XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The enterprise-grade immersive software-as-a-service (SaaS) now supports RT3D design projects from Unity and Unreal Engine 5 (UE5). The platform now supports design projects running on Unity and UE5, streaming VR/XR content at human eye resolution. The Unity and UE5 RT3D engines power several enterprise-grade services.

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Road to VR

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A developer building for Vision Pro using Unity posted a video which gives a clear look at both hand-tracking and occlusion. Other Unity developers agreed that they were seeing similar latency on their own Vision Pro devices.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Tracking & latency. Tracking and latency are probably the Achille’s heel of this solution. Part of this problem is due to the Vive Focus Plus, that has not a perfect positional tracking, and here it is made even worse by the added latency of the streaming. This latency is little, but noticeable.

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ARPost

MARCH 27, 2023

The new NVIDIA CloudXR also makes it possible for developers to create custom user interfaces through the use of Unity plug-in architecture. More Deployment Options With the Use of the Unity Plug-in – Developers can build on the Unity engine and create a full-featured CloudXR Client using Unity APIs.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Another positive characteristic is that the passthrough is smooth and has little latency , so it looks believable and doesn’t introduce nausea. Oculus is working at OS level on a much more powerful chipset, so it has an easy life in having better performances than us: the passthrough is smooth and has no latency.

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MARCH 14, 2025

The passthrough camera stream is provided to the app with up to 1280 960 resolution at 30FPS, with a stated latency of 40-60 milliseconds. For Unity, developers access the cameras through Unity's WebCamTexture API, which is how they already access phone, tablet, and PC cameras and webcams in the engine.

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VRScout

JULY 22, 2023

Unity developers can build spatial computing experiences for visionOS that blend digital content with the physical world using Unity PolySpatial. Through this beta program, you and other creatives will be able to create experiences using Unity editor that can run on the Apple Vision Pro MR headset. for Apple Vision Pro.

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ARPost

JULY 23, 2019

Algorithms also allow for smooth rendering with minimal latency. One of the key benefits of the SDK is the spatial computing power, necessary for MR technology. The SDK features algorithms that allow environmental mapping with 6 DoF tracking. See Also: nreal light Glasses Get New Game and Support for AR and MR Development.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s even harder if they want to use the 90Hz or 120Hz display modes (which make apps look smoother and reduce latency). Lower Latency Than Full Framerate. Meta is promising the technique will support Unity, Unreal Engine, and native Quest development right out of the gate, including a “comprehensive developer guide.”

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Road to VR

JULY 23, 2021

Facebook announced today that an upcoming update to the Quest development SDK will include experimental support for a Passthrough API which will allow Unity developers to build AR experiences and features into apps on Quest 2.

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Road to VR

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Edge computing is an evolving paradigm in cloud computing optimisation, where the typical latency problems associated with the cloud can be mitigated. According to the press release provided to Road to VR , GridRaster leverages this technology “to re-define the network and compute stack at multiple layers – device, network and edge cloud.”.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

According to Qualcomm, this feature will help reduce latency and provide a more responsive and natural-feeling AR experience. Hand-tracking Works with Snapdragon Spaces (Unity/Unreal) 2.5X better AI, 50% less power (vs last-gen) WiFi 7 Latency phone to device 2ms 3rd party controllers Supports Lightship/VPS.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2022

This experience had everything I could expect from a remote rendering solution: the scene was much more complex than anything the HoloLens could handle , and the rendering latency was low, so almost not noticeable. Again, I noticed that the remote rendering was working well, with good visuals and low latency.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Last week’s Unite 2023 event saw a massive amount of updates from Unity, the world’s largest real-time 3D (RT3D) gaming engine company. The Unite 2023 event, a meeting of minds for Unity developers, solution providers, and executives, explored the latest updates on the leading platform.

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Road to VR

MAY 1, 2017

During the opening presentation at today’s Unity Vision Summit, Nathan Martz, Developer Platforms Product Manager at Google, took to the stage to talk about new tools that the company is releasing to help developers create high-performance apps for Daydream, Google’s high-end Android VR platform. Photo courtesy Unity Technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 20, 2023

Croquet Corporation announced on Thursday last week it had launched its Croquet for Unity solution. The new JavaScript multiplayer framework integrates with Unity to provide a novel approach for developers. With it, people can create Unity-based immersive experiences without writing or maintaining multiplayer code.

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JUNE 2, 2016

Valve have released the Unity based renderer for its superb VR experience collection The Lab in an effort to encourage adoption of what it sees as optimal rendering techniques for VR experiences. This consistently low orientation latency allows apps to render efficiently by supporting full parallelism between CPU and GPU.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The most skeptical of you may wonder “What about latency?”: ”: if Virtual Desktop already adds latency at home, what you can expect from a server somewhere in the cloud? I think that the key is what you define as “acceptable” for the latency. Cloud XR visual (Image by NVIDIA).

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Road to VR

JULY 1, 2017

Because VR demands high-powered graphics and extremely low latency, specially tuning the rendering pipeline between the GPU and the headset is crucial to maintaining a comfortable and performant VR experience. ” SEE ALSO Apple and Valve Have Worked Together for Nearly a Year to Bring VR to MacOS.

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JULY 3, 2018

Dev kits, which are slated to start shipping in August this year, will arrive with free SDKs for both Unreal and Unity. Wireless : 2.4GHz Custom Low Latency Protocol. Compatibility : Unity, Unreal Engine, C++, C#, Python. The gloves, at least from promotional material, appear to be really quite thin.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Lynx is aiming to support OpenXR and Unity as a development environment (ostensibly Unreal Engine 4 would work equally well once OpenXR implementations are tested and complete). He also said the headset’s pass-through latency is expected to fall between 12 and 15 milliseconds.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

APRIL 1, 2025

Eye tracking features also allow for foveated rendering, reducing the risk of lag and latency in XR experiences. Plus, Varjos headsets are compatible with most enterprise-grade software and XR development platforms (like Unreal Engine and Unity).

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2016

In addition to the Unreal Engine Daydream integration which has been improving since its launch alongside the Daydream announcement, the promised Unity integration has finally arrived in the form of a ‘technical preview’ which developers can download today.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 19, 2021

On the technological side, it seems all is set to start using cloud rendering, but the big problem of the latency from the nearest server remains; VRSS (Variable Rate SuperSampling) v2 has been announced. NVIDIA DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) will be natively supported for HDRP in Unity 2021.2. Learn more and sign up.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He adds that one of the main causes of motion sickness in VR experiences is poor latency. When a delay in latency occurs, your real and virtual movements no longer match, knocking the equilibrium out of balance and causing ‘cybersickness.’

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

AUGUST 30, 2024

Unity to Integrate Vagon’s RT3D Streaming Service This week, Unity, a leading XR and RT3D content creation engine, announced a new partnership with Vagon, experts in 3D content streaming.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Elizabeth McSheery, business developer at PhaseSpace, says that while these examples are mostly used in demonstration environments, PhaseSpace is “looking towards allowing customers to purchase access to these games when they gain access to our API SDK that makes our system work easily with the Unity game engine.”.

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VRScout

JULY 3, 2018

Wireless: 2.4GHz Custom Low Latency Protocol. Compatibility: Unity, Unreal Engine, C++, C#, Python. SDK: Unity and Unreal Engine haptic rapid application development toolkit, including drop in haptic hand rigs and interactive objects ready to use with developer artwork assets.

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The Ghost Howls

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. The problem of cloud rendering is not the one of making the system to work, is the fact that you must have a server close to you to have an acceptable latency , and this is not always possible at the moment.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

MAY 31, 2022

At this year’s Mobile World Conference, HTC Co-Founder and Chairperson Cher Wang confirmed that her firm is developing an ethical Metaverse, following global efforts to create a safe digital space from key XR firms like Meta and Unity. Mobile World Live (@mobileworldlive) March 1, 2022.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 28, 2022

These can train workforces flexibly from any location in the world, using unicast, multicast, or omnicast broadcasting, and uniquely overcoming any latency issues. . The new patents aim to enhance multi-user immersive training with AR and VR, which requires high-bandwidth, low-latency innovations at scale. billion USD in 2021.

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VRScout

AUGUST 13, 2017

Also announced was the judging panel that includes virtual reality experts such as Josh Naylor of Unity Technologies, Jenn Duong of Shiift, and CEO of Spiral Media Megan Gaiser. Zero Latency. Zero Latency – Zero Latency. The complete list of judges can be found here. SUPERHOT Team – SUPERHOT VR. G’Audio Lab.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

We are now at the level that we are super happy with the latency and deployments.”. As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. In a recent funding announcement , Varjo announced the most recent development in their cloud services. CloudXR From NVIDIA.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 30, 2023

On the other hand, Unity is introducing tools that leverage AI to simplify XR content creation processes. Unity Muse, Sentis to Tap AI-Powered Content Creation This week, two AI tools, Unity Muse and Sentis , were released to assist creatives in designing immersive worlds and XR content.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Global tech giants such as NVIDIA, Lenovo, Unity, Epic Games, HTC VIVE, and others have already entered the metaverse space race. Headsets will also improve over time to avoid disorientation and latency issues creating uncomfortable immersive experiences for users.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

He roughly concluded that LCDs typically are less expensive, brighter, and offer greater pixel density, while OLEDs have lower latency, better contrast, but suffer from limited brightness. He confirmed the company would naturally want to move from a tethered Oculus Link experience to a wireless experience down the road.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 29, 2019

AugmentedReality #xr #vr #wearable #unity #spatialcomputing pic.twitter.com/h2KAkgXWQq — Noah Zerkin (@noazark) February 15, 2019. Noah playing around with Unity with the North Star headset. To develop for the Leap Motion North Star, you can use Unity or Unreal Engine. Look how we saw the desktop of the PC on its displays.

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