Road to VR

JULY 28, 2021

Oculus is making hard shift away from its proprietary developer APIs in favor of OpenXR, an industry-backed project that aims to standardize the development of VR and AR applications. ” Oculus announced this month that it plans to begin deprecating the existing Oculus Mobile and Oculus PC SDK in favor of OpenXR. .”

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Emerging Trends in the VR Gaming Industry — 2023 Technology is evolving at a fast pace. 2023 is currently shaping up to be the year of promise for the VR gaming industry. Let’s take a quick trip to learn about the impending trends in the VR gaming industry. Imagine if we could pick the visions and ideas and make them come true.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Learn the ins-and-outs of Unity development and have your project reviewed by Oculus experts. From the initial prototyping stages to testing and final submissions, students will be guided through every stage of VR development for Oculus Rift/Rift S and Oculus Quest headsets on the Unity platform.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 20, 2021

The change comes just in time for Oculus developers, as the company recently announced it’s fully moving open to the OpenXR standard for VR development going forward. That will be a bigger deal once it finally happens because Unity is far and away more used than Unreal Engine when it comes to building XR content. Unreal Engine 4.27

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

At VRLA 2017, Unity CEO and games industry vet John Riccitiello dumped a little cold water wisdom on the hype surrounding the red-hot VR industry. John Riccitiello is the CEO of Unity Technologies , one of the world’s leading game engines. billion in 2016 alone. Photo courtesy VRLA.

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 8, 2016

Oculus covered a lot of ground during their opening keynote at Oculus Connect 3 this week; among many exciting announcements, one of interest for Unreal Engine developers might be how Oculus says that they’ll cover the royalty fees for any Unreal Engine applications on their store, up to the first $5 million in gross revenue.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 23, 2018

As a little-known initiative, Oculus is actively funneling in talent with the promise of training, tools and other resources that developers — new and old — can use to build projects for the Oculus platform as well as for the greater VR ecosystem. Receiving funding was not only a blessing, but an incredible learning experience for me.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Following a prominent lawsuit between ZeniMax and Facebook/Oculus which resulted in a $500 million award to ZeniMax , the company is now seeking an injunction to prevent Oculus from continuing to use code that was found by the jury to infringe upon ZeniMax’s copyright.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 1, 2020

In the interview with me, he talked about many topics, like the rumors he heard on Apple Glasses, on the Oculus Quest 2 , the America vs China war, XR entrepreneurship, Tesla, and more! But of course, the technology is still not there: the Oculus Quest is still uncomfortable, we can’t read texts in it, and so on.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 24, 2017

Unity Technologies’ Unity Engine is playing an increasingly important role in the VR industry, and new funds announced today should help it grow further still. Unity Technologies is getting $400 million from private equity firm Silver Lake. That is if regulators approve the deal, taking its valuation to $2.6

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Road to VR

AUGUST 24, 2023

MRTK was a Microsoft-driven project that provided a set of components and features used to accelerate cross-platform XR app development in the Unity game engine. The developing team behind MRTK was unfortunately disbanded, as Microsoft cut both MRTK and the AltspaceVR teams earlier this year in a wide-reaching round of layoffs.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In the first instance, a creator familiar with Unity and 3D modelling softwares can create an XR scene and then upload to STYLY through our Unity Plugin , where a multiformat version of the scene will automatically be created and hosted, allowing anyone to view the scene using a VR HMD, AR smartphone or even WebXR through their browser.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Since the launch of Oculus Rift CV1 in 2016, self-contained VR apps have been the lifeblood of Meta’s VR platforms, and the primary driver of a growing audience of users over the years. It’s closer to the workflow of existing self-contained VR app developers, who generally build their apps using a game engine like Unity.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 6, 2017

Oculus is calling its latest rendering tech ‘Stereo Shading Reprojection’, and says that for scenes which are heavy in pixel shading, the approach can save upwards of 20% on GPU performance. ” The VR industry has a vested interest in finding ways to make VR rendering more efficient. Image courtesy Oculus.

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VRScout

APRIL 14, 2020

Thanks to the rigorous submission processes used by major platforms, however, many independent XR content developers are finding it difficult to publish their experiences in marketplaces such as the Oculus or Apple App Stores. It would help the AR/VR industry prosper, which would come from supporting developers where they need it most.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Last Oculus Quest update shows hints of an Oculus MR ecosystem. Facebook is continuously updating the Oculus Quest , its most successful device, and this week it has rolled out the runtime v16. I think that this update, together with the last ones, marks the beginning of a mixed reality ecosystem that is being built by Oculus.

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Road to VR

JULY 29, 2019

The standard has been in development since April 2017 and is presently supported by virtually every major hardware, platform, and engine company in the VR industry, including key AR players like Magic Leap. Oculus has committed to bringing OpenXR runtime support to both Rift and Quest later this year. The post OpenXR 1.0

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VRScout

JUNE 9, 2020

The VR Awards has been recognizing and celebrating outstanding achievements in the VR industry since 2017. Companies such as Fable , HTC, and Oculus have each walked away as winners for their groundbreaking hardware, alongside genre-defying titles such as War Remains , Tilt Brush and ImmersiCare. price tag and easy accessibility.

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VRScout

JUNE 5, 2017

” SteamVR will also be joined on Mac systems by the Unreal and Unity video game engines, all tying directly into today’s newly announced Metal 2 video-processing API. Also continuing the theme of VR support for Mac, Industrial Light and Magic staffers demonstrated the first-ever native HTC Vive demo on a Mac system.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MAY 1, 2017

Unity CEO John Riccitiello has been following both virtual and augmented realities for a long time and, like the rest of us, he’s waiting for it to go mainstream. Today at Unity’s Vision Summit, he outlined how and when he thinks it will get there. Price point, for example, is the most glaringly obvious factor.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 30, 2020

Software includes apps for things like industrial design and training. This category is best exemplified by its market-sare leader, Unity. Oculus pricing ) will lower enterprise VR adoption barriers. Training will be a key use case in retail and industrial segments and is already gaining meaningful traction.

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Road to VR

MAY 7, 2020

An upcoming online workshop by XR development educator Circuit Stream will teach developers the basics of building applications for Oculus Quest. But if you’re not ready to jump in that deep, Circuit Stream is holding a one-day ‘ Intro to Oculus Quest Development ‘ live workshop online next week on Saturday, May 16th.

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ARPost

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A new XR studio system is aiming to revolutionize the entertainment industry. This studio system contains the latest interactive production tools, such as Oculus, Manus, Vive , Faceware, Varjo , and Xsens motion capture. Virtually all industries have been thrust into an accelerated pace of change in the past couple of years.

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VRScout

MAY 7, 2020

VR has come a long way over since launch of the Oculus DK1. Yet, at the same time, we still find ourselves dealing with many of the issues we struggled with since the birth of the modern VR industry. Stretch goals would introduce native Oculus Quest and PlayStation VR support.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

In a video posted by CBS Los Angeles , we see Rams COO Kevin Demoff guiding a reporter through the VR tour of the jaw dropping venue using an Oculus Rift headset with Touch controllers (photos also show an HTC Vive being used).

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Road to VR

JUNE 12, 2020

Valve just took a big step in prepping Steam game developers for the full arrival of OpenXR, the new industry-wide open standard for AR and VR headsets. With today’s news we’re hoping Oculus Store game developers will be getting that prototype sooner rather than later. version of OpenXR.

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AR Insider

JANUARY 7, 2020

After passing through the boom and bust cycle of 2016 and 2017, the last two years were more about measured optimism in the face of the sobering realities of industry shakeout and retraction. And Oculus Quest is a beacon of hope on the VR side. Industrial AR’s Inflection is Still One Year Away.

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VRScout

JULY 8, 2021

These virtual offerings are split into three categories: the VeeR VR Cinema, the Unity for Garden Showcase, and the Cannes XR Developer Showcase. This includes SteamVR headsets such as the HTC Vive and Valve Index as well as the Oculus Rift. Image Credit: VRScout. But how to access these wonderful creations, you may be asking.

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VRScout

JUNE 30, 2019

The company wants applicants to have experience in game development, particularly in Unity. Despite language that appears directed at beginners (specifically where it comes to “learning core concepts”), it seems like the course is primarily aiming to cross-train Unity developers in Unreal Engine 4. Image Credit: VR First / Axon Park.

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VRScout

MAY 17, 2021

COVID-19 took its toll on the live concert industry with up to $9 Billion being lost in the U.S. During a conversation, he casually mentions to me how he hosted a rap battle event in VR and got paid for it,” Fokis adds, “He mentioned the Oculus Quest 2 and I literally ordered it on the spot from my phone. Image Credit: HipHoppinVR.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I’ve traveled the world through VR film, exercised and had fun with VR games, and networked and done business through industry events held in VR,” Mitchell continues, “Moving forward we will see the continued growth of social VR for business, and every time an outbreak like the coronavirus happens, we will see that growth spike.”.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 3, 2017

Recently Oculus announced via their blog that they’ve added native MR support to their flagship PC VR headset, the Oculus Rift. There are a couple things the Oculus team recommends you keep in mind if you want to take advantage: You’ll need a way to mount the Touch controller for dynamic camera tracking.

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Road to VR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

the widely backed industry standard which aims to make cross-platform VR development easier by allowing developers to build around a single API rather than porting their apps to many different APIs for different headsets. The latest update to SteamVR, version 1.16, now includes full support for OpenXR 1.0, Image courtesy Khronos Group.

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ARPost

JUNE 18, 2021

Immersive experiences are in greater demand in all fields: for home entertainment, for training in various industries, and for retail and marketing. An Epic Games MegaGrant Brought VIRTUOSO SDK to the Unity World. The VIRTUOSO SDK for XR development is available as a full open-source release for the Unity game engine on Github.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Speaking on the Unity integrations, Ivan Rajkovic, CEO of SpectreXR, noted: We’re excited to expand hand-tracking support for OctoXR and enable even more Unity developers to create immersive and engaging interactive VR/AR experiences. Unity itself is a highly accessible graphics engine ready for a range of developers.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Extended Reality has taken the world by storm, influencing workflows throughout virtually every industry. The company offers access to one of the most affordable and flexible VR headsets on the market in the form of the Oculus Quest, allowing all businesses, large or small to explore virtual reality.

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Road to VR

JUNE 27, 2019

Plenty of high-profile industry pros will also be available too as mentors. I want to share my experience with the community to make it easier for newcomers to break into the VR industry. Target Student Demographic : Expert-level Unity (or other game engine) developers who want to master Unreal Engine 4 for VR. Tuition : $2,495.

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