Cats and VR

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Unity announced that it has hired Dr. Danny Lange as VP of AI and Machine Learning. He joins from Uber, where he was head of machine learning. At Uber, Lange led the efforts to build the world’s most versatile Machine Learning platform to support Uber’s hyper growth. Source: Unity Press Release.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These are the improvements it applied: Changes in prices will start with the next Unity 2023 LTS, so existing applications will not be affected, at least while the use previous Unity versions Unity Personal will still be free (now up to 200K of revenues) and applications made with it will be subject to no fee at all.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 15, 2022

Thanks to it, it will be possible to create realistic avatars that understand natural language easily and even without having computational power in the local machine. New connectors are in development and finally also popular software like Unity and Blender will be able to connect with Omniverse. Learn more. Learn more.

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AR Insider

JULY 6, 2021

Unpacking that a bit, Toyota’s virtual pipeline starts by importing vehicle data into Unity using Pixyz. With the help of machine learning, digital models, and HoloLens 2, Toyota engineers are given guidance to recognize and remedy inconsistencies that are easily missed by ordinary inspection. More from AR Insider….

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AR Insider

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Toyota makes mixed reality magic with Unity and Microsoft HoloLens 2. This includes the use of Unity’s real-time 3D development platform across its automotive lifecycle. Its virtual pipeline starts by importing vehicle data into Unity using Pixyz. Reducing human error during inspections using machine learning.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 4, 2022

The same luck has not happened to employees at Niantic at Unity. Unity, instead, is firing 4% of its employees, and this may seem weird considering that in the last months it has proceeded to hundred-millions-dollars acquisitions. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Other relevant news.

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ARPost

OCTOBER 14, 2021

More than just being a tool to view VR art versions of these masterpieces, this game also lets visitors learn more about each sculpture or painting. Sabby Life has also worked with Juilliard to introduce VR art and performance in Beyond the Machine , a regular showcase that features a variety of interdisciplinary works.

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Upload VR

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Like Meta's Horizon Hyperscape Demo and Gracia , Varjo Teleport uses Gaussian splatting, leveraging advances in machine learning to "train" the output based on image views of the scene. Captured scenes can also be exported as a PLY file for use in other software, which means they could even be converted to use in Unity or Unreal.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

Probably the communication machine of the company is not as strong as before, so the old message still hangs around. Nano-tech wants to be the Nanite of Unity. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. Learn more. See Unity running on Quest. Learn more. Other relevant news. Image from the web).

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Road to VR

JUNE 28, 2016

Machine Learning has the potential to revolutionize so many different aspects of our lives, and it’s starting to enter into game development with IBM’s Watson. Here’s some of the Unity code that calls the Tradeoff Analytics API as a part of the Watson Developer Cloud. LISTEN TO THE VOICES OF VR PODCAST.

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VRScout

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Touch is the cornerstone of the next generation of human-machine interface technologies, and the opportunities are endless.” The device also includes a variety of plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine, as well as a C++ API. To celebrate the launch of the HaptX Gloves G1, the company is currently accepting pre-orders. Image Credit: HaptX.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The partnership uses machine learning to enable live digital twins of sporting events using Cannon’s Free Viewpoint Video System, which gives viewers at home the ability to enjoy a broadcast from various angles, enabling viewers to participate in live event monetization and game statistics.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

IBM predicts that AI will unlock the next generation of interactivity for XR experiences, describing in the 2021 Unity Technology Trends Report that the maturity of AI will play a key role beyond hand tracking, and into the world of voice. The open-sourced Watson Unity SDK can be found on GitHub. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 21, 2024

Unity vs Unreal: Which is the best option for companies creating content for extended reality ? Unity is popular for its accessibility and beginner-friendly features. Unity is popular for its accessibility and beginner-friendly features. However, each option has its own unique pros and cons to consider.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JULY 19, 2022

The SnapDragon service utilises machine learning, hand-tracking, and cloud technology to facilitate immersive content creation for various devices. Firms like Voxel and Weta have extensive XR portfolios, and Unity acquired the latter to combine Weta’s animation suite into the popular RT3D engine.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 20, 2023

Moreover, the update improves hand-tracking-based interactions and navigation for its adopters—it leverages machine-learning technology to improve the platform’s pinch-based interaction. The update improves a Quest’s ability to track quick movements in applications such as fitness and fast-motion games.

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VRScout

APRIL 9, 2018

The second is a machine learning powered system that analyzes the accelerometer data of every rider as they ride. The VR experiences are rendered in real-time inside Unity, so the tracking system can adapt to each user’s speed in real time.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 16, 2020

Thanks to the force feedback, the user can really feel the drilling machine in his hands (Image by SenseGlove). Experimenting with different force-feedback haptics inside Unity: rigid object, bendable object, breakable object. you can feel when a drilling machine is on). Structure of the Unity SDK (Image by Senseglove).

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AR Insider

AUGUST 19, 2020

This article is excerpted with the author’s permission from the Unity Report: Immersive Advertising: How Augmented and Virtual Reality Experiences are Changing Marketing. Tony Parisi is head of VR/AR brand solutions at Unity Technologies. The report excerpted in this article can be read in full here.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

I am a bit sad no one gave an award to The Unity Cube , though… I would have loved to get a “Worst Application Award 2021” from Road To VR…. Then, it guarantees that there is an open-source alternative to Unity and Unreal, so if in the future Meta wants to build its own engine, it could start doing that by forking Godot. Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 14, 2023

Some of the news coming from there have been: NVIDIA announced new Grace Hopper chips to empower AI algorithms on server machines , and AI workbench to allow everyone to play around with AI models. This is how we learn to do proper content for what is going to be the next trend in XR.

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Road to VR

APRIL 29, 2019

and more like a hardware hacker’s space-based dream machine. They’re also building a Unity software tool dubbed ‘TinkerCore VR System’ that they say can be used to turn “any Unity experience into an immersive 1:1 VR experience.” online play, trading missions, pirating operations, etc.)

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Our VR system enables researchers to directly build VR environments through our Unity SDK and track, as well as detect, physiological signals. . Automatic Time Synchronization : LooxidVR facilitates time synchronized acquisition of eye and brain data , as well as VR contents and interaction data (Unity event logs).

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 17, 2020

The other main activities of our group are related to machine learning and computer vision. Holo-BLSD is a self-learning tool in AR. They are easy to learn and do not require any specific medical knowledge. Currently, the gold standard for BLSD learning is instructor-led courses.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 20, 2022

This Wednesday, the popular real-time 3D (RT3D) engine Unity, with the Orlando Economic Partnership (OEP), created a digital twin of the region to assist with local economic and industrial growth. The President and CEO of the OEP, Tim Giuliani , said that the Unity alliance highlights Orlando’s dynamic innovation ecosystem.

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AR Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

SAP shapes the future of work with Unity. That’s changing with the SAP Extended Reality Cloud (XR Cloud), which is based on Unity’s platform and enables the development of mixed reality applications. To make it easier for Unity developers to integrate SAP data into Unity, SAP recently launched the Unity Integration Toolkit.

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Road to VR

AUGUST 1, 2023

.” Much like HTML forms a sort of description of a webpage—being hostable anywhere on the Internet and retrievable/renderable locally by a web browser—USD can be used to describe complex virtual scenes, allowing it to be similarly retrieved and rendered on a local machine.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I spoke with him about many topics, like why VR is so good for training (and he told me that his company Strivr has trained more than ONE MILLION Walmart employees in VR ), if it is true that VR is the “ultimate empathy machine”, how much is graphical fidelity important for presence, and of course also about his encounter with Zuck.

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VRScout

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

CREATORS: Varun: ML Engineer and Product Manager, Praveen: Sound Engineer and storyteller, Vatsal: Game Developer( Unity/VR/AR) and facial animator. Virtual beings could become a new digital medium to learn about their contributions to society and most importantly remember and practice their teachings.

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Road to VR

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

ManoMotion, a computer-vision and machine learning company, today announced they’re integrated their company’s smartphone-based gesture control with Apple’s augmented reality developer tool ARKit , making it possible to bring basic hand-tracking into AR with only the use of the smartphone’s onboard processors and camera.

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The Ghost Howls

APRIL 20, 2020

Mozilla updates its Unity WebVR exporter. Two years ago, I reviewed on this blog a Unity plugin that Mozilla had released in beta to let you create WebVR experiences from your Unity projects. Thanks to this exporter, every Unity developer can create a WebXR experience by just building the Unity project for HTML5!

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2023

Fast-forward to today, all the world is excited and scared at the same time about artificial intelligence, and GitHub Copilot is offered as a complete solution that is also compatible with C# (hence Unity). The first one is that the system learns and copies from you. This has happened to me more than once.

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ARPost

AUGUST 26, 2019

Imagine a digital version of the world where machines and devices have an understanding of where they are and what’s around them, opening up limitless possibilities for augmented reality,” reads a release Scape shared with ARPost. Right now, machines are pretty good at knowing where you are. IoT isn’t just about AR technology.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But she’s not been the only one taking a similar decision: Vogue Business reports that Cult fashion boutique Machine-A and the Institute of Digital Fashion are launching an augmented store environment to promote the London Fashion Week collections of designers like Martine Rose and Richard Quinn. (PS Learn more. Some XR fun.

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ARPost

APRIL 17, 2023

The event audience includes senior executives focused on XR, automation, IoT, 5G, the future of work, AI, machine learning, and edge computing. For those who can’t attend in person, there’s also the option to access some parts of the event online through the awe.live platform.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

Unity support for OpenXR is still in early beta , and so it’s not reliable yet to develop an OpenXR-compliant application in Unity. We Unity developers have still to use the current Unity tools that make us develop once, but then build for every different platform (like the ones I describe in this article ). Learn more.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 26, 2021

Sentences like “With eye-tracking (ET) and a few well-placed sensors, they’ll learn our unconscious reactions to anything we see. Holoride has now announced that it is working with Unity and Pico to release its Elastic SDK and offer devkits to let developers create experiences for the Holoride store , that will also be powered by blockchain.

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