ARPost

MARCH 23, 2023

The South by Southwest® (SXSW®) Conference and Festivals has once again taken the world by storm, delivering a jam-packed 10-day event featuring a variety of activities for audiences to explore. Attendees from around the globe also got the chance to immerse themselves for a couple of days in the fantastical world of the SXSW XR Experience.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The German federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen recently partnered with the Nordmedia funding agency to debut a chilling immersive experience for history learners. XR and Immersive Documentaries.

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ARPost

JULY 13, 2022

Inworld AI is a company building a tool to create brains that experience creators can put into virtual bodies to populate the metaverse – whether that’s games, simulations for enterprise and education, embodied chatbots in immersive retail environments, or whatever else you can think of. A Colorful Background.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

See Also: Redefining the Future of Location-Based Entertainment With HTC VIVE Focus 3 and The Park Playground “Virtual reality is often perceived as being limited to the world of gaming. That’s because VR is capable of creating such immersive, interactive, and social experiences.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

German extended reality (XR) firm has recently released a virtual reality (VR) film with tools from an industry-leading gaming engine. The German federal states of Lower Saxony and Bremen recently partnered with the Nordmedia funding agency to debut a chilling immersive experience for history learners. XR and Immersive Documentaries.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Multi-res Shading, which has already featured in custom branches of Unreal Engine, deals with the barrel distortion required for rendering optically-correct images to a VR headset, rendering multiple viewports across a single render target, using a hardware feature called ‘multi-projection’.

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VRScout

AUGUST 5, 2017

Otherwise the rest of the scenery is rendered digitally using Unreal Engine 4 in post. Participants competing will not be wearing any form of a virtual reality headset, which means only spectators will have a chance to view the full mixed reality experience.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Virtual reality is quickly becoming a mainstream technology, not just for consumers, but for businesses investing in new strategies for immersive collaboration , too. However, for virtual reality to truly thrive as part of the everyday tech stack, we need more than just ergonomic, high-performance headsets.

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AR Insider

MAY 24, 2021

On the more comical side of the news, Unreal is suing Chinese smartglasses maker Nreal because the brand names are too similar and will cause confusion. Soon, you will be able to superimpose your real self into a virtual world through Oculus casting. We were not confused.

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VRScout

AUGUST 29, 2021

HeadOffice.Space announced their premier space for connection, it’s the world’s first metaverse on the moon designed for the ever-changing way remote teams work, play, learn, and explore together. I had the opportunity to check out HeadOffice.Space with a number of people from around the world. Image Credit: HeadOffice.Space.

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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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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Explaining the incredible immersion that a solid virtual reality experience provides is difficult to put into words, but showing someone playing or allowing a person to play themselves is the quickest path to amazement. MR is becoming a crucial element for those wanting to share their adventures in VR.

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ARPost

JULY 26, 2023

TAITO and Google partnered with global production and innovation studio UNIT9 to transform Space Invaders into an immersive AR game in honor of its 45th anniversary. Players can defend their real-world neighborhoods from 3D invaders emerging from nearby buildings and landmarks.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The production was quite a spectacle, boasting a virtual lighting system that could rival the complexity of top EDM stages from real events such as Insomniac Events’ Electric Daisy Carnival. SEE ALSO On Rift Launch Day, A Vast Battle Involving Thousands of Players Unfolded in a Complex Virtual World. You can watch it below.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 4, 2023

This Monday, Luma AI debuted a plugin for NVIDIA NeRF, a volumetric capture and immersive content creation suite which enables developers to run their designs on Unreal Engine 5 as a real-time render. The update allows Unreal developers to run Luma AI volumetric renderings locally.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JUNE 6, 2017

Sweeney, whose company makes the Unreal Engine toolset used in creating some of the biggest budget 3D projects, outlined in a blog post this week why he saw this as a huge moment for immersive computing: Apple’s debut of VR support for Mac and AR support for iOS are true game-changers.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

And why should a creator use STYLY and not a social VR world with building tools like Horizon Worlds or VRChat? STYLY is not intended to act as a virtual world. This world is called “Immersive Photo Exhibition ‘The Beautiful Girl Has Killing Eyes'” (Image from Styly). STYLY is free!

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

The Future Group has raised $20 million for its technology that blends real-world video with virtual worlds to immerse people inside what feels like an interactive game show. In the picture above, you can see how real people can be inserted into a virtual world. Image Credit: The Future Group.

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ARVR

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Zoom calls, as opposed to actual immersive virtual environments with three Dimensional elements and interactive engagement. AR augments the real world in front of you whereas VR creates completely immersive virtual environments. AR is 25% virtual and 75% real while VR is 75% virtual and 25% real.

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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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VRScout

JULY 24, 2018

The character was the your head, while your actual body was in the virtual world, immersing you in Turtles’ iconic New York City world. A combination of software was used to execute the endeavor, including Adobe Character Animator, Unreal Engine, and NewTeK NDI. The creation of this experience took six months.

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VRScout

MARCH 10, 2018

We are excited that IMAX VR players will get exclusive access to this exciting, fun and family-friendly virtual world.”. SlimeZone was built using Epic’s Unreal Engine and Nvidia FleX particle system for slime simulation. For pricing, availability and show times, you can check out IMAXVR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 9, 2022

Artificial Intelligence : David stressed many times during the call about the importance of AI with immersive realities. We need digital assistants in our immersive reality; we need intelligent interfaces that understand our intentions and let us do what we want to do by providing minimal input in a natural way (e.g.

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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. He was obsessed with Virtual Reality. It’s the same crew that can do both.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 17, 2023

Roblox has 66M users , and the fact that some of them may buy a VR headset to try their worlds in an immersive way can only be positive for the sales of Quest and VR in general. Government: supporting societal progress and virtual public services to leverage the opportunities virtual worlds can offer. Kudos to him.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 22, 2023

Virtual Production (VP) technologies are a rising solution for film production professionals. The technology field leverages immersive hardware and software stacks, enabling on-set professionals to project realistic virtual environments as backdrops with immersive visualizations viewable by a human’s and a camera’s eye.

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Road to VR

JUNE 18, 2020

While the Smash Bros-esque game is the fundamental core of [Bebylon], we always envisioned a world that you could immerse yourself in. In early 2018, the studio received $200,000 as part of Epic Game’s Unreal Dev Grant program. In 2016, Kite & Lightning announced that it had raised $2.5 who love trolling each other.”.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Rich interactions between the user and the virtual world are a key aspect of what makes VR so compelling, but creating and tuning such interactions is a challenging and time consuming task for developers. We hope to soon port it to other platforms as well (Unreal, Web…?). Guest Article by Enrique Tromp.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Swedish immersive firm Hiber announced on Wednesday it had launched its collaborative integration with avatar platform Ready Player Me. Ready Player Me’s highly-bespoke, Unity and Unreal Engine-compatible avatars facilitate rapid creations with a large catalogue of customisation options and features. Changes and Upgrades.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

German automaker BMW revealed its M Mixed Reality (MR) platform for developing real-time immersive driving experiences. The new technology converts the entire M2 vehicle as a controller for the MR system, using cutting-edge immersive solutions from Helsinki’s Varjo Technologies to merge the real and virtual worlds.

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Upload VR

JANUARY 20, 2024

Built using Unreal Engine 5 with its dynamic global illumination and reflections system, Lumen , Soundscape promises exclusive artist performances from Deadmau5, Evanescence, Slash, and more. Soundscape, described as a "musical metaverse experience," reaches PC VR next week.

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TechCrunch VR

AUGUST 10, 2023

What would happen if this thinking were applied to metaverse-style virtual worlds? ” Indeed, Immersed, for instance, recently launched its first headset, the Visor XR, and it’s winning plaudits so far. My dream is to push the boundaries of the virtual experiences that we all engage in. What would be built?

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

I watched the Game Developers Conference presentations from Nvidia , Unreal Engine , and Unity. Image courtesy Unreal Engine.) And it’s not just Unreal and Unity. With the basic Unreal and Unity plans available for free, is it even worth it for developers to try to add these AI features to OpenSim?

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Hypergrid Business

MARCH 14, 2021

Story telling is increasingly blurring the line between the physical and virtual worlds, according to presenters at the just-concluded this year’s Technology + Storytelling: Engaging The Immersive Future event organized by NYC Media Lab. ” Evolution of the avatar will influence immersion.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 13, 2024

Spin Rhythm XD , the kinetic rhythm-action game mixing Bop It and Guitar hero, is coming to PSVR 2 on July, 9th Marvel Studios and ILM Immersive announced a new interactive story coming exclusively to Apple Vision Pro based on the popular Disney+ animated series What If…? Go to SideQuest Sponsored Area Do you need a virtual world?

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ARPost

JUNE 1, 2020

The Unreal Engine General Manager Marc Petit announced new tools on the Epic Online Services platform to help developers create scaling multiplayer experiences. The Nextant Awards are separate from the Auggies and are presented by the Virtual World Society at AWE. Announcements. Best Input & Output Hardware. Nextant Awards.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

When I was a kid, I wanted to build a holodeck — the immersive 3D simulation system from Star Trek, so I started making games, beginning with online multiplayer games for bulletin board systems. An example of this is how it can be used to dream of virtual machines and text adventure games. Image from Unreal Engine 5.1

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