XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

As Meta continues to expand its investment into the Metaverse , we’re likely to see a host of new ecommerce and retail brands taking advantage of the environment to build new digital experiences. Unity provides users with access to a comprehensive real-time development platform, ideal for building 3D, immersive experiences.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Having that type of control in a virtual environment opened up so many possibilities for Vermeulen. ZedMini camera mounted to HTC Vive / Image Credit: Lee Vermeulen. The primary component is a ZedMini camera hooked up to an HTC Vive headset, that allows for AR pass-through while he is in VR.

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The Ghost Howls

JUNE 17, 2020

. “Virtual or augmented realities can be to the performing arts what the advent of cinema was to the theatre, an additional mode of expression made possible by new technologies at a given time,” predicts Jarre. . Also involved in the project are tech startups such as SoWhen? You should see it.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JANUARY 25, 2017

The platform will support the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and OSVR and is free-to-play. million late last year with help from the likes of HTC, certainly seems to be doing that. VRChat also aims to offer deeper user customization with integration with Unity. VRChat will be releasing on Steam in Early Access on February 1st 2017.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We talked with The Park Playground CEO Peter Vindevogel, who shared his thoughts on these myths and misconceptions, shedding light on virtual reality technology. AR Apps to Increasingly Leverage AI Tech To create more immersive virtual environments, AR applications must be able to collect a wealth of information about the user’s surroundings.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Roughly 60 judges nominated ARuVR out of 450 global applications for two additional categories – ‘Most Innovative New Learning Technologies Product’ and ‘Best Use of Simulations or Virtual Environments for Learning.’ . Med-Tech World Awards 2022. A massive expansion of XR use cases and new applications for the technology .

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Nine circular tables were arranged neatly on a stage, each seating six guests, all of whom were donning a HTC Vive headset, calmly waving a Vive controller in front of their face. In collaboration with HTC, Dell, and UK creative agency Imagination , Jaguar pulled off VR gold.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 27, 2020

We’re looking for a Unity dev for a freelance gig lasting 1–2 months, ideally from Italy or a nearby country (for easier management). It is in Italian, but basically it says that we’re looking for a Unity dev with preferred experience with VR and/or multiplayer games. Unity Reflect its a great XR tool for enterprise customers.

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VRScout

JANUARY 31, 2017

Co-creator Aaron Koblin states that this was Within’s first project made with Unity, so the whole thing is real time rendered, enabling the viewer to interact with the virtual environment.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Recently he got access to a third HTC Vive controller, allowing him to start experimenting with mixed reality video capture. “I’ve written some software in Unity which takes the position/rotation of the mixed reality controller, and figures out pan/tilt angles to the headset,” Loveday told UploadVR.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2022

The “TendAR” augmented reality experience creates a virtual fish for players, capable of interacting with the real world through the user’s camera. Respawn Entertainment and Unity. Following a successful experience with Unity Hybrid Scaling for Apex Legends, Respawn decided to work with Unity once again on its new immersive experience.

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 12, 2018

Sinespace , a virtual world platform from OpenSim co-founder Adam Frisby, launched its virtual reality beta last week and reports 20 percent weekly user growth. Previously, the Unity-based social virtual world was only available for desktop clients. Virtual meeting. Unity 3D user interface for Sinespace.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Among the most famous XR innovators on the market today, HTC VIVE offers a range of solutions for those interested in the benefits of spatial audio. Like HTC VIVE, Magic Leap also supports a vast developer community, with access to various tools capable of integrating with Unity technology for spatial sound.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Ultraleap Tobii Varjo Meta Platforms Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI Ultraleap Dedicated to transforming the way users interact with XR solutions and applications, Ultraleap has produced a powerful technology for the hand-tracking sector. So, which companies are paving the way for the next generation of tracking?

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

One of them was the Immersive Visualisation Room, which had a 5 x 5-metre space where users display 360 videos, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides. In 2023, Igloo Vision showcased its various immersive spaces.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

UltraLeap Tobii Manus Spectre XR Rokid Contact CI Emerge HTC VIVE OpenBCI UltraLeap Dedicated to transforming the way users share valuable data with XR solutions and applications, UltraLeap has produced a host of powerful technologies for the hand and eye tracking sector. Here are just some of the vendors worth watching.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 3, 2023

The product combines hand tracking with haptic feedback to give the user a more hands-on approach to interacting with the virtual environment around them. It’s compatible with HTC Vive headsets, as well as Steam VR hardware. Of course, when dealing with VR hardware, “cheaper” is certainly relative.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

According to Aptiv, even people who had never touched a virtual reality headset before were still able to take part in the training. HTC Vive and Penn State. The technology gives students an insight into the potential impact climate change can have on the world, by allowing them to explore environments affected by the climate.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. The Playful team brought Wonderland exclusively to the Upload Collective in San Francisco during VRDC this week for our hands-on visit to the world in four HTC Vives.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The world we visited is called Wonderland and it is a container for a variety of experiments in virtual reality software design from Texas-based Playful Corp. The Playful team brought Wonderland exclusively to the Upload Collective in San Francisco during VRDC this week for our hands-on visit to the world in four HTC Vives.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Digital twin technologies were rising as emerging trends, namely from major tech firms such as NVIDIA, Unity Technologies , and others. Peck later segued to updates with her company, EndeavorXR, explaining it had always worked with larger original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) such as HTC, Magic Leap, Meta Platforms, and others.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Extended reality and Metaverse firms lack standardised metrics for measuring human behaviour in virtual environments based on current legacy data analytics, a new report on Monday has found. What’s the Deal on Data?

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Peter Graham

JULY 15, 2019

The most popular tend to be videogame engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine which have been fine-tuned over many years. VSDK is a free, augmented/virtual reality software development kit that helps developers rapidly achieve results,” said Dr. Michael Jenkins, Senior Scientist at Charles River Analytics in a statement.

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Hypergrid Business

AUGUST 3, 2017

There was presence, and immersion, and the ability to create your own virtual environments. At that time, virtual worlds were the only visible path to an interconnected metaverse of virtual environments. This is obviously the big one for virtual worlds. Creativity. Discoverability.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The Five Boroughs of Igloo Vision According to Igloo Vision, its immersive spaces now include: Immersive visualisation room with floor projection : In a 5 x 5-metre space, Igloo Vision displayed 360 video, Insta360 live streams, Unity-based architectural models, Matterport-based photogrammetry models, and immersive presentations built on Slides.

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Upload VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The Unity renderer implementation of foveated rendering, on the other hand is much rougher, and in multiple Unity apps I saw very obvious and harsh artifacts, particularly on text. Given this only happens in Unity Full Space apps, I suspect this can be solved in future software. This is a watershed moment for VR-style headsets.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 10, 2023

SpectreXR is a startup that develops OctoXR, a sensor and tracking technology, which also operates as a Unity game engine plugin for creating realistic, physics-based hand interactions for immersive applications. Enterprise clients can also use Tobii products to improve focus and productivity.

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Peter Graham

JANUARY 28, 2020

The Unity booth showcased their educational content development – but also hoped to educate the educators towards what VR has to offer the future classroom, running on its booth an Oculus Rift S and Beat Saber. The company brought examples of the virtual lesson running on the HTC Vive Cosmos, and the standalone HTC Vive Focus Pro headsets.

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Hypergrid Business

JUNE 1, 2020

Another aspect of the tool is to allow the creation of custom experiences and adjusting of the virtual environment using a library of virtual objects and virtual locations — it comes with 1,200 3D objects by default, and also allows users to build and customize new objects and features. The Prospect v2.10

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HaptX

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Mixed reality (MR) filmmaking (not to be confused with mixed reality headsets) is a technique that super-imposes a real-world VR user into the virtual environment, creating an eye-catching blend of the physical and digital. LIV is a tool that merges game engine environments with green screen footage captured through a live camera.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

SpectreXR is a startup that develops OctoXR, a sensor and tracking technology, which also operates as a Unity game engine plugin for creating realistic, physics-based hand interactions for immersive applications. Enterprise clients can also use Tobii products to improve focus and productivity.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

HTC has actually released that for the Vive Focus Plus … Well, according to the god John Carmack , it is something about which the company has discussed a lot and has also experimented a lot. Later this year, we’ll expand our Vulkan support on Quest to include Unity and Vulkan validation layers for easier debugging.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Just just a quick overview.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The way that VR works, you can both be in the same virtual environment, working on the same virtual engine, and actually doing call-outs and instructing each other. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.". Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The way that VR works, you can both be in the same virtual environment, working on the same virtual engine, and actually doing call-outs and instructing each other. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.". Cameron: Absolutely.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 10, 2019

One of the things that blew me away was the photorealism that you guys have created of 3D models and virtual environments, of being in an airplane. There’s Unreal, and then there’s Unity. Unity, we find, is extremely effective for slightly more screen-based experiences. Just just a quick overview.

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XR for Business Podcast

AUGUST 5, 2019

The way that VR works, you can both be in the same virtual environment, working on the same virtual engine, and actually doing call-outs and instructing each other. They're hiring a Unity developer or a 3D modeller. I mean, I was making notes, here. Time is the ultimate measurement of ROI.". Cameron: Absolutely.

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