all on Oculus and its Quest, actually Pico and HTC are evolving their hardware and software offerings without almost no one talking about it. I’ve made a nice Youtube video with me saying random stuff and exploring the Vive Hand Tracking SDK at first in Unity and then in action using my hands in VR.

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VRScout

APRIL 29, 2021

At the time, however, this was one of the most advanced pieces of consumer electronic hardware you could buy for under $600. . He then offered to send me the Unity Project files! I am a total C# and Unity noob so I learn as I go. to 17 million units sold. This time he did respond. “He This was the most thrilling part!”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 9, 2021

With Pumori.io , I had created 6 Unity apps that demo UI/UX concepts on the Project North Star headset. However, I had to manually switch between unity packages to demo different apps which led me to taking on and off the headset constantly. . Is this the only supported programming language or devs can also use Unity and Unreal Engine?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Notably, SpectreXR is collaborating with UltraLeap in a “ shared goal ” to enhance immersive training by leveraging UltraLeap hardware alongside “OctoXR” – the firm’s first-party hand-tracking SDK. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players. In Unity, OpenXR support is still considered “experimental.” Image courtesy The Khronos Group.

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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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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making hardware and software more interoperable. The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is backed by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JUNE 8, 2023

According to reports, Rec Room is working with Apple to create an updated version of the Metaverse service that leverages the device’s hardware features like body tracking. Apple supports Unity applications as part of its software stack. Here’s a first look at Rec Room running on the Apple Vision Pro.

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ARPost

JULY 15, 2021

Curated by the analyst, writer, and venture capitalist Mathew Ball and partners, the index includes companies like Cloudflare, Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Unity. The main indicator that Bentovim has been watching has been investment in hardware companies, including through options like the Metaverse ETF. Hardware, Software, and Adoption. “In

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VRScout

OCTOBER 10, 2020

With an unrivalled price point, the ZapBox kit includes controllers, two phone camera adaptors, world anchors, a content library of both pre-released and original experiences, and a Unity plugin for developers. Inspired by Google’s cardboard headset, ZapBox was conceived in 2014 as a way to meet consumers where they were at.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We are incredibly proud of the progress we have made, and we are looking forward to working with software and hardware partners to bring hand tracking to the masses.” . Gemini Supports Popular XR Toolkits. Also, Gemini has already been integrated into Varjo’s XR-3 and VR-3 headsets , as well as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon XR2 platform.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

I hoped that the setup of SenseGlove gloves could have been a bit easier , but being a development kit of experimental hardware, it is not strange that it requires some time. As you can see, the hardware setup is not plug and play. As a developer, I gave a look to their Unity SDK, that you can find on GitHub here. Applications.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2021

The cool news of these runtime updates is that they are compatible with all available UltraLeap sensors , both the v1 Controller (that most of us have) and the new Stereo IR 170 (the one embedded into headsets like XTAL), so you don’t need to change your hardware to appreciate the new tracking fidelity. UltraLeap Unity SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 19, 2021

Talking about the actual implementation, are there any libraries and plugins already available for Unity/UE4 that can give indie studios accessibility solutions already ready out-of-the-box? Here you are some: Open XR: [link] UI Accessibility Plugin (Unity): [link] Set Color Deficiency Type (Unreal Engine): [link].

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 28, 2022

They want to cram all the hardware necessary to have visual augmentations in a tiny lens that sits on your eye. software developers, hardware designers, etc…) but also people that come from a medical background (e.g. From this moment on, it’s all about setting up a test framework to finalize the hardware until delivery.

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Upload VR

MARCH 6, 2025

Meta's Unity and Unreal "OpenXR" integrations block other PC VR headsets, and developers aren't happy about it. The ideal of OpenXR is that developers can build apps that run on any headset, without needing to use vendor-specific APIs for different hardware. But the reality, today at least, is more complicated.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It is also the time when all magazines create a list of “best of” the year and give awards to the best content and hardware … about which there is always someone that doesn’t agree. 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….

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Road to VR

JUNE 21, 2022

” The so-called Metaverse Standards Forum was founded by platform holders, hardware companies, engine/tool creators, and users, with participants including companies such as Adobe, Autodesk, Epic Games, Unity, Meta, Microsoft, nVidia, OTOY, Qualcomm, and Sony. ” Image courtesy Metaverse Standards Forum.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 9, 2025

Stress Level Zero’s physics-based sandbox follow-up BONELAB (2022) has done spectacularly well on Quest, although the studio still hasn’t brought its award-winning physics action puzzler BONEWORKS (2019) to Meta’s latest standalone hardware generation. That’s about to change.

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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. As a 3D environment, you can expect some advanced software and hardware behind its development. The Future is Now.

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ARPost

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Everything from hardware to experiences to people, the XR world is recognized, and Inbar is the master of ceremonies. 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.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Virtualware will also serve as the exclusive sponsor of the event to unite “Unity instructors and workforce development professionals,” according to a press release. Those attending can network with executives from global firms, showcasing the capabilities of Unity’s RT3D technologies.

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Upload VR

MARCH 7, 2025

Meta will recommend that developers use the built-in OpenXR support of Unity and Unreal from next week. The ideal of OpenXR is that developers can build apps that run on any headset, without needing to use vendor-specific core APIs for different hardware. For Unity, the company says that version 1.14 What Is OpenXR? Meta writes.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 13, 2021

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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