ARPost

JUNE 22, 2020

Boeing also made the experience using 3D scans of the Starliner console on Unreal Engine. Unreal worked with the Microsoft HoloLens 2 to create an AR experience based around Apollo 11. Connie Miller with Varjo headset. While many readers will know the graphics engine from gaming, this isn’t their first trip to space.

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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 24, 2020

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 Ghost Howls

MAY 30, 2023

The last dream of a girl has come true thanks to virtual reality, especially thanks to the big hearts of the people of the XR community. In the meanwhile, Microsoft is working on a 1.1 More info Microsoft adds Mesh features to Teams At the annual Build event, Microsoft has not announced any stellar XR- or metaverse-related news.

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ARPost

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As this article was being written, Varjo further expanded its cloud with Unreal and Unity engine integrations. XR streaming is already a reality on other cloud platforms. Patrick Wyatt, a C-suite veteran, has been appointed the company’s new CPO and “will be the primary lead for Varjo’s software and cloud development initiatives.”

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Road to VR

JULY 3, 2017

The latest VR job listings from Apple are not the first time the company has been spotted looking for hires with experience with virtual reality, but activity has certainly picked up of late, with seven new VR-related job listings in just over three weeks. See Also: Apple Adds VR Rendering Essentials to MacOS via Metal 2.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Let’s see… More info (The specifications of Orion from the TESTED video) More info (Porting games to Orion is difficult) More info (Karl Guttag’s analysis about Orion) Epic Games is already envisioning Unreal Engine 6 In an interview with The Verge, Tim Sweeney talked about the future plans of Epic Games.

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ARVR

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

One-year price performance for MSFT, AAPL, GOOGL, SNE, and NVDA According to the latest report from Statista , the global augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) markets are rapidly growing and are forecast to reach a total of $72.8 How Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) can transform Education 3.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

MARCH 5, 2017

Epic’s Unreal Engine 4 started out in the high end, and it has moved lower through pricing tactics and revisions that enable it to be the foundation of mobile games. He said that 59 percent of virtual reality developers are using Unity, according to a survey by VisionMobile. Ditto with Google and ditto with Microsoft.”.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 18, 2022

In my opinion, Magic Leap 2 is a superior device to HoloLens 2 (see my hands-on here ), so I think that with these prices, it can have good success in the enterprise market, starting to gain shares with regard to Microsoft. Unreal Engine 5 has brought two interesting features with its release: Lumen and Nanite. Discover UnitedVR.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 16, 2020

And while this is anyway a good result for a startup (developing an AR headsets means spending billions in R&D), targeting the consumer market has been a suicide move , that let Microsoft get full control of the profitable enterprise market. Unity High Definition Rendering Pipeline is now compatible with Virtual Reality projects.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Virtual reality e-sports do not exist yet in any sort of marketable form. It was formed by Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy who have spent time working on Microsoft’s HoloLens, Oculus Rift, Xbox One, and Unreal Engine 4, as well as games such as Gears of War , Doom 3 , Halo 4 , and Bullet Train.

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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. Learn more.

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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. Virtual Reality is creating a rise in insurance claims. Virtual Virtual Reality 2 has been released.

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The Ghost Howls

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then, I link you here below some resources that may be useful to get you started with virtual reality and with Oculus Quest 2 in particular. These numbers are impressive for a VR company, and show how a virtual reality company can be successful now. Other relevant news. Image by Rec Room). Rec Room is now worth $3.5B.

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Over the last five to ten years, virtual reality (VR) technologies have experienced rapid transformation via meeting support and funding opportunities. What Funding and Support are Available for the Virtual Reality Industry? Virtual Reality Funding Opportunities Continue to Evolve.

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ARVR

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.

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XR Today - VR Headsets tag

MAY 24, 2022

Demand for high-quality virtual reality (VR) headsets is constantly growing. Another new headset that demands attention – especially in the enterprise sector – is the XTAL Virtual Reality Headset by Vrgineers, Inc. What Is the XTAL Virtual Reality Headset? Key Features of the XTAL Virtual Reality Headset.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 27, 2023

The Tracker is one of the most successful products sold by HTC: it is mostly used by the VRChat community people to have full-body VR in their favorite social space, or by VR arcades to be able to track props in virtual reality. HTC is currently the market leader, and its Trackers have arrived at their 3rd edition.

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The Ghost Howls

JULY 20, 2020

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. H266 video standard can pave the way to 8K video streaming.

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ARVR

DECEMBER 1, 2021

“Metaverse is an embodied Internet where you don’t just look at content, you’re inside it and experience it directly via virtual reality”?—?Mark Photo by Patrick Schneider on Unsplash Virtual reality , as the name suggests, allows users to immerse themselves in an artificially created world that appears real.

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The Ghost Howls

MARCH 13, 2023

I’ve very limited time, but luckily this week has not been very relevant for the ecosystem, so I’m managing to write this newsletter anyway Top news of the week (Image by Microsoft) AltspaceVR shuts down In one of the saddest moments of the latest years in VR, AltspaceVR has closed its doors.

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VRScout

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

You can enjoy the full audio recording below: In this week’s VRScout Report, we discuss Oculus Story Studio’s Henry Emmy win, NASA training astronauts with virtual reality gloves, Snapchat flirting with augmented reality, HTC Vive trying to go wireless, and iPhone laying potential plans for VR/AR.

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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. Microsoft Flight Simulator is adding VR support, but…. Microsoft Flight Simulator is launching on August, 18th, without support for virtual reality.

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The Ghost Howls

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Last Call / Full Saga Review) More info (Microsoft Flight Simulator) More info (Squingle) More info (Half Life 2 VR Mod) More info (Shock Troops) More info (Mafia VR Mod) More info (Gunman Contracts?—?Mod Yes, you’ve read everything well. It has 4.5DOF. Last Call has been released.

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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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Hypergrid Business

APRIL 5, 2023

Virtual reality hasn’t caught on with American teens, according to a new survey from Piper Sandler released on Tuesday. According to IDC, both consumer and enterprise interest in virtual reality fell last year. Earlier this year , I wrote about how Microsoft and other companies have pulled back on their VR and AR plans.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 11, 2023

More info Jim Ryan hints at a possible PlayStation metaverse The court documents related to the FTC vs Microsoft trial related to the acquisition of Activision contain a very interesting piece of information related to what Sony may be working on. This would be great for having a more natural interaction on Quest 3.

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The Ghost Howls

MAY 11, 2020

The company switched to an enterprise model , but apart from a rebranding and an assistance service it is not clear what it actually means, especially if compared with the enormous enterprise offering that Microsoft is giving with HoloLens (Azure services, integration with Teams, etc…). Unreal Engine 4.25 adds many XR features.

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UploadVR Between Realities podcast

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

The 2017 Game Developers Conference (GDC) and accompanying Virtual Reality Developers Conference (VRDC) are right around the corner. What to Expect from Microsoft. Also, we know Microsoft is partnering with several manufacturers on VR headsets of its own, so we may learn more about some of those as well. Robo Recall.

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The Ghost Howls

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Facebook and Microsoft publish two interesting research projects for VR. This week, Facebook and Microsoft have released two interesting works from their R&D department. My friend Nicolas Esposito of Enter Reality has released Project Rigel, his solution to provide full-body tracking and motion capture for Unreal Engine.

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AR Insider

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In his 1984 classic Neuromancer, characters entered a virtual reality world called “the matrix” (inspiration for the 1999 film of the same name by the Wachowskis). In another scenario, we may see game engines dominant, like Unity or Unreal. Some recent acquisitions include AltspaceVR (Microsoft), and Escher (Niantic).

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The Ghost Howls

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

In Korea, a TV documentary has used virtual reality to make a mother meet again her daughter Nayeon , who died of blood cancer some months before. I’m also adding a bonus video that shows you that you can use Microsoft Maquette to create immersive movie storyboards in an easy way. Other relevant news. Great post.

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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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The Ghost Howls

AUGUST 22, 2018

In the entertainment area of Gamescom, NVIDIA has put some RTX graphics cards on the desks of some booth of partner companies , like ASUS and Microsoft. While at Microsoft booth there was a premium RTX 2080 Ti , that I’ve been able to take in my hands so to make a video where you can see it from all angles.

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XR Today - Augmented Reality tag

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Every aspect of extended reality has a unique part to play in AEC operations. While virtual reality allows for the development of virtual blueprints and project plans, augmented and mixed reality improve access to content on-site, and enhance collaboration. Microsoft and the Haas Group.

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Hypergrid Business

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

There are quite a handful of platforms that allow you to develop virtual reality and augmented reality apps and content, but it is not easy to find an offline virtual reality school or academy with which to train for those interested in developing AR and VR apps. (Image courtesy RAEng Publications via Pixabay.).

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XR Today - Mixed Reality tag

APRIL 26, 2023

Plus, the Unity toolkit allows organizations to build more comprehensive virtual reality and mixed reality experiences too. Apple Similar to Google, Apple has its own dedicated selection of tools and resources created to help developers take advantage of Apple devices for marketing purposes.

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