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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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…. Apart from the hardware, Somnium is moving well also on the software side: the graphics of the virtual world is improving over time, and soon will be released the first game built on top of Somnium.

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The Ghost Howls

JANUARY 31, 2022

The system is capable of quintillions of operations per second and it is able to speed up the machine learning process from 3x to 20x with regard to the previous supercomputer cluster architecture in use by Meta. Image by Unity). Unity acquires Ziva Dynamics to build the avatars of the future. Other relevant news.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 24, 2023

(Answer: probably just the possibility of the same community visiting different worlds together may be enough) Is monetization beneficial to virtual worlds? Answer: if people go to a platform just to make money, that platform is not going to succeed) Are today’s virtual worlds so different from Second Life?

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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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Building the Metaverse

JUNE 14, 2023

A few days ago, my team won grant prize the LA AI Virtual Worlds hackathon during the a16z Tech Week by creating a roleplaying game in one day. A big part of that is generative AI — as well as the work we’re doing at Beamable to enable you to get the servers set up for entire worlds setup on “day zero.”

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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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XR Today - Virtual Reality

JANUARY 12, 2024

In the corporate landscape, haptic gloves can offer a more immersive experience to users working on prototypes for new products in the virtual world. Gesture recognition: Some haptic gloves can work alongside artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. There’s even zero-loss on-body recording at 120 FPS.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

They both serve a similar purpose, that is blending the virtual and the real : if wearing a Varjo XR-1 headset you go to a greenscreen room, you will see the virtual world in the places where there is the green color and the real one in the other parts of your view. Unity’s HDRP is now VR-compatible.

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VRScout

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

But I didn’t want to switch to a 2D workflow once I imported into Unity, and so I used Virtual Desktop’s display overlay to work in Unity on a virtual big screen. With this approach, I was able to preview my scene in VR while still maintaining control over my variables in Unity.

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ARVR

JANUARY 6, 2023

Augmented Reality Augmented reality (AR) is an immersive experience where the objects that resides in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated information (virtual objects). An AR system comprises of three features: combination of real and virtual world, real-time interaction, and registration of virtual and real objects.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 19, 2024

Now, however, countless companies and developers are beginning to embrace this model, including Varjo (with Varjo Teleport ), Unity, and Unreal. Unfortunately, NeRFs are difficult to train and limited in enabling navigation in virtual worlds. We’ve already mentioned Unity and Unreal, for instance.

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Building the Metaverse

JANUARY 18, 2023

Let’s look at a couple of the ways that generative artificial intelligence taps into your creativity: ChatGPT as a Virtual Engine There are a number of ways to conceptualize a large language model like ChatGPT; but one is that it is actually a virtual world engine. It had persistent, virtual worlds called campaigns.

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ARVR

JUNE 25, 2020

MRTK is built to create interactive content as a human-machine interface (HMI), focused mainly on UI, distant interactions with pinch, and displacement in the VR world. MRTK is using the XR world and its lighter constraints (compared to the real world) to expand the way you interact with objects.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 27, 2023

We believe Forma Vision’s volumetric video technology will enable more immersive, engaging interactions and help further bridge real and virtual worlds by allowing people, places and things to be more authentically represented in the metaverse.”

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The Ghost Howls

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Bad news for social world Sansar: its company, Linden Labs (the same that manages Second Life), has just laid off 20 more people, and now, what should have been the next-gen Second Life, is just being managed by a bunch of people. This comes after the news that Sansar will now pivot more towards hosting events in Virtual Reality.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JANUARY 4, 2024

Moreover, according to the Levan Center of Innovation, the studio can improve a range of enterprise use cases, explainng how marketing groups can create immersive customer experiences for higher sales outcomes and better training, leveraging digital twins of real-world equipment or training items.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Many vendors , from Meta, to Microsoft, and Unity, offer these solutions. It can help companies protect digital assets, and track actions and changes in virtual worlds. Advanced AI and machine learning algorithms can rapidly identify and mitigate potential threats in immersive spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 28, 2018

One thing that I’m trying to do is continuing my daily job and at the meantime learn as much as I can about AR and VR. Machine Learning has become a key part of the product, now. The company is going good and those awesome people have changed my life. And then, along the road, a lot of amazing investors arrived.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Most of the focus so far has been on building those worlds and experiences, but if we’re ever to achieve a true sense of presence in these virtual worlds, we need to also be able to create really good avatars. Full immersion and meaningful social interaction can only really happen if we feel comfortable in our virtual skins.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 23, 2023

Many elements contribute to Web3’s infrastructure, notably real-time 3D (RT3D) augmented, virtual, mixed reality (AR/VR/MR) immersive experiences. Although extended reality (XR) and Web3 experiences exist thanks to other integrated elements like AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain, and Geo-tagged content.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 4, 2019

I think that someone is fooling us with specifications: of course, if I have to render the standard Unity cube at 120 Hz, maybe also a Raspberry can be enough… but this can’t count as a minimum specification. This great innovation, according to Valve, will let you have +20° FOV on your perceived virtual world.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Allen discussed the benefits of immersive learning platforms, citing a company study on the return on investment (ROI) for clients via VR training. Regarding upskilling challenges across multiple verticals, Allen discussed the costs and expenses of creating immersive learning experiences. Oberon Technologies.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JULY 18, 2023

A workplace trainee can learn how to use or repair a piece of equipment using a digital twin; some solutions allow trainees to take apart complex digital objects, like an engineer, to see the inner component – saving a lot of time, usually reserved for clean-up.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

JULY 19, 2017

This year Flock (video above) will expand upon some of the concepts of Holojam with a multi-user untethered virtual world “designed to get people to move, shake, and flock together.” Panels and presentations will also be offered allowing visitors to learn more about the projects. Learn more from the Lytro team.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working– well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working– well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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XR for Business Podcast

JANUARY 20, 2020

I know you guys have been working-- well, you specifically have been working in the 3D virtual space for many years now. How did you get involved in VR and learning? There was something called people avatars and virtual worlds, that was very popular around 2007. It is transforming education by experiential learning.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. I need to learn that one again." And Lewis Gardner on our CMS.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Alan: Hey, everyone, I'm Alan Smithson, and today we're speaking with John Martin, the CEO and co-founder of BUNDLR, an augmented reality platform company empowering training, learning, and development innovators with on-demand and mobile immersive experiences. I need to learn that one again.". John: Exactly. Alan: Of course.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 7, 2020

So what a game engine do, they can provide you with real time simulated worlds and/or stories. But at the end of the day, you can be and interact with the virtual world. And I think that's all XR is about, is empowering and connecting the virtual and the real. I mean, good 3D, things react when you interact with them.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We will learn today how they're using digital twins to add real business value. We have been employing post-production and CGI techniques to create versions of the real world -- or different flavors of the real world -- over the last six to seven years. And that that, I think, is one step closer to a sustainable world.

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XR for Business Podcast

JULY 28, 2020

We will learn today how they're using digital twins to add real business value. We have been employing post-production and CGI techniques to create versions of the real world -- or different flavors of the real world -- over the last six to seven years. And that that, I think, is one step closer to a sustainable world.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Imagine being able to learn, hands-on, exactly how to operate a deep-sea submarine — without needing the submarine! If you want to learn more, you can visit immerse.io. We not only go into it, but interact with all the bits of the submarine and start to learn parts of, “how do I make some things work?” Justin: Hello.

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XR for Business Podcast

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Imagine being able to learn, hands-on, exactly how to operate a deep-sea submarine — without needing the submarine! If you want to learn more, you can visit immerse.io. We not only go into it, but interact with all the bits of the submarine and start to learn parts of, “how do I make some things work?” Justin: Hello.

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