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Unity Promises Day-one Support for Android XR, Including Easy Ports for Existing Quest Content

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Meta Quest developers looking to port their Unity-based apps to Google’s newly unveiled Android XR operating system shouldn’t have a tough time of it, Unity says, as the game engine creator today released all of the tools devs need to get cracking. “This is as simple a port as youre ever going to encounter.

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Rec Room’s New Unity-powered Creation Suite Brings Industry Standard Tools to Social VR Platform

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Social VR platform Rec Room announced it’s released a new creation suite that allows you to publish content directly to the Rec Room platform from inside Unity, essentially letting its users create content using a host of industry standard tools. Unity Terrain Editor. Unity ProBuilder. Complex Animations.

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Unity and Volvo Open Source Digital Models of Car Designs

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Unity has long been in the frontline of companies leading the democratization of 3D assets and tools, including for XR applications. The automotive industry has been less involved in this charge. However, when Volvo wanted to make their 3D models and emulators more accessible, they reached out to Unity to help them do it.

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ArcGIS Maps for Unity: Unlocking New Capabilities for Immersive Experiences in Various Industries

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With real-time geospatial data, photorealistic immersive experiences can now be accessed and applied in a wide range of industries. This is what the collaboration between Esri and Unity brings to the world. The launch of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0 The launch of ArcGIS Maps SDK for Unity version 1.0

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China’s Largest Telecom Forms Metaverse Industry Alliance, Including Xiaomi, Huawei, HTC & Unity

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China Mobile, that country’s largest wireless carier with over 940 million subscribers, has formed a metaverse industry alliance including some of the biggest names in China-based tech.

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Unity ‘Accelerating efforts’ on OpenXR Support, Preview Expected by End of Year

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Unity has long been a public supporter of OpenXR—an industry standard designed to streamline VR development by making it easier for apps to support a wide range of headsets—but the company has yet to deploy support for the standard. Technical Product Manager of AR/VR at Unity. We’re at an inflection point now, where OpenXR 1.0

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Half-Life: Alyx First Scene Ported To Quest 3 Standalone Via Unity

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A developer ported the first scene of Half-Life: Alyx to Unity to experience it running standalone on Quest 3. But a long-standing unanswered question looms in the VR industry: when will it be able to run on standalone headsets, without a PC? Valve's award-winning AAA VR game is currently for Windows PC VR only.

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