Peter Graham

JULY 30, 2019

While you may not really pay attention (or care) about some of the logos at the start of titles, one that crops up quite a lot is Unity. Today, Unity Technologies has announced the launch of Unity 2019.2 , with the latest iteration including a few tasty features for immersive content developers.

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EON Reality

JULY 17, 2024

Unity Unity is one of the most popular platforms for AR development. Known for its versatility and user-friendly interface, Unity is widely used for creating both AR and VR experiences. Use Case: Unity is ideal for developers who want to create complex and interactive AR applications.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 9, 2023

For entrants to the immersive sector, the company can guide potential clients to set up their own fully-functional studios or convert existing ones. From countdown to liftoff, industry pioneers will soon leverage the fully comprehensive set of tools providing all aspects of volumetric video-capturing processes.

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TechCrunch VR

JANUARY 25, 2022

The latest funding will be used to intensify R&D for AXIS , a wearable and game-oriented full-body motion capture solution. Refract will continue delivering immersive and engaging XR and VR experiences to a growing market of 2.9 Make Hollywood-quality animations at low-budget prices with this motion capture suit.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

VR gloves are a wearable XR accessory designed to enhance immersion with spatial computing capabilities and sensory feedback. In the corporate landscape, haptic gloves can offer a more immersive experience to users working on prototypes for new products in the virtual world. What are VR Gloves and How Do They Work?

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Currently ongoing, the iconic brand has launched The Verse — the company’s first virtual reality (VR) immersive experience — under its Art, Beats + Lyrics programme. The cutting-edge immersive experience will celebrate the heritage of Black and diverse artists, creators, and musicians using a host of emerging technologies.

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Road to VR

JUNE 3, 2019

With ARKit 3, the system now supports motion capture and occlusion of people. When waving, the avatar can be seen to tip forward in response to the motion even though the user doesn’t. Motion capture. Human Occlusion & Body Tracking. Faster reference image loading. Auto-detect image size.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 22, 2024

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user.

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VRScout

APRIL 13, 2018

Part industry event and part immersive tech festival, VRLA is a place where seasoned veterans can catch up on their latest updates while newcomers experience VR for the first time. For zen and psychedelic experiences, attendees won’t want to miss the Visual Reality Zone, featuring mind-bending immersive digital art installations.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

HTC VIVE’s Ultimate Trackers will offer next-generational motion-capturing (mocap) technologies for avatars and real-time 3D (RT3D) content development. ” Furthermore, JJFX, Founder, International Dance Association , commented on the XR motion-capturing solution.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 8, 2023

Creating the most immersive XR experiences requires more than just the best visuals or spatial audio technologies. Eye and hand tracking technologies embedded into wearable devices, or delivered through external sensors, provide the feedback that applications need to optimize the immersive experience for each user.

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Peter Graham

MARCH 24, 2020

Ever since virtual reality (VR) remerged as a viable consumer product the quest has been to make the technology as immersive and interactive as possible. That’s lead to motion controllers, eye tracking and hand tracking but full-body tracking has stopped and started due to the complexities of this process.

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ARVR

JULY 19, 2021

It can be easily explained by data from a case study made by Innoactive , Unity , and Volkswagen. The scaling process can be divided into “boxes,” from creation to deployment, between Unity , Interhaptics , and Innoactive. They created an immersive and accurate experience. It was also very highly recommended by the users.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 5, 2023

Oorbit, a metaverse tech company, will leverage LG’s televisions for gaming and immersive experiences. Microsoft explained at the Immerse Global Summit’s Metaverse 2.0 Additional firms such as Unity Technologies , Epic Games, NVIDIA, Sony , and Improbable have launched respective initiatives to develop serious gaming tools.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 23, 2021

What I’ve not enjoyed is that SideQuest has removed The Unity Cube from its listing, stating that there were too many cubes there. A new interesting project has been published on Kickstarter: it is called Axis, and it is a system of sensors that you install on your body to have full-body tracking for gaming and motion capture.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Participating companies include Meta, Siemens, Audi, ESA, Snap, Niantic, Unity, and Pico. This growth will be facilitated by the increasing availability of these immersive technologies on different end devices, particularly smartphones.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

In its upcoming 5-year development plan, there should be measures to favor the growth and the spread of Immersive Realities. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. On GitHub has appeared a new project called “Simple WebXR” aimed at letting you develop WebXR experiences inside Unity. Learn more.

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Road to VR

APRIL 26, 2018

The Biggest Immersive Tech Event of the Year Returns May 4-5, Exploring “A New Reality.”. Los Angeles, CA (April 12, 2018) – Experience next generation immersive technologies and explore “A New Reality” at VRLA, the leading virtual and augmented reality expo, May 4-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

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ARVR

JUNE 17, 2021

Software development engines like Unity and Unreal are becoming more elaborate , there are myriads of SDK libraries, countless knowledge exchange communities and free-for-use collaboration tools. These insights can help achieve VR experiences with life-like levels of immersion and realism. And here is why. Trending AR VR Articles: 1.

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ARVR

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

This follows investments in mobile hardware capability, interest in immersive virtual experiences with the metaverse, and rising industry competition. Although mobile AR may not be the most powerful or immersive, it certainly has the potential to be very profitable and is one of the most important augmented reality trends to keep track of.

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ARPost

JUNE 3, 2022

The glove is capable of intricate motion capture, including for use in XR applications. Demos on the AWE floor included more intimate recordings and video calls with loved ones, as well as a game built for 2D but ported in through a Unity SDK. “When is this mixed reality future going to happen? StretchSense. But, it has powers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 3, 2023

As the gaming industry eclipses the movie and filmmaking sector, gaming firms are leveraging their technologies to create next-level immersive experiences. Commonly used for creating real-time 3D (RT3D) content, motion capturing (mocap) has rapidly become a mainstay in the extended reality (XR) market, employed on the latest headsets.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The immersive story is different for everyone, and was built with Wevr’s VR character AI framework. To announce this European premiere, Björk held a press conference and beamed herself in (from Iceland) via a psychedelic motion-captured avatar churning with colors (because why not?). Bitmovin announced a $10.3M

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Imagine playing an immersive role playing game where you need to emotionally engage with a character to progress. What is important is that companies such as Emteq are able to garner enough support from developers and produce the required plugins for game engines such as Unity and Unreal to unlock its true potential.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 31, 2018

I’ve had the opportunity to interview him together with two other journalists and during the interview we have been able to span different topics, from cinema to the MagicVerse, not to mention mixed reality storytelling and immersive cinema. Experiments on immersing people inside the scenes of movies.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Today’s companies now build immersive tech solutions at scale to facilitate the future of XR socialising. Busch Gardens Virginia , one of the United States’ top theme parks, created an immersive roller coaster ‘The Battle for Eire’ featuring emerald mask VR headsets from the Taiwanese tech giant. Walt Disney.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 5, 2021

Flipside Studio XR now features motion capture export , letting you record the animations to move CGI characters just by using your XR rig, exporting them and then using them wherever you want, like to move your game characters in Unity. News from partners (and friends). Learn more. Learn more.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. So that's the reason why they asked, "OK, we need that next level of immersion. So it's rather like immersion, but we have versus realism that HaptX has as a vision. That's so different.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. So that's the reason why they asked, "OK, we need that next level of immersion. So it's rather like immersion, but we have versus realism that HaptX has as a vision. That's so different.

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XR for Business Podcast

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The ability to bring the sense of touch into the virtual is the final frontier of true immersion, and some of that technology already exists. So that's the reason why they asked, "OK, we need that next level of immersion. So it's rather like immersion, but we have versus realism that HaptX has as a vision. That's so different.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 15, 2024

HDR video and EXIF tags for every ARKit frame 4K video streaming Depth APIs for realistic real-world blending Scene geometry for topological mapping A LiDAR scanner for plane detection People occlusion Motion capture with a single camera Apple’s ARKit is free to use if you just experiment with the features.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 3, 2023

Its Flipside Studio solution will empower content creators to create engaging videos via real-time motion capture (mocap) and production tools. Its Modifier immersive production tool massively cuts production times for creatives by 60 percent, the company said.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 26, 2018

The SDK offers native APIs, but also supports popular game engines like Unity and Unreal 4. We’re delighted to be able to share that we’re teamed up with @magicleap as an early access dev partner to explore spatial computing on the immersive web! — Mozilla MR (@mozillareality) March 19, 2018.

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VRScout

JANUARY 2, 2021

Jean-Michel Jarre getting suited up for motion capture for the concert on Dec 22nd. // Image Credit: @louisadrienleblay. Vitillo is renowned for his honesty and fearlessness in talking about the positive and negative aspects of immersive technology. Everything is a big compromise,” he says.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MAY 31, 2023

Immersive and 360 filmmaking have gained popularity as musicians and artists turn to extended reality (XR) to engage with audiences. Avenged Sevenfold, one of the most outstanding heavy metal groups to date, has begun its Web3 journey with a new metaverse platform and music video featuring 360-degree immersive content.

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Leapmotion

MARCH 6, 2015

My current goal is to create an immersive fishing simulator, for when uni gets a bit too stressful! I’m currently doing my honours, researching the feasibility of VR and haptics for midwifery training, using Deakin’s upcoming Virtual Reality Lab. Do you have any UX or design tips for developers looking to create similar experiences?

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ARPost

JUNE 27, 2019

See Also: Bastille Take Their Fans to 3D Immersive Experience in DoomDays.House. This method is similar to the motion capture technology that has been used to create realistic computer generated video for years. However, the company is partnered with household names like nvidia, Unity, Unreal Engine, and HTC.

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