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The Benefits of Microsoft Mesh and What is Still Limiting the Mixed Reality Industry

ARVR

Microsoft announced their new platform Mesh last week to enable better mixed reality experiences across not only AR and VR headsets, but also mobile and desktop. Mesh is built on Microsoft Azure which enables developers to build immersive, multiuser, cross-platform mixed reality applications through an SDK. Spatial Maps?—?Spatial

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The AR Space Race, Part IX: Epic Games

ARVR

In partnership with Nvidia, Microsoft, and Cesium, it offers a real-time 3D creation engine for producing immersive mapping and digital twins of real-world locations. So today’s metaverse-like fiefdoms we can point to as examples include MMOs Roblox and Fortnite, which is made using Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. ExpiCulture?—?Developing

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The XR Week Peek (2020.08.24): Facebook login gets imposed on Quest and the community riots, and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. That’s why even Microsoft took Epic’s stances : Microsoft uses UE4 to develop some products also for Apple devices, and this decision hurts also its business. More info (Apple threatens Epic) More info (Microsoft files an official support for Epic). Other relevant news.

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The XR Week Peek (2023.05.30): Quest 3 preview, XR journalists invited to WWDC, and more!

The Ghost Howls

More info Other relevant news (Image by Apple) Apple invited XR journalists to WWDC For the first time ever, Apple has explicitly invited the main editors of the most important XR magazines to the WWDC. In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1 But still, there have been some interesting announcements about Microsoft Mesh.

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Science Fiction or reality? What is the metaverse?

ARVR

Large companies like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Valve, Epic Games, Roblox as well as smaller startups are working on creating products for the Metaverse as we speak. Here is an example of how the legendary car brand Ferrari uses the Unreal Engine from Epic Games to implement one of their sports cars 1:1 in the game Fortnite.

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The XR Week Peek (2020.07.20): Oculus ready to manufacture the Quest S, Pico doubles-down on 3DOF, and more!

The Ghost Howls

The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (FIT) together with various partners from industry including Apple, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and Son y has confirmed the release and official adoption of H.266/Versatile Not a great evolution from Microsoft. Support this VR magazine! The other games were A.R.T.I,

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Assembling a Billion Polygons in Real-Time, with Epic Games' Marc Petit

XR for Business Podcast

With the next generation of Playstation set to hit shelves this holiday season, the big news in the gaming circuit is the revelation of Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine manager Marc Petit explains the many other use cases this technology promises. Today, we're speaking with Marc Petit, general manager of Unreal Engine at Epic Games.

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