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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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. That is, until you remember that the metaverse isn’t just a collection of virtual worlds – it also means augmenting the physical world.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Industry-caliber VR/XR specialists Varjo today announced their latest hardware release, the Varjo VR-1. To design in virtual reality, we need the high resolution of the Varjo device. Varjo is pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in VR fidelity,” spoke Timoni West, Director of XR Research at Unity Technologies.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 30, 2022

From top XR trends and must-have skills for an AR/VR career, to XR hardware reviews, to the potential of the metaverse in various industries, to discussing why we’re not all wearing AR/VR headsets, these are the 22 stories ARPost readers clicked on the most this year. KKCOBVR Quest 2 Strap and Battery Pack: Hands-On Hardware Review.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Unity’s Tony Parisi weighs in on how we might come to find it. Every day this week leading up to the 2017 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we’re featuring insights on the hunt for the killer app from virtual reality’s leading companies. Today we hear from Tony Parisi, Head of VR & AR at Unity. Tony Parisi.

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ARPost

AUGUST 17, 2022

While the definition of the metaverse is still debated, software and hardware maker NVIDIA defines it as a network, not a single place. Rev Lebaredian, NVIDIA’s Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology, believes USD will open more opportunities than those in the physical world. NVIDIA Metaverse Technology.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2022

In Ready Player One, all the population of the world is inside the Oasis. The Oasis is a fully digital world where everyone can meet and interact with everyone else, in one vs one or many vs many experiences. In the current virtual worlds, though, this is not possible because the networking architectures are not able to support that.

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. With social media becoming more immersive, and immersive games growing into venues for social gatherings, the online experience is clearly going virtual.

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ARPost

JULY 4, 2023

The device’s hardware is impressive, but its real strength lies in the software experience it offers. At VR Vision, for example, we see enormous potential in the application of virtual reality training for enterprise applications, and the Vision Pro will only enable further innovation in that sector.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

HoloLens or Magic Leap One ), but to create a headset that is: Affordable; Completely open, both from a software and hardware standpoint. And while I love assembling hardware, personally, I also think. He’s a f **g genius , he knows a lot of stuff about hardware and creates a lot of innovative stuff.

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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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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

XCOM Labs has worked on all the layers of this solution: the network architecture, the hardware, and the streaming protocols. They are not aiming at substituting Virtual Desktop, but they want to offer this solution to companies that may need to offer remote rendering to multiple employees at the same time in the same room.

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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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Road to VR

JUNE 29, 2016

It feels like only 5 minutes ago we caught wind of a new startup riding on the back of the new virtual reality revolution, one based in Utah that had its sights set on creating a cutting edge mixed reality theme park. When we finally did get our hands on it, we were impressed.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More info (Quest 3 going ok in Steam Hardware Survey) More info (Quest 2 selling much better than Quest 3 on Amazon) HTC announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker Finally, HTC has officially announced the Vive Ultimate Tracker, its standalone inside-out tracker unit. But for now, we are not sure at all this is going to happen.

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Road to VR

JUNE 5, 2017

At Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference today, the company made a major shift in their embrace of virtual reality with several new VR announcements during the event’s opening keynote. Today marks a major shift in Apple’s public support for virtual reality. Unity and Unreal VR SDK Support.

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ARPost

MARCH 2, 2023

It’s been over a year since ARPost introduced readers to Frame, the hardware-agnostic web-based virtual meeting platform. The team, a part of Virbela (which has its own app-based virtual world platform), just announced a major update. It was time to step back in with Vice President Gabe Baker.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

One half of the office had desks where the software was tested, the other half of the room was full of hardware. I’ve tried the Lynx R-1 in VR mode too which employs the ‘immersive cover’ and shows you a purely virtual world instead of passthrough AR. I loved seeing this. Software & Content.

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ARPost

MAY 5, 2023

Advancements in virtual, augmented, and mixed reality technology pave the way for seamless connections between real and virtual worlds. We see the lines between real-world interactions and digital-world experiences blurring into virtual oblivion.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

Computing Unit: Weight : 170g Hardware Platform : Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 Operating System : Android. Being the lens transparent, you can see through it both the real and virtual world. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2024

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. This technology could play a crucial role in the widespread adoption of XR devices.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

HTC’s VIVE TALK is a hub of online resources that includes sessions covering its VIVEVERSE platform, enterprise use cases, hardware, software, and the portal hosts “Good Vibes”, an extended reality (XR) podcast produced by HTC VIVE. Mobile World Live (@mobileworldlive) March 1, 2022.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The company got more than $10M of investment over the years, including important support from HTC Vive, which uses its spaces to organize the virtual events to launch its XR hardware. Engage Link wants to take the best of both worlds, and let you meet in VR professional people from your field while you stay at home.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Arguably, Teams has been a principal exception to this and the platform serves as a logical bridge between Microsoft’s social experiences and their mixed reality hardware. However, Kipman’s keynote said that the experience would, like Teams, be essentially hardware-agnostic allowing users to “connect from any device on any platform.”.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I am very passionate about mixed reality and I am incredibly happy of having developed a Unity plugin to let every developer create AR/MR apps on the Vive Focus Plus (you can find it on GitHub !), All these references to Oculus Horizon make me think… I’m not sure they’re about the virtual world, though.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 16, 2021

My silly app The Unity Cube is now in 20th place among the best-rated applications on App Lab ! In an article I missed two weeks ago, Mark Zuckerberg states that he plans to make money on the metaverse selling ads, but especially with an internal market of virtual goods. Absolutely not bad for an app… that is just a cube.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. Now, creatives can leverage them to collaborate in the physical and virtual world, seamlessly and interoperably. Jobs for Metaverse Work.

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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. It’s also likely that businesses will expand their use of XR tech and the metaverse.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, for virtual reality to truly thrive as part of the everyday tech stack, we need more than just ergonomic, high-performance headsets. There’s plenty of great software available for developers who want to build impressive virtual worlds, like the Unity and Unreal kits. That’s where virtual reality cameras come in.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Whereas there are a couple million VR enthusiasts today, and early AR hardware from other companies has reached several thousand developers, Apple is bringing this high-powered technology to hundreds of millions of consumers right now.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 24, 2024

Mesh for Teams, an Overview Mesh for Teams is a set of tools that enterprise clients can use to create virtual immersive spaces ready to meet specific business needs, such as employee events, tours, product showcases, and training. When it comes to the potential use cases and benefits, we’re only really scratching the tip of the iceberg.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Following that is a “Fireside Chat” with Unity CEO John Riccitiello. These companies make components and enterprise hardware that’s usually a cut above available consumer models. I got to get my hands on some of their hardware at last year’s expo and left feeling enlightened. Trying them out can be a glimpse into the future.

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

Patrick O’Shaughnessy presented the Auggie for Best Developer Tool to Unity , a cross-platform tool that hosts many XR experiences. Best Input & Output Hardware. The Nextant Awards are separate from the Auggies and are presented by the Virtual World Society at AWE. Best Developer Tool. Best Enterprise Solution.

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Upload VR

JUNE 21, 2023

The company says that starting next month developers who've been building 3D apps with Unity can port their work to the headset.

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ARPost

MARCH 9, 2021

Arguably, Teams has been a principal exception to this and the platform serves as a logical bridge between Microsoft’s social experiences and their mixed reality hardware. However, Kipman’s keynote said that the experience would, like Teams, be essentially hardware-agnostic allowing users to “connect from any device on any platform.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 24, 2019

Or I’d have to spend time implementing multiplayer for this and that and integrating the same hardware over and over again, so wanted to build an engine that’d solve these problems once and for all and that would let me (and others) implement these within a single shared universe and have them all coexist.

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VRScout

MARCH 6, 2017

First Windows mixed reality dev headset ships, dive into the virtual world via Xbox, high-end VR gets more affordable, Rogue One used VR to direct scenes, the investment & funding wrapup, and much more… FIRST WINDOWS MIXED REALITY HEADSET SHIPS LATER THIS MONTH. FOX SPORTS USES VIRTUAL REALITY ART FOR SUPER BOWL COMMERCIALS.

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