AR Insider

JULY 16, 2020

How Daimler uses Unity across its automotive lifecycle. The division uses Unity to create a mixed reality pipeline connected to systems and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) data, then deploy applications to multiple platforms, including Microsoft HoloLens, Oculus devices, and smartphones. by Nick Davis. Production.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 29, 2020

Soon Mozilla is going to host a complete guide on how to create and manage your Hubs instance in AWS so that to enable the biggest number possible of people to install it. Azure is one of the best cloud providers (Image by Microsoft). have different requirements, and Mozilla is studied how to offer them all.

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ARPost

APRIL 13, 2020

We didn’t have to shake the tree very hard to find someone that we were excited to talk to but we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to talk with the good folks at Unity. What Is Unity? The name “ Unity ” probably sounds familiar to you. In case you don’t know how, it’s the biggest game and app design platform out there.

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ARPost

MAY 29, 2020

The day included a discussion on how to create a virtual world society from Tom Furness, a discussion on ethical responsibility in the immersive tech industry from Professor Donna Davis, a panel on women in XR, and more. There were also huge announcements from Unity, HP, Microsoft, and others. HP and Microsoft.

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Next Reality AR

APRIL 20, 2018

Currently, in the augmented reality space, it seems the Microsoft-created C# has won out as the overall top language of choice. Of course, this is at least partially due to its heavy adoption by Unity, the most widely used engine for AR development.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

PICO also points users to an official OpenXR Tutorial, a step-by-step guide on YouTube for how to write an XR app with the OpenXR SDK and deploy it on an XR headset. 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.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 22, 2024

More info (Vive Focus Vision hands-on) More info (Vive Focus Vision teardown) Unity launches Unity 6 Unity has finally launched its new version: Unity 6. Unity 6 is bringing many new features that are helping with cutting-edge technologies like XR and AI. This may explain why it has been shut down.

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ARPost

MAY 12, 2022

Immediately following Inbar’s welcome address is the Unity keynote by Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello. As one of the leading tools for 3D content creation, Unity is also one of the engines driving XR content and experiences. Later that day, Antony Vitillo presents “How to Organize a Great Virtual Event.”

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 27, 2020

Or that Microsoft is working on a new reference design that fixes the issues of the first one? This makes us clearly understand that gamers are still not really into VR, and confirms the thesis by Microsoft that is not adding VR to Xbox. Unity changes how it handles XR Plugins. Some info on content.

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VRScout

MARCH 12, 2018

Apple CEO Tim Cook said last year that “AR will change everything” and make the iPhone “even more essential,” while Microsoft has been revamping its computing around VR and AR, or what it calls “mixed reality.” For instance, retail staff could wear the HoloLens to see how something has been selling.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Microsoft Maquette. Microsoft Maquette is the ultimate VR tool by Microsoft to prototype fast in VR. Look how I used it to prototype a little man, immediately after having installed and launched the app. It works with all headsets and that’s another great choice by Microsoft. The Great C.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

My impression is that in the best case, this Deca is the new Pimax, a company with great ambitions, a good spirit, but no idea on how to execute, and this will lead to delays, confusion in the logistics, higher prices than expected, etc… And this is just the best case. Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR.

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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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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 29, 2018

RTX games use the Microsoft DX12 DXR ray tracing API. Microsoft has already released an SDK for ray-tracing, supporting NVIDIA algorithms. You can refer to this Microsoft blog post , with a final link to the SDK and tutorials on Github to have more info about it. What about Unity, instead?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Multinational XR firms like Lenovo, ByteDance’s Pico Interactive, HTC VIVE, Varjo, and Microsoft are leading the charge for immersive transformations. Additional businesses like Epic Games, Unity, Autodesk, Adobe, NVIDIA, and many others have pivoted to the Metaverse to reach these goals. How To Prepare for Enterprise VR.

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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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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2018

We can deploy to a vast of platforms using game engines like Unity, Unreal Engine, the more recent Godot engine or any of the other engines out there, which have all started to add VR features”. But that’s just how Unity works, and this post isn’t about Unity, so let’s move on. You may be saying “Come on!

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ARPost

MARCH 3, 2020

A part of this program is the Google team going to schools to educate teachers and staff about how VR and AR technologies can be applied in the classroom. Teachers and staff learn how to use Google’s Expeditions app and ARCore (for Android) or ARKit (for iOS). See Also: How to Start Your Own Career in Virtual Reality.

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

More info Quest 3 will pair with Windows 11 PCs next month Meta and Microsoft announced that the automatic pairing of Quest 3 headsets with Windows 11 PCs is coming in preview access in December. As a Unity developer (also knowledgeable of VRChat), I’m not surprised at all, honestly.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 5, 2021

Microsoft too had to lose $10B to let Xbox enter the gaming console market and compete with PlayStation. Image by Microsoft). Unity releases free guide on mobile development optimization. Unity has just released a free guide that teaches you how to optimize your game so that it can run smoothly on mobile devices.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2024

Even better, when we have a problem, for instance, because the car is broken, the AI should help us tell how to fix it by asking us to give it the minimum info that it needs. When I tried to use ChatGPT to create Unity scripts, it managed to write something good, but often I had to correct it. Photoshop is doing the same.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Cross Platform Mobile AR Development in Unity If utilizing the full power of native AR frameworks on Android and iOS isn’t necessary and if your goal is faster time to market, cross-platform AR development in Unity may be a good option. Unity AR Foundation is a helpful framework for cross-platform augmented reality app development.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification. Learn more.

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Cats and VR

JULY 15, 2016

"We were actually amazed how easy it is to launch an app for this device and create and optimize the mechanics and interaction. The build was created in Unity with the HoloLens SDK" "For now the Pokémon are randomly generated within a mapped environment. We are now focusing on how to use different gestures for specific interactions.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 28, 2023

This week, Microsoft announced that MRTK will migrate to an independent GitHub account and that the project will be supported by a consortium including Microsoft, Magic Leap, and Qualcomm. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews! in the reviews! Some XR fun But… is it also compatible with Quest 3?

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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

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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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 11, 2020

On the vertical side, it feels more limited , and sometimes it may be immersion-breaking, but after you learn how to position the glasses on your nose, you get used to it. The NRSDK is Nreal’s SDK that lets you develop applications using the popular Unity game engine. I myself have written a guide on how to get started with it.

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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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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the server-side, it is being integrated with Microsoft Azure, and it is also coming in the future for Google Cloud and Tencent Cloud. A company like BMW is using it to create a digital twin of one of its factories to understand how to properly build it to increase its efficiency. HTC is going to launch its headset on May, 11th.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

This is a simpler mechanism than the waveguides employed by Microsoft HoloLens 2 or by Magic Leap, and while it may provide a bit less immersive holograms, it is the only way to provide affordable wide-FOV glasses at the moment. Realmax has an SDK that is compatible with Unity 2017 and Unity 2019.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And if you need some pieces of advice regarding how to professionally survive this quarantine, I have written a blog post on the topic you can read. From the image, it seems like a clone of the HoloLens 2, probably a bit less performant than the Microsoft headset, but also cheaper. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 15, 2021

Read about Microsoft’s Ignite conference. As I’ve reported to you last week, Microsoft’s latest Ignite conference, where Microsoft Mesh was announced, was a true marvel, an example of how a truly immersive keynote should be held. It seems to be amazing, but we have to wait for some reviews to verify if it actually is.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 22, 2021

Instagram has a very popular creation tool called SparkAR , which can be easily used by all creators without knowing how to code, and has seen a spike in usage in 2020. The only big name surviving in this field is Pokemon Go, but just because it has changed how the game works and it has already a very large and passionate userbase.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 26, 2021

Before leaving you to the best news of the week, I would like to highlight two notable things about my work: My crazy trolling game “The Unity Cube” has been featured in a video by Upload VR! You don’t even know how this made me happy! Johnson has worked at Microsoft and Qualcomm before, and she is a very respected executive.

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