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NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Unity and Deckers. The company decided to leverage the services of RestAR and Unity to scan and render physical products in a digital environment. Using the RestAR and Unity landscape, Decker’s global sales representatives have been able to start presenting 3D samples to buyers in virtual showrooms.

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APRIL 16, 2022

I have just returned back home to Turin (Italy) after my trip to Laval and Paris, and as usual when I attend an event, here I am reporting to you the impressions of some of the hardware and software I have tried there. But no, the demo was not that fun, it was just a simple Unity scene.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Holo-Light has also just announced to have become the first AR/VR streaming provider to be named Unity Verified Solutions Partner. I wonder if I launched the same application from my city here in Italy, if I would have the same results. Hands-on XRnow. Even worse if I was not in a city but in the country side.

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JUNE 17, 2020

There are lots of tests that must be done on VRChat to see what is feasible because in VRChat you can develop using Unity, but you can’t write C# scripts and this kills completely lots of possibilities for us developers. So… it’s complicated, it’s stressful , but at the same time when you see what is being created, it is also very rewarding.

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JUNE 6, 2022

In the long and troublesome travel back to Italy from AWE, I’ve lost the last flight and so I’m currently here writing my newsletter from the lobby of the hotel where I spent the night :|. Hello all from L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, the small town of the Barcelona airport.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

I’m back to Italy after my trip to Helsinki! More info A Universal Unity VR injector may be in the works, or maybe not Raicuparta has just added an old simple Universal Unity VR Mod tool to its Rai Pal tool. If all the existing flatscreen Unity games could become VR-compatible, that would be huge.

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JULY 4, 2022

Inflation here in Italy is ramping up, and the impression I have is that we are entering into a recession phase. The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Image by Unity Technologies). And all these problems are also creating unfavorable economic conditions. Other relevant news. Image by Mojo Vision).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Tony Parisi from Unity was also there. That’s probably the most important feature of the event: people from all over the United States are coming, and also people from all parts of the world are coming (I just got here from Italy), and this is amazing if you want to enlarge your community. It was literally insane!

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since I have worked on some VR concerts myself (and one even got featured on the Unity blog), I thought my opinion could be valuable for someone… at least for the Stageverse developers that so have some feedback about what to improve. but I thought it could be interesting to write some short first impressions about it.

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AUGUST 15, 2021

August, 15th is a special day in Italy: it is called “Ferragosto”, and people go out with their friends and families and grill some BBQ in the parks, have picnics, or just chill together. Almost no one works, and people are focused on enjoying good food and good company.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And it is so satisfying using VR to promote art and culture , even more if it is about my lovely Italy. While you have no possibility of using C# in VRChat, you have still 100% of Unity power in the Editor. Unity editor scripts are very useful to produce some automation for you. Why VRChat? You are going to need automations.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

I’m currently in Beijing and today I’m taking the plane to get back to Italy. Here in Italy, I have no idea where to buy any smartglasses, but I’ve seen many shops selling Ray-Ban Meta. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry.

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JULY 4, 2024

I don’t think the game would have been the same if they just shipped two sticks in the hand with which you could hit some gray Unity cubes. Define well the scope of your work When I did “The Unity Cube” I committed to just making a cube. That was the beginning of its success. And it worked!

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AUGUST 15, 2022

As you’ve read in my other article written today , this is a special day for this blog… but it is also Monday, so I won’t skip writing a new amazing roundup of AR/VR news So, wishing you a happy Ferragosto (the name of today’s holiday in Italy), I leave you to the best XR news of the week! Top news of the week. Image by NVIDIA).

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APRIL 13, 2022

Regarding porting your content, as a developer, there is good news: Pico has recently become compatible with Unity.XR, so it’s much easier to port your content (if you are a Unity developer). For Laval Virtual, I was able to port our fitness game HitMotion: Reloaded from Quest 2 to Pico Neo 3 Link in a few hours!

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OCTOBER 1, 2024

It was also the week when I returned to Italy, and eating my mother’s pasta again made me excited, too. Experience with 3D content creation is a plus, and you’ll have the opportunity to learn and work with AR design. Senior Unity Developer Join our Unity team and be at the forefront of innovation in the global mobile-AR industry.

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MARCH 20, 2022

Today, while I’m packing my stuff up to go back to Italy, I want to tell you a few words about my experience there, and if I think it has been worth going. I was not so sure I wanted to go, because from Italy to Austin is a long trip, but I decided to try this new adventure… and well, I’m more than happy of having done that.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

Anyway, in these two weeks, even with some difficulties, I’ve managed to work quite at the same pace that I had in Italy , and we are going full speed ahead in improving the platform (some news about it is coming very soon…). While still in Italy, I verified that Microsoft Teams, Unity, and Github were accessible from China.

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APRIL 10, 2022

As a Unity developer, I am a bit envious of all of this. I am in the team organizing On|Metaverse Summit 2022, the first international B2B summit on metaverse and virtual transformation in Italy. The CEO of Sketchfab has tried it and said that it works quite well. News from partners (and friends). Join the On|Metaverse summit.

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OCTOBER 26, 2020

Coronavirus is back in Italy and from yesterday we’re having new restrictions like a night curfew, some kind of shops closed, etc… I hope that you and the people you love are safe. Simple WebXR” aims at bringing WebXR to Unity. It looks very interesting, and as a Unity developer, I want to experiment with it.

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APRIL 27, 2020

Another busy week has passed by, and here in Italy we just got the news that lockdown measures will start to loosen from next week, but the road to go out as we wish is still long. 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).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I am back in Italy! Mark Zuckerberg, but also Unity CEO John Riccitiello) that should mark the beginning of the serious adoption of new technology. This was pretty weird to me because I never saw a single one of them in Italy. Their curriculums and programs have also been accepted and implemented by Unity Technologies.

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MARCH 21, 2021

When a journalist of IGN Italy was trying to install the new Xbox Wireless Headset on the platform, he was greeted with an Italian message saying “The VR goggle must be updated”. Learn more (XR Collaboration) Learn more (Unity College). (Image by Microsoft). Xbox VR support has been leaked, or maybe not. Some XR fun.

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JULY 19, 2021

It’s a nice summer day here in Italy, and I hope things for all of you are going well. This is confirmed also by a previous prediction by the CEO of Unity, which foresees that in 2030 VR headsets will be as popular as gaming console: that is mainstream, but still not as TV, for instance. Top news of the week.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

Im back in Italy after my very positive experience at CES! I still cant believe that Ive been to this huge event I came back home that everything in my body was hurting, but I was happy nonetheless. Its been great going there from all points of view: as a blogger, enthusiast, and entrepreneur all sides of me are happy.

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JUNE 1, 2020

Developers can develop AR experiences with Zappar using the tool they like the most : Unity, native Javascript, A-frame, C++. Unity launches MARS tools. After many months of teasing them, Unity has finally launched the MARS tools, a suite of tools to build easily Augmented Reality experiences in Unity without knowing how to code.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

I remember one day at Immersive Architecture with Enea Le Fons in 2018 when we played around with the Focus, and then at a certain point, he was walking with us in the central plaza of Venice (Italy) with the headset on. Everyone was looking at him like a weird guy, it was very funny.

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AUGUST 10, 2020

My team is looking for freelancers for developing an XR experience : we’re looking for 2D artists, 3D artists, Unity developers, sound designers, and UX designers. These people must preferably stay in Italy, but we are also open to remote collaborations. Register now. Propose yourself.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

I think I’ll miss the joys of summer (and all the trophies that Italy has won), but at least I’ll be able to enjoy again some delicious hot chocolate Before leaving you to the news of the week, I’m happy to announce to you that I’ve been selected as a speaker for AWE US 2021 ! This one is the last AR/VR news roundup for this summer!

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Im back in Italy, tired but happy. I hope you had a good Valentines Day with your special ones and that in general, you are happy, too. Do you want to know one of the reasons for my happiness? Now the same company is launching Wonderland Cloud, a hosting service dedicated to WebXR applications.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

After a few days where we thought we were all living in a big oven, here in Italy we’re having the first taste of Autumn, with the temperatures going down and a lot of rain falling from the sky. That’s fantastic news for all Unity XR developers! in the reviews!

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

The Unity Beta to develop for the Vision Pro is still not available, so many devs like me can’t even play with the emulator. If you add VAT, in Italy it will cost €600. The rumors from Mark Gurman talk about a new cheaper version, which can have a more mass market appeal, forecasted for 2025-2026.

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JUNE 5, 2023

It will have tools for building for it, and aside from the usual Apple tools, developers can use Unity to create content for it. Remember that in the US, salaries are much higher than in other parts of the world, so if in San Francisco $3499 may be worth “just” the rent of a month, in Italy, it is 2.5

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AUGUST 24, 2020

There is a lot at stakes, because if these two companies won’t settle (and I think that they are just firing big shots before finding an agreement), Unreal Engine developers won’t be able to develop properly for Apple XR devices, and they will have all to migrate to Unity. China is launching real name identification in games. Some XR fun.

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MARCH 22, 2022

I’m back in Italy, but I have left a piece of my heart in Austin, where I had an unforgettable experience both on the personal and professional side at SXSW (you can read more about my experience here ). XR Bootcamp has created an interesting table with the comparison of all the most popular interaction SDKs for VR in Unity.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

From time to time, I like to look at the adoption graph of XR shown by John Riccitiello (the CEO of Unity) in 2017 , where you can see that the real acceleration of immersive technologies should start around 2022-2023. 2021 will be the year that in Italy we’ll have the first most serious rollout of 5G in the biggest cities.

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JUNE 4, 2023

This is great news because MRTK 3 introduces better compatibility with Unity standard tools than its previous version. I’m just wondering how Microsoft is still supporting the project and if there will be a MRTK 4. I will leave you the link to donate for these two causes below. appeared first on The Ghost Howls.

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