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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Road to VR

APRIL 25, 2019

At Unreal Engine Build: Detroit 2019, Magic Leap today announced that the company will be giving away 500 Magic Leap One Creator Edition AR headsets as part of the recently unveiled Epic MegaGrants. The post Magic Leap is Giving Away 500 AR Headsets as Part of Epic’s $100M Unreal MegaGrants appeared first on Road to VR.

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ARPost

JUNE 20, 2019

One of the big events at this year’s E3 was the Unreal Garden and, if you weren’t at E3, you may still be able to see it. What Is the Unreal Garden? The Unreal Garden is an AR experience developed by onedome. It’s been around for a while and has a couple of experiences other than the Unreal Garden. What Makes It Special?

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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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ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Unreal worked with the Microsoft HoloLens 2 to create an AR experience based around Apollo 11. You really get the presence of being in the environment,” Miller said in a Boeing release. Connie Miller with Varjo headset.

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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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Voices of VR

APRIL 3, 2023

But it wasn’t a prank, and they’ve been building a real-time audio engine compatible with Unreal Engine in order to meet the live performance standards of professional DJs to mix, sync, and modulate music in real-time.

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Upload VR

MARCH 4, 2024

Bigscreen Beyond and Varjo Aero now show on the Steam Hardware Survey, giving an indication of their ownership and usage. The Steam Hardware & Software Survey is offered to a random sample of Steam’s user base each month. February is the first month they appear from the start.

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Road to VR

JULY 11, 2018

Today during Magic Leap’s developer livestream the company offered the first details on the compute hardware that’s built into the device, confirming that an NVIDIA CPU/GPU module, and also showed a brief developer sample demonstrating world meshing and gesture input.

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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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Road to VR

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The studio says in a recent Steam update that many of those performance woes have been resolved thanks to upgrading Myst from using Unreal Engine 4.27+ to Unreal Engine 5.3.2. Cyan Worlds has released its big 2.0 The studio also fixed a number of VR-specific issues in Myst’s 2.0

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ARPost

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The update brought Unreal Engine 5 to the platform (Did we mention that Unreal is a tech partner?), See Also: ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unreal Engine Brings Real-World Data Into Unreal Environment. The entire experience is browser-based and hardware-agnostic made possible by cloud computing (AWS is also a partner).

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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. OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications, making for a more interoperable ecosystem.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Despite not yet being available, Unreal Engine’s MetaHuman Creator is already making people talk. Behind the scenes, however, the project proved incredibly time-consuming, requiring a specific set of skills as well as the right hardware and software in order to operate. Head to Unreal Engine’s website for more information.

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Road to VR

JULY 9, 2020

Sony Corporation announced today that it will invest $250 million in Epic Games, the company well known for its hit game Fortnite and the Unreal Engine game engine that powers it. Unreal Engine is the second most popular game engine for building VR content, and has powered PSVR games like Farpoint , Moss ,and Firewall: Zero Hour.

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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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VRScout

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Brought to life via a combination of motion capture technology and Unreal Engine, guests at both the party and the weekend event were able to view the digital model on a massive 8K Samsung monitor and interact with the character in real-time. Even after his death, he’s still at the bleeding edge of creativity! Image Credit: VRScout. “My

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The data comes from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey. The hardware survey includes Quest via Valve's Steam Link app, Meta's (Air) Link mode, or the third-party app Virtual Desktop. Quest 3 was the third most used VR headset on Steam in January, surpassing Oculus Rift S and almost catching up to Valve Index.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 26, 2016

That’s what WorldViz is asking today as it introduces Unity and Unreal Engine support for its self-labelled ‘Warehouse-Scale’ VR technology. The post WorldViz Laughs Off Room-Scale VR, Introduces ‘Warehouse-Scale’ for Unreal & Unity appeared first on UploadVR.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Now, Survios CTO and co-founder Alex Silkin is set to share his experience by teaching a full semester course on expert-level Unreal Engine VR development. Course Name : Unreal Engine VR Master Class. Target Student Demographic : Expert-level Unity (or other game engine) developers who want to master Unreal Engine 4 for VR.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Namely, within the XR space, the firm works on many related immersive technologies to boost Meta’s hardware and software offerings, from AI to avatars. Haptic feedback comes in many hardware forms, such as gloves or controllers. Another technology space, Meta, is keen to crack the haptics market. What is Haptics Studio by Meta?

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ARPost

AUGUST 18, 2021

Among other things, this course’s modules cover: 3D graphics; Mapping; Human factor; VR hardware and software; Advantages and VR use cases; Prerequisites of VR. Professional Certificate in Unreal Engine Foundations. Just like in the case of the AR expert certification, you have 3 attempts to pass the exam.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Boz explained to Heath the process that Meta follows from the conception to the release of hardware and it goes as follows (courtesy of Upload VR): Pre-Discovery: a dedicated team is always “prototyping the craziest stuff”, creating a “proof of experience” for each idea. no markers) and no additional hardware on the user (i.e.

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Peter Graham

JUNE 28, 2019

Axon Park has begun a strategic partnership with VR First with the Unreal Engine VR Masterclass being the first endeavour. They’ve brought on board Survios CTO and Co-Founder Alex Silkin to teach the course who will also be supported by the Unreal Engine Team.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

XR hardware manufacturer Varjo has partnered with the Finnish National Opera and Ballet (FNOB) to help produce a new opera using VR technology. ” Built using Unreal Engine, the tool was used from the proof-of-concept phase all the way to final production.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 30, 2024

Image courtesy Apple EyeSight is perhaps the most unique bit of hardware on Vision Pro. Patents like this can be interesting because sometimes these unrealized concepts will make their way into future versions of the product.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 1, 2024

The time has finally come: on the last day of 2023, Praydog has released to the world his first version of UEVR, a universal VR mod for all games made with Unreal Engine. It means that you can take whatever game made in Unreal Engine for flatscreen, apply this universal mod, and immediately transform it into a VR game!

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It needed to find a way of integrating multiple users into an application, which also allowed them freedom of movement, but hardware limitations hampered the early stages of development. VIVE offers a good amount of official documentation of their products regarding Unreal Engine and Unity development.

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ARPost

APRIL 10, 2023

ARPost typically reports on the Finnish XR company’s groundbreaking hardware and software developments, but the company also helps develop and distribute XR experiences and solutions ranging from operas to flight simulations. That use case is about to get a big leg up as the company recently announced support for its hardware on Twinmotion.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 19, 2022

ARWall (augmented reality) delivered the hardware that provides Soapbox with a virtual production facility. What may get pricey is if you purchase some assets there, but need someone to light it and put it together, which still isn’t that bad because the assets already exist” Unreal Engine 5.0 (UE5)

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

XR hardware is on the move. So, more and more XR providers are providing cloud services in addition to their hardware and platform offerings. For Varjo clients, a lot of the management and IT solutions that make up cloud services for other developers are handled through software subscriptions bundled with almost all Varjo hardware.

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VRWorld

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

HP appears to be the latest hardware manufacturer to be making a strong push into the VR space, after announcing a range of developments including the pending release of a professional version of its mixed reality headset. The post HP muscles into VR hardware space appeared first on VR World.

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Road to VR

APRIL 14, 2022

OpenXR is a royalty-free standard that aims to standardize the development of XR applications, making hardware and software more interoperable. OpenXR is designed to make it easier for developers to create a single app that’s cross-compatible with multiple OpenXR-supporting headsets.

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Road to VR

MARCH 19, 2018

Announced with support for both Unity and Unreal, the Lumin SDK exposes the capabilities of the Magic Leap One headset to developers who can use it to begin building augmented reality experiences for the platform. Use of Unreal Engine 4’s desktop and mobile forward rendering paths. Eye tracking. Gesture and hand tracking.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Industry-caliber VR/XR specialists Varjo today announced their latest hardware release, the Varjo VR-1. The incredible visuals provided by Varjo VR-1, combined with the industry-leading graphical power of Unreal Engine 4, show an exciting future for high-end visualization,” adds Simon Jones, Director of Unreal Engine Enterprise at Epic.

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Road to VR

APRIL 17, 2024

OpenXR, the open standard that creates a standardized way for XR hardware and applications to interface, has seen its first major update. The original vendor extension has been adopted natively in Unity, Unreal, and recently by NVIDIA Omniverse. Image courtesy Khronos Group Following the OpenXR 1.0

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Qualcomm isn’t leading the push with its own hardware though. It’s tapped smartphone and AR hardware OEMs including Lenovo, Motorola, OPPO, and Xiaomi as early partners to support what it calls a “cross-device horizontal platform and ecosystem.” Image courtesy Qualcomm Technologies.

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