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JUNE 8, 2017

The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is in Los Angeles, CA next week and it’s always one of the largest events of the year for gamers, giving giants of the industry including Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo the chance to show off the latest hardware and games to drive the next generation of consumer interest. Things are changing though.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Prototyping: if deemed practical, Discovery concepts are prototyped, involving “maybe 10 times more people”, who build integrated hardware and software to bring the concept to life. He said the company is now in a good financial situation and is working on its next iteration of the Unreal Engine game engine.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

See Also: Can AI and AR Be Put Together to Offer a Unique Experience? creative director BC Biermann.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

Apple threatens future support in Unreal Engine. All Apple software, SDKs, APIs, and developer tools ?—?Pre-release What is interesting for us is the last line “adoption and support of ARKit features and future VR features into Unreal Engine by their XR team”. Other relevant news. Image by Epic Games).

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Road to VR

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Facebook, Microsoft, Valve, Unreal Engine, and others have been making progress toward supporting OpenXR in their platforms and now Unity says it’s moving to do the same. “Given the unbounded combinations of possible hardware/software configurations, we cannot test or guarantee that all configurations will work optimally.

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

And the CoreMedia team: The CoreMedia engineering team within IMG is responsible for implementing software services around linear audiovisual media. ” See Also: Microsoft is Building VR MMO for Xbox and PC, Job Listing Indicates. This includes local media playback, video-on-demand and live streaming of multimedia content.

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ARPost

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As pointed out in one of the Unity Developers’ blog posts , aside from the exponential rise of development businesses, we’re also seeing more developer tools, such as the Unity and Unreal engines, becoming more accessible. We’re already seeing key metaverse players coming together in the collaboration between Meta and Microsoft.

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Road to VR

JANUARY 17, 2019

It looks like Magic Leap could be gearing up to jump into the world of mobile AR, as the company recently published a job listing for a senior software engineer who will be tasked with building “a cross-platform framework that enables large scale shared AR experiences between mobile devices (iOS, Android) and Magic Leap devices.”

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EON Reality

JULY 17, 2024

What Software is Used to Create Augmented Reality? But what software is used to create augmented reality projects, apps, environments, and experiences? But what software is used to create augmented reality projects, apps, environments, and experiences? Here are some of the most commonly used software tools in the AR industry.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I’m an electrical/optical/software engineer. We started talking with other professionals in the field, and they always kept saying to us “If Microsoft can’t do it, how can you do it?”. High-precision 6DOF tracking, eye tracking, gesture inputs, with dedicated input controllers The SDK will support Unity , with Unreal coming Soon.

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MARCH 16, 2021

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 Ghost Howls

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some time ago, the most important companies of the XR ecosystem (HTC, Oculus, Microsoft, etc…) joined the Khronos Group to discuss a standard to end the fragmentation of the XR space. T his standard, dubbed OpenXR, was about the interoperability of different VR hardware and software together. Emerge is the new competitor of Ultraleap.

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APRIL 3, 2023

That includes Microsoft Flight Simulator, iRacing, the open beta branch of DCS World, War Thunder (though not with EAC), the Steam version of Bonelab, Hubris, Everslaught, Contractors, The Light Brigade, and A Township Tale. OpenXR Toolkit added eye-tracked foveated rendering support for Meta Quest Pro.

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MAY 2, 2024

Enterprises including KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, SAP, Porsche, Lowe's, and EnBW have publicly confirmed using Apple Vision Pro with custom visionOS software. Microsoft ported Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams. Magic Leap 2 , Microsoft's HoloLens 2 , and Varjo's XR-4 series all primarily focus on this segment of the market.

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

AUGUST 22, 2023

Recently Microsoft noted how MR represents the “ eyes and ears ” of AI. Following a mainstream steer away from the Metaverse by some towards genAI – the latter may be gaining the most focus currently – but roadmaps are already in place by firms such as Microsoft to develop the industrial Metaverse by 2024.

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JUNE 3, 2019

A major software tool first promised during the reveal of the HoloLens 2 earlier this year is finally available. Native support for Unreal Engine 4 has arrived for the HoloLens 2 via early access on GitHub (login required).

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So at least the collaboration with Valve is true, but notice that it has not been on the headset, so they got no reference design from Valve, it has just been on the software integration. While HTC is struggling on the hardware side, I think that it is moving very well to create a good software ecosystem, at least in China.

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ARVR

OCTOBER 29, 2021

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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AllThingsVR

JUNE 13, 2017

For many in 2016, the hardware that delivers the most immersive experiences was too expensive and the software too shallow for many to justify the purchase just yet. Microsoft aims to hit this growth spurt at just the right time and pick the perfect sweet spot for its VR gear that could leave competitors in the dust. Read more here.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

PTC's CAD Software PTC has been making CAD (computer aided design) software for over 30 years and remains one of the market leaders. Competition For Magic Leap, Microsoft, And Varjo? That does greatly expand the potential fidelity and scope of the software it can run, but limits its usefulness for large collaborative spaces.

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

New info on Microsoft abandoning the Hololens 3. Last week we all heard the news about Microsoft abandoning the HoloLens 3, and the denial of it by Alex Kipman and Microsoft itself. A 3D-based experience with six degrees of freedom built in Unity or Unreal Access to source code, with ability to implement a 2MB SDK.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

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. Everything they have announced is realistic , and it gives the company the impression of being reliable. I like this approach.

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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

“This survey only further exemplifies that the current state of VR is very business-focused,” said Rolf Illenberger, managing director of VRdirect , a company that provides enterprise software solutions for the metaverse and virtual reality. It’s all Zoom, Zoom, Zoom, and occasionally Microsoft Teams.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 1, 2021

All the 3 major VR runtimes (Oculus, SteamVR, Microsoft) are now compatible with OpenXR , and this means that on the runtime layer on PC, now OpenXR has been fully integrated. This means that if you develop an experience using OpenXR, you can run it on Oculus, SteamVR, and Microsoft runtimes with no modification.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The nice thing about the work on the Crystal updates on the software and firmware sides is almost all of it applies to the 12K.” These new features would include eye-tracking, dynamic foveated rendering, IPD auto-adjustment, and stand-alone mod e: these will be enabled through future software updates.

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MAY 17, 2024

Aided by the UEVR mod, the ceaseless work of Team Beef and the formal announcement of Flat2VR Studios, an assortment of high-selling Unreal Engine games are basically seeing robust VR support turned on inside the titles many people already own. The biggest trend in VR gaming of 2024, though, is the blurrying line between flat content and VR.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The incumbents like Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft or Snap already own global social graphs, but perhaps looking to unseat them could be the multiplayer gaming behemoths like Sony, Activision Blizzard or EA, or 3D-specific ideas like Aura’s “avatar as a service”. In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

MARCH 17, 2023

For instance: Meta: Meta’s Oculus devices not only work alongside a wide range of different hardware solutions, but they’re also designed to support countless different types of software too seamlessly. The solution also integrates with Unity, Unreal, and even the iOS environment in some cases.

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JUNE 8, 2017

Other sessions during the two-day span include a Bethesda Software panel (maybe Fallout VR will be shown,) Epic Games panel (Unreal Engine is heavily involved with VR, as well as titles such as Robo Recall,) and a panel focused on Microsoft’s Scorpio, which could have information about VR capabilities.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

MAY 11, 2023

Now our customers will be able to represent high-fidelity cities and terrain, and unlock use cases like line of sight and digital twins” The comments come a year after Epic Games debuted a series of partnerships with NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Cesium. This will lead to developing ecosystems of products and use cases for potential clients.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Googles solutions allow developers to quickly optimize their augmented reality experiences for android devices, with a convenient Software Development Kit (SDK). Unity Software company, Unity, provides developers and innovators in the creative world with tools capable of building a wide variety of different ads and marketing campaigns.

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VRWorld

JULY 19, 2017

” According to the company, Xenoma’s Software Development kit (SDK) enables development of apps using Java SDK, Visual C# and Unity Engine. The SDK supports Microsoft HoloLens and Universal Windows Platform (UWP), which will represent the default form for Windows Mixed Reality , Windows 10 Creator’s Edition applications. .”

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OCTOBER 30, 2016

Davis recently served as general manager for the Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 4. He was also a chief technology officer at Microsoft on the HoloLens project, and he was the lead programmer on Gears of War and Gears of War 2. Scott spent 15 years as an art director in Triple-A games at places such as id Software and Microsoft Game Studios.

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JULY 29, 2019

This makes it far easier for software developers or hardware manufacturers who support the ecosystem to build products that work across devices, allowing for less fragmentation and therefore less confusion for consumers looking to invest in XR technology. Now is the time for software developers to start putting OpenXR to work.”

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XR Today - Virtual Reality

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Combining 360-degree capture with solutions for spatial sound and integrations with tools like Unity, Unreal, and other engines, VR cameras are highly flexible. Companies can even leverage different cameras to collect video from multiple feeds, which can be combined using intuitive software.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

JUNE 29, 2022

The Mixed Reality Toolkit (MRTK) by Microsoft is an open-source toolkit that has been around since the HoloLens was first released in 2016. Microsoft-driven MRTK-Unity is a suite of components and capabilities used to speed the creation of cross-platform MR applications in Unity. Understanding the MRTK-Unity Toolkit for MR Developers.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Furthermore, Brian Ballard highlighted how, despite improvements in XR technologies, end users have been solving a problem rather than simply innovating headsets, software, and solutions. This also open the door for Epic and their Unreal Engine to shine and capture the entire XR development market.

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